From the Right Hon. Euclidian G. Ahmatree
Dear Biggles,
Enjoyed the bio, but had an observation.
If you “turned your life around 360 degrees”, you’d still be going in the same direction you started.
Perhaps that was meant as a joke?
Yours,
“Uke”
From the Right Hon. Euclidian G. Ahmatree
Dear Biggles,
Enjoyed the bio, but had an observation.
If you “turned your life around 360 degrees”, you’d still be going in the same direction you started.
Perhaps that was meant as a joke?
Yours,
“Uke”
Shots from the 2006 Florida Championships are up on the site.
Held at UCF for the first time in a while, Deke did a good job of putting on a big show.
Next up, Lakeland this Saturday. I’m going to try very hard to have Toni’s page up this week. There are also some things going on external to the site that may (or may not!) have some impact on the output schedule– more as I find out.
Humidity, FL, April 15, 200-
Big Southern University’s goal of entering the Top Ten list of public universities suffered a setback this week, as Officials In Charge Of Such Things canceled a scheduled tour of the university at the last minute.
“Well, of course we wanted to see the facilities,” said committee chair Justin Omdeplume as he boarded the outbound flight from Humidity Regional Airport. “It’s just that when we got there, there was no place to park.”
Shots from the 2006 Debbie Kruck are up on the site.
The shots came out a little redder than I prefer; I think I’m going to have to abandon the auto-white-balance when speed shooting across the width of the stage.
There were also some yabbos shooting with uncovered strobes flanking the stage; besides leaving me half-blinded, they ruined a couple dozen of my shots (and Ian’s too, I suspect).
More seriously, the show had no female bodybuilding competitors. None. Zero. I counted ’em twice.
The show *did* have a half-dozen or so talented female bodybuilders, who inexplicably showed up in the figure rounds.
What ya gonna do? I hate to abandon the state’s only Daytona-region show, but unless these issues get some discussion, I won’t be terribly motivated to go back next year. We’ll see if the topics come up.
So I just got back from my first college football game since the new rules were implemented.
“New rules?” you ask. Yes, new rules that are designed to “speed up” the game. New rules that keep the clock running after a change of possession. New rules that start the clock on kickoff, not when the other team touches the ball.
Rules, in short, that are designed to ensure less actual football but leave plenty of time for ads.
Hey, I’m aware of the realities. Ads = revenue. You don’t get to the top of this heap with bargain-basement personnel. Great leaders, great staffers are few and far between, and they don’t come cheap.
But this is wrong in so many ways. If there’s really a need to speed things up, put a tranquilizer dart in the red-hat guy’s neck. Because while he’s on the field, there’s one tenth of a million people in the stands twiddling their thumbs, and the rest of the country’s checking for leftover pizza in the fridge.
But it gets even worse: this game was on freakin’ pay-per-view. How the hell did we get suckered into paying to see ads?
Take a step back and think about this question:
How many commercials would it take to motivate nearly 100,000 screaming, rabid fans to lay down a handful or two of Alexander Hamiltons in order to spend days driving, fighting gridlock traffic, searching for a place to park, trudging up several flights of stairs in oppressive humidity, and cheering themselves hoarse for a couple of hours, fighting back tears of joy the whole time?
How many insurance ads would get that kind of turnout?
How about ads for cars or banks or drinks or bug sprays or groceries or–well, anything else?
You get the picture.
Football– the game– is the filet mignon in this T-bone. Ads are the gristle. We put up with ’em because we have to, but they’re not the reason we’re here.
Television had better wake up to this reality before advertisers suck *all* the life out of the game.
Because when the T-bone has too much gristle and not enough meat, there’s always leftover pizza in the fridge.