This is not so much an end of 2010 post as it is a post to catch up because I (and others) did some cool stuff this fall/winter. jgstewart  and I went to Steamcon II in the lovely Sea-Tac Hilton and Marriott hotels in November. And I actually pulled together a costume for the occasion. And it was fun! I freely admit that costume motivation was from a desire ( Read more... )

Yesterday saw the Champions League clash between Manchester United and Bayern Munich, which Wayne Rooney sprained his ankle. He is out for the Chelsea match up this weekend.  So now I have to place my hope in the hands of Dimitar Berbatov to carry United through what is the most important game of the season?  Not happening ( Read more... )

The Sounders seem to be blowing it in a big way.  However, I just renewed my season tix so they can't be doing that poorly, or that they are doing just poorly enough to make me passionate about the outcome of their games.  I'll admit that after the last home game, I was ready to call it a day.  Now, I've got one more season at least.  Scarves up ( Read more... )

Dear Sir Alex,

Can you please dedicate a practice to the art of taking penalty kicks?  The PK is a gimmie and your elite players *should* be scoring on every opportunity. I'm disappointed to see players of Manchester United's caliber missing shots from the penalty spot on such a consistent basis.

I'll ask you to go over the basic fundamentals with ( Read more... )

My weekend has brought my Sounders high crashing down around me.

Battlestar Galactica. The more I think about Daybreak Part 2, the happier I am George Lucas was not involved to totally screw it up, still, I'm a little let down.  I guess I wanted something more tragic and Shakespearean. I'm especially aggravated after a conversation I had earlier ( Read more... )

Lately, I feel like my weekends are non-existent.  Saturday and Sunday are just a black hole.  I know this isn't true, I do stuff.  Memorable stuff.  Here's proof.

Friday night, I remember vividly: cooking dinner at home, catching up on Burn Notice, and watching Dollhouse and Battlestar Galactica. I was not impressed with the BSG episode “Deadlocked ( Read more... )

Glory, Glory Man United ( Read more... )

Goals in the 90th minute.

Give me two Vidic and no Ferdinand on the backline and I would breathe easier each and every game.  Not only does he save United's asses on the backline but now he's doing it up front as well.

United should have put this away early on and it would have been nice for Rooney to pick up a few goals here. Despite the great ( Read more... )

Much is happening around the Prem and frankly I'm not really liking it.  Going back a few weeks to Rooney shaving his head and Ronaldo hogging the ball (no real surprise there) to van Persie's outrageous foul and Chelsea's thrashing of Sunderland, but I never got around to posting on those gems ( Read more... )

In a cosmic turn of events I was able to catch two-thirds of Manchester United v. Portsmouth today instead of working.

I kid, the events weren't so cosmic since most of my workgroup is out of the office today and things are slow.  It was more a strategically timed suggestion to my one remaining co-worker that lunch out of the office would be great ( Read more... )