I’ve been trying to distance myself from where I went to college for a long time now, but somehow I always end up on one of their mailing lists. Yesterday in the mail I received a postcard from them that just cracked me up. The postcard is intended to go to children of the alumnus. The only problem is, I am not a father. They sent the card to my dog that I named Tuna ( a.k.a. DogGeeding. I got him right after Parcells started coaching for the Cowboys). Surely they didn’t think that I named a child Tuna? But I digress.
During one of the episodes of Lost I caught one of their fake Dharma commercials and signed up to be a recruit for the Initiative. Since that time I’ve received several emails from Dharma, here’s the latest that you might find interesting.
If all goes to plan, ‘The Wall’ stadium in Doha, Qatar’s capital city, will claim two firsts: The world’s first underground stadium and the world’s first open-air, air-conditioned stadium. There’s a long way to go however and the stadium is not due to be completed untl 2010 at the earliest, however if the finished product looks anything like the plans released by MZ & Partners Architects then paying spectators are in for a treat.
There’s no YouTube video of the moment since NBC is yanking them from the website, but here’s the very touching article and a tribute video. Too bad I can’t find the Bob Costas piece on this.
When super-heavyweight lifter Matthias Steiner won his first Olympic gold medal, he kissed a photo of the woman he had buried in her wedding dress last year.
The hulking German’s tale of love and loss has moved millions of viewers around the world, and the image of Steiner holding up the photo of Susann, who died after a car crash, was splashed across German websites on Wednesday.
“The first thing I’ll do when I get home is visit her grave,†German media quoted the 25-year-old Steiner as saying. “I’m never able to stay around her grave for long because it hurts so much. Susann was and is my great love.â€
The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today — and inadvertently published it in the process. Some investors were undoubtedly rattled to see, as our tipster did late this afternoon, the Apple CEO’s obit cross the wire and then suddenly disappear. Jobs’s battle with pancreatic cancer, and speculation over his health, jarred Wall Street earlier this year and continues to be the subject of speculation.
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) — Carol Umsted got more than the word of God during services this summer at the Congregational United Church of Christ of Valley City.
She also got $50 worth of free gas, thanks to winning a raffle. For the local farmer, it was a nice side benefit, at a time when gas was more than $4 a gallon.
Churches nationwide are making similar offers, ranging from gas card raffles to 99-cent gas sales at local stations, to boost attendance during the vacation season and attract new members.
But some Christians question whether a financial incentive should be used to draw people into church.
A Queens man is considering legal action against the New York Yankees after he was ejected from Tuesday night’s contest against the Boston Red Sox for trying to use the restroom during the playing of “God Bless America.”
During the patriotic 7th inning stretch at Yankee Stadium, nature called on Bradford Campeau-Laurion. When he tried to leave his seat during the traditional singing of God Bless America, however, he says he was stopped by a NYPD officer who said he’d have to wait until the song was done.
“I then said to him, ‘I don’t care about God Bless America. I just need to use the bathroom.’ As soon as I said that, he immediately pinned my arm behind my back,” Campeau-Laurion told CBS 2.
First of all, thank you to everyone that has voted for my Southwest Airlines Blog-o-spondent audition video – I really appreciate your help. Contest rules states something to the effect that the top ten vote getters will get an interview, and from that ten, three will be selected to go to Vegas. At the time of this posting, I’m in fifth.
Regarding this contest, I’m frustrated with who is in first place. I’m not bothered that she has a popular blog and asked her readers to vote, I’m bothered that her video is first and lacks any effort or creativity. She’s received over a thousand votes in less than 48 hours and leads second place by over 400 votes at the time of this post. I feel like Frank Grimes. Actually, I feel like I did in the 7th grade when I ran for a student council office that I put a lot of work into and lost to pretty blond girl who did nothing but look good. I want those on top to have ‘earned’ their place.
Speaking of popular blogs, I thought I had a somewhat popular blog until this contest. The main tool I use to track visitors is StatCounter, and from that I gather I get around 1600-1900 unique visitors a day. Here’s a look at last week’s traffic: (Click to enlarge)
So I thought with those kind of numbers, I could pull around 600 to 800 votes. But I’m guessing now that I may have only about 100 dedicated readers and I get a lot of passer-by-traffic from the Google. What gives me the idea that I only get about 100 dedicated readers? Well, on Wednesday I posted a simple little poll about bath towel usage. It doesn’t take any effort to participate in the poll other than clicking on a selection, so who wouldn’t participate, right? At the time of this posting, there were less than 90 votes.
With all that said, I might take blogging and this little website too seriously. I really enjoy blogging and finding all these tidbits on the Intertubes and sharing, but if this is all it is for, then I have to re-evaluate my commitment to BON. My hosting contract ends in middle November.
Here’s a nice little update on your favorite Saved By The Bell cast members.
The NFL season starts next Thursday. I noticed right after the game McCain will be accepting his party’s nomination. I bet he’ll like that ratings booster.
It seems weird that Major League Baseball is allowing the use of instant reply this season. I would think it’s something they would have wanted to start at the beginning of a season.
I have eaten at a lot of Tex-Mex places with lots of different friends in my almost 33 years of life and I have never seen anyone dip tortilla chips into butter and eat them until the last two months where I have now witnessed performed by two different people.
If your life involves project management as mine does you might enjoy this video, especially if you are a developer.
It would have been cool to have been in Denver.
As much as I like and admire Ted Koppel, I really like the new Nightline.
Very smart, strategic, classy move Senator McCain made last night with this commercial.
