Football

Well let's get down to it, some very good games nationally this weekend. One plus for FSU is that since we are not playing we can not lose, wooohoooo! Also, the NCAA has finally lost all appeals so we can finally release the information about the scandal we were in before. NCAA is such garbage it pisses me off they are wasting their and FSU's money in all of these trials. Now down to the games involving our collective teams.

Arkansas v UF. I think UF will take this one, but I think the razor backs make this game interesting. I think they will put up a few points in this game with Mallet. If UF's play calling/Tebow play it safe like against LSU the game could get interesting. I am predicting UF wins, but close. This game does register on the upset radar....a little.

Auburn v Kentucky. I think Auburn bounces back and takes it to Kentucky. Auburns offense retakes form and they trounce Kentucky 35-21.

Colgate takes on win less Gtown and continues on to 7-0. Drew I expect Colgate to get back on track and put up near 40 pts.

Some good games in the pick'em this week should be interesting. Have a good weekend.

Nick D

PS Rory is a beooooooooooootch.

Alex's Wedding (Sammy pics)

Sorry for the terrible red-eye on some of these. I also didn't filter them since I am lazy.

-Chat +Random Previous Post

So the chat had a short-lived run, but it was clear that it wasn't a fit. So I dropped it and replaced it with a link to a random previous post. This isn't exactly what I wanted... I am still looking for a widget that will show a different random previous post each day. The current one will show each person a random post. My hope was to re-spark some previous convo's and if each person is taken to a different post, that doesn't really fit the bill.

Anyway, we'll see if this gets any action (feedback welcome) and like I said I'm still on the hunt...

Classic Conan

Thoughts on Football

In typical FSU fashion it was a crazy game. Also, in typical FSU fashion we have no defense I mean wow it was bad. This is main reason why Bobby needs to go after this year because we need a whole new defense staff and Bobby will never can his boys on defense. If we bring him back next year with everything the same I will be shocked. I see no way we make a bowl game or have a winning season, which is staggering.

UF was clearly the better team I mean Tebow did not look the same and he looked scared yet you guys still won. Part of me thinks Brantely should have played some, but you won so that is all that matters. UF defense is sick good is the bottom line.

As for Auburn sorry man it looks nobody showed up, trust me I know the feeling. Still a great start man you could be in my shows, well you were last year I guess.

Go Colgate 6-0 baby....keep rolling.

[L] US: Taliban has grown fourfold

This is sad considering this is the fight we should have been focusing on all along (IMO). Now support seems to be waning, probably due to the length of time that this conflict has gone on.

Award For Nick D

Hey everybody I just spent the last 10 min thinking of great ways to help the world and even though I have not done a damn thing about it I think I am deserving of award. If any of you know of a award that is given on pure rhetoric and a plan for action with no actual steps taken besides drafting very vague guidelines please let me know......anybody??

Tonight

Remember tonight is the Colgate v Princeton football game on ESPN U. This is Colgate's first regular season game on national TV. So for those of you who missed the great Snow Game of 2003 or the thrashing of FAU or our thrashing by Delaware in the playoffs, you can finally watch us destroy yet another Ivy league school.

F$#!ball

Some tough road games on the schedule for this weekend. Should make for great tv.

Auburn @ Arkansas - Auburn is an overwhelming favorite but any game on the road in the SEC is a potential loss. I think they will do okay though because I picked em :). Auburn over Arkansas 42-24

UF @ LSU - I am scared to death of this game. Nevertheless I trust that Urban will find a way. This will either make for the best weekend ever or I will be crawling into a bottle all day Sunday. Gators squeak out a W 24-21.

GT @ FSU - I actually picked the upset on this one. The upset in this case meaning FSU (which is crazy to think). I am guessing that the BYU noles will show up at home and make for a great game. If they get knocked over with a stiff breeze and f up my picks this week I will be pissed. Noles fans are given something to hang their hopes on 38-28.

