Year: 2004

I have to admit that I love those Don Cheadle NFL Playoff commercials. They’re incredibly clever and actually manage to capture the sheer wonder of the sport. I’m desperately searching for a link that might contain all of their transcriptions, but have yet to find any luck. In the meantime, I though I might share a couple posted on the Eagles Message Board:

Five used to be just a number between 4 and 6.
Five used to be what you took when you needed a break,
Five used to be what you gave and got when you were happy,
Five used to be the bill you pulled out to pay for lunch.
But that was before HE came to Philly, before 4th and 26.
Five is a new attitude.
Five is the hope that every year, you’ll be there in January, playing for it all.
Five is playoff games at the Linc – in the cold – where teams don’t want to come.
Five is a number you see on the back of a jersey that went by you in a flash of green because he’s running away from you getting farther and farther, 50 yards down field…
Passing, running, juking out a defender, the new master of the two minute drill.
Five used to be nothing more than 12-7 or Cunningham minus Jaws but now
five… is Five

Before the playoffs, five was just another prime number. Five was 15 divided by 3, a piece of paper with Abraham Lincoln’s face on it. It’s what you’d give a buddy you hadn’t seen in a while. But now that it’s the playoffs, five means converting a 4th-and-26. It means rushing for over 100 yards when it ain’t even your job. It means carrying an entire city and its desperation on your back. People expect more out of guys that wear 5. That’s how big the playoffs are. They took the number 5 and made it…FIVE.

I made a very small edit to I just realized that the word I added was already in the first one (which I prefer), but I think they’re both pretty cool. Can’t wait ’til this Sunday!

I can go years without watching the show, but catch 5 seconds of the opening theme song to The Nanny and it’s stuck in my head for the next month. Thankfully I found a TV show theme song lyric repository to clear up the second to last line of the song for Lisa and I. She thought everybody else was wearing plaid until I said it sounded like tan to me. Sure enough, I turned out to be correct on yet another useless piece of trivia. Somehow this makes her think I’m smarter, I just think I’m more bored.

There’s very little I can even string together at this point. Lisa, Brian, and Mark got to see my full range of emotions during the Eagles unbelievable victory today over the Pack. I shout a lot of things during the game that I wouldn’t want to be held accountable for, so lets just say that I’m a tad enthusiastic 😀 . Next week will be the third consecutive NFC Championship Game I get to root for them, and hopefully this time I get to look forward to the Super Bowl. This game was too much of a nailbiter, and certainly didn’t help my stomach situation.

I ended up staying home Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I was all set to go back in the way I felt Thursday night. Then I woke up Friday morning around 5 AM. I won’t give you the details, but there was no way I was going to work. That afternoon, however, I got a wonderful surprise from Lisa. She bought me a gift from Amazon.com and had it shipped directly to me so I got to spend the rest of my day building my new toy:

Today she’s risking life and limb to spend time with me (oh yeah, and her heat went off last night so she’s stuck here 🙂 ) and make me soup. Not that she really minds having SSX3 readily available to her:

I don’t know what’s making my stomach feel worse: this virus, or waiting for my Birds to take on the Packers tomorrow.

Wow, just realized I hadn’t even saved my password to this site on my desktop computer. I’ve actually done all my posting here from other places since the reload. I’m sure that’s only interesting to me 😛 . Anywho, poking around the web looking for some information on a few odd bands I’ve downloaded music from, I stumbled across the site for Scanty Sandwich. It’s a cool house band (really just the one guy) who did this awesome song called “Because of You” featured on a Fatboy Slim mix album. Check them out if you’re into that kind of music, otherwise just go to the site to see what they’ve don with flash. Although some of it is a tad overdone (I hate sites that resize my window) I think they’ve done a pretty cool job of creating a virtual home.

I’m finally starting to feel better, but I actually had to take a sick day today. I’ve eaten one small bowl of rice since lunch yesterday, but I might be ready for another. Lisa’s only been by for a little bit because I really don’t want her catching this thing. I don’t mind colds or even flus, but stomach virii are just nasty. The best thing to happen to me was just to lose it all this morning over the toilet. Sure it’s not a pleasant thought, but sometimes your body just needs to get rid of the bad element, no matter how disgusting it is. Anywho, we’ll see if I make a full recovery for work tomorrow, but I certainly needed the rest for today.

Alright, I got the nice permalinks going. I found out why my .htaccess wasn’t working (thanks to another blogger who had a similar problem). Now the archived posts will have URIs like http://neverhood.net/archives/2004/1/5/cool-permalinks rather than some cryptic call using a number and a question mark. Hey, I’m excited.

As I already said, WordPress 1.0 is finally here. I got it up and running this morning and everything looks cool, so I’m now looking forward to exploring all of its new little nooks and crannies. Multi-category posts would be my new feature of choice, but I’m also looking forward to the comment moderation (no offense to any of you, but spammers are lurking somewhere out there 😉 ). Of course my first real work will be to redesign the site (almost from the ground up) to get away from this default look.

OK, so I’m not really in black (well, my desktop case is), but I am back. I finally re-installed my system and just got the website back up and running. Sticking with the whole Red Hat theme I decided to switch to the Fedora project. With the release of Core 1 the installation was a rather easy transition from Red Hat Linux 9, so I’ve got no real complaints outside of the difficulties I had getting MySQL to work. There’s a definite feel of continuity here and that’s made transfering configs rather easy.

I didn’t really get to try out any new flavors as I planned, but I doubt it would have been much of a contest. SuSE charges money for their distro ISOs, so that was really only an option for work. As much as I wanted to try Gentoo, all of my attempted installations failed. I’d still like to give it another try but I probably won’t be switching thebox again anytime soon. And then there was Debian. No offense (since I know how popular their distro has becaome), but I just couldn’t make it past the setup. It was horrendous to say the least. They are light-years behind in this area, and that simply killed it for me. So it’s Fedora all the way (for now).

Next (tonight or tomorrow morning) I’ll be blissfully upgrading to the long-awaited release of WordPress 1.0. Oh it’s an exciting time for me indeed 🙂 .