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Reviewing 2009: family, housework, research, and travel.

A roundup: Thanksgiving visit from my folks, college football championship season, winter means house work ends. And I’m still not brewing.

YouTube asks me to sign up for its “partnership” program: fair use? Monetizing? Hrm….

ESPN has a poll with visualization of results via Flash: who misses football across the US. Not surprisingly, the South looms large in wishing Saturdays could be spent in front of the TV again.
Me? Sure, I’d like to be able to watch a little grid this weekend. But a little time away is a good [...]

Two stupid Arizona Cardinals fans thought it would be funny to hassle Eagles QB Donovan McNabb since the Cardinals and Eagles were playing in the NFC championship. They planted a flag in his yard. He was a good sport and laughed it off. So they followed that up by using diesel to burn a message [...]

Let’s review:

Jan 5: Madelyn starts the Big Girl sleep plan. I’m happy to say this continues; the Bee is pretty easy to put to bed now.
Feb 21: I get an awful flu bug, missing classes and losing eight pounds in less than a week.
Mar 10: A misstep down the stairs, and I [...]

This Gainesville Sun article shows Florida’s budget for the national championship game. $2.4M, with $900K to salaries, about $500K for travel, and another large chunk for player bonuses. Spendy.

Sylvester Croom is out at Mississippi State. Five years ago, passed over for a job at Alabama, he took over a sputtering program, soon to be on probation, with a huge discipline problem, terrible recruiting, and awful facilities. Arguably the weakest school in the SEC from a variety of perspectives. Five years later, he hasn’t [...]

Penn St 10
Ohio St 6
Penn State is undefeated. Joe Paterno is 81 years old. He’s got me beat by 40+. If I should be so lucky to hit 81, can I please be 1% as amazing as Joe? One condition: no simpering sentimental ESPN-tributes allowed.

He did it. Awesome.