[L] Nick there is hope for you yet

*zing*

Weekend

Well, let me be the first to say that the weekend was a huge success. Alex and Ashley, the wedding was wonderful and we wish you the best. It is a lot of fun being married, I must say! Everyone else, it was fantastic getting to see you all and I am excited for Christmas. So hopefully most of you will be around. Anyway, thanks for a great time and I hope everyone made it home safely.

Friday

11:36 AM: Going to head to the beach. 77th st unless Adam would rather do the beach house. If you're coming out give me a call to make sure we haven't moved.

Friday Night (Post Dinner)

The Real Deal called me and suggested we should all try to party it up/hang out Friday night. This came about because of Josh mentioning about Christina's beach house. Not knowing any idea where the house is it might be fun to all get together someplace to hang out and possibly spend the night. First question is to Josh, where is the beach house? Also, spoke to Adam and he mentioned maybe his beachhouse/house. We do not have to do anything just wanted to get a consesus on what people think or if everybody would rather just sleep comfortably in their own bed. Let me know what you all think?

PS This excludes Rory because he is a little beotch.........(Nick D > rory)

When is everyone getting in town

For Alex's wedding?

For Nick

My favorite is the guy with absolutely no reaction.

Wedding help

I thought I would ask for the blog's help with some song choices. The DJ needs to know 50 songs that we want to here. So let me hear some ideas.

By the way, Nick, we are going to have to veto any songs by ICP and 2 Live Crew.

Ouch

So apparently FSU is the most inconsistent team in the country. I am tired of Bowden I want him gone for one reason and one reason only. I want to see if head coach in waiting Jimbo Fisher really has it, I am so tired of this shit. Our defense actually played good for the most part and then comes our offense with 4 turnovers. I am sick of this shit. Well this loss sucks balls, but in the grand scheme of trying to get to the ACC championship it does not matter. Whatever.

Wow did Tebow get laid the fuck out that was great ( I mean I hope is not hurt) not really I could care less. Looks like he probably as a concussion I could see him missing a game depending on who you are playing.

Auburn is a offensive juggernaut apparently and your defense is not, but hey 4-0 is 4-0.

wtf

okay, why the hell were all the houston fans giving the shocker at the end of the game???

New Chat

For those of you (like me) that spend every Saturday sitting on the couch with your laptop in hand watching the games, I added a new chat widget in the sidebar that will let everyone chat in real-time. No registration necessary as anyone can log-in as a guest. Let the real-time smack talking begin (on that note, go bulls).

nom nom

[L] Immortality in the Pipeline

I wonder what this will do to social security...

Happy Birthday Dinky!

congrats to all

looks like everyone's team came out with a W. i was only able to catch the auburn and florida games, but i saw a few fsu clips and from what the announcers said it looked like the old school noles. were you guys able to catch the game on ppv or something?

i have a big byu fan in the office next to mine so i will be sure to rub it in a little bit.

yesterday's uf game is the kind of game that shortens my lifespan. i know all the hype had us winning by a huge margin, but you gotta expect a different ut team to show up at the swamp than anywhere else. i'm with nick that their qb is terrible, but their rb is ba (respect).

having nothing to gloat about to anybody else is kind of boring, but at least usc lost so i can sleep soundly at night.

word.

Anybody seen the movie Varsity Blues

Well apparently Tebow has...what a fag...30 min for the rest of our lives....bwahaha....he gets negative motivational points for that.

College Football Week 3

Well we finally passed the boringness of week 2 now on to some bigger tests for our teams. UF gets to lay the smackdown on Tennessee like normal, but this time it will be even better. I would say do not take the Vols lightly, but they have a crap QB and have not looked good at all. Auburn gets to test its undefeated record against WVU. This game could be really good I really have no idea what to expect. Both teams have looked pretty decent, winner of this one will probably jump into the top 25. Good Luck Alex.

Now for the Noles who looked pretty dang good in Week 1 then looked pretty dang awful in Week 2. I think week 2 was just a pure and simple let down I am not putting to much stock in it, although everybody else is. BYU has only allowed ONE offensive touchdown on the year so it should be interesting to see how we do. I expect us to put up some points because Ponder is looking great this year and we have a big advantage speed wise against there DB's. However, Max Hall (BYU QB) has also been looking great. I am very worried about FSU secondary let's just be clear about that and they will put up some points.

