OOPs

Nick's birthday is tomorrow. Brain fart on my end however IO got a chance to speak to Terri for a few Minutes. There is nothing going on at the bar tonight, but she said that the Hillbilly Gypsies are playing next week.

I am going to have to go and catch them next week, before they start hitting the big time.





Muleskinner Blues




Fire on the Mountain.

Happy Birthday Nick

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my brother in law Nick a very Happy Birthday.

American Idol to start again

Ok, it's time once again fro my favorite part of American Idol, that is when the judges initially visit all the cities and get to see all the uh..."talent" first hand to decide if they are going to make the trip to Hollywood.

This is the round when being bad could make you another William Hung

New TV show I am starting to watch

Over the past few years, I have had more than one person tell me about the TV show 24. I made it through the initial two shows last night and am watching the two other shows tonight (season premiere) and I have to say that I have been impressed.

Maybe I have a new drama series that I will finally start watching on a regular basis.

Texas Hold Em Round 4

This afternoon, we held round 4 of our Texas Hold Em Tournament. Today was a double point round and I needed to make up some ground on the points. I ended up finishing fourth overall and the double points round pulled the overall field in a little closer.

Players who had had pretty good games to this point went out early, and those of us who haven;t had good rounds played pretty decent for a change. Norma and Charlie were the final two players, but considering they are married we know what household that prize money was going to before the game ended.

Norma took Charlie out, winning round four.

How in the World

How in the world do you win $315 Million Dollars in the Lottery and be broke four years later? I mean come on, he was a millionaire BEFORE he hit the lottery. He took it in one lump sum of $113 Million AFTER taxes and in four years has blown it.

I have no idea how in the world he could have done this, but if someone would like to give me $113 Million cash I will try my hardest to be penniless in four short years.

Everyone can rest assured that we all would have taken a few trips around the world, and especially to Rio to see the topless babes on the beaches.

Bottled water consumers

The idiots of today with the wallets of tomorrow. I had to post this one, I see so many people buying battled water in convenience stores and have to laugh. First, it is higher priced than the soda that the beverage distributors also distribute, and secondly its tap water. I'm having fun with this.

Why Bush's NSA Wire tapping is defeated by VoIP Networks

Bush claims he needs NSA wire tapping to break up terrorist networks but terrorists are not using the phone network Bush is tapping. They are using private voice over IP internet phones (VoIP) that can't be tapped. This video explains how it works. EDIT: This is actually me testing out a feature from Google that I have never used before and that is posting a google video into a blog. WAAAAAYYYY too easy to do. All you have to do is log in.

TGIF

It's FRIDAY!!!!!!!!

Let the weekend begin!!!!

Happy Birthday Mom

I would like to take this blog and dedicated it to my mother and wish her a very Happy Birthday. I called her this morning, but I found out I was the second one to wish her a Happy Birthday for today, Gerald had beaten me to it when he woke up this morning.

If you have not already done so today, take a minute and wish her a Happy Birthday. You can e-mail her at her yahoo e-mail or you can e-mail her at sandi@george-hall.net.

She has always been one of those people who will unselfishly be there for anyone in need when they need her. I sometimes wonder why she doesn't volunteer at either of the hospitals.

Mom, I hope all of your dreams come true today and that you have a very Happy Birthday.

OK, sometimes you have to see it to believe it

Every once in a while you run across a clip on the internet that is just beyond belief. If I would tell you that I had a movie file of a snake versus a cute little bunny rabbit, who would you put your money on?

Snake V Bunny

Apple Unveils the iPhone

Today, Apple Computers has introduced their newest product and that is the new iPhone. I'm quite sure that we are getting our first glimpse into a technology that probably every person will have in the next 5-10 years.

This is finally an all in one hand held device. It is a cell phone, a high quality music and video device, it's a browser, heck, it does a little bit of everything and I have a funny feeling right now would be a prime time to dump as much money as you have into Apple Stocks because this may be the first 21st century device, that is well, 21st century.

I think it is going to have a 22nd century price tag however, 4 Gigabyte Models are $499 and 8 GB models are $599. However they are not scheduled to start shipping until June of this year, so it will be at least six more months before anyone will have one.

It runs on Macintosh's OS X operating system.

Go Away

Do you believe this crap? I have been very fortunate I guess this time of the year because I have been treated with almost spring like conditions and haven't even had to worry about old man winter showing his ugly face.

I guess that all changed today when he decided to throw me a little curve ball and drop a bunch of this cold cotton looking white stuff all over the place.

