I have to say, DVR makes watching a full football game a joy. Critics can say what they want about soccer, but for me a major knock on American football is that the time between plays is about four times longer than the plays themselves.
Anyway, what can be learned from Wisconsin’s demolition of Akron? Not [...]
It’s that time again to post the classes I’m taking and what I’ll be reading and working on in the coming months. Classes don’t officially start until September 2nd but in reality they’ve already begun, as we had a mini-class for the teaching composition course and I have to have a book read for my [...]
One of the features of the new series of iPods that I don’t need (and don’t really want to pay for but have little choice) is the bit that displays cover art. I concede, it’s pretty cool although entirely unnecessary. What’s most annoying about it? The fact that iTunes doesn’t do close matches. Erm, shouldn’t [...]
…it would probably look a lot like what I’ll be teaching this year.
We had four eight-hour days of orientation for teaching Intro to Composition, plus a two-hour bonus session today. Often illuminating, often frustrating, usually unexpected would be my three phrase summary. Rather than calling the course “Intro to Composition” it should be called “Intro [...]
Whew. Two eight-hour days of straight TA orientation is fairly brutal. We have the weekend to recuperate (with homework of course) followed by two more days next week, plus an extra-special bonus session on Wednesday. And I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that even with all of this training, you just have to stumble into [...]
Look, before I start moaning about how Bob Bradley’s US squad plays a helluva lot like Bolton, I do have to say that three points on the road in CONCACAF is always a good result. I don’t mean to take that away from the team because the bad fields, dodgy refereeing, and intense atmosphere [...]
Is it comment spam season? I’ve been getting absolutely hammered by comment spam both here and over at the cream city review website and the usually spot-on filters have been letting quite a bit through. And this is on the heels of a bunch of user registration spam on this site. Death to spammers, huh?
UWM [...]
First things first, I have surprisingly little to say about the opening weekend of English football action. Of the four title contenders, only Chelski sparkled and against what was on paper the toughest opponent. Liverpool defined the word “rusty” as did Man Ure, in fits and spurts.
Really, it takes about 8-10 games (roughly a [...]
Nothing is worse than waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep, except for waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep and then finding out your satellite service has dropped all the stations carrying Spanish [...]
The English Premier League kicks off tomorrow and the off-season has been interesting in terms of player movement, and lack of player movement. For my money, I’m glad that Barry hasn’t transferred to Liverpool at the expense of Xabi Alonso…yet. And that Berbatov is still at Spurs…for now. The transfer window is open for [...]