Still even though BYU is rated #7 in the nation and have beat OK I expect FSU to put forth a good showing. Oh yes you heard it here FSU will win and hopefully should jump back into the bottom of the polls or come close doing so. I know I am a sucker, but I think this FSU team is decent. Hopefully they come out and show it. This week is do or die in my mind for our team. So we shall see.....oh yea and for Colgate I have no clue sorry, but hopefully they dominate!

[L] PF Chang's 1/2 Marathon

Jenny and I just registered for the P.F. Chang's 1/2 marathon in Phoenix on Jan 17th(the same one we did before). This is a really fun race for all skill levels. Free place to stay for anyone else that wants to run this with us. I know some of you have run shorter races and some of you have done 1/2's before. A group run would be a total blast!

MNF = Crap

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say mike & mike in the morning + steve young is the worst combination of sports announcers in the history of the game. Anyone else watching this SD v OAK game and not think they would be better off with two pencils in their ears?

Well?

Based on the drunk calls and picture messages, I'd say a good time was had this weekend. Any details or tall stories that can be leaked for our entertainment?

[L] The short answer?

Yes

... btw, i'm going to try a new system where i put [L] in the title if it is a link rather than posting "link in title". we'll see if it sticks.

Some intro: Jenny and I went up to Flagstaff this past weekend with our friends Adam and Emilie. They were great hosts and showed us around town to all their old haunts. Adam's brother and sister-in-law have an awesome gymnastics academy that they were nice enough to let us break ourselves in. Hilarity ensued.



Jenny's turn:

You Know You're a 90s Kid If

I just sang the entire fresh prince of bel air song, sad.

Assassin's Creed 2

Very excited about this game...I was big fan of the first.


BTW Rory...I beat Batman last night...awesome game!! Now I'm going back and solving all the riddles...220/240...almost done.

Take a second look

After zooming in on the new tat we find what Jae was looking for.

Vegas Odds as of 5:30PM on Friday

Ok here are the odds that I found lets see how good we are.

Auburn - 13.5
FSU - 6
UF - 55 ( I could not find one for the life of me so I made this up)

Sorry Drew as for Colgate I have no clue.....

New Car

So everyone else is showing off their new cars so I figured I would show mine off. I bought it 2 weeks ago, it' a 2005 Cadillac CTS

He finally did it!!

Crazy Morning

Link is in the title.

As I was driving to work this morning. I was stopped at the light and witnessed this accident. Really fucked up. Sounded like a plastic garbage can filled with water was hit. The biggest reason why I hate walking in DC are Metro Buses, they totally disregard all the traffic laws.

College Football Week 1 starts...TODAY!!

Well it is finally here and I am sure we are all excited. We have some nice matchup's with the ACC v SEC which could prove to be pretty big and provide some good sh*t talking.A win by either Bama or VT proves they are legit and well a loss hurts bad. As far as NC State v USC they are both middle of the pack teams in our conferences and will just be a good matchup I think.

UF has a cake walk and Auburn's first game is not much harder so I would say good luck, buy you guys will not need it. As for FSU we take on Da U which I am predicting will be a high scoring game. If we win it will be a great start and give us a great boost going forward...Let's get down to some predictions.... Oh yea GO NOLES BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!

UF wins 63 to 7
Auburn wins 35 to 3
FSU wins 31 to 20

F**K MIAMI!!!!!!

Peter Stark Interview on the National Debt

Before you ask, yes he is still in office.

Catchy (but sad)

New Toy

Below you will see pictures of my recently purchased car. You may ask yourself how does somebody who is unemployed obtain financing to buy a car? Well I was wondering the same thing, but apparently with a good credit score and my last years salary it apparently was not a big deal. So I now am the proud owner of a 2009 Mazda Speed 3. I am in love with this car and everything you see on the car came stock. It is very fun to drive and came equipped with a turbo charged 4 cylinder pumping out almost 270 HP. I liked the hatchback because you can comfortably seat 4 with some trunk space while keeping the car looking nice and sporty.

