Happy Birthday Late

We forgot to tell Andrew Happy Birthday...

Happy late birthday Andrew!

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Calling all Loonies...March 2-3rd - Tailgate party with Western Dogs at the GEC for TTU's first trip to the NCAA tourny in generations!!! Will you be there???

how long can you stand it?

Skip around. You'll like around 7 min to 10 minutes. I promise. Guard your thoughts and loins...he knows your thoughts...he sniffs your loins!

Why I Love the Office

So it's Thursday and I'm only thinking about one thing right now. The Office. I know it's a rerun tonight, but a repeat of this is better than most new shows on TV. I've got some free time on my hands and thought I would dedicate my first post to one of my favorite shows on TV. No, not LOST. This one is not so much a like of mine, but more of an addiction. This is because an addiction is something that you can't stay away from and yet it hurts you. LOST hurts me because it confuses the ever living sh*t out of me and gives me zero resolution, and yet I can not look away. But I digress. Here are some reasons the Office rocks.

1. "That's what she said." - Michael's ability to turn any normal comment into an inappropriate phrase is amazing. People, remember back with me to season two when Todd Packer was in the office and Jim was trying to get Michael to say the phrase. Jim made comments like, "You're making it really hard for me" and "I'll have to go all night". Classic.

2. Pam - Who doesn't love this girl? Not this guy *points both thumbs

at himself*. She is always down with whatever Jim wants to do and is always on his side. Eventually her and Jim will really get together (and that might be pretty soon if anyone's seen the past episodes).

She's the perfect girl to have in the office with you.

3. The acknowledgement of the camera. - I'm not talking about the cut away interviews, which are really funny. I'm talking about when Michael says something completely inappropriate and gives the dumb smile to the camera, or when Jim always gives a look to the camera when he is either nervous or suprised by what Dwight did. Which brings me to...

4. Dwight K. Shrute - Beet farms. Karate. Bobblehead dolls. '87 Trams Am. Enough said? Not even close. His battle with Andy is epic. His love for everything Dunder-Miflin and Michael Scott is compelling. He brings dedication to the workplace like we all should. People assume he's not a ladies man, but tell that to Angela, who Dwight refers to as "monkey".

5. Jim and Pam - Even the most hardened lumberjack who watches the show is rooting for Pam and Jim to get together. Who doesn't want this to happen? I'll admit, for a while I was glad Karen was in the picture, but Pam is just too cool. While I don't like the fact that the show only spends about 2 and half minutes progressing that storyline, I'm still waiting every episode to see what happens. I like how Jim is back doing pranks with Pam. Things are right with the world again. Like I said earlier, they'll get together eventually, but right now it's great watching them being stuck in those awkwards moments that you know both of them are thinking the same thing, but neither will crack. Good times.

6. Prison Mike - Everything that is amazing and terrible about Michael Scott is encompassed in "Prison Mike". I know there will always be something terribly inappropriate coming from Michael every episode. Whether it be him typing "boobs" on his talking computer or acting "just like an Indian" for Kelly or him telling the waitress at Hooters he would like to order the chicken breast sandwich, hold the chicken, you know he's going to do something amazing. The best part is he doesn't know any better. For those of us in corporate America, we all know that one boss that for some reason thinks they can do or say anything they want. Everyone has a Michael Scott in their lives.

7. The Activites - Dunder Miflin is a place where everyone works and yet never really does anything. Now I know the show couldn't show them doing paperwork and filing and making phone calls, but some of the things that take place on the show take up entire days. The Olympic games must have taken the whole eight hour work day. Now was it worth it to have paper doves fly across the podiums at closing ceremonies? Absolutely. Is there ever any real chance of this happening in real life, probably not. But still you have to love the Christmas party with an open bar, Oscar's (or Dwight's) welcome back party with banner, music, and food, and Pretzel day that takes hours to wait in line. I wish we could all work there.

8. Jim "Big Tuna" Halpert - The everyman we all want to be friends with. I know people like Ryan, Dwight, and Andy don't like the guy, but that's just out of jealousy. Nothing more. Pam, Karen, Kelly, and probably Phyllis all want a bite of the tuna. He always tells is straight, like when he tells Karen he still likes Pam or how about when he lays it all on the line with Pam, TWICE, during Casino Night. One word for that, ballsy. He hates his job, but would be really bored with any other co-workers. His pranks on Dwight (and now Andy) are things that would never happen in the real world, but are real enough that people see them and think, "I might be able to get away with that at my work." How about when he put Dwight's office in the bathroom. That was one of the best ones.

OK so that's what I got. What can I say, I've got some time on my hands today. Add some thoughts about the show to the comments.

