Green Bay Packer running back Samkon Gado has a better off-season conditioning plan than most. He’s working in a local hospital as a step in his plans to become a doctor. I went to the same college as Gado, and I know what a jump it was to go from backup fullback for the Liberty Flames to starting running back in the NFL. That kind of dedication will serve him well. :) ...
Video Game Julio Franco looks back on his career, still playing at 48 years old. Link courtesy of Deadspin
Battlestar Galacticsimpsons Peanuts Meets Marvel Year One As mentioned before, Apropos Comics
Ah, Greensboro, my hometown… :| Seriously, if groups like the Minutemen think Greensboro, NC, is a good place to stop and garner support, we need to print up some kind of pamphlet about 1979 just so we can hand it to them. Not to put it lightly, but Greensboro is gunshy about controversial protests, for very good reason. BTW, compliments to Joe Killian for working a Red Kryptonite reference into his story. :) ...
Don’t want your ISP — or anyone who happens to run the pipes between you and the site you want to use — to be able to throttle back on your service because the site hasn’t paid them extra? Then take a few moments to think what you can do to support Network Neutrality.
So, I’m sitting on the couch Saturday night, reading a bit after watching the first three rounds of the NFL Draft. Two hours later, I’m in the emergency room, trying to stay upright in an uncomfortable chair. Two hours after that, I’m lying in a hospital bed blissed out on morphine. So, did something horrible happen? Not exactly, and that is the magic of the kidney stone. While they can be serious, kidney stones are often small, harmless, almost completely benign…and yet, when you have one, you want to bash yourself in the head with a steel chair so you can have other pain to distract you. :| ...
I would like to point out at this time I am still in the running for head men’s basketball coach at NC State. With so many people withdrawing, I thought it my responsibility to let you know that there are some folks still willing to take the job. It’s a program with a lot of promise. I don’t understand why everyone is pulling out of the job. I can see the Wolfpack competing evenly with the top teams in the state, maybe even under their next coach. ;) ...
If you need to see these 102 movies to be movie-literate, I’ve still got a ways to go. Blatantly stealing from kottke.org, I’ll list the movies and mark the ones that I’ve seen with an *. :) \* 2001: A Space Odyssey The 400 Blows 8 1/2 \* Aguirre, the Wrath of God \* Alien All About Eve \* Annie Hall \* Apocalypse Now \* Bambi \* The Battleship Potemkin \* The Best Years of Our Lives \* The Big Red One The Bicycle Thief \* The Big Sleep \* Blade Runner Blowup \* Blue Velvet \* Bonnie and Clyde Breathless \* Bringing Up Baby Carrie \* Casablanca Un Chien Andalou Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis \* Chinatown \* Citizen Kane A Clockwork Orange \* The Crying Game \* The Day the Earth Stood Still Days of Heaven \* Dirty Harry The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie \* Do the Right Thing La Dolce Vita \* Double Indemnity \* Dr. Strangelove \* Duck Soup \* E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial Easy Rider \* The Empire Strikes Back The Exorcist \* Fargo Fight Club \* Frankenstein \* The General The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II \* Gone With the Wind GoodFellas The Graduate \* Halloween A Hard Day’s Night Intolerance It’s a Gift \* It’s a Wonderful Life \* Jaws The Lady Eve \* Lawrence of Arabia M \* Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior \* The Maltese Falcon \* The Manchurian Candidate \* Metropolis \* Modern Times \* Monty Python and the Holy Grail Nashville \* The Night of the Hunter Night of the Living Dead \* North by Northwest \* Nosferatu On the Waterfront \* Once Upon a Time in the West Out of the Past Persona Pink Flamingos \* Psycho \* Pulp Fiction \* Rashomon \* Rear Window \* Rebel Without a Cause \* Red River Repulsion The Rules of the Game \* Scarface The Scarlet Empress Schindler’s List \* The Searchers \* The Seven Samurai \* Singin’ in the Rain \* Some Like It Hot A Star Is Born A Streetcar Named Desire Sunset Boulevard \* Taxi Driver \* The Third Man Tokyo Story \* Touch of Evil \* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Trouble in Paradise \* Vertigo \* West Side Story \* The Wild Bunch \* The Wizard of Oz ...
Sigh…They just don’t get it. You always sacrifice your work life first. ;) http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DoQAAANi2KMARzGgBgaOY2ZBlLixt11aLUqB7DcJiCaXvSXTitmCKJhCHOkoA–uxFMmlJgvEd7WkZhDPyYfUf_1dFwbbwkiAFDHiNZ24xS6sMicPwizsIlq_ncAh1RtJtUup9cLHU6SfwJQsJerRrj2KptlJYI4smVot3B6FuB88PPAqkdSOH8H7SrMIIVuNZ9QABdSCtYh-BEQxzVw63bFrnE4mWb5owcc7M0AudIz5sWhi%26sigh%3DnQkEYH4zuCa6gLN-U-jA9iTf0K8%26begin%3D0%26len%3D232880%26docid%3D1329362959167995041&thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fapp%3Dvss%26contentid%3D74c7bd18530bbdb5%26second%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1145934080%26sigh%3DtEArLZ839xsnOmp80jU6Tncbbe4&playerId=1329362959167995041 Courtesy of Google Video
Archaeologists in Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, believe they have uncovered the first pyramid ever found in Europe. They think it may be a step pyramid higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza. Link courtesy of EdCone.com