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I’m Tired of Sitting on My Ass

By Chad on 10/8/2006

Three days of bed rest (so far) is driving me crazy. I’ve been having trouble with my knee for several months. At first, I didn’t know what it was. All I knew was that Audrey’s tail would catch me in the back of the knee, and I would crumple in pain. Jennie kept telling me what a wuss I was.

When I had physical therapy for my back, my therapist led me to believe it was a Baker’s cyst. I actually thought it was reducing with the exercise I was getting in my therapy sessions, but apparently I was mistaken.

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Posted in Personal | Tagged Audrey, Baker's cyst, cancer, Jennie, MRI, mutation, neurofibromatosis, surgery | Leave a response

NCAA Instant Replay is a Joke

By Chad on 9/16/2006

It’s an absolutely idiotic, broken system that does nothing but give a veneer of respectability to the thoroughly inept, pathetic referee system in college football. What the hell is the point of having this stupid thing if a trained replay official can’t even spot what is plainly obvious to the public at home, and even to the retards in the press box?

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Posted in NCAA Football | Tagged instant replay, NCAA, Notre Dame, Oregon Ducks, Pac-10, Sooners, USC | Leave a response

Fire Dick Pound

By Chad on 6/19/2006

Considering his supposed goal is to restore ethical integrity to international sports competitions, I can’t imagine a more ethically-challenged man than Dick Pound leading the WADA. He has always resorted to the dirtiest of smear campaigns when he couldn’t find any real evidence, and his sickening attempts to discredit Lance Armstrong (in conjunction with yellow journalism by France’s L’Equipe that would make Fox News blush) are only the latest in a long string of underhanded tactics by a man who seems less concerned with actually cleaning up sports than with getting his name in the papers. I’m really glad Armstrong is standing up to him, and asking the IOC to sanction him for his schoolyard bully tactics. His demagoguery is detrimental to the cause of getting drugs out of sports, and a rebuke from the IOC might finally put him in his place.

The ends don’t justify the means. The way to clean up sports is through improved testing regimes and education, not by spreading innuendo and suspicion to try and shame athletes when you can’t get real proof.

Posted in Sports | Tagged Dick Pound, doping, ethics, Faux News, IOC, Lance Armstrong, WADA | Leave a response

I Guess the Patriots…

By Chad on 1/16/2006

aren’t the only team that gets disrespected.

Hey, I’m not claiming the win against New England wasn’t ugly, or that Pittsburgh doesn’t look pretty scary going into the AFC Championship, but why is Denver the favorite punching bag for all the columnists today?

The Patriots committed five turnovers, but somehow to these wags, that doesn’t reflect on Denver at all. Never mind that only one, the Hobbs fumble of the punt return, was unforced. Brady forced a bad ball that ended up in Champ Bailey’s hands because he was being run ragged by the pass rush. His other pick was also due to pressure.

The Football Outsiders say recovering fumbles is basically luck, but causing them, and getting interceptions, are signs of team strength. Denver caused two fumbles and got two picks, for a +4 turnover differential. So where’s the respect?

And get mad all you want over the PI call against Samuel on that play to Lelie in the endzone, but do you really think Denver, driving from the Pats’ 40, wasn’t coming away with at least 3?

Here’s one more thing to chew on, sports fans: Denver has never lost an AFC Championship game at home, and is 6 for 7 total.

Posted in NFL | Tagged Broncos, Football Outsiders, NFL, Patriots, Steelers | Leave a response

Pet Peeve #5 – Calling the GPL Viral

By Chad on 11/22/2005

I get really irritated when pundits (usually those trying to stamp out Free Software) describe the GNU GPL as “viral” or “infectious.” You have to make a conscious decision to link your code against GPL code! You can’t get “infected” by the GPL through any means other than your own choice. If you don’t want to release your code as Free Software, go find someone else’s libraries to link against. If you want to leverage the work of thousands of other developers from around the world, you play by their rules. Period. Most software companies require you to pay money to use their library, while GPL code developers require you to share and share alike. If you don’t like it, that’s fine – go create your own software ecosystem. But quit trying to convince the world that the GPL is bad just because you don’t like its terms.

Posted in Pet Peeves, Software Libré | Tagged copyleft, GPL, Software Libré, software licensing | Leave a response

Pet Peeve #4 – The Stupidity of Pro-War Protesters

By Chad on 8/22/2005

Being pro-war doesn’t make you patriotic, any more than being anti-war makes you unpatriotic. A century ago, we used the terms “hawk” and “dove” to describe those positions precisely because it is beyond insulting to use how you feel about a particular military conflict to pigeonhole you as patriotic or not.

While I’m on the subject, being against the war in Iraq, in particular, is about supporting our troops, in the sense that you don’t want to see soldiers’ lives wasted on a war that was fought based on a lie, in violation of international law, for no discernible purpose, to no clear end, and the results of which are likely to be worse for the security of America and the world than the foregoing regime.

Posted in Pet Peeves, Politics | Tagged Iraq, patriotism, pet peeve, war | 1 Response

Webserver Move (Again)

By Chad on 7/26/2005

Once again, in my eternal quest to get good hosting on the cheap, I’ve moved servers yet again. If you’re seeing this message, the DNS has propagated, and it’s pointing to the new host at ServerPronto.

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Welcome, Bianca Ann!

By Chad on 7/23/2005

It was a wild morning in the wee hours of Wednesday, July 20. Jennie felt what we guess now must have been her water breaking about 11:00PM (Tuesday night). We didn’t recognize it, though, and we went to bed anyway. Little did we know we’d have a baby a little over four hours later!