Things I’m thinking: If I was a detective, or if I was writing a detective story, I’d never have someone say “The game is afoot!” … Why? Glad I asked. Because “afoot” is a terrible name for a game. I…
Tag: football
Things I am observing myself thinking about: I can’t listen to Peter Gabriel’s “Big Time” these days without thinking that it’s something like Donald Trump’s theme song. I’ve hit a wall in exercising. Need more motivation. Need to push harder….
Things I have observed recently: Football fans – even fans of my own favorite teams – can be absolute jerks and tools. I am committed to writing this… series or whatever it is. Yet it’s only a thing, and not…
Things I’m thinking about Monday: Tonight’s the last NCAA football game of the season. Thank goodness. I hope it’s a good one. I want to pronounce “Monday” with a Scottish accent, but it turns out I have no idea how…
Things I have learned recently, I think: Every so often, you figure out that you are exactly where you are supposed to be at this particular time. That can be reassuring or frightening, I suppose, depending on your outlook. College…
Things I have learned recently: People still don’t really get JNDI, and the Java frameworks around today make it easy to ignore, even though it’s still a core technology. It’s not difficult to see how it can be confusing: context…
Things I’ve learned recently: Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen is better than A Song of Ice and Fire. Yes, I said it, and yes, I meant it. It’s very simple to explain why: Malazan was completed. I have…
My sarcastic comment to my son during the Oregon/FSU game – where FSU got smeared like a bug on a shoe – was that at least FSU had the excuse of not having known who the opponent would be. Except,…
I really don’t know, offhand, if I’ve been pro- or anti-playoff for NCAA football. I liked that the BCS gave us the possibility of seeing a champion determined by playing a game, but I recognize that there are lots of…
FSU played the NCSU Wolfpack this last Saturday, and managed to win; that’s good for FSU, and honestly, it was good for NCSU, too, because they punished FSU and easily could have won. But two things really, really bother me…