You will also see a couple of pictures of our front yard (aka where we park) during a heavy rainstorm this past weekend. As you can see from the Pics the water was mid shin, which is about 10" so yes I am going to have to be careful.

Don't get caught up staring at my Pecs........

J I will NEVER click on one of your ads.................

Ads?

Jae, What's with all the new ads? Are you trying to make money off us? :)

Four-Day workweek has legs

Link. Jen has been doing this for over a year now and she loves it. One advantage (to the employers) that is not mentioned is that the employees get much less overtime.

Skype

Has anybody used Skype yet its great super simple even Nick could figure it out in a few minutes. The quality of the video is only limited by the quality of the camera on your computer, so mac users will enjoy streak free live video with a great audio dubbing.

Don't f*** with a man's bacon

HR1207 will most likely pass in October

link.

Nick gets surf again!

Here's the forecast.

Not as big as before Nick, you should at least go and buy a boogie board. These waves should be safe for ya.

Wireless Power Demo

Thinking of coming down to Btown...

So what are the plans for this weekend? Alex...you have a guest room setup yet?

New House

Hey Everybody I did a quick video tour of the house. The link should be embedded in the title, please excuse the poor cinematagraphy and the close ups of my beautiful face. Rory I gave you some love in the video. Later Peeps.

GO NOLES!!

Video Help

I am trying to post a video I took on my camera it is like 4 min long and it just will not post. Any suggestions on how to get this thing on the blog? Do not tell me to click the video button because that is what I was trying to do, which led to it "uploading" for 20 min getting nowhere.

What Nick missed because he is soft.

Bill Surf at 2nd Light from Adventure Online TV on Vimeo.

Ava's New Trick

I got a Volvo!

For those of you who know me (and I assume most of you do), you know that I don't exactly love driving, and the thought of car accidents scares the crap out of me... so a Volvo (aka, a tank) has always been a highly desirable car for me. Well I am happy to say that thanks to some awesome negotiation on Siefe's part I was able to get this '07 S40 for only a little more than I was paying for my stupid Aveo! It drives really smooth, has a sunroof, tinted windows, leather interior, plus I was able to tack on a 3 yr warranty that covers just about everything imaginable. All in all, a very productive Saturday! :)

And so it begins...

http://cfblive.blogspot.com/

Just to get everyone here going, read the article in the link! This is not unexpected from Logan and I, we've been telling Alex this for months.

Rory > Nick

Winkers

Birthday/Christmas gifts for the ladies!

Recent fishing pictures

I haven't put any fishing pics up in a while so here ya go:

Gainesville Raceway...

So we went to the track last night in G-Ville...here is my second best run...vs my roommate...haha. This is also the first time I broke into the 12's! My best run was right after this one at a 12.83.

Surf!

Nick, get your surf board out and get ready to hit the beach this weekend! Bill

You can keep an eye on the waves here: Surfline Take a look at the Hatteras buoy...its already at 7 feet.

Since he's not gonna tell you...

Big Al bought a house last week.

Grown Up

Well the house is starting to come together we will be getting a couch, coffee table and TV stand on Friday. We will pretty well setup once these things arive. We still do not have a guest bed, but we have 3 blow up beds for any guests. Hopefully I can nail down a job in the next month and everything will be good to go. Oh yea, I got a home phone as well.

843-718-2419

Aight hopefully I will see most of you guys for the bachorlette party....bwahah.....

Nick D

Happy B-Day Alex!

If I remember correctly you are now in the 2-8 club...you will have to let us all know how that feels :)

Jae

Happy Birthday!

Mad Men

Anyone else seen this series? We just started Netflixing the first season. There are a lot of interesting characters and the production quality is really good. I love the fact that everyone smokes like chimneys and drinks scotch non-stop. I would recommend it so far.

