Tux of Borg

You should set the train up at the mall. Right next to the redneck wind chimes.

I wonder how our friends over in China would defend against something like this. Assuming this thing runs on radio signals, couldn't China just jam the signal? Something they have a lot of experience at.

Meanwhile MADD has used millions from its tax exempt status to push their own political agenda.

I can't get more than 8. My brother on the other hand just netted 46. Mother !@#$er... he must play this game all the time.

11 weeks until FSU plays Miami. I want to know what Wyatt Sexton did to get suspended from the team. He must have really !@#$ed up. As far as the god incident, he was absolutely on drugs. C'mon people, he just attended a Dave Mathews Band concert. Time to hit the panic button? Not yet, but soon... Florida State has a good chance to going undefeated if they beat Miami. 09/05/2005 Mon Miami 09/10/2005 Sat The Citadel 09/17/2005 Sat at Boston College 10/01/2005 Sat Syracuse 10/08/2005 Sat Wake Forest 10/15/2005 Sat at Virginia 10/22/2005 Sat at Duke 10/29/2005 Sat Maryland 11/05/2005 Sat North Carolina State 11/12/2005 Sat at Clemson 11/26/2005 Sat at Florida 12/03/2005 Sat ACC Championship Game

Quit being a bunch of pussies, a little water on the face never hurt anyone. Even Bill Gates had a pie put in his face once. The prankster doesn't get the award for most original prank, but Tom could have handled the situation better. He should have smiled, laughed and said, "you got me". The next day the clip is played around the world and he comes out smelling like roses. I guess if this was punk'd or candid camera, it would have been ok.

Somebody call Triumph!

article Peppers leaves Panthers teammates in the dust By Joe Menzer JOURNAL REPORTER Friday, June 17, 2005 CHARLOTTE Training camp will open for the Carolina Panthers at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., precisely six weeks from today. Until then, the lasting image from the team's June coaching sessions that wrapped up early yesterday will be of defensive end Julius Peppers beating the rest of his teammates in sprints - seemingly without breaking a sweat. Teammate Mike Minter watched in amazement as Peppers, at 6-6 and nearly 300 pounds, ran effortlessly in the 90-degree heat. Jerry Simmons, the Panthers' strength and conditioning coach, generally has the offensive and defensive linemen run in one group and everyone else - quarterbacks, running backs, receivers, linebackers and defensive backs - in another. The linemen are required to run a series of four sprints from one side of the football field to the other and back within 45 seconds; the others are required to make it in 35. Most players were required to do the series of four side-to-side sprints twice each at the end of yesterday's 90-minute workout. After watching Peppers finish 20 yards ahead of the nearest lineman on his first series, Minter challenged him. "I told him to run a 35 and he said, 'All right, I'll do it,' " Minter said. And then Peppers did. While many of his teammates faded badly on their second series of sprints, Peppers only seemed to get stronger. Minter shook his head after watching the display. "I'm impressed with everything this man does. Every day he does something to impress me," he said. "And that was his last (series). So you can just imagine a guy 300 pounds moving that fast across a field in a game. You saw them other guys out there, right? That just shows you how graceful he was running those things." Yes, the media saw the other guys out there. Drew Carter, a wide receiver who is coming off a serious knee injury, consistently led the second group to the finish line. But many others struggled behind him. Linebacker Sean Tufts made a point of finishing near the front in his first series. But he fell way back in his second, and then spent several minutes on his hands and knees afterward, looking as if he might lose his lunch before it was even lunchtime. No one looked as athletic or as well conditioned as Peppers in the sprints. And Minter said he thinks it means something. "I'm really looking forward to seeing what he'll do this year with (defensive tackle Kris) Jenkins (who missed most of last season with a shoulder injury) back in the middle," Minter said of Peppers. "I think he might break the sack record." That would be the NFL single-season sack record, which is held by Michael Strahan. He racked up 22 1/2 sacks in 2001 when his defensive coordinator with the New York Giants was John Fox, who now is head coach of the Panthers. Peppers has never had more than 12 in a season. Fox wasn't ready to talk about anyone breaking any sack records yesterday, but he did say he was pleased with how his players performed during the 11 coaching sessions that began June 1. Originally, Fox had three more sessions scheduled for next week. But he told his players he would send them home early if he liked what he saw from them in the first 11. "There was definitely potential for another week three days ago, the way we had been practicing," Fox said yesterday. "But I'm sure all of the players - not to mention the coaches and the media - were happy that we didn't decide to go those extra three days." Next for the Panthers is to report to training camp at Wofford on July 29. But Minter said no one will take it completely easy the next six weeks. He said that he expects all of the players will continue to do some conditioning work, with the idea that it will pay off on Sundays beginning in the fall. "We've got confidence as a football team," Minter said. "Now it's time to get ready to build on that."

