Posting lag

Well, its that time of year when there's not too much to post about.

Coach Saban was in Mobile yesterday to kick off their state tour leading up to this falls football season. He hinted at how much Mobile mattered in rebuilding LSU when we was there and how it will be key to rebuilding the Crimson Tide back to its national prominence.

In a couple hours from now, groundbreaking will take place on the new Student Rec Center adjacent to Stanky Field. Now, for the people who are not familiar with South Alabama baseball, they will initially laugh at the name 'stanky field'. Eddie Stanky was a major league player, manager and eventually coach at South Alabama. He took USA from unknown to a widely known NCAA baseball team.

This same area where the new student rec center is going to be built, is the same area that students gather each spring semester to play 'Oozeball' before finals start. I wonder if it will still be held at the same area or if they will move it to another place on campus.

Also, tonight USA takes on Alabama at Stanky Field at 6pm.

Finally Thursday is release day for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I will be attending a release party at Picklefish from 7pm - until.

South Paw for the win

The Chicago Tribune ran a contest coinciding with the NCAA Tournament to see who had the best mascot. After a flury of votes at the last minute, South Alabama's own South Paw won with 51% of the vote over Baylor's Bruiser.

Charlton Heston dead at 84

Charlton Heston, actor known for such roles as Andrew Jackson, Moses, John the Baptist, Michelangelo, Marc Antony, Cardinal Richelieu and Henry VIII. But probably more well known for the roles of George Taylor from 'Planet of the Apes', Judah Ben-Hur from 'Ben-Hur' and Detective Robert Thorn from 'Soylent Green'. Also known for his political activism for being president of the Screen Actors Guild, Chairman of the American Film Institute and probably best known for being president of the National Rifle Association.

In 1998 after being elected president of the NRA, he delivered a jab at then-President Bill Clinton, saying, "America doesn't trust you with our 21-year-old daughters, and we sure, Lord, don't trust you with our guns."

In 2002 he revealed that he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease saying "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure."

In 2003 he stepped down as NRA president and later that same year was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest civilian honor.

Family spokesman Bill Powers said he died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife of 64 years, Lydia, at his side. Powers declined to comment or provide further details on the cause of death.

Another hollywood legend who will never be replaced. Rest in peace Mr. Heston.

Love the Muppets

I love the muppet video for Mahna-mahna but I think this is right up there with it.



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Random posting

I have been a bit too busy to post lately. I fought a bout with food poisoning and does that ever suck. Beware the ground beef :(

Saw plasticized human bodies at the Gulf Coast Exploreum. It was quite cool but I couldn't help but think 'where did the bodies come from and how were they obtained?' Anyway, no matter how it went down it was an educational trip. Now we want to plan another trip down to Museum of Mobile to see the World War II photo exhibit.

We missed seeing Doug and the rest of 'robbing Peter' perform during the Azalea Trail run. I was saddened by this but alas, sometimes a groupie cannot make every single gig.

I was working on planning a viewing of some Doctor Who for the weekend to get ready for the new series starting Saturday. But one of the invitees said he probably would not make it to watch Battlestar Galactica. So this sent my creative juices flowing. While possible not everyone will enjoy this, I had quite a long laugh with this. This is most of an email I sent to all of the invitees.

I'm going to spoil the last season of BSG for all of you. On top of that, I will even give you something from the future (I feel the shock and awe coming from the screen).

The Doctor and his companion is going to be battling the Sontarans but this rag-tag fleet of ships with one remaining battlestar is going to cross paths with them.

After much fighting between the humans and the cylons (or are they cybermen?) the Doctor, with the aid of his sonic screwdriver, will destroy the cylon robots (cybermen maybe) and base stars. Then in an act of compassion he will show that the humans can live with the 'skin-jobs' since they are a new race of beings (and he will point out how brilliant that is). But sadly, they cannot continue on to Earth since their civilization is too advanced and would upset Earths balance. So they will be sent back home, Earth will remain oblivious to the 12 colonies, and the Doctor will fly off, through time and space, to yet another exciting adventure.

Then in about two or three years time, Ron (creative mind behind BSG) will not have any luck with any other television (Caprica will flop) or movie ideas and will pitch a 'reinvention' of Battlestar Galactica 1980 as a new series for SciFi (with a funny bearded Almos just like the funny bearded Lorne Green).

Since the Earth is not at technologically advanced as the 12 colonies are, they will take it upon themselves to help to advance them to help fight the cylons (or cybermen). **Side note: doesn't this sound like Dalek's wanting to advance them to a higher advancement? Just maybe? End Side note**

This will lead to yet another visit from The Doctor and a different companion with a little help from U.N.I.T. to set the Earth straight again and protect its inhabitants from the evil cylons (probably called the cybermen...very close to cylon don't you think) and the 12 colonies (dalek's anyone?). Oh, don't forget the sonic screwdriver and maybe, just maybe, a tin dog.

Enjoy!