Any other Netflix recommendations?

I want one

COD Modern Warfare 2

Video Games | Modern Warfare 2 | GT Pop-Block: Multiplayer Gameplay HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

I wish it was November.

HR 1207 needs Americans to be outspoken

Our representatives need to hear from us instead of the banks. Don't let this bill be squashed. Speak out to your congressman.

you get him boy

Get involved contact your representative and tell them to support HR1207 (in the house) and S 604 (in the senate)

monkey pig

there, now you won't be able to eat dinner either.

freak pig born in china. ugliest...thing...ever

half day today

i got an unexpected half day at work today after the power went out in our building with no sign of it coming back on.

what sucks is that i remember when i used to look forward to occurrences like this back when i was in school. now all i can think is how much i am not getting done at work. unfortunately, deadlines don't slip because you lost a day to the utility company.

oh well, what does everyone else do with their days off? i am at home on a weekday and it's 100+ outside. right now i see my options as chores, xbox, or reading.

BSL

Did you get my message the other day?

Nick

Tell us about your move...

Another hour long video from everyone's favorite economist (or maybe just mine)

Really?

This kid couldn't figure out that this was wrong to do? What about the fact that doing it in the game gets police to chase you?

New Orleans

Off to the Big Easy for Asa's bachelor party.  Should be a great time!

Googe Voice

Got my google voice invite today, am totally stoked. I got the number 48-48-JSAMMY... (484)857-2669.


To give you an idea of what google voice is, here is the default voicemail that you receive when you sign up.





Also, for all you damn text-aholics... I can send and receive texts for free. So please text my google voice number from now on.

Crazy Aussies

Nick, are they related to you?

Website Question?

Hey guys I have a question for you. Irene is looking for a host/site and wanted some suggestions on where it would be best to get it started. Obviously she would prefer a host/site that works well with pictures as she is looking to have a portfolio website. She just did a mini photo shoot with two of her dresses she designed and would like to get them on the web. At first it just needs to be simple something where people can go to see the dresses nothing to complicated. I believe she has registered a domain name already. Not sure if my host/site terminology is correct, but I think you get what I am asking. Anyway any suggestions would be very helpful.

I had no good suggestions as the only website I have made is nickville and well as awesome as it was it was not the most sophisticated.

PS You can thank Rory's for making me take it down, but do not fret I saved most of the good stuff on my computer.

Rory is a beeoooooooootch.

The finished product!

Aside from a few very small finishing touches, the arcade cabinet is finally done. Getting the TV mounted was an absolute pain in the ass, but we got it done. Here's some pics of the final product running a few choice games.

Food Update x2

Let me start right off by saying that I passed on free donuts today. Let me repeat that. Somebody walked into my office, presented me with my choice of donut from a selection of donut wonders. And I said... nay, I shall pass.

Food Log:
6 am: Oatmeal (M)
9 am: Vanilla Shake (M)
12 pm: Chic-fila Salad
3 pm: Chocolate pudding (M)
7 pm: Cinnamon Roll Crunch bar (M)
9 pm: Unknown...

Houston, we have a problem. We actually don't have enough products to last until our order arrives. So we will have to go half time for a bit until then. Poor planning on my part. Oh well, you live, you learn.. and get luvs.

-J

Food Update

So today I faced my first battle with Mr. Will Power... and lost.

We had free pizza at work and you all know my soft spot for free food.

The good part is that I felt like crap the rest of the day so I will probably be more likely to resist next time, the bad part is that my indulgence kicked me out of fat burning and restarted the 3-day counter to get back into fat burning.

Food log:
6 am: Oatmeal (M)
9 am: Premixed Vanilla Shake (M)
11:30 am: Blueberry shake (M)
12 pm: 2 slices of pizza hut pizza (sausage, peppers, onions)
3 pm: Chocolate pudding (M)
6 pm: Parmesan Cheese Puffs (M)
9 pm: Chicken and wild rice soup (M)

As you can see, I tried to anticipate my temptation and pre-load with some proteins a half hour before the pizza. It kind of worked as I used to eat four pieces and today only had two.

