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Found via the Bastard, who got it thriced removed from somewhere else.
Month: October 2003
The Friday Five – Sports
’tis been a while since I’ve done one of these, so what the hell.
1. Do you watch sports? If so, which ones?
I don’t watch much sports. I like to watch college sports, primarily, as pro sports are full of greedy pricks who are more interested in money than the game. Whiners. I watch the Ducks play whenever I can — usually football or basketball.
If I have a choice, I’ll watch a track meet at Hayward Field any day of the week. That place is, bar-none, the best American venue for track and field.
2. What/who are your favorite sports teams and/or favorite athletes?
Like I said before, I’m a Duck fan, but I’m also a fan of good runners — high school, college, elite, whatever. I like to watch the progress of folks I could beat at one point or another who have now because stud runners. Haile Gebrselassie is a stud, and I love watching him run. I also love watching other endurance sports, and was glued during the Tour de France.
I also really like watching billiards/pool, but that’s because I like to play it.
3. Are there any sports you hate?
Like I said before, most of the major pro sports annoy the hell out of me. I quit watching the JailBlazers years ago, despite being a big fan as a kid. I don’t like watching fishing/hunting things, either. I’m not against the actions of the sport, just watching it.
4. Have you ever been to a sports event?
Went to every Duck home football, basketball, and track meet that I could during my 4 years there. I went to a TrailBlazer game back when they were still good and not criminals (Porter, Duckworth, Kersey, Williams, Drexler, Robinson, and the rest of the good ol’ boys). But otherwise, just Duck stuff, and the occassional Pre Classic.
5. Do/did you play any sports (in school or other)? How long did you play?
I played Little League baseball from six-years-old until I got in to high school where it just was way to competitive. I road-bike raced for a couple years in 7th/8th grade. I got into running in the 8th grade, competed on a state and regional level all through high school, and then independently through college. I haven’t run as much lately because of back problems, but I prefer to run the longer distance nasty cross-country races. My motto: If I don’t cross the finish line bloody, dirty, and in pain, it ain’t running 🙂 The last hard-core races that I competed in before getting sick and injured were the MacDonald Forest 15K years ago and last year’s Hood To Coast. My goal is to get back into shape and run them again, but this time the longer races. I know I’ll never have the leg speed again to run the 4:15 mile that I ran in college, but if I can get back down to a 5:30, I could easily take that over quite a few miles. We’ll have to see.
I’ve always thought the Teletubbies were weird
But “Nazi Hybrid Greys in Disguise?” I don’t know if I’d go that far.
Pixel Art City
I posted a while back about the Pixel Art Tower. Basically, the premise is that you work with a bunch of strangers to build a high-rise building, with everybody designing their own floor, and you end up with some interesting results. Well, another site has taken the idea, and made it into a horizontal town. Very cool!
Limp Bizkit sued for 17-minute concert
I don’t know about you, but 17-minutes would’ve been more than long enough for me, but apparently not for the fans that paid good money to see them.
He’s still a spoiled little bitch
I have to give props to Ken for getting a review he wrote a while back copied and posted in the latest Lockergnome Apple Core Newsletter. Congrats, man!
How do you lead-off a blog post that’s going to piss off some folks?
You start it with this: “Proving the Catholic church is led by schmucks who have their heads stuck up their asses[…]”. Let the flame fest at Stupid Evil Bastard begin. I know I’ll avoid it — religion debates annoy me. But I agree with Les on this one 🙂
Why I started blocking external image linking
Update a couple years later…If you’re seeing this page, it’s because your domain is really hammering my server with external image links. Knock that crap off before I replace my redirected image graphic with something really graphic. Currently, xanga.com and myspace.com are on my s**tlist.
For those of you who are regular readers here, this is old news, but for the folks who are coming here wondering why when they externally link to images under this domain, they get blocked, here’s the reasoning (and this blog entry is always available at www.utterlyboring.com/block because of what it now says on my redirect image).
’tis my wife’s birthday today
So I’ll be doing my best to pamper the crap outta her, with our limited budget. Needless to say, I won’t be blogging much today. She’s a whole 25 years old today.
I’d give you my wife’s e-mail address so you could e-mail her birthday wishes, but it’d probably freak her out if she got a bunch of e-mail from people she doesn’t even know. But those of you who do know her e-mail, feel free to send one her way.