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Pete on August 31st, 2005

I’m checking email, handling administrivia, and generally fucking around on the internet before torts… not because I don’t have work to do, mind you, but because at this particular instant I have no desire to do it. I might be going to get my laptop tonight. Maybe. We’ll see. Depends on how I do at [...]

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Pete on August 29th, 2005

Most of you couldn’t care less… but Kevin and I’s happy little college football blog is really off to a quick start this year. Our peak page-views last season was something in the neighborhood of 180,000… we’re coming up on 275,000 for the month and the season hasn’t even started yet. This could be a big [...]

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Pete on August 29th, 2005

With the departure of Tuscaloosa’s most prolific hurricane blogger (short of James Spann) it looks like there are some folks stepping up to take my place. (See: Ivan Updates: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10) For pictures of what heary rain and wind does to Tuscaloosa, see Kim and Laura Thanks [...]

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Pete on August 29th, 2005

I was starting to compile the Best Q2, 2005 candidates and I had a really hard time paring the April posts down to just two. So I set up a primary. Observe April 6: MY IU Weekend, Your Words This post is the result of a “My Weekend in Your Words” post, which can be found here. [...]

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Pete on August 29th, 2005

Pete = Moron. I forgot to set my alarm clock last night after our power outage. Luckily, for whatever reason, I’ve been having a hard time sleeping past 8:00 regardless of what time I went to bed the night before. Could it be that I’m becomming a … morning person?? Anyhow… looked at my clock at 7:55 and [...]

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Pete on August 28th, 2005

This weekend was ‘exciting’ and by ‘exciting’ I mean… fairly laid back. Friday there was a bit of energy in the air at school with our first week of class being over. This, of course, is a little misleading because we only had three days of class, so we didn’t really get a good feel for [...]

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Pete on August 28th, 2005

I’ve had this discussion 4 different times with 3 different people and it annoys me every single time. The issue at hand here is over the use of the word “shallow” and how it has come to be highly perjorative and insulting. Some will argue that it’s simply descriptive of a certain set of actions… [...]

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Pete on August 28th, 2005

Let the games begin. The Fanblogs XIV Preseason Poll is up for your viewing pleasure. I’ve reproduced my ballot below (along with the overall fanblogs ranking): #TeamFB1Southern Cal12Texas23Ohio State54LSU75Miami86Georgia137Iowa9t8Virginia Tech69Tennessee310Michigan9t11Oklahoma412Arizona StateNR13PurdueNR14Cal12 I really wanted to throw ‘Bama in the mix, but I just couldn’t justify it until we see how the young line holds up and [...]

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Pete on August 28th, 2005

I know that I’m not even remotely meteorological, but if you’re not familiar with the worst case scenario for a hurricane landfall in New Orleans, read this Georges, a Category 2 storm that only grazed New Orleans, had pushed waves to within a foot of the top of the levees. A stronger storm on a slightly [...]

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Pete on August 25th, 2005

WARNING: Tedius 1L nonsense ahead. Proceed with caution. Today was a pretty good day, all in all. I’m finally getting to know folks, so that’s a plus. We have high-speed internet now, though it’s requiring us to use wireless even on the desktop PCs which seems like a horrible waste. It was a good day for [...]

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