The Daily Ramble

Veteran's Day

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:05:00 +0000

Veteran's Day is always celebrated on November 11th, regardless of the day of the week on which it falls.

Veteran's Day is dedicated to honor all men and women, both living and deceased, who have served in the nation's armed forces.

It is a legal federal holiday in the United States.

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11th as Armistice Day to commemorate the end of World War I, which took place at the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month. Congress changed the name to Veteran's Day in 1954.

To honor and recognize our Veterans, click on the American Flag and scroll down to "We Love America"

Update

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:39:00 +0000

Ok, been awhile since I posted; I'm back on regular shift at work (swings) and sleep a different times now :)

Good sports weekend:

College; Tennessee beat the @#% out of Memphis (and Crompton still looks like a real QB)
Pro; Dallas hung on to beat Philly in Philly and move into 1st place in the division (20-16)

Got my Wii and been playing some tennis, gotta get some more games for that thing soon and finish up on lil bit's Christmas presents (she wants a DSi).

Hopefully I'll get more in routine and get back to posting now that the shift work will be regular again.

Politics

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:13:00 +0000

New Jersey elected Christie and Virginia elected McDonnell.

Hoffman lost in NY23 to Owens (with absentee ballots yet to be counted) and hopefully will run when the regular election comes up.

Sports Update

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:08:00 +0000

High School:

Austin got rolled by the #1 5A team in Ala (Cullman) [no link]

College:

Tennessee (in black) spanked #22 South Carolina at home 31-13

Pro:

Dallas beat a pathetic Seattle team 38-17

And I lost in fantasy :(

Seeing the Light?

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:07:00 +0000

V

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:27:00 +0000

New series starts Tuesday... I loved the movie (mini-series actually) and hated the series that came after.

This series is about the movie, so it should be better... with a recruiter like that, it would be hard not to be taken in :)

HD

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:25:00 +0000

Got me a new 500gb Seagate today and currently installing/formatting it. Wish me luck (heh)

Lies, Damned Lies; Statistics

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:25:00 +0000

The Obama administration on Thursday slammed a report from The Associated Press alleging the government had overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under President Obama's $787 billion recovery program.

The White House seized on an initial report from a government oversight board weeks ago that claimed federal contracts awarded to businesses under the recovery plan already had helped pay for more than 30,000 jobs. The administration said the number was evidence that the stimulus program had exceeded early expectations toward reaching the president's promise of creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.

But the 30,000 figure is overstated by thousands -- at the very least by nearly 5,000, or one in six, based on AP's limited review of some of the contracts -- because some federal agencies and recipients of the money provided incorrect job counts. The
review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs were credited to stimulus spending when, in fact, none were produced.[link]

And these people want to run healthcare?

Bowling

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:57:00 +0000

Me and pops dropped to 2nd place in the bowling league, but we won them all last night and probably will be back in a tie for the lead.

Next week we bowl the guys that are currently in first (or tied with us) so we can get some separation [or lose some heh].

We've finally started bowling better, so maybe we've turned it around.

Weekend Sports Update

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:08:00 +0000

High School:

Austin lost a battle 31-24 to Buckhorn that sadly means no playoffs this year (no link)

College:

Tennessee outplayed Alabama, but lost on a blocked kick as time expired (my post)

Pro:

Dallas looked good and dismantled a previously 1 loss Falcon team that has playoff aspirations (37-21)

Mixed bag weekend; 2 losses and 1 win (won in fantasy league also, but meh) so not good, but all teams played hard and had a chance to win...

Humor

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:03:00 +0000

I rear-ended a car this morning.
So, there we were alongside the road and slowly the other driver got out of his car.

You know how sometimes you just get soooo stressed and little things just seem funny?

Yeah, well I couldn’t believe it…. he was a DWARF!!!

He stormed over to my car, looked up at me, and shouted, ‘I AM NOT HAPPY!!!’

So, I looked down at him and said, ‘Well, then which one are you?’

And then the fight started…..

(from lolblog)

Football Update

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:15:00 +0000

Tennessee outplayed the #2 team in the country (Alabama, #1 in the AP) but it was still short (thanks to Ala blocking 2 field goals and the kicker missing another).

12-10 Ala and a great game. If Alabama doesn't fix their qb, LSU will own em heh

bleh

Football

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:21:00 +0000

Tennessee plays at Alabama tomorrow (3:30 eastern / CBS)

Going to be a rough game, our defense is good and I like their chances against the Ala offense. Their defense is great though and our offense is ... never know.

The line is 14 1/2 for Ala, take the points and go with UT

(Auburn plays LSU also)

Watchmen

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:52:00 +0000

Going to watch Watchmen tonight, heard its good, now to find out :)

Arrested

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:39:00 +0000

Someone should be ... shot for this one:

Springfield, Virginia resident Eric Williamson was arrested and charged with indecent exposure yesterday for failing to put on any clothes after getting up at 5:30 am to make some coffee. A woman and her 7-year-old daughter had cut across Williamson's front yard and saw him through his kitchen window.(Reason)

Can we now assume that every naked lady in her own home 'wants to be seen'? I think not

Criminal Arrest

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:59:00 +0000

I wonder if anyone in Hollywood will sign a petition to keep this guy out of the country:

Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabine Hadad said Wednesday that Nelson, 59, was convicted last year in a California court on 52 counts of sexual abuse of minors and sentenced to 110 years in prison.(link)

Thanks to Interpol and Israel another scumbag will be coming home to rot.