Blame it on scalpers selling tickets on ebay. Buffalo isn't like New England, who revokes season tickets for those who sell them to make a profit.

I think its 35 days till training camp.

You forgot the history channel! PBS has live from Austin City Limits. Kind of like MTV for the over 23 crowd.

Must be a slow week at GITMO. No reports of detainees getting hit with a NERF football, or being forced to listen to Christina Aguilera. I guess the media was forced to actually report on the war. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/18/otsc.arraf/ Arraf: Marines rescue tortured hostages as battle rages KARABILA, Iraq (CNN) -- The joint U.S.-Iraqi Operation Spear continued Saturday as Marines, sailors and Iraqi security forces fought insurgents in Karabila, near the Syrian border. The most intense fighting was concentrated in the center of town, where enemy fighters were holed up in a bunker complex. Marines also found four people who appeared to have been taken captive and beaten. Jane Arraf, CNN's senior Baghdad correspondent, is embedded with U.S. troops taking part in the mission. She spoke with CNN anchor Betty Nguyen by phone during the pitched battle. ARRAF: What I see in front of me is absolutely heartbreaking. It's two of four hostages who are being taken away, rescued. They were rescued this morning. They're Iraqi, and they were found in this complex that Marines first thought was a car-bomb factory. In fact, they did find what they believe was a potential car bomb or suicide car bomb. But inside this complex, they found something even more sinister -- four Iraqis who were handcuffed, their hands and feet bound with steel cuffs. They're now being taken away for medical treatment, one being borne away on a stretcher. The man in intense pain that they're trying to get into a vehicle, has been tortured, he says, and has all the marks of being tortured with electricity. His back is crisscrossed with welts. The other man is even ... in worse shape. Their crime was to be part of the border police. The Marines came in here this morning, rescued them. The battle is still raging around us. I don't know if you can hear the gunfire, but this is a major offensive to get rid of insurgents and foreign fighters in this city near the Syrian border.... ... Two young men say they don't know why they were seized. They say they didn't hear the voices of their captors, only people whispering in their ear that they were going to be killed. But we have just watched the two who were most badly treated be carried out of here for medical equipment, one of them on a stretcher, an older man who worked for the border police, along with his colleague. ... the Marines showed us the room where he says he was hung by his feet, his head dipped in water and then tortured with electric shocks repeatedly. One of the other men, the other border police, was too weak, really, to tell us what had happened. But he obviously was in very, very bad shape. They were rescued this morning as Marines and Iraqi forces came into this complex, which included an underground bunker, weapons stockpiles and other things, and found them here. Their captors have fled. NGUYEN: That is just heartbreaking, Jane. And we can hear the fighting around you. Have [coalition forces] captured those who took them hostage? ARRAF: The insurgents who had presumably held them hostage had fled. And this is what they're finding as they come into cities like this. They've so far killed perhaps about 40 insurgents or foreign fighters. But there are many more out there, as you can hear from the sounds of gunfire and the explosions. And they move. They have the ability to move very quickly. They have the ability to blend into the population. The Marines are here with a few Iraqi armed forces who are helping, but they don't have a lot of people here. And one of the strengths of this ever-evolving insurgency is that they move from city to city, from neighborhood to neighborhood. NGUYEN: We can hear the gunfire in the background. Is this mission going house to house? Are we looking at house-to-house combat here? ARRAF: In some cases. What they were initially doing was going into a part of the city and essentially finding out where the insurgents might be. Now it's apparent where a lot of the insurgents are because they're shooting at the Marines. As we were in this building where the hostages were being held, we were taking incoming mortar fire from around here. They're not at the point where they're doing house-to-house searches because that's something that you do when it's safe enough to do that, and it's not nearly safe enough to do that. They are going into areas where they know or believe insurgents or foreign fighters are holed up. They're dropping bombs on them. They're using all of their weapons and then they're going in after that to clear those streets. NGUYEN: Jane, you mentioned the discovery of a car-bomb factory. What else has the military found there? ARRAF: They found quite a lot of weapons. This is thought to be an area where foreign fighters have really taken hold. They still come from the Syrian border, which is just five miles away. And there were thought to originally be at least 100 of them here. ... We were in a school, a girls' school just next to the place we are now, and there were weapons stockpiled there, land mines. ... But on the blackboard, somewhere where schoolgirls would normally be learning their ABCs, there was a diagram for a relay system for homemade bombs. This is an area of town where insurgents really do appear to have taken over and they have left evidence of it, even though in many cases, it seems, they themselves have fled. NGUYEN: And when we talk about these captors and the insurgents in this fight that is going on right now -- we can hear it in the background there -- with the U.S. Marines, these foreign fighters, is there some fear that they may have already crossed into the Syrian border? ARRAF: It is very close to Syria and it's believed there are still what they consider "rad lines," which are ways that they come across through the Syrian border. They are not saying that the Syrian government is responsible. Some military officials are saying clearly the Syrian government could perhaps be doing a better job. But it's a very porous border and we have to understand that this is a part of the country that is not Baghdad, it's not Basra, it's not a cosmopolitan city. It is the Wild West, in a sense, of Iraq. This particular territory, western Anbar province, is 30,000 square miles. That is the territory that the Marine unit here is responsible for. It's relatively easy for foreign fighters or anyone else to slip through that border and to blend in, in some sense, to cities and towns like this. There's no police force. There's no Iraqi Army. I'm looking out around me and I see a deserted city -- some of the buildings bombed, smoke still rising from them. Civilians, many of them left a long time ago. The rest are afraid to come out, just the same way they were afraid to come out or say anything when the insurgents came into their towns. This is the kind of fight that the Marines are fighting here and it is very, very difficult.

