Category Archives: Fun

Bucks Lose Again

Fun

Once again the Buckeyes show us just how overrated they really get at times. I love it when a team, which is overrated because of its popularity, loses to a lower ranked team with real talent, and a quarterback from Tyler, Texas!

” . . . For sure, the Buckeyes were perhaps the most-maligned No. 1 team in recent memory, with critics attacking them all season. Tressel gave his players a 10-minute DVD filled with insults hurled at them by television and radio announcers, hoping it would motivate his team. Instead, the Tigers ravaged the nation’s best defense and showed that maybe all those naysayers were right . . . “

There were several teams that probably deserved to be in the BCS Championship game, but because teams ahead of OSU lost, they Bucks backed their way into a buzz saw. Once again, another overrated Buckeye team got blown out when playing the SEC, the best football conference by the numbers. The problem with OSU is that they don’t play anyone all season, and then get drummed when they see a great team. That’s what happened last year in the BCS game against Florida, and that’s what happened this year.

The first four teams OSU played this year, where:

Youngstown
Akron
Washington
Northwestern

YAWN . . . Because of OSU popularity, they start high in the rankings. Rankings are simply popularity contests, so when they start high up in the rankings, they hamper more deserved teams, like LSU, USC, Georgia, West Virginia, Kansas, or Missouri from climbing the rankings.

Maybe, instead of kneeling on the ball with 1:12 left in the game, LSU “should have gone for six, because they couldn’t go for seven,” as Woody would say.

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Nikon D40

Fun, Photography

I’m excited about it, and will update this blog post with more about the Nikon D40 as I have time . . .

I also got the flash. The D40 comes with a pop up flash, but the optional flash provide a lot better light, and more options with bounce effects (pointing it up to the ceiling to get a softer light, instead of harsh, in your face, blasts of white light, like the on camera flash provides.)

I also ordered a fun little remote! It is wireless and now, when Laura and I want to make our photo with both of us in the shot, I can press the remote button and bingo! We can get a nice shot of us without me having to set the timer, run back into the shot, and then trip on something, so I have a picture of me looking crazy, like in this picture. There is just something funny about watching a countdown light from ten seconds, knowing you have to hold still, smile but not laugh, and be ready when the light stops blinking and the shutter fires. We took our Christmas card photo about 25 times to get it right. Hopefully, with the remote, when we have found our positions, stopped chuckling, and are ready, I can just squeeze off the remote button, and boom, picture!

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YouTube’s NewsBusted

Fun, Internet, Politics

Tired of the same old ideology coming from the major news networks? Then try watching the twenty some youtube clips from News Busted. It’s conservative comedy in the style of network news.

They are really funny and clever and only about two minutes long. Go to their youtube website here.

Here’s a sample clip:

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Political Cartoons

Fun, Politics

I know, I know. We should all stay away from political discussions, but I thought these were funny because they play to the stereotypes given in the media. Please don’t be offended, as there are plenty of cartoons smashing Bush and conservatives in papers across the world. Call these equal time?








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