I could have been perfectly content in not seeing another snowflake this season, but someone obviously doesn't like me and covered the ground with this cold cotton.

I guess we are pretty fortunate, this really is the first time this year that we have even had the slightest bit of accumulation and we are already into the second week of January. I'm already for the warm weather to come back, the pleasant odors of fresh foliage enlightening my nasal cavity to indicate new and fresh. I'm ready for the sounds of softball, the balls pinging off the bats and being snatched up by the leathery extensions of the hand. I'm ready for spring, and it couldn't arrive soon enough.

This feels wierd

It's is the NFL playoffs and it's one thing that the Pittsburgh Steelers didn't play during the wild card weekend, but now we are getting ready to enter the second week of the playoffs. No Steelers, and worse yet, Bill Cowher has decided to step down as the Steelers coach.

I'm all confused, I don't know what to do when the defending Super Bowl Champions are not even in the playoffs.

Lot's of emptiness in this die hard Steelers fan pro football life.

Movie Review Rocky Balboa

With the Pittsburgh Steelers out of the NFL playoffs, I decided to take in a move this afternoon.


Today I went and saw the movie Rocky Balboa. This was the sixth part in the Rocky series, the fifth Rocky left everyone with a bad feeling and I guess Sylvester Stallone decided he wanted to do a fifth.

I've been following the production of this movie for some time, so I had already seen all the trailers and had actually already read the script. I knew what to expect when I walked into the theater.

The first 2/3 of the movie I am sitting there thinking that this could possibly win another Academy Award. It was captivating and it was a story that covers the last thirty one years as we have watched this character develop. I grew up with the character and you could relate to the characters as if you had lived everything with them.

The new character development was great. They had developed a story line for Mason "The Line" Dixon as well as any character that was ever written about in the series. At first the movie could have almost been about him and I thought they developed a personable side that you could relate to. A small sample

Rocky, had lost Adrien in 1995 and his son had grown up. He has an encounter of meeting the little girl from Rocky I that he walked home and she yelled "Screw you creepo". That story line started to develop into a love affair, but Rocky's inspiration was the past and his long lost wife.

About 2/3rds of the way into the movie it went from a very well set up movie with a great story line, to a B movie rushing to get everything in under budget. Characters went from being someone you could deeply relate to to an actor saying his lines.

I think it started out great, but at some point during production they went from being artistic and making this an A movie, to meeting a budget and making it a B movie.

Like I said, I already knew the script, and where the actors would have gotten a 10 at the beginning, I gave them about a 2 at the end.

Had Stallone possibly sought additional financing and extended it a few more minutes, it could have been Oscar worthy. I was very excited in seeing the movie, but I think they dropped the ball on this one.

I will own this DVD.

A little late, but still funny

WVU men's basketball team puts on a clinic

The 25th ranked, WVU men's basketball team ran its record to 13-1 and 3-0 on the season with a 73-46 spanking of St. Johns this afternoon. I won four tickets on Friday, but no one seemed to want to go so I gave all four of them to Sandy, Kurt, Kyle and Kayla and let them enjoy the day.

I watched the game on TV and we put on a basketball clinic for the world to see. I thought our two 7'0" Centers played very well today and I think Joe Alexander will be an All-American before he leaves here.

This could be a very interesting season.

I will make this fair

Saturday, January 6th, 2007 at 4:00 PM at the WVU colseum, the 25th ranked WVU Men's basketball team will play against St. Johns in a game that is already SOLD OUT. We are talking 14,000 plus fans jammed into the the Colseum to see this contest.

On WAJR this morning, yours truly managed to win four tickets to tomorrows game. Obviouslu I will be using one of the tickets, the other three are up for grabs for the first three people that ask me for a ticket. You can't beat the price, they are free and being that they are promotional tickets, My guess is that they are very seats.

I was initially going to give them to Moke, but he is leaving tomorrow three hours before the game to return to complete his AIT training.

This leaves me with three tickets and in search of three people who would like to go and see a very well coached and very exciting game tomorrow.

Edit

2 of the tickets gone, 1 to go.

Some amazing and interesting research

I have seen and heard of all kinds of research in the name of education. Crazy stuff like psychological experiments on twinkies and methane in air theories that included a bunch of cows farting.

Now, comes the most serious of all the research and the most accurate in relevance to human behavior. They performed a series of small experiments where certain chemicals were introduced to the wood spider and their behavioral patterns were closely monitored.

Wood Spider Experiment.

As you can see, these tiny insects behavior are very similar to human behavior.

I plead the fifth

STAY AWAY FROM THE CHAMPAGNE.


It makes you look stupid.