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Next week will feature a different post each day from some guest bloggers. I have told the people that they can write about anything they want (as long as it won’t offend the hell out of everyone) and I will post at some point next week. Should be interesting to see what comes out of it.
Kansas City’s own Republic Tigers recently made a video for the song “Buildings and Mountains” and it is pretty good. I am a little late putting this out there but I still thought some readers would enjoy.
Ok, confession time.
I remembered to post this becuase I heard the song on the most recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy. Guilty.
Ran across this on my twitter account. I am going to try really hard to make it out and get some photographs of this event.
(Via Official Website)
Our first Zombie Walk will be Saturday, May 10th, at 6 PM, in Westport. We’ll meet at the Sunfresh parking lot (4001 Mill Street). We’ll meet, we’ll walk, and at the end we’ll be at a Kelly’s Westport Inn. An informal pub-crawl will follow from there.
A Zombie Walk is pretty simple. A bunch of people show up in a designated place, on a set date and time…completely made-up as zombies. Its not about making money, selling products, or any of that. Its all about having fun and eating a few brains.
Besides this May 10th Zombie Walk, there will be big follow-up event in conjunction with World Zombie Walk Day on October 26, 2008. Register on the Ghost Vigil website for e-mail updates.
Some people are old-school-zombie people. But feel free to be creative. There have been Jesus Zombies, Santa Zombies, Cop Zombies, Nurse Zombies (those are always hot!), etc. Its completely up to you. There are only a few rules to follow.
Please help us get the word out about this event and the event’s MySpace page. The more zombies we have on May 10th, the more fun it will be!
There seems to be something in the water if you are a safety for the Kansas City Chiefs. It started last year on HBO’s show “Hard Knocks” getting a clip of Benard Pollard dancing while players were goofing around in the locker room. Then last week the Chiefs drafted S DaJuan Morgan out of NC State in the 3d round. After running across a post game clip of him on YouTube it seems as though he will carry on the new tradition that is forming at Arrowhead. Jarad Page and Greg Wesley need to get to work. Thanks to Clayton for the video editing.
It seems there are a lot of ups and downs with the teams I follow lately. Here is what is going on in the sports world.
Kansas City Chiefs - The Chiefs absolutely knocked this one out of the park. It is going to be great to see our linebackers go to work with the freedom this defensive line will give them. They got the offensive lineman they wanted and also made some strong second day picks including Brendon Flowers who I am really excited about. Getting a blocking tight end to replace the absence of Dunn is a great move as well. More info on the draft and the undrafted free agent signings be sure to check out Arrowhead Pride.
Kansas City Royals - Royals rebound after that terrible 7 game skid. After that bad losing streak I will refer to Meatloaf’s opinion about getting 2 out of 3 games. Hopefully the bats can wake up as we start to move into May. Aside from that, what is up with powder blue jerseys matched with the white pants? It is really bad. If you are going to go powder blue then go powder blue. Blech.
Kansas City Wizards - The Wizards don’t seem to deal with first place very well. They seem to lose every time they jump into the top spot in the conference. They are still playing great soccer in a tie for second place in the Eastern Conference. Next game is May 3rd @ Columbus.
Kansas City Brigade - They finally won. The Brigade actually won a game. When time expired in their game on April 21st the Brigade had more points than the Crush did. Wow.
Chelsea FC - From the bottoms of a small league to the tops of a big league Chelsea won a HUGE game against Manchester United to pull even with Man U at the top of the Premiership. The Blues were back 8 points two weeks ago but now have a shot at the title with 2 games left to go.
From the vault. Taken January 2007.
While visiting my friend Evan in NYC I ran into a labor rally. The local 94 operating engineers union was staging an event. It all happened quite fast. I was walking around Columbus Circle when barricades and a ton of people came out of nowhere. This was one of the first instances where my professional camera got me access to certain places I wouldn’t have been able to be without it. I passed the police lines and got close to the events and people giving speeches right by the news cameras. Below is my favorite shot from that day.
Windows has been frustrating. With all the stuff I do on this computer it was just getting too maddening dancing with Windows dragging along trying to do the small things. Ubuntu has done a lot of good things since I first checked it out. I believe I am set with Linux. At least a form of it.
The installation was incredibly simple with Wubi. Wubi installs Ubuntu 8.04 like a normal Windows program even giving you the ability to remove it like you would any Windows app. You just set aside some space and then when you computer restarts you get the the option of starting or Ubuntu or Windows, that easy. Really safe with all the current information on my computer that I don’t want to mess with screwing around separating out drives for the two OSs. I still have access to any of the files stored on the hard drive.
Everything is free, customizable, and easy to work with. Multi-tasking is so much easier. The only thing I need to switch back to Windows for is the use of Lightroom which is a big deal. Very pleased with Ubuntu. The only bad thing is the dorky names they give to each release. I am now using 8.04 “Herdy Heron” which is an upgrade from the 7.1 “Gutsy Gibbon” release.
Chiefs select the dominant DT from LSU with the 5th pick in the draft. The Chiefs almost pulled the trigger on trading down for even more picks but decided to go with Dorsey in hopes of a big presence in the middle. Really looking forward to the freedom this player will give to our linebackers to do their jobs.
(Via SpamDraft)
Dorsey is a high-character guy who is a coach’s dream. He puts the interests of the team above his own personal concerns and is all about winning. He’s compact, strong, and lightning quick. It often seems as if he’s moving before the center snaps the ball. Against the run, he’s a true plugger, taking up two blockers consistently and erasing holes for the ball-carrier. He’s able to stay low and create power from his legs and use his long arms (35″+) effectively to keep blockers at bay. He moves well laterally and can get down the line in pursuit. As a pass-rusher, Dorsey’s quickness allows him to penetrate the gaps and his strength allows him to overpower the offensive linemen. There are very few NFL blockers currently that could handle Dorsey one-on-one. Dorsey is a team leader, both vocally and demonstrably. He played through pain his senior season and even maintained a positive perspective in the days leading up to the draft when rumors were floated regarding a “clandestine” knee surgery that never occurred. He’s going to be an asset in the community for whichever franchise is fortunate enough to draft him.
More reading…
NFL.COM
LSUSports.net
“Glenn Dorsey Could Run No One Could Stop Him” (Via Hamptonroads.com)
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Twitter has been around for a while now. I am usually that guy that jumps at any and every new and interesting web service\application but I never jumped on this bandwagon. Signed up a month ago and sort of forgot about doing it until Tony mentioned Twitter today.
I don’t really know if I will stick with it or if it has use for me but when I think about some of my future revenue plans and how the internet is a big deal in a lot of them I figure it can’t hurt to have too many bread crumbs leading to my personal site\photographs.
The best part of twitter is browsing through the random updates. These are actual updates in the past few minutes.
wizpig64 Leaving Costco, gonna head home to unload, and then off to the Boom-Shaka-Lock-In at church.
kr8tr @megfowler Shoot it with a rubber band. No chemicals, and you don;t have to get too close.
daisybones @sweetney the entire female blogoverse seems to have synched up. welcome to the red tent. meh.
notasausage Chilling at The Middle East for some Gem Sweaters action.
danbot danbot Mom is being annoying! Apparently I’m eating too many Macaroons! I love Macaroons!
JustinRoth @jovialjacki I completely forgot to pickup the fireworks on my way home from work. Don’t know how it slipped my mind.
Tomorrow is a big day. The Chiefs have 13 picks in the draft. They will have picked 6 players in the same time the Raiders and Chargers pick 1!
Working in the afternoon but should be able to talk about the first choice.