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Running Time: 38:37
Hosts: Evan and Mike
The new TV season has started and Mike is very upset he hasn’t written a sitcom yet. Then its all the College Football coverage you’ve come to know and love.
Topics
New shows are so bad, we could write one better.
College Football
-ESPN Page 2 College Football Rules #8-9
-Picks
-Heisman
-Conference Champions
-Evan will be at the Auburn/UF game
-Mike and Evan have secured tickets to OSU/PSU
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Lately I’ve found that in my internet travels I read the same story on twenty different sites. Most of these blogs just wind up linking to each other. Maybe one site will have a little more information or insight, but not usually. The other difference would be in the comments, but that’s not really my thing. Why do I continue to go to all these sites on a daily basis? On the off chance that there is something new or different. Most sites I check out once a day, others that I like a little more I will check out multiple times. My favorite sites that don’t update a whole lot I have added to Google Reader so it can let me know that there is something new. Google Reader has come in very handy. I forget about sites that only update occasionally since I get out of the habit. Now I’m on top of things.
Don’t get me wrong, I often repost things. I try not to do it too often, but then that leads to weeks with me posting nothing at all. I try to find a balance and will post if I have something to add.
These are some of the sites that I think really put an effort in.
ESPN – For all the reasons I hate ESPN the channel, I love ESPN the web site. All of the random stories and editorializing is perfect for the web since I can ignore most of it. Just look at baseball: Jason Stark and Buster Olney alone are great but you get to add Gammons, Neyer, and others. My home page is actually SI. The main reason for that is I just want the sports news and not all the other clutter on the page, especially video. Other than the basics I only like SI for their rumor coverage on Fan Nation. Don’t get me started on Peter King.
Sports Guy – Yes he is part of ESPN but it could stand alone so I’m putting it separate. Also, check out his podcast. I enjoy it for its content and the fact that I think my production quality on Inter-Dis Material is up to ESPN standards.
The Dilbert Blog – I might talk about this one too much. There is a new post everyday and just about everyone is quality and thought provoking. The strangest thing is I don’t even like the Dilbert comics.
Uni Watch – I had always glanced over the Uni Watch posts on Page 2. A few weeks ago I finally checked out the original blog and its really amazing. There is so much information on here. I love all these little details about logos and uniforms.
My Secret Public Journal – This one is rarely updated, which is why Google Reader is the greatest. You can also sign up for the newsletter to stay up to date. This is Mike Birbiglia’s blog, he’s a comedian. Usually its a story about something that happened to him. Usually its a very simple premise, but somehow always hilarious.
Those are the important ones at the top of my list. I’m always looking for suggestions.
Audio: mp3
Running Time: 50:43
Hosts: Evan and Mike
We discuss the excitement of the past weekend in College Football and look ahead to next week. We also discuss the Taser incident. Plus, a new idea for some awards of our own.
Topics
Student Tasered at Kerry talk at UF
Emmy’s
The Dailys
College Football
-ESPN Page 2 College Football Rules
-Blue Out at UF
-Tons of great games last weekend
-Picks
-Heisman
-Conference Champions
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Running Time: 41:08
Hosts:
Evan and Mike
Mike is back from the Notre Dame/Penn State game. Evan got ESPN GamePlan, but had some issues. Evan has a scare with a temporary tatoo. Plus, all the usual college football coverage.
Topics
Evan gets ESPN GamePlan
DirecTV at the tailgate
Perfect football weather
Evan’s tattoo scare
College Football
-Weekly Picks
-Heisman Picks
-Conference Champion Picks
Evan heads to Gainesville this weekend
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Running Time: 40:29
Hosts: Evan and Mike
Amazing first weekend of the college football season. We discuss the new division naming and Evan’s interesting trip to the UF game, including his amazing basketball skills. Week 2 of our picks for the upcoming weekend plus our Heisman and Conference picks.
Topics
1AA vs. Championship Subdivision
Evan went to UF/Western Kentucky game
No-Hitter overshadowed
Evan’s Epic Bar Basketball Run
Cops question Evan about stolen apartment flags
College Football
-Picks – Week 2
-Heisman Top 3
-BCS Conference Champions
Evan starts school on Tuesday
Mike headed to Penn State-Notre Dame game
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Its been a while since Facebook has been all that addicting. When it first started my roommates and I spent about a week looking up people and finding groups. Every couple weeks you could do it again since a whole new wave of people had signed up. At this point everyone who is going to sign up has done so. There are a few holdouts that refuse to sign up for whatever reasons.
When Facebook first started they let you view an image with the relationships between your friends. Sometimes you could get it to work and it was interesting. Not too long ago I was looking into SVG, which is what Facebook had used, and remembered that feature that disappeared so long ago and wished they had it back in some way.
Today I found TouchGraph. It does just what I was hoping for. It displays all your friends and their relationships to each other. It uses friends as well as groups. People with more common relationships appear closer together. People are also color coded into cliques. It correctly setup my cliques. There are 3 major ones, which are my middle school friends, high school friends, and college friends. Then there are smaller ones for jobs or small school groups. The odd colored cliques, or only one person having a particular color, stand out and you can see which of your Facebook friends don’t know any of your other friends. When you highlight over someone or a group it shows all the connections. If you double-click you will get profile information and pictures. There is the option to upload a picture to Facebook, but to get any sort of detail you need a much larger image.
TouchGraph also has applications for Amazon and Google.
Now I just need to find a program that will do this with my own set of inputs. I want to map a particular set of friends that includes some that are not on Facebook. My friends in one group get confused by the relationships between people in my other groups.
I don’t know what I do with my Saturdays the rest of the year. They are pretty much worthless. At least they must be since devoting every Saturday for the next 3+ months to College Football has no adverse affects on my life. I guess that might depend on who you are.
Penn State was in action against Florida International. Thanks to the new people at the Big Ten Network I had to head out to a bar to watch the game. Penn State won easily 59-0. It could have easily been much worse. PSU forced 6 fumbles, had 7 sacks, a blocked field goal, and a blocked punt.
My favorite PSU post game items each week:
Notes
JoPa Quotes
PSU Player Quotes
Let’s straighten out this whole division thing. Everyone had issues with it on TV. The old 1-AA was referred to as ‘what used to be called 1-AA but is now called something else’ division. When you say that every time, it eats up a lot of TV time. Here is what the official changes were: 1-A is now the Bowl Subdivision and 1-AA is now the Championship Subdivision. Why they needed to change, I’m not entirely sure. Was moral down in 1-AA that they were lesser? You know what, they are the second tier. I don’t think anyone feels any different now that they are the Championship Subdivision. Does this mean that the Bowl Subdivision cannot have a championship? Are we stuck with bowls forever now. What if a Championship Subdivision team is good enough for a bowl bid? Do they not get a shot? Then you complicate things more with the Subdivision part. I guess you can’t just go with Division because there is already the separation between D1, D2, and D3. I’m sticking with 1-A and 1-AA. I have no problem with change, I just like my changes to be for the better.
Baseball was overshadowed by all this football. Saturday night Clay Buchholtz threw a no-hitter for the Red Sox. Standard procedure is to show the entire 9th Inning of a no-hitter on ESPN. Instead they broke in to show the first 2 outs of the 9th after they happened, then switched to the game. The KSU/Auburn game was close, but it wasn’t near the end. At the very least split-screen it. ESPN2 could have shown it too. I don’t even remember what they were showing at the time. mlb.com likely had the coverage, they are usually solid on these type of things. I really can’t wait for the MLB Channel.
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