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Ole and Drew, when is a good time to call you? I will set up a three way call with each of you and with my mom so that she can explain the program and I can learn from her. I think if you both did it as a competition of sorts, that you would be increasing your likelihood of success.

For those of you who do not need to be on the program as clients, the health coach opportunity is really a great opportunity to earn some extra cash. As an example, my mom has been at it for a few years now and is earning an extra 6k a month and growing. If anyone is interested in this side of the business, I can also set up a three way call. Just let me know.

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Outie until tomorrow,
TheJ

Back on the health wagon

The past three weeks (NYC, Connecticut, Adam's Wedding, Vegas, Phoenix) have put a hurt on my waistline. I probably gained a solid 5 lbs from all of the eating out.

So to get a jump start back on the health wagon, I have started on the Take Shape for Life program. This is the same program that my mom used to lose 60lb in 4 months.

I will try it out for a few weeks. This is a dual-effort. On one hand I will get back down to my fighting weight. On the other hand, I will learn about the program and its products since I intend to become a part-time health coach in the program. My mom has been health coaching for the past few years and is making really good money at it while helping others at the same time.

Today is my second day on the program and so far so good. Will update as progress is made (or not made).

Food journal for today:
6 am: Oatmeal (M)
9 am: Vanilla shake (pre-mixed,M)
10:30 am: Crisps (snack,M)
12 pm: Jimmy John's #1 unwich
3 pm: Crunch bar (M)
6 pm: Strawberry shake (M)
9 pm: Chocolate pudding (*,M)

*- Anticipated
M- Medifast Product

Next to last arcade post!

Remaining tasks:
- Construction of the control panel base.
- Wiring.
- Mount the monitor.
- ...
- Profit!

Weekend in Phoenix

Taking over the world

Link in title. Google is taking over the world!

More pics from the wedding

I think you guys will like the Lebron action shot.

Sammy's Pictures

Wedding Pics

Check my facebook profile for the wedding pics we had,especially the one of us doing the Lebron James shot. This is like right before we did the toss I believe Jenny or Christina has the action shot.

Nick D > Rory

Have fun at the wedding everyone

Wish I could have made it. I expect to see lots of pictures.

Game Over

You have GOT to be kidding me...

What are we, little people? I can't believe this is a real product, and yet I can't stop watching the commercial...

Start Saving for a PC Upgrade!

Diablo III, 2010. Link in title.

Your tax dollars at work.

Link

Very Disturbing

Cleveland Browns receiver Dante Stallworth was sentenced to 30 days in jail and reached a undisclosed financial settlement with the victims family. In case you are wondering why he is going to jail that would be his DUI.....oh did I mention he hit and killed a pedestrian. Now yes the pedestrian was jay walking and it was dark, so I guess that could have posed some issues. However, 30 days for killing somebody!!!! Also, it has to be obvious the victims family had a lot to say with this, as they are not going to file a lawsuit.

Anyway, I wonder if he will be allowed to play this year in the NFL...if he does I hope he wins the Browns a Super bowl!!

XBox

So I just got my xbox all hooked up with the xbox live. Unforunately I only have one game (Left 4 Dead). That being said, what are people's names on live so I can add you as friends? It would be awesome to coop some games. My online name is "donfasoli" so add me.

Google Wave

Check out some highlights from Google's newest product. This could mean some great blog improvements.

Peter Schiff on The Daily Show (06/09)

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Peter Schiff
thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Newt Gingrich Unedited Interview

Asa and Molly's engagement party...

It was a fiesta.  Most of you will recognize all 3 of the amigos/groomsmen.

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel

For those of you on Xbox, I was looking for a new co-op game and was checking out Co-Optimus. Sacred 2: Fallen Angel looked promising (review link in title). 4-player drop-in-drop-out campaign coop. Think Diablo but on the console. Anyone played this yet (was released on PC last year) or would be willing to pick it up if I got it?

Jae, you need to hit up this place

Is it close to you?