The fall and spring television lineups (or as I like to call them, the ‘A’ teams) are just about done for the season. It was a pretty good year for A-team television, some new shows like Community heading out with some steam, and some older ones,...
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Links of the Week: Optical Illuisions, High School Imposters, and LeBronageddeon
Over the last few days, all of the talk in the sports world seemingly revolved around LeBron James and his ineffective and almost uninspired play in Game 5 against the Celtics in the NBA Playoffs. So much hype and torch-passing has already begun with...
Links of the Week: Kobe Bryant, Steve Carell, and Questionable NBA Fouls
About five months ago, I wrote a Links of the Week blog in which I introduced my first case of 'Blogger's Block'. Since that time, I hadn’t had to worry about blocks- the 2010 sports landscape has provided me a solid basis of something to blab...
Big Yellow School Bus Safety: School Bus Stops & The Rules Of The Road
Hi there all. I have had something on my mind that I thought I would share. Did you know that everyday here in Valparaiso and around the country, drivers are running school bus stop arms? Yep. It's true. I thought I'd share with what I have learned...
Links of the Week: Josh Groban, TIME’s Most Influential, and Is Facebook Really Taking Over the World?
Over the last two weeks, if one thing has beeen made clear to me more than anything else, it's that Facebook is taking over the web. Last week, they announced that, as long as your computer knows you are logged on to Facebook, many of the sites you...
Are Positive Political Campaign Ads Just a Crazy Idea?
Are positive political campaign ads just a crazy idea?Like anything in life, you can choose to view whatever you face as a negative or a positive, and anyone that knows me knows I am a bit nuts about looking at most anything as an opportunity. ...
Links of the Week: The Eyjafjallajokull Volcano, Jabba the Hut, and the 75 Greatest Women in History
The NBA Playoffs are an under-rated time of the year, and TNT has capitalized on one of the great monikers for a sporting event. College basketball has "March Madness", the Super Bowl has, well, the "Super Bowl", but the NBA Playoffs have 40 games in...
Links of the Week: The Black Eyed Peas, Fax Machines, and the Cheesiest Baseball Song Ever Written
With the recent release of the iPad, I am reminded on how far we've come, technologically, as a society. Best case example: here is a video of Windows 95 software running on the iPad. It's slow, bogged down, and it takes forever just to get started...
Links of the Week: Dr. Dre, Failed Dunking Attempts, and the ‘Taiwanese Susan Boyle’
Was this the best March Madness ever? From that first Thursday through Monday night's epic Butler-Duke championship game, I can't remember a tournament that featured more upsets, buzzer-beaters, and close games. The teams I was rooting for (Purdue,...
Links of the Week: Jay-Z, Buzzer-Beating Dunks, and 3-D Nintendos?!?
Almost always in sports, the bigger the hype that surrounds a game or event, the more the game doesn't quite live up to it. The NCAA Tournament this year though? Beyond expectations. Last night featured a great, close upset game between Butler and...