12/22/2005

A Picture Share!

Ha ha!

11/16/2005

A Picture Share!

UT vs. Kansas


Here's a pic from our seats at the UT vs. Kansas game. This was the last game we went to this year, and was an absolute blast.

10/08/2005

A Picture Share!



So Ronda and I went to the Texas-OU game this weekend, where we stomped the hell out of them. I wish I had a martini glass so I could taste their tears of unfathomable sorrow. I got some great pictures of the OU fans leaving the game early, and after 5 years I gotta tell you that it was as close to football heaven as I could get.

9/12/2005



So I went to the Texas-Ohio State game this weekend with my buddy Adam. We had a hell of a time, as we caught Robert E. Lee's game Friday night against Ohio's Colerain (sp?) High School, then the UT-Ohio State game on Saturday, then the Cleveland Browns home opener against the Cincinatti Bengals.

Here's my take on the Texas-Ohio State game. We came out strong, then Ohio State proceeded to whomp all over us, but never quite knocked us out, so we just lingered there waiting for an opportunity. Ohio State made about 4 mistakes that opened up the opportunity to win the game:

1. Removed Troy Smith (their 2nd QB), as he was running all over us for the 2nd quarter, and good portions of the 3rd too. I think Tressel took him out because they were unable to punch it in for the TD in the redzone, at least that’s what the OSU fans were thinking where I was sitting. Problem was, Zwyck had absolutely no pocket presence, as everytime he was in there we got great penetration and sacked (or hurried) him several times.

2. Attempted the 51-yd field goal. If they’d have punted, we would have gotten the ball most likely at the 20 yd line, at best. Our starting field position was horrid the entire game, and they could have stuffed us with a punt. Instead they went for the long field goal, missed, and gave us what was probably our best starting field position of the day somewhere around our 40. With the pass interference call that put us on the 48, and set up the drive for the score.

3. The fumble, unbelievably bad for obvious reasons.

4. All the fans, myself included, thought that OSU should have let us score the TD, rather than stop us on 4th-and-goal on the 1/2-yd line. If we scored the TD, they’d get the ball kicked to their special teams with 36 seconds to go, and their return man (Ginn) was averaging getting up to the OSU 40-50 yard line, which would at least have given them the opportunity to tie things up with some time on the clock. Instead they stuffed us, got the ball on the 1-yd line, and subsequently got sacked for a safety because Troy Smith (the QB who was having difficulty with the pass!!!) spent too long waiting for his WR’s to get open.

So yeah, Ohio State made a bevy of bad late-game decisions, but what killed them was that their defensive secondary was manning up on our WR’s, who were running wind sprints every other play, and their linebackers were stuffing the gaps to stop Vince on the run. That left nobody to cover the flats and gaps in the mid-field, where Vince got most of his passing yards with dump-passes to Jamaal Charles. Those passes to the flats absolutely killed OSU in the 3rd and 4th quarters, as they just ran out of people to cover that area sufficiently.



Here's a pic of a crazy kid who was screaming like all hell before and during the game. I sure wish I'd taken a picture of him in tears at the end. He reminded me of Chunk from The Goonies.

9/11/2005

A Picture Share!

Here's a shot we took from our seats in "The DawgPound" at the Cleveland Browns' home opener against the Cincinatti Bengals. I was booed by the whole joint for wearing my Longhorn gear after our win. I cut loose with a "Boh Hell Yeah".

A Picture Share!

A Picture Share!

So Adam sold his spare tickets to the game today. An honest to goodness sign from God that this was to be the weekend of Adam and Tony was the fact that the person who won the auction for Adam's tickets was a girl working for the International Headquarters for Victoria's Secret (as evidenced in the pictured envelope's letterhead).

9/10/2005

9/09/2005

A Multi Media Share!

Kirk Herbstreidt (may he burn in hell) and Nic Lache attended the Tyler Lee / Colerain game tonight.

8/15/2005

8/05/2005

8/01/2005

Here's a good article (Microsoft Meltdown 2005: Vista and More--ExtremeTech Analysis) on the next Microsoft Windows platform, Windows Vista.

7/26/2005

You see so much in the media these days about video games being directly related to recent increases in adolescent violence. Frankly, my take is that this is no different from those points in history where ignorant politicians/lawyers/media went after comic books and rock-and-roll, also forms of new media in their respective times.

Anyway, here's a link to an interesting article with something I always enjoy seeing, actual data.

7/20/2005

San Diego Comic Con
Hi everybody! We just got back from the San Diego Comic Con...here are some pictures from our vacation, and some brief captions. Ronda and I both will be back later to tell a little more about our adventures.

San Diego Zoo

Us at the San Diego Zoo

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A Silverback Gorilla

San Diego Comic Con

A Hippo. I named him Henry.

