Ken Jennings lost on Jeopardy today. After a 74 day run. I guess that's reason enough to now cancel my TiVo season pass of Jeopardy.

The crowd actually gasped when they saw his wrong answer in final Jeopardy and then they gave him a standing ovation.

Before the start of the 2002 NFL season...

I'm Butch Davis and you're not. We made the playoffs last year. If you make me the general manager, surely we will go to the Super Bowl.


Before the start of the 2003 NFL season...

I'm Butch Davis and you're not. Okay, so we had a down year. It happens. We had some injuries. Surely if you make me the president of football operations, these problems will go away.



Before the start of the 2004 NFL season...

I'm Butch Davis and you're not. Look. Last year was an abherration too. It was Tim Couch. Tim Couch is terrible. It is all Tim Couch's fault. If he had mobility, we would have won the Super Bowl. Trust me. We need Jeff Garcia. Yeah. That's it. Get me Jeff Garcia and man oh man, watch out NFL. Down with Tim Couch. I hate that guy. I want Garcia. Super Bowl! Woo, woo! We're a train baby, and ain't nothin you can do to stop us now. Woo, woo!


11/30/04...

I'm Butch Davis and you're not, I'm cut.

I'm heading for the airport in about 30 minutes. I'm heading to South Carolina for Thanksgiving.

Everyone out there, have a good and safe Thanksgiving.

I think it's safe to say the the ESPN simulation was a bit off. I, on the other hand, nearly predicted the exact winning margin. I had Purdue winning by 28, and instead the won by 29. That means I'm better than you.

Here is the ESPN simulation of the IU - Purdue game today. I personally don't think it will be that close. My prediction is 38-10 Purdue.

I assume you all saw the craziness in Detroit between the Pacers and the Pistons. What the freak was that? Fans throwing everything they can grab - including chairs - onto the floor and at the Pacers. Fans running on the court and cold-cocking Pacers players. Players charging into the stands and beating fans down. That's completely ridiculous.

Something needs to be done. If that means that the first 20 rows of the Palace must be empty for games, so be it. If that means that there must be 300 police surrounding the court, so be it. Violent interaction between fans and players should NEVER happen.

I promise to take photos eventually. I'll probably have to wait until Saturday though. I have no way to take pictures until after work, and it's dark by then.

The tint cure is coming along nicely, although they'll have to re-do the drivers side front window. There are some scratches there, and they need to go away.

25 steps to happiness.

9:30 AM in a random state near you, on a day much like yesterday.


Step 1. A deer decides to cook himself at a substation. Hooray for lack of power!
Step 2. UPS's kick in inside the server room.
Step 3. Heat goes up 5 degrees every 10 minutes in the server room due to lack of air conditioning.
Step 4. Drives start failing on foundry server.
Step 5. Mayhem.
Step 6. Power down foundry server, hoping heat caused the issues.
Step 7. Fire up the generator to power fans for the server room.
Step 8. Power comes back on 30 minutes after initially going out.
Step 9. Power on foundry server.
Step 10. Everything looks fine. That's a big relief.
Step 11. Another drive failure on foundry server.
Step 12. RAID backup kicks in.
Step 13. We're OK.
Step 14. Cascading drive failures on foundry server.
Step 15. We're totally and completely screwed.
Step 16. Rebuild server. Keep in mind that we are 24/7 and the cluster hasn't arrived to replace foundry and dip yet.
Step 17. More cascading drive failures. Yay.
Step 18. Rebuild server using replacement disks.
Step 19. See step 17.
Step 20. Get rid of the damn PERC controller. Bastage.
Step 21. See step 18.
Step 22. Reinstall SQL and restore databases.
Step 23. Go home at 9:30 PM.
Step 24. Get paged in the middle of the night.
Step 25. I'm happy! Look how happy I am.

I'm getting my pimp on tomorrow.

A new law was passed in Ohio that allows you to have window tint darker than 50%, but not on every window... only on the back windows. I'm getting 35% on the rear window and the two back windows. 50% on the driver and passenger windows, and a 15% strip across the top of the windshield. I've been assured that since I have a large B pillar and because my car is black, it will look fine.

I'm also getting a sun roof wind deflector, and wind visors for all the other windows.

I'll post some pictures when I get it back.

After going winless for 36% of the season, Purdue has finally become Sun Bowl eligible. Hopefully with a win over IU they can upgrade to the Alamo Bowl.