I put a spell on you...

Voca People

Wow! This is pretty amazing...

Mr. Buble....

I stand corrected, well, I sit corrected

Generally, I think I have a fairly decently sized vocabulary. I can’t spell worth a crap, buy I know more than my fair share of words. Today I used the word enormity at work. I said, “The enormity of this project is overwhelming.” Meaning the great size/scope of this project is overwhelming. But alas, I was corrected, ever so politely, after the meeting.

Enormity is not the noun from enormous – it doesn’t mean size at all.

Enormity (noun) – A monstrously abnormal act, an unspeakable atrocity or the state of being unspeakably atrocious.

In days past, enormous meant “abnormal” but over time it changed in meaning to “extremely large.” Enormity’s meaning has not changed along with it. The word is derived from the Latin work enormis meaning “abnormal” based on e(x) meaning “out” + norma meaning norm.

Well, there you have it….I’d bet, however, that over time, my usages becomes adopted….then again, in an enormous number of years, I may be corrected for enormity’s use again.

OMG

This made me laugh so hard, I had to post it!!

Appearances CAN be deceiving

All I can say about this is WOW, can appearances be deceiving!

I dare anyone to watch this, then tell me they didn't have a tear in their eye by the end!

Please check this out!! Click here to see!

Number 100, Somewhere!

Well, this is my 100th blog entry!!! It has taken long enough :)

One of my favorite bands covering one of my favorite songs!

Dedicated to all of those I love, you know who you are!

Do Re Mi Antwerp

The strangest things happen at Antwerp Central Station in Belgium!

The List

The Fear

The Fear by Lily Allen - Awsome song....






I want to be rich and I want lots of money
I don’t care about clever I don’t care about funny
I want loads of clothes and fuckloads of diamonds
I heard people die while they are trying to find them

I’ll take my clothes off and it will be shameless
‘Cuz everyone knows that’s how you get famous
I’ll look at the sun and I’ll look in the mirror
I’m on the right track yeah I’m on to a winner

[Chorus]
I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cuz I’m being taken over by The Fear

Life’s about film stars and less about mothers
It’s all about fast cars concussing each other
But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic
and that’s what makes my life so fucking fantastic

And I am a weapon of massive consumption
and its not my fault it’s how I’m programmed to function
I’ll look at the sun and I’ll look in the mirror
I’m on the right track yeah we're on to a winner

Chorus
I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cuz I’m being taken over by The Fear

[Bridge]
Forget about guns and forget ammunition
Cause I’m killing them all on my own little mission
Now I’m not a saint but I’m not a sinner
Now everything's cool as long as I’m getting thinner

[Chorus]
I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cause I’m being taken over by fear

The Sound of Silence

Well, 2008 is over and 2009 has kicked off - if that isn’t an over statement of the obvious. I have several blog entries to write. They will probably be a few days coming, I’m having a slight motivational issue these days.

“Spam-a little less – The holy quest for Vegas” will probably be the first, look for the picture of “Unabomber Dave.” Then, if I can be creative enough to find sufficient semi-interesting things I’ll do the 2008 in review posting.

Until then, here is one of my favorite songs preformed a bit differently than usual. The words are great. Catchy tune as well. You may have to turn the volume up a bit.

Sounds of Silence

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence

Matt and Ben

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Good Luck Tonight Sooners!

Human Element is the Bug...

Article from the Fort Worth Star Telegram...

Human Element is the Bug in the BCS System

In the eternal struggle of man versus machine, man failed miserably Sunday. That's not to say that the right team won't be playing in the Big 12 Championship Game on Saturday. The Oklahoma Sooners argued their case eloquently.

They said nothing.

No rented planes circling over Austin. No phone-ins from Bob Stoops in the middle of Mack Brown's Thanksgiving dinner. Just football. Just a 61-41 victory in hostile environs over a No.11-ranked archrival.

The Sooners' decisive win Saturday over Oklahoma State was as significant a road victory as any team in the Big 12 Conference achieved this season.

There's your tiebreaker.

As myopic Texas fans - and their head coach - conveniently decline to acknowledge, there was a three-way knot, not a two-team tie, atop the Big12 South standings.

Why should a single game played Oct. 11 decide everything? Why not a gameplayed Nov. 1?

Yet, over and over again over the past two weeks, Brown had filibustered for voters not to forget his Texas team's October victory over the Sooners.

Never mind, he seemed to say, that just one week ago Oklahoma took aparta then-undefeated, No. 2-ranked Texas Tech team by 44 points - the sameTech team that beat Texas on Nov. 1.

Never mind that the Sooners' season ledger included nonconference victories over TCU and BCS-bowl-bound Cincinnati.

Longhorns fans countered by trumpeting their Oct. 18 - what is it about October? - win over the Missouri Tigers.

Oh, right. The team that Kansas beat.

In the end, what could Brown have done for me?

He could have just shut up and allowed his team's memorable 11-1 season do the talking for all of Longhorns, Inc.

Instead, Brown began to show up on TV more than that Geico lizard. The poor-taste clincher came Saturday night when he agreed to be interviewed in the middle of the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State telecast.

Why didn't Oklahoma do that, Stoops was asked Sunday?

"I was asked to be on the Texas game Thursday," the OU coach said, "and I said no. I didn't want to do it. I didn't think it was right."

Stay classy, Austin, Stoops was saying, without mentioning any names.

But as Stoops and the Sooners saw, Brown's politicking for his teamworked. The Longhorns gained ground in both of the human polls.

Go figure. Texas, playing at home, defeated a vastly disappointing TexasA&M team 49-9 in a game that Colt McCoy was still quarterbacking in thefourth quarter.

Oklahoma, meanwhile, playing on the road, knocked off the No. 11 team in the nation - and yet lost ground in the human polls to the Texas poor-uscampaign.

"It was the campaigning. I don't think there's any question," said JerryPalm, whose CollegeBCS.com Web site is the bible for all things BCS.

For all the whining, in other words, about computers and formulas and BCSrules, the human element continues to be the bug in the equation. The same thing happened in 2004 when writers and coaches, after Brown again had politicked all week, leapfrogged Texas over Cal in the final poll and sentthe Longhorns to the Rose Bowl.

Everyone seems to complain about the so-called "BCS computers," but as Stoops said, "They don't have agendas. They don't have loyalties. They don't have opinions. They don't have all the bias that everyone else does.

"And if you say no one else does, I don't think you're being truthful."

When the numbers were finally added, Stoops thinks that the strength ofOklahoma's schedule likely was the determining factor that will send his team to Kansas City next weekend.

It's probably not going to make TCU feel any better, but the Horned Frogsmight well have sent the Sooners to the national championship game.

"For people to continue to want to play out-of-conference games that people want to watch and go to and be excited about," Stoops said, "therehas to be an incentive. Otherwise, just schedule four wins and move on downthe road. You could almost schedule a bowl game by that."

If Texas wants to blame anyone today, it needs to blame the guy that scheduled Florida Atlantic, UTEP, Arkansas and Rice. Similar cream-puffscheduling cost undefeated Auburn a title game shot in 2004.

This time, fortunately, the six BCS formula computers cut through the rhetoric.

They judged the football, not the filibuster. And Oklahoma came out the winner in more ways than one.

GIL LeBRETON