Beijing Opening Ceremony.

Found some sweet hi-res pictures from the Olympic opening ceremony. There were a lot of representations of 2008 in it, usually by having that many performers on stage at one time. Check it.

Texas Rangers #1?

The Texas Rangers tie with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim as the best team in the MLB, as voted by Yahoo users at 9:04am this morning. This again proves that fans know nothing (see Dustin Predoia over Ian Kinsler as AL Starting Second Baseman in the All Star Game) because we're not that good yet, but it is nice to know that we're finally getting recognized for playing good baseball for once. Thank you Josh Hamilton for being a man-child of God and slugging 28 in one round of the derby.



Hopefully the rest of the season will be just as fruitful as the first half. And maybe during the four day All Star break, our pitchers finally found it within themselves to control the ball better. Then we may actually deserve to be considered the top team.

my mother wouldn't stand for this.

kid wore brett favre jersey for over four years.

on a side note, does any body else kind of laugh to themselves when they show the clip of brett "favor" getting drafted to the falcons?

oh ron washington.

in the fourth inning of the rangers game last night, mariners first baseman richie sexson decided he was tired of sucking at life and wanted to put a little excitement into it. so he charged the mound* after rangers pitcher kason gabbard threw a ball that was a bit high, but nowhere near the batter's box. the 6 foot 8 first baseman then charged the mound and threw his helmet into gabbard's back, who only wanted to get the ball back. it was not by any means an intentionally threatening pitch, but i guess the mariners were looking for any reason to stir some life back into their game, you know, after going run-less for 22 innings straight.

post game, rangers manager ron washington said, “i thought that was bull! how tall is he, 6-13? then you go out there on a little guy and throw a helmet?” oh ron, not only do you always look like you have no idea what's going on, but you're not quite the brightest crayon in the box either.

*youtube link to come after i leave my place of work, home of the internet nazis.

poor kyle kendrick.

there's a lot of free time during major league baseball spring training. that's why almost the entire philidelphia phillies organization pulled an elaborate prank on 2nd-year pitcher kyle kendrick. they got everyone involved from the phillies' manager, to sports media, and even kendrick's agent. the synopsis is that kendrick gets called into manager charlie manuel's office and is told that he's being traded to japan's yomiuri giants for a player named kobayashi iwamura and that he's leaving tomorrow. kendrick is pretty much just in shocked silence for most of the video. i think the best part about the whole thing is despite the sheer number of people involved, no one gives it away. it's pretty amazing.

it's not like i've been doing anything with my time.

damn, i missed the entire month of january on this thing. oh well, it's not like this is a "real" post anyway. more like a bulleted list of happening things.

-tomorrow i start my first salary job at harper house in dallas. it'll be interesting for sure.
-hooray! the patriots did not win the super bowl! i hate sports teams and fans from boston.
-my current engaged friends/married friends count on facebook is 43 engaged and 64 married.
-i had a job at uno's pizza in downtown fort worth for a few weeks. it wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either.
-super smash bros brawl comes out for the wii on march 9. yes, i'm stoked. yes, i'm a nerd. and yes, i reserved it at gamestop.
-the new animal planet logo sucks.
-because of this effin writer's strike going on, i need a suggestion for a new tv show to start watching from season 1. i'm considering house, 30 rock, and weeds right now.
-speaking of the strike, this is a pretty good ad.
-i updated the links on the right-hand side of your screen.

yeah, that's about it for now. hopefully i'll pick up blogging fairly regularly again.

leave nothing.

i'm not a big nike guy at all, but i really like this new commercial they have for this nfl season. the continuity through the different scenes as shawne merriman and steven jackson progress down the field is pretty amazing, even when their uniforms change. and the ending is just plain hardcore.

labor-less weekend.

the at&t guy came in friday morning, so we now have cable and internet through at&t u-verse. it's a pretty cool deal. we got two cable boxes, one of them with dv-r capabilites in which we can record up to four shows at once. we can also set up the box through the internet to record shows by signing into our account. and if we missed a show, we can find out if someone we know that has u-verse caught it and they can send it from their box to ours. but here's the kicker that had us sold: free installation. unfortunately our cable outlet in the living room is pretty old and needs to be rewired, but our landlord doesn't want to spend the money to get it fixed. that makes our cable and internet cut out sometimes and it's especially annoying when it goes out in the middle of a show.

anyway, it's labor day weekend and i've done a bunch of nothing. friday i worked at the pool for a few afternoon hours then came home and played with the u-verse for the rest of the evening then turned in early, as seems to be the trend with my sleeping habits lately.
saturday was a bit more exciting because college football was back! i worked for time and a half at the pool, came home and ate some grilled ribs, went to the tcu-baylor game, and then to the roustabouts show at the aardvark. after that everyone came back to our house since we're right around the corner from the aardvark. i just sat on the couch and waited for them all to get bored and leave because i was ready to sleep.
sunday involved nothing beyond getting milkshakes from sonic, watching the discovery channel, the science channel, and a fantasy football draft.
however today, it's probably nose to the grindstone time. what mostly needs to get done is a need to pick up the house from saturday. and i really should work on my graphics projects, but we'll see if that happens.

offline.

my house is still currently without internet. dave and i signed up for at&t u-verse and the installation guy should be coming on the morning of the 31st. once we're connected, hopefully i'll be posting more regularly. until then, i have a link that i hope will suffice. i found it on the espn website following the rangers trouncing of the orioles last wednesday (the final score was 30-3 if you hadn't heard.) the article is a list of the 100 greatest beatdowns in history. read through it, it's pretty entertaining.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=schoenfield/070823
items of note: #10, #20, #27, #44, #58, #62, #65, #74, #82, #90.

$20,000 in my hand.

dallas cowboys 1992 super bowl ring.


i was giddy like a little girl.

summer internships

so i've been interviewing around for internships and here's where i've hit so far:
warren douglas
range
2c design

also, my uncle scott called me the other day and said "he knows a guy" and is trying to get me to internship up in milwaukee. there are plenty of pros and cons with this situation. the pluses are that the guy told scott they'll pay me 12-15 dollars an hour, and while i'm there i'd be living with either scott and meg or my grandparents which means free lodging and food. on the flipside, the place he wants me to intern at turns out to actually be a printing press called burton & mayer inc. i haven't actually talked to the guy yet, but on first impression from their website and the type of company they are, i don't think it's what i'm looking for. also, what would i do with myself for three months during those times when i'm not at work besides go to summerfest and a lot of brewers games? what are your thoughts?

and if there are any other places i should check out for an internship, please, let me know.