Have You Met Tony?

Check me if I’m wrong, 70’s TV fans, but did Yahoo! steal this headline from an episode of “Good Times”?

...with John Amos as The Hurricane

September 8th, 2008 | Category: Humor, TV | Leave a comment

So yeah, I tired of that last theme’s shenanigans after about 13 hours. Not crazy about the flowers on this one, but it’ll work until I can get in and hack things up a bit.

As for now… vacation. GO BG!

(Oh yeah, and happy b-day to my mother, mother-in-law, cousin, friend’s son and a guy at work!)

August 28th, 2008 | Tags: BG football, web design, wordpress | Category: The Geek Side | Comments (4)

So even thought I’ve been blogging about as often as I shower, I figured I should probably upgrade to WordPress 2.6, since I was way in the dark ages with the version I was on, and besides, there are some fun toys to work with in this version. Also, if I want to get back into blogging (which I do, both here and on the company site - which could benefit from some WP 2.6 itself), I should probably play with the newest version running.

Unfortunately (and the reason behind being so far behind in the first place), my old theme wasn’t all that compatible with the new version, so instead of messing around to fix it, I’ve gone all new. Not thrilled about it, as it doesn’t even show the site name and the navigation box that drops down from the top is full of teensy-weensy little print, but it’ll do for now. Some day I’ll tinker more and come up with something new, hopefully sooner rather than later.

In the meantime, the excitement of this weekend’s trip to Pittsburgh has been tempered a little bit by some idiotic college athletes. Seriously, how dumb can you be?

It’ll still be good to get out and see a football game (followed by the Pirates-Brewers at PNC Park that night), but some of the excitement is gone. We’ll see how it plays out.

August 28th, 2008 | Tags: BG football, road trip, wordpress | Category: BGSU, Sports, The Geek Side | Leave a comment

But in the interest of the viewing public, I did break off a few gems at work this weekend.

Tropical Storm Julio was reported to be “targeting the Baja Peninsula” on Saturday, which happened to be future Hall of Famer Julio Franco’s 50th* birthday. Little do the people of the Baja Peninsula know that the storm is going to hit .300 and stick around for 29 years.

Also, Sunday was the birthday of a few celebrities… Steve Guttenberg turned 50, Dave Chappelle 35 and MARLEE MATLIN IS 43!!!! (Admittedly, this one is much better in the spoken word.)

There. Now I’m on vacation. GO BG.

August 27th, 2008 | Category: Humor | Leave a comment

If this is true, I wish I’d have known about it 13 years ago, it would have made that song tons more tolerable.

Also, while I never thought I’d be one to sit and watch ONE gymnastics event, I’ve now watched three in as many days. And while the announcers were about as annoying as they come and gymnasts seem like the most arrogant people on Earth, but watching the US go 1-2 tonight was kinda awesome.

Listening to the Star Spangled Banner being played during the medal ceremony always reminds me of Mike Eruzione singing his heart out before piling his teammates onto the medal stand in 1980. Way cool.

August 15th, 2008 | Category: TV | Comments (2)

I liveblogged the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics for work tonight. I really need to stop doing that. It’s all good and well-intentioned, but in the end, I end up kicking myself for not being able to really let fly with what I’m thinking, which is really what HYMT.com is all about.

So here’s what we’ll do. After the jump is the liveblog (copyrights be damned, we’ll call it “simulcasting”), but first some of the commentary that got left out of the corporate site:

-”The worst part about the Chinese theme for the Opening Ceremonies, I’m just going to want more in an hour.”
-(about the earthquake-surviving kid with Yao Ming, who had his flag upside-down somehow) “Cute kid. He’ll be shot before sunrise.”
-The organizing committee went to great lengths to make sure no one knew the plans for the ceremony. Ancient Chinese secret, huh?

…and so on, including the Polish woman who seriously must go about 6-6, 280. Or whatever that is in Euros.

Now, off to the liveblog!
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August 9th, 2008 | Category: Sports | Comments (1)