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• I chopped down a tree with a ax yesterday, I think that’s a first for me.  Granted, the trunk wasn’t that big so it wasn’t much of an accomplishment, but it made me feel manly.
• One of my neighbors is getting a pool, and I was lucky enough to get an insane amount of free dirt to level out my backyard.  Now it’s time to work on a retaining wall and modify the fence.
• I’m not sure if I’m sick from allergies, sinus problems, or some bug, I’m going to the doctor today.
• Here are some interesting rules new University of Texas football coach Charlie Strong is implementing, the full list is here.
  • Players will attend all of their classes and sit in the front two rows of all of their classes.
  • If a player misses a class, he runs until it hurts.  If he misses two classes, his entire position unit runs.  If he misses three, the position coach runs.  The position coaches don’t want to run.
  • Players may not live off campus anymore, unless they’re a senior who hits certain academic standards. The University will buy out the leases for every player currently living off campus and put them in the athletic dorm.
• I finished the current season of ‘Sherock’ and I’m already going through withdrawals, but I most certainly applaud the season finale. #bravo
• PBS aired some sort of behind the scenes special on Sherlock and it was great.  I really liked how it shows the series is closely tied to all the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel.  Funny thing, but when I first started with the series my first thought about the Benedict Cumberbatch was that they most of chosen him for his acting chops because he isn’t attractive in the least.  But when watching that behind the scenes special they talked about his sex symbol status.  You can watch that special on PBS’s website here and it does’t contain any spoilers for the upcoming series the American audience hasn’t seen.
• That special stated that Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed literary human character played on film and television, Guinness World Records backs up that claim.  He’s been depicted on screen 254 times by 75 actors.  But the most portrayed literary character of all times belongs to . . . Dracula.  I’m assuming both records do not include porn parodies.
• I’m trying to figure out if I’m just caught up in the moment or if ‘Sherlock’ is the best television series I’ve ever watched, even better than ‘Breaking Bad’.  I think one thing that has helped me was the ability to binge watch the series.
• I hear good things about Hopdoddy burgers.
• Expectations shall be high – Louis C.K. and Zach Galifianakis Are Writing a New Show Together
• I know it’s a mountain bike accident, but you are suppose to go to the doctor after four hours per the ED commercials, SEVEN weeks is unreal.
• Biathlete gives up her spot on U.S. Olympic team to her twin sister
• Forget Tangled Wires: We’re Really Excited For These Magnetic Earbuds
• Google invests $75 million in Texas wind farm
• Space Mountain With The Lights On Is Scarier Than In The Dark

• WifeGeeding only eats cereal out of a plastic cup, never a bowl. #rebel
• I don’t know what’s going on with A-Rod but I’ve been trying to ignore it as it’s of no interest to me.
• Everytime I hear or see a sentence end with “to me” I think of this scene in Aladdin.
• Bono said U2’s next single, “Invisible,” will be out in the coming weeks.
• One of my readers was nice enough to sort out and chart the website stats I posted yesterday.
• The word “obviously” is overused and when I hear it in an argument I tend to think I’m being talked down to or that they are trying to dumb things down for me.  That came to mind when it was reported that Mike Tomlin used that word excessively at press conferences.
• It’s tradition for the outgoing Virginia governor to prank the incoming governor, so Bob McDonnell left a giant stuffed black bear for Terry McAuliffe in the bathroom of the governor’s mansion.
• A young Bement, Illinois farther died of colon cancer, his fellow farmers honored him in a touching way.
• Buzzfeed is entertaining and offers a lot of material but sometimes I just have to shake my head at what their writers are thinking or the false information they put out.  Yesterday they made the post titled 17 Things You Should Know Before Going To Mars.  They stated a trip to Mars would take 210 days and that no human has been in space that long, which is totally false because a cosmonaut once spent 437 days on the old Mir space station.
• I should have mentioned this yesterday, but Cam Newton’s touchdown pass to Steve Smith was one of the best I’ve ever seen.  What impressed me wasn’t so much where the ball landed but how Newton didn’t put much air under the ball for that length of a pass.
• RGIII has taken a page out of the Sarah Palin playbook and vented on Facebook.  Can you imagine if Romo pulled that stunt?  Leaders just can’t be that sensitive to outside criticism.  Hey, Peyton Manning had his struggles for many years never winning a playoff game or getting past the Pats and being compared to his father, but you have to ignore the outside distraction and focus on what you can control.  Griffin needs to go back and look at his Heisman speech about pressure and diamonds and just put his head down and work.
• Speaking of the Redskins, they actually hired a new head coach and never informed and cancelled the interviews for the two San Francisco coordinators scheduled to vie for the job.  You stay classy, Washington.
• It’s amazing just how fast the human mind works – Supercomputer models one second of human brain activity
• John Kerry’s gift to Russian counterpart? Two ‘impressive’ Idaho potatoes – Too bad they weren’t these potatoes.
• Chris Christie Is Just Too ‘Muscular’ and ‘Masculine’ for This ‘Feminized’ World, Says Fox News Host
• Myth-busting librarians debunk rumors about Texas’ Wild West laws
• Norwegian adverts shows why we should hire blind people
• If you are a college football fan, you might find these posts interesting:
  • The top locker rooms in college football
  • Photos of top indoor practice facilities in college football
  • The top players lounges in college football
  • The top hydrotherapy pools in college football

Here’s the rundown of monthly/yearly unique visitors (as opposed to page views) through the years.

Click to enlarge, I don’t have a reason for the dropoff.