Sep
30
face lift
Filed under blog housekeeping at 9:04 pm | 2 Comments
This is an obligatory “I’ve updated the theme on my blog” post. It’s a plain look, which I like.
The only issue I’ve run into is with pictures embedded in posts. Previously I used the “Insert/edit image” button in the WordPress editor to align images either left or right. Within this theme, all the images align to the left, (ir)regardless of the alignment specified in the img tag. Hopefully it’s something straight forward.
Sep
30
96
Filed under work, travel at 1:45 pm | 2 Comments
I’m just over half way through a two week trip for work. While I enjoy seeing different parts of this beautiful country, I must confess this isn’t the type of destination point I normally hope for when required to travel. We’re in the deep south in an area that appears to be miles and miles of: swamps, Hurricane Katrina desolation, new casinos, and swarms of love bugs (if you open your
mouth, you’re bound to breath some in).
As expected, however, there hasn’t been much time for sight-seeing. We put in 96 hours last week, and expect a similar schedule this upcoming week. Gotta love being an hourly employee. It also helps that we’re working on a pretty cool project that is going to be used by a lot of people.
Sep
8
In what appears to be the biggest prank in the history of Michigan sports, the Detroit Lions donned the Wolverine maize and blue in Ann Arbor today, losing to the visiting Oregon Ducks 39 to 7. What other possible explanation could there be for such a poor performance by the home team?
While I’m still in a bit of shock from last week’s upset (Appalachian Who?), the spectacle today went a long ways to help reality set in in fairly short order. It wasn’t worth the 5.94 GB of space it occupied on the TiVo.
I realize I have high expectations, coming from a long tradition of excellent teams, year after year after year. But losing two weeks in a row, in the Big House, to start the season … that just doesn’t happen at U of M. Until this year, I guess. It appears this is going to be a season of records: the 1st time losing four games in a row since 1967, the first time opening a season with two straight losses at home since 1959, the second-most yards surrendered in program history, etc.
There wasn’t much in today’s game worthy of analysis, and I offer no suggestions for turning things around. I’m merely a loyal fan settling in for what appears to be an historical season. They may not be the best Wolverine team in recent memory, but they’ve got enough talent to be far better than this. Come on, Wolverines– the Big Ten season and the Rose Bowl await.