I thought this would be FSU year to finally beat Miami. article FSU losing players in many ways Posted: Saturday June 18, 2005 2:23PM; Updated: Saturday June 18, 2005 2:23PM TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- In just more than two months, Florida State opens its season against archrival Miami -- without its top defensive tackle from spring practice, possibly its two best linebackers and only experienced quarterback. June has been a rough month for coach Bobby Bowden's team, which suddenly heads into the 2005 campaign with a growing number of distractions. Xavier Lee, a redshirt freshman from Daytona Beach, is the only healthy scholarship quarterback at the school. He could be looking at taking his first collegiate snap Sept. 5 when the Hurricanes visit on Labor Day night. Lee has been the lone quarterback participating with teammates during informal daily workouts. Another redshirt freshman, Drew Weatherford, is trying to get back into playing shape after ankle surgery following spring practice. He took one snap last year and was hurt on the play -- an ill-advised rollout that ended disastrously. Still unable to drop back, Weatherford only began throwing this week. Wyatt Sexton, who started seven games last year while sharing assignments with the graduated Chris Rix, was committed by police this week for psychiatric evaluation. Sexton, who was under a team suspension at the time of his breakdown on a city street, remains under a physician's care for what authorities described erratic behavior. Sexton's father, running backs coach Billy Sexton, said the problems did not result from drug abuse. And that's only part of the latest troubles. The Seminoles lost their leading interior lineman earlier this month and may also be without star linebacker A.J. Nicholson as well against the Hurricanes, who have won the last six meetings between the two rivals. Nicholson had a second run-in with authorities on June 9 -- just two days after the school announced the dismissal of defensive tackle Clifton Dickson for academic reasons. Nicholson, already facing a drunken driving charge from earlier in the year, tried to run away from police June 9 when he was shocked with a stun gun and charged with resisting arrest. Police said Nicholson had been thrown out of a local bar for unruly conduct. Nicholson, who led the team in tackles in 2004, starred in the defense's 20-10 victory over the offense in the spring game with an 84-yard touchdown run on a fumble recovery. The other outside linebacker, junior Ernie Sims, is coming off a broken leg suffered in spring practice. Sims -- arguably Florida State's best player on either side of the ball -- is hopeful he'll be nearing 100 percent by the opener. When Dickson was declared academically ineligible for the 2005 season, it robbed the Seminoles of perhaps their most dominant interior lineman. Dickson, who is studying at neighboring Tallahassee Community College, must earn his associates degree before regaining his eligibility to enroll at Florida State. Bowden was away vacationing this week and unavailable to comment while other university spokesmen deferred from specific comments on the status of Sexton or Nicholson.

Bad News Bears Trailer I doubt if it could ever live up to the original.

I had three people email me that article this morning. I can't wait for the damage control news conference this afternoon. But, but, but...

Meanwhile, Sen. Dick Durbin is still comparing us to the nazi regime.

Kirk sits around and eats peanut M&Ms. Picard won the academy marathon.

Happy Birthday, may your day be filled with spankings.

I have a pic of me and the army's m24 sniper rifle.

I'm staying in section 312 this season.

Bobby Bowden actually suspended a player. Now that is news...

Alaskans...

I had the same problem with my Velvet Revolver CD. I ended up burning it with linux. They spend millions on developing these technologies, yet the songs still manage to appear on P2P networks a week before the album comes out. I remember when they said flash (.swf) movies couldn't be stolen off your website or hacked. Guess they were wrong on that one as well.

I read an article a while back that said they were trying to increase SGLI to $400,000. I remember when the army automatically enrolled everybody into the $200,000 SGLI coverage. It pissed off a lot of people. Anybody who changed their coverage back to nothing or $100,000, received a negative counseling statement in their folder.

Oh I don't know... 7 years in the military perhaps. I seriously doubt that SGLI has been reduced to $12,500.