I’m nervous. Very nervous. Can’t breathe, to be quite honest with you.
It’s here… college football season. Because you’re all honorary Southern Miss fans (by default, due to reading this blog of course) let’s practice our fight song you don’t screw it up as you yell it from your couch tomorrow night.
- Southern Mississippi To The Top! To The Top
So lift your voices high, show them the reason why
That Southern spirit never will stop!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Southern Mississippi all the way, banners high
And we will Fight! Fight! Fight! to victory,
Hear our battle cry!
Great job, gang. Great job.
Oh, Peter. We all hate you, but you’re just so stinkin’ good at getting clients in the door.
Scene from Buckley’s in Belltown on Friday night. Draft central.
I have my fantasy football draft tonight. I’ll be the guy who takes Favre, and everyone will laugh.
We’ll see who’s laughing come week 16. (Mwuuuah-ha-ha-haaa!)
Like the Blazers? Like Conference USA? Of course you do! Especially if you’re a Birmingham resident whose tax dollars are paying for 5,000 football tickets to UAB each year.
The city of Birmingham is investing in the city by purchasing football tickets. Every year they buy 5,000 UAB football tickets and 1,000 Miles Collage football tickets. Birmingham City Council member Johnathan Austin says it’s to keep the teams coming to Legion Field.
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The mayor gets around 850 season tickets, the council gets around 350 season tickets and the rest get divided among city departments.
Article, via HBR & CNN: Why Hackers Love 8-Character Passwords
With processors getting speedier and password-hacking software freely available on the web, the 8-letter password may soon be obsolete. Georgia Tech researchers used graphics cards to crack 8-character passwords in two hours; divining 12-character passwords, by contrast, would have taken more than 17,000 years. The researchers say any password shorter than a dozen characters could soon be vulnerable.
The blog has a such a variety of readers that it’d blow your mind. From Atlanta to London to Taiwan and Australia, people read what I write and I have no idea why. However, none are more special than those from Jasper, Alabama. Why? because Jasper’s home and the people of Jasper were the first ones to actually read my online accounts back when I was cutting my blogging teeth in 2001. Also, Jasper is awesome, and if you’ve ever visited you would know that already.
Jasperians are also the best at reconnaissance missions… and I’ve got one today. See that sweatshirt that Walker High School football coach John Holladay is wearing? Find it. Preferably in a hoodie, but a normal sweatshirt will do as well.
When you find it, email me and I’ll pay for it/postage to Seattle.
[This blog post will self destruct in 5 seconds... because someone from Jasper planted a bomb in it.]
Excellent piece from Sunday’s New York Times on us 20-somethings an our desire to do/be/not=do/have whatever we want in life. (We’re not all selfish, you know? Some of us actually started a career after we blew all our savings in Europe.)
Article: What Is It About 20-Somethings?
Couple of snippets that stood out:
Is emerging adulthood a rich and varied period for self-discovery, as Arnett says it is? Or is it just another term for self-indulgence?
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During the period he calls emerging adulthood, Arnett says that young men and women are more self-focused than at any other time of life, less certain about the future and yet also more optimistic, no matter what their economic background. This is where the “sense of possibilities†comes in, he says; they have not yet tempered their idealÂistic visions of what awaits. “The dreary, dead-end jobs, the bitter divorces, the disappointing and disrespectful children . . . none of them imagine that this is what the future holds for them,†he wrote. Ask them if they agree with the statement “I am very sure that someday I will get to where I want to be in life,†and 96 percent of them will say yes. But despite elements that are exciting, even exhilarating, about being this age, there is a downside, too: dread, frustration, uncertainty, a sense of not quite understanding the rules of the game. More than positive or negative feelings, what Arnett heard most often was ambivalence — beginning with his finding that 60 percent of his subjects told him they felt like both grown-ups and not-quite-grown-ups.
Article: Bride gets a DUI on her wedding day
A Trooper noticed the woman driving erratically on I-405 and speeding at over 90 mph Saturday at about 6 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 21 near Northeast Eighth Street in Bellevue. She registered a blood-alcohol level about twice the legal limit.
The trooper processed the woman and then let her take a cab home in time to make it to her wedding in Burien.
3-day weekends are good, but not as good as 4-day weekends.
From The Onion:
Friends of local man James Perry, reported Tuesday that the 29-year-old somehow lives in a perpetual state of anxiety and agitation despite of his total lack of any meaningful personal or professional responsibilities. “He rushes around all panicked every morning grumbling that he’s running late,” Ryan Maynard said of his roommate Perry, whose frequent sighs of frustration and unending claims of exhaustion belie the fact that no children, sick relatives, or even casual girlfriends depend on his emotional support or the income of his part-time job working for his uncle. “James sleeps more than anyone I know, yet every other week he complains about how he’s feeling sick and desperately needs a vacation.” Perry was unavailable for comment, telling reporters that he was “totally swamped” with a bunch of work and personal stuff.
We’re off on a 3-day weekend to the Olympic Peninsula. Home of driftwood covered beaches, rain forests, and vampires. Yes… vampires.
ARTICLE: Man in banana costume arrested for indecent exposure
Clallam County sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday arrested a man dressed in a child’s banana costume after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman at a Port Angeles restaurant.
We’re not making this up.
According to the Peninsula Daily News, Carlton Jeffery Kohnert, 21, is suspected of exposing himself to a woman at a Port Angeles Wendy’s restaurant and then driving through Four Seasons Ranch brandishing a shotgun.
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After the alleged incident in Port Angeles, the suspects stopped at Four Seasons Ranch, where Kohnert — still dressed in the banana costume — got out, brandished a shotgun and began yelling, Pieper said.
Deputies arrested the men a short time later.
“The banana costume has been seized and put into evidence,” Pieper said.
