headed to knoxville for the weekend.  It’s like salmon swimming upstream, except we’re not salmon and the water is made of UT fans

This is what happens when your irrational beliefs in a higher power have sway over your real behaviors and actions

I’m starving, have nothing to eat, and can’t leave the building because I’m the only one here.  Isn’t this illegal, some how?

I ‘m sure that $4m payout is really making this one tough to swallow, but after losing for the 7th year in a row to fucking UGA…

Chan “Can’t Win” Gailey’s finally been fired.  He’s a classy guy, thanks for getting us Calvin for a couple years,  but christ we gotta get some shaking up going on around here.

Cajun @ RMPC. Nothing can beat it, don’t even try.

I have been up since 3:30 am.  It is now 4:50.  No idea why, just woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep.  This completely unsatisfactory.

I was trying to think if it was something I ate.  No caffeine last night, no sugar.  I believe we had some shrimp & garlic cream pasta, and a glass of red wine.

I know whats going to happen.  I’ll be wide awake all through the early morning here, then 7:00 will roll around (when I normally wake up) and sleep will hit me like a ton of bricks.

It’s that time of year when Vegans try to convince themselves that tofu-based faux meat is as tasty as a real turkey

Why exactly do people do this? Especially I’m referring to alumni from the school who come back at 25, 30, 40, 50, 60+ yrs of age to tailgate.

Is it because they love football that much?

Or, is it, if only in a symbolic way, they do get to “come back” for a night, for a saturday afternoon. See all the old faces and all the old places and bring back memories of the college years?

Or, is it just to be around good friends, eat good food, drink good alcohol and have a good excuse to party?

Is it just tradition, that people have been doing it so long, they couldn’t fathom not doing it?

For me, its a little of all of the above. Its a chance to tell old stories about what we were like back in our “crazy” college days, and for a while just escape the monotonous drone of our daily lives, forget our cubicles and our mortgages and our credit card debt, and just enjoy an afternoon in the sunshine relaxing.

To all the tailgaters, I salute you. Here’s to hoping your deep fried turkeys, grilled chicken wings and cups of whiskey bring a bit of warmth to your heart this saturday, as we bring about a close to the 2007 regular NCAA football season.

Go Tech! But go on MARTA. Oh… and To Hell With Georgia, may the surface of a thousand suns burn the flesh from your bones, your children forever be scorned by their peers, and your lives be desolate wastelands of fear, insecurity, and regret.

If you strap ice-packs to the outside of a turkey before cooking, it results in taking the breast meat longer to cook than the dark. This gives us juicy, perfectly cooked white meat along with the dark, instead being dried out. Plus if you use a blow torch at the end to darken and crisp up the outside, you’ll have a perfect turkey.

Bringing science to the dinner table, bitches
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/24/dining/24SCIE.html

As part of our “two week projects” series, Romels and I recently ported the quoting technology from MetaForum into a Wordpress Plugin, and named it ClickQuote.

Coincidentally, this just so happens to be a wordpress blog, running that very plugin.

Basically ClickQuote just lets you quote what other people have said in previous comments or posts by simply clicking the paragraph you want to quote. Just hover over any paragraph (while on the comments page) and you’ll see what I mean.  Go there now and try it