Maybe I've talked about this show with too much feeling and some of you are saying, "Ross, you are taking this way too seriously, it's just a TV show." Well I've got one thing to say to that, "Maybe I'm not taking it serious enough.

Just to make us all feel young...

The oldest player in D-1 NCAA basketball this year is Tennessee Tech's Francis Kabore. He is 28. Larry Smith was old but not quite this old when he played. But he did drive a nice old school Camero with a fading paint job.

Tech beat Murray St last night at the Hoop. You can find some of the highlights at this link
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/espnu/index

Picks

Super bowl time...I like the Bears to win. I think it will be a close game though.

Bears 24 Colts 20

Holy Carp

http://www.gopfl.com

And I thought CNN never gave me any good news before. Ross, Alexis could make some noise in the PFL, with her good size and all.

They say its your birthday!

I would like to give you this MAJOR award. I think its French, from the Fragile region. Happy Birthday Coach Nunley. Hope you get some.

Random Thoughts and Questions

Is Ross alive? If yes, then prove it.

Any early plans for a bachelor party for Lippy??

Could we all get Red Alert and playing each other online??? Kev can you send me a cracked version??

My 2 month old Gateway laptop has a cracked LCD screen. A friend of a kid that I tutor sat on it :( Gateway said to repair it would cost $514 which is more than what I payed for it $499. Any techies have any idea how I could get a screen or any other better options other than buying a desktop monitor for it?

Name your current favorite video game/online game and your system. Mine is Madden 2007 on PS2. I am in season 1 of a franchise mode with the Saints. NFC championship is coming up. Also playing it online which is soooooooo addictive. I love routing little 10 year old kids from Nebraska with the S.F. 49ers.


Anyone played Settlers of Catan? I played for the first time a couple of weeks ago and it is the best game since Monopoly. It is this board game that is a mix of Civilization and Risk and Monopoly. Here is a screen shot from the new xbox 360 version. Anyway I think you should read about it and check it out. The cool thing is that there is this free website that has a 4 player online java version. It would be pretty sweet to play against each other online. I am just learning to play so let me know if anyone wants to get together in a virtual sense of the word. Here is the MSN version with a online tutorial...

Finally, is anyone using an online messenger service? Like Yahoo or MSN? Just thought I might get one because it would be cool to chat quickly with you guys when we online at the same time.

Enough about this stuff...don't want to distract from my much more important post below.

In the Words of a Samurai

"In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side. " - Ghost Dog

Even though it took us much longer than seven breaths to come up with our dates for Man's Weekend, I am glad that we have come to a consensus. I don't know if anyone saw the Golden Globes on Monday but Forest Whitaker won the Best Actor for his role as brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 1970's in The Last King of Scotland. (Has anybody seen it?) He looked like a B-list actor during his acceptance speech . It was kind of wierd. He was crying and short of words the entire time. People were kind of looking on like"oh, that's cute because he has never one anything before." But in my opinion this is no way for a Samurai to act. This brings me to my next thought...

I would like to nominate Ghost Dog as the movie of year for the Third annual Man's Weekend. I don't know who else was with me when we watched this at Edna's but Forest was snubbed for an Oscar for this masterpiece. No one before or since has read ancient Samurai pieces of wisdom with such grace and strength. Let me leave you with a little clip...

True Story!

I am watching True Life: I'm in an Interfaith Relationship right now. There have been too many brilliant comments to make fun of them all, but this one sticks out.
"Jesus was Jewish, and he didn't celebrate Christmas, so why are we?" - a Christian black woman married to a Jew from New York.

This is from another episode, but its awesomely bad too. I think she might have Tourette's.

D.I.A.B. 2

Men's Weekend...Final Decision

Man's Weekend is March 23-25. Please respond with 'yea' or 'nay'.

Speaking of Red Alerts....

Click Me

I hope its not too gay

Red Alert

Andrew, there has been a tiberium contamination in your sector! CC3

Father of the NRA

Just wanted to show you guys my autographed pic of Good ole Charleton showing his guns. I don't have any real guns but I can bring Duck Hunt. Just let me know. Any dates work for me let's

just get one settled upon.

Nunley are you into goth and black nails??

I guess nunley's fingers are too cut and bleeding from playing quarters with his students to post anything worthwhile on here. Nunley - Are you using a crApple? What is going on? You apathy for this blog disgusts me. So what are the dates going to be on this Man's Weekend??? I need to know when to rent Top Spin to brush up on my skillz. I will also start rubbing my fingers on concrete in order to build up calouses for those late night gaming sessions.