LoL

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:44:00 +0000

Football

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:06:00 +0000

Tennessee has an off week this week, so no game (Dallas does also in the NFL); but there were plenty of good games in the college ranks.

Kentucky had not beaten Auburn since 1966 (stretch of 16 games, they don't play every year) and that streak looked to stay intact this year. Auburn got the early lead but couldn't stop the 'vaunted' Kentucky run game :) After a late touchdown put Ky up 21-14 (with a little over 3 minutes left in the game), the defense held Auburn out and celebrated the win.

Ohio State looked like a Big Ten team in a bowl game... but they were playing Purdue and you only get to mess up so many times before it bites ya. 26-18 Boilermakers

Virginia Tech has been making a lot of noise this year; they lost game 1 to Alabama but have been crushing people ever since. Losing your 1st game to a highly rated team won't hurt you on the way to the National Championship, but losing a 2nd game to Georgia Tech will. GT 28 VT 23

Socialized Idiocy

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:52:00 +0000

Idiotic Story of the Day:

A West Yorks farmer has been slapped with a £150 fine for keeping a cow in a darkened barn and therefore failing to 'meet the psychological needs' of the bovine.

Ronald Norcliffe, 65, was nabbed under the Animal Welfare Act in August 2008 when operatives from Kirklees Environmental Health department and the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) visited his Scammonden farm on a tuberculosis test mission.(link)

Poor cow :( Now I wouldn't keep a cow in a dark barn without a good reason, but did they ask the cow what it thought of the situation? Just as likely as fining a man for failing to meet the 'psychological' needs of a bovine eh?

The barn (dark at that!) was where the farmer planned on keeping his cow and its calf during the winter (cold ya know) and the people who know better(^TM) didn't think that was a good idea.

Year One

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:31:00 +0000

Just watched Year One. Decent movie, funny and stupid (why do they all have to be stupid). Jack Black and Michael Cera star in it (along with June Diane Raphael and Juno Temple [Olivia Wilde is a princess in it).

The movie centers on Zed and Oh getting kicked out of their village (hunter/gatherer village) and embarking on a journey to see the end of the world (or not).

They find Cain and Abel, slave-traders, Hebrews and finally the city of Soddom. They rescue their friends, save the day, etc...
Ok, it's not that good, but it was funny.

NCAA View of Alabama

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:35:00 +0000

Ouch

According to documents released Tuesday, the NCAA in responding to Alabama's textbook appeal called Alabama a "serial repeat violator" with an "abysmal infractions track record" and an "extensive recent history of infractions cases unmatched by any other member institution in the NCAA."

I'm a SEC guy and love to see the conference win the NT every year (almost), of course I don't actually like every team and have hated Alabama since I was little :) I don't actually hate them anymore (the one good thing from the BCS?) but that doesn't mean I can't poke fun at them from time to time [most of the fans I know around here are big Roll Tide people, so this just makes it all the better].

Swine Flue Update

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:38:00 +0000

It's getting bad out there :(

Don't Poke Me!

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:09:00 +0000

Police in Hendersonville, Tennessee have obtained screen grabs of the victim's Facebook page showing evidence of the poke, according to the local newspaper The Tennessean.
Jackson, who lives in Hendersonville, faces up to a year in prison and fine of $2,500 if she is found guilty of breaching the protection order. She is due to appear in court later this month. (link)

Kind of a silly article, but if you're not supposed to contact someone, I guess poking on Facebook would be contacting them. Although you can't do anything but 'poke' with that feature and afaik it can be blocked, I really see no reason for the police to be involved in this one. Of course I'm not involved in this (even if it's close to me) so I don't really have a say in it.

3X Bloggers

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:25:00 +0000

Started a new blog roll (on the side bar there) click if you want to join :) [3x is for 30-something bloggers, but anyone can join if they want to]

Sports update for this weekend (since it's a holiday, raining and I got nothing):

Austin in the rain defeated Sparkman 10-7.

Tennessee (with an offense) killed Georgia 45-19.

Dallas (with little offense) had to goto O/T to beat the winless Chiefs 26-20.

But 3-0 for me this weekend is a good weekend (my fantasy team got killed though, heh)

Football

noreply@blogger.com (Lord Nazh) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:45:00 +0000

I was almost prophetic last week when I said that the last quarter was the most important thing (the fact that Crompton looked like a quarterback). The momentum of that little run carried over this week and Tennessee destroyed Georgia.

The first-year coach got some help from Jonathan Crompton, who passed for a career-high 310 yards and threw for four touchdowns.(link)

The game wasn't as close as the 45-19 score; the UGA special teams got a touchdown and safety and the defense got a TD off a tipped pass.

Otherwise the Tennessee team played outstanding and now get a week off to prepare for the murderous trip to Alabama (Bama 22 Ole Miss 3)