Football Picks #2

So this time I decided to do my picks a little bit later in the week.

Miami (-4) over Oakland

Houston (-3) over Atlanta

Baltimore (-4.5) over Cleveland

Detroit (+3) over Chicago

Minnesota (+2) over Green Bay

Dallas (-13) over St. Louis

NY Jets (-3.5) over Buffalo

Carolina (-3) over Tampa Bay

Seattle (-2) over San Francisco

Pittsburgh (-6) over Arizona

San Diego (-12) over Kansas City

Indianapolis (-9.5) over Denver

NY Giants (+2.5) over Philadelphia

Cinncinati (+7.5) over New England

Record from last week 10-6

Overall record 10-6

Sorry I got a little link happy there.

Tanner, your girlfriend should not have gotten pulled from that game against Brazil.

Please, be responsible

OR 10 Signs You Have Had Too Much to Drink:


10. You totally think it's a great idea for your buddy to give you a boost into a second story window because he left his keys next to the Kahluha bottle.


9. You temporarily gain super-human eating abilities the likes of which are typically impossible without years of training. For Example: 15 hot dogs, or 10 Dick's cheeseburgers, or an entire gallon bag of Tim's Jalepeno potato chips...I could go on and on.


Corollary: You wake up in the middle of the night and your bedroom smells like deep-fried asshole.


8. You have a conversation with yourself that goes something like this: "No. You are NOT going to pee. You will wait until it is appropriate, or until you are entirely COMFORTABLE PEEING. Show some goddamn self-discipline."


Corollary: Or you just pee in an alley.


7. You have a heart-to-heart conversation with a friend with whom you have already had the same heart-to-heart conversation with 5 or more times.


6. You have the same heart to heart conversation, only this time with somebody whom you have just met.


5. At some point in the evening you refer to your breasts/balls/penis/vagina/ass as one of the following:


A: Itchy

B: Throbbing

C: Child-like

D: Sexy

E: Some or all of the above

4. You write a bunch of notes in the dark that you want to use in your blog about being wasted.


Corollary: And you can't read half of them the next day.


3. You and your blogging partner give each other crabs while a friend watches:








Corollary: Well, maybe not the whole crabs, but at least the claws and legs.







2. You coyly try to make out with your blogging partner's girlfriend:









Corollary: And she is completely disgusted.








1. Your friends spend half of the night explaining that you are actually a pretty cool guy.



T-Money

From Seattle to Steamboat Springs

So yesterday I drove back to Steamboat Springs, CO. I was originally going to stop in Utah or southern Idaho but I ended up just doing the 19 hour drive straight. I left Seattle at 5:45 am and got into Steamboat at 1:15 am. It was quite a long drive but I am glad I just got it over with instead of staying at a hotel somewhere. The last couple hours of the drive were spent hunched over the steering wheel looking out for deer. A few observations during the last part of the drive:


Deer are prey, why don't they run away when they see/hear a loud object coming at them with bright lights?


Exact same question just take out deer and replace it with rabbits.


Apparently Baker City, Oregon is God's Country. Said so on a Subway sign. I was always told God's Country was the Tri-Cities, Washington. Sorry Tanner I guess you were mistaken.

This isn't really an observation but I am glad that I made it through Idaho without being propositioned by a "straight" Senator.

WNBA=Boring (I don't kow why that just came to mind)

The Stefan

Binary is the illest

100011011 10011101010110 1001

001010?
1011000001011100!
01000110100...


Ha ha ha ha!

Football Picks

So here are my picks for football this season. I would have started this before the season but I didn't think about it until last night. So here we go...

Baltimore (-8) over Arizona

St.Louis (+3.5) over Tampa Bay

NY Jets (-3) over Miami

New England (-16.5) over Buffalo

Kansas City (-2.5) over Minnesota

Indianapolis (-6) over Houston

San Diego (-4.5) over Greenbay

Detroit (+6.5) over Philadelphia

Seattle (-3) over Cincinnati

Denver (-3) over Jacksonville

Carolina (-4) over Atlanta

Oakland (-3) over Cleveland

Washington (-4) over NY Giants

Chicago (-3) over Dallas

Tennessee (+4.5) over New Orleans

Overall picks this year 0-0

Some people might say that I am making this picks too early in the week (Tanner) but whatever.

The Stefan

BLOG

Hi. This is Tanner. Welcome to our blog. Blog, as you know, is a combination of two words. The first word is bee, an insect known for making honey and stinging people. The second word is log, a large piece of wood made from a tree that has been chopped down. So think of this blog as a large piece of wood that can either provide you with sweet honey or sting you if you are ornery.
Each of the four people who blog on this blog has a distinct personality. Danny is clever (code for pretentious) Nathan is funny (code for not funny) and Stefan has great keyboard penmanship. I am the cute one. So sit back and read our blog. Or, if you are like me, lay uncomfortably on the floor because your wireless network doesn’t work and your ethernet cable is very short. Either way, read it. Frequently. I am not just blogging for my health. Blog.
Irony: blog, as a word, is more fun to say than to blog. I just said blog out loud three times in a row

One Two Three... Shut Up!

By now pretty much everybody who owns a television or knows someone who owns a television or walks by a store that sells televisions or isn't busy dying his beard in a cave on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border has seen the new iPod Nano video commercial. You know the one. A Nano is onscreen playing the music video for Feist's "One Two Three Four" and hands keep grabbing the Nanos, showing off all the pretty colors. It's a clever commercial for a cool new product. And it has a nice, catchy tune by a relatively unknown artist.

But here's the issue I see: while the commercial is probably helping Feist find a larger mainstream audience and selling some iPod Nanos to boot, it's ruining a perfectly good song. Since I hear that song at least once an hour whenever the television is on (and it's on quite a bit at my residence), I'm starting to get sick of it. In only a couple of weeks, I've gone from thinking "That One Two Three Four is a nice little ditty from a cute Canadian" to thinking "Damn, I hate this song, I wish the Seahawks were on TV here." This isn't the first time that a good song is so over-played that it becomes despicable. "Hey Yeah" comes to mind as another good example.

So my plea to Apple is simple: put some other song(s) in the Nano commercials. Make a couple of different versions of the ad. You could even be really crafty and play different songs during different shows to target the primary viewing audience (like playing the new Kanye during shows targeted at "suburban youth" and playing High School Music 2 during Monday Night Football). If Apple takes my advice, they could expose more "undiscovered" artists to the American viewing public and improve the effectiveness of their targeted marketing. Plus, I wouldn't have to suffer through several more weeks of "One Two Three Four" at every commercial break. Seems like an all-around winning suggestion.

Or I could just watch everything on Tivo.

The Danny

First entry

Welcome to the beginning of S.S.H.H. This is quite possibly the greatest, smartest, best looking, smartest, funniest, and smartest blog…ever. Four people, Tanner, Nathan, Danny and Stefan are writing this blog. We will explore the worlds of film, music, and social commentary of the world around us. The four of us each have our strengths and weaknesses. I don’t have any weaknesses, except bullets, but the other three do. So enjoy reading and laugh your ass off with us, not at us…one more weakness of mine, writing anything good.

The Stefan