Nick D

Are we making sausage this year?

For all you beer lovers....

So whose Christmas List is this on?

[L] #spendingistheproblem

http://www.flickr.com/photos/speakerboehner/8269146227/

Bowl Pick'em

Well college football regular season is officially over (mostly) and now it is on to bowl season. Auburns bowl season is a coaching search while FSU and UF get to play in BCS games. Admittedly both of our matchups are not exactly high profile, but oh well we both had good years and deserve the big stage. These bowl games are definitely important for both of our schools. For FSU it means that when conference realignment starts back up again FSU can finally claim they are ACC Champions and a top 10 for the first time in a long time, which makes us all that more attractive to the Big 12 or SEC. FSU has not had a lot of good wins this year, but not much we can do about that a 12-2 record would make me very happy. As for UF well they have had a really good year and some good wins but have zero hardware to show for it. Should UF lose the Sugar bowl they will have nothing of substance to show off what a good year it has been for them ( you guys like that little dig?? Bwahahah)

Bowl Mania

Group Name: Orange Sugar

http://games.espn.go.com/college-bowl-mania/en/frontpage

PS A prize will be provided to the winner courtesy of Nick D

By the way...

What's with the backwards 'FSU'?  Is this a thing or did this lady just have a mirror fail on national television?

Mirror fail?

FSU v UF

Well this might be the first blog post of season for college football and it rightfully so is about FSU and UF. For the first time in I don't know how long (10 yrs) this game matters for both our teams in terms of having a shot at a national title. Although in all honesty since FSU is not in the SEC and have a weak schedule to date we still need some help, but hell we have a shot. This has been a great year for both of our teams and one team will end the regular season at 11-1 and with big time bragging rights and a top 5 finish for sure.

Most places have FSU favored by a TD, which I feel is pretty accurate. In all honesty I am pretty confident in this game, but have a feeling it could be a bit ugly. UF has a really good defense and specials teams, but the offense is a different story heck they have only scored 2 offensive TD's in the last two games, against bad competition. Now FSU has a really good defense and halfway good special teams (our FG unit is awesome, while our punting unit bad) and our offense is above average to good, especially at home.

If this game were at UF I would be very nervous about it because obviously FSU has struggled on the road some this year. UF has beat some very good teams this year home and away so I know UF will come to play. I could throw out some analytic's but prefer to go with a score prediction. This score prediction takes into account the typical UF defensive or special teams TD that they seem to get.....

I think FSU wins this thing 24-13.....

Post for Eric

Eric, we ended up making a better mob spawner in the End and so this was the fate of our old one last night... (we each took a screen grab)

Plans for X-Mas break

Let me know if you are interested in taking part in a group trip/activity this X-Mas break.

I'll put together a group email of interested parties so we can plan.

Humble Bundle for Android 4

There is a great Humble Bundle offered today. It includes 6 really good Android games (also playable on Windows, Mac and Linux) and their full soundtracks. You have to pay at least as much as the average donation to get the 6th game, which at the time of this writing is $5.70. I paid $7.00. Go to http://www.humblebundle.com to check it out.

Movember

Eric can you post the link to your page on here?? I would like to check up on your progress and after your first good shave where the mustache is visible a donation shall be headed your way. Make your father proud Valamos...

Closer and closer to Skynet

Bradenton Riverwalk

 

Today was the grand opening of the Bradenton Riverwalk and we decided to check out the festivities after work.  It's spans the riverfront between MMH and Rossi Park and it's really nice.  Amenities include a boat launch for kayaks / rowing teams, a skate park, 2 sand volleyball courts, a playground, a fountain/water park for kids, many covered benches and swings, an amphitheater, a fishing pier and a large dock with 20+ boat slips.

New Addition

We have a new family member!  Wanted to give Chandler a brother and figured we'd better do it now before the wedding planning takes over the world.  He's a pure-bred lab and is just as sweet as can be... although I may be singing a different tune when he eats the coffee table.  Everyone, meet Griz :)

{rant}

rules of the road

1) every time you drive like a d-bag because you are reading/writing a text, God drowns a puppy

2) if i honk at you about 1) and you flick me off, you have cemented your d-bag status

3) when the light turns green, it means go.  it doesn't mean slowly roll forward while finishing text, then go

4) if i miss a green light because of 3) you better as hell hope i don't catch up to you at the next red light

5) if you swerve out of your lane and i get up along side you and see you continuing to shove your nose in your phone, i am within my moral rights to beat you to within an inch of your life with a DMV handbook

{/rant}

Huge Game Trade-In

If anyone would like to give me trade in value for any of these games let me know.  Otherwise, they will be the property of Amazon in the near future.

Auburn is bad, but this is horrible

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=images&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=672&tbm=isch&tbnid=P58Vk8zBUGu3pM:&imgrefurl=http://www.squidoo.com/auburnvsgeorgia&imgurl=http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens1597157module7858608photo_au_logo.gif&w=128&h=112&ei=cBdEUPaiHaLc2AXn7IHIDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=845&vpy=245&dur=1537&hovh=89&hovw=102&tx=86&ty=66&sig=113964616478789947173&page=1&tbnh=89&tbnw=102&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0,i:115

bingiton

http://www.bingiton.com

this was kind of an interesting exercise

basically microsoft is letting you do a blind comparison of 5 search terms of your choosing between bing and google.

my result was a draw, 3 ties, 1 bing, and 1 google.  an interesting marketing idea to try and jolt people out of their usual habits.  my results weren't astonishing enough, though, to stop my fingers from mindlessly typing google.com

crazy bank robbery

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=8798628

i swear i've seen this movie before.

Football is BACK

What a wonderful time of the year.....

FSU rolled over its pansy of a opponent this past weekend. These games are worthless and tell you next to nothing about your team, but at least our O-Line looked better than last year. This week we have an even worse opponent thanks to West Virginia canceling the game we had scheduled. In other bad news FSU lost our starting DE to a season ending injury. While we have good depth at this position losing a 1st/2nd round pick is not something you can just cover up...big bummer.

I watched some of the UF game and was not terribly impressed, but UF won and has named a starting QB and I saw some nice runs from your RB. As I did not watch the game play by play I don't really know how you looked, but I heard it was not great.  Should be an interesting game against Tex A&M this week I have no idea how good A&M will be after losing their starting QB. Should be an interesting game for sure and could really help propel one team or the other off to a good year.

Alex I was really pulling for Auburn in that game as I hate Clemson. What do you see as Auburns biggest issue this year? Did Auburn just play poorly or will they be about as good as last year?

New FB like button

I added some code that puts a FB like button below each post.  Thanks to Ashley for the idea.  Let me know if it works or not (can't test it since I am FB free since '93)