San Diego Comic Con

When all the animals are hanging out at the after-hours zoo bar, this must be the guy picking up all the ladies.

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Kimodo Dragon, and some kids.

San Diego Comic Con

Galapogos Turtles need love too.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's a view from the sky train over the zoo.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's a picture of our hotel, the Hyatt Regency Islandia. We had a balcony suite on the 10th floor.

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Here's a picture of one end of the San Diego Convention Center, where the Comic Con was being held. Notice the line of people.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's another pic further down the building, again, lines were the theme of the week at the con.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's a view of the convention center and the San Diego Padre's ballpark from our plane, just for a scale of reference. The ComicCon filled all 3 floors of the convention center, and was about 5-6 football fields in length. In all, there were over 100,000 attendees at this years convention.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's a 7' tall Chewbacca made entirely of Legos.

San Diego Comic Con

Another Lego exhibit. "Look at the size of that thing!"

San Diego Comic Con

"I'll be back."

San Diego Comic Con

I learned that the Penny Arcade guys are going to be publish a compilation book through Dark Horse this fall.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's a pencil sketch by famed comic artist Alex Ross, depicting concept art featuring Tom Welling (Smallville) in the role of Superman. This piece was selling for over a thousand dollars.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's a nightshot from our balcony.


The next day we saw a host of interesting people, as evidenced below:
San Diego Comic Con

I'm Boba, the Fett. I bounty hunt for Jabba the Hutt to finance my 'vette.

San Diego Comic Con

A modern day Linda Carter.

San Diego Comic Con

The Klingons were in attendance in full force. "Chak-tah!" I have no idea what that means.

San Diego Comic Con

As were the Star Wars geeks, who prove here that they have an incredible amount of time on their hands.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's a few more Star Wars fans, posing in front of an 18-wheeler done up like Optimus Prime, advertising the new, live-action Transformers movie coming to theaters sometime next year.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's Ronda with a couple of friends we made at the convention, who were dressed as Aleria from the show Angel.

San Diego Comic Con

I didn't know what to even think then, and I still don't now.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's a Superman we saw at the Superman Returns panel with Bryan Singer.

San Diego Comic Con

....Bizzarro Superman am happy! Up with Man!

San Diego Comic Con

Who you gonna call?

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The Superman Returns panel in Hall H, which held 6500 people that morning.

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Here's Ronda at the panel talking on the phone with our friend Gina.


At the Con we had the chance to meet a lot of famous people as well:


San Diego Comic Con

Margot Kidder (Lois Lane in Superman: The Movie) and Ronda. To the right in the baseball cap is the guy who played Jimmy Olsen.

San Diego Comic Con

Elvira.

San Diego Comic Con

We saw lots of cast members from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, such as the guy who played several demons (including The Gentlemen) and the guy who played Adam.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's Seth Green, who played Oz in Buffy and Scott Evil in the Austin Powers movies.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's a blurry pic of Amber Benson, who played Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She was extremely nice to me and Ronda.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's a pic of Amber and Ronda.

San Diego Comic Con

We also met Nicholas Brendan, who played Xander on Buffy.

San Diego Comic Con

Another pic, Ronda likes these pics and said they all had to go on here.

San Diego Comic Con

Here's Ronda and Nick.

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And here's Ronda getting his autograph.


We also picked up some pretty cool stuff while at the ComicCon.


San Diego Comic Con

Here's a high grade 1940 More Fun Spectre Cover my Uncle Rick purchased.

Buffy

Here's a a Buffy the Vampire Slayer picture autographed by the entire cast.

Gabe

Here's a sketch drawn for me of Gabe from Penny Arcade (by Gabe from Penny Arcade).

The Fruit Friend

Here's another sketch by Gabe from Penny Arcade of the Fruit F***er, described in social settings as the "Fruit Friend". As you can tell by now, my theme for my sketches was "Boh Hell Yeah!" and "Suck it".

Mooninite

One of the guys from Aqua Teen Hunger Force drew this for me, after I requested him to say "Boh Hell Yeah".

Meatwad

Here's another sketch of Meatwad done by another guy from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, who asked for the story behind "Boh Hell Yeah", and upon hearing it, turned to the other guy and said in Meatwad's voice, "Hey blah blah blah, Boh Hell Yeah!"

Lara Croft

Here's a Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) sketch penciled and inked by Leonard Kirk, previously an artist in the Tomb Raider comic, and currently drawing The Freshmen with Seth Green and Aquaman for DC Comics.

Lara Croft

Here's another Lara Croft sketch.

Lara Croft

Here's a Limited Edition Lara Croft print (#146 of 300) created by Frank Cho and Brandon Peterson that I picked up at the Con.