Well, I waited for 21 years for that game. I woke up yesterday morning at 8:30 with one thought in my head: LET'S GO BEARS!! (clap-clap, clap-clap-clap).

By 9:15 I'm sitting there watching pregame coverage. By noon I'm geeked out of my head...having watched youtube highlights of the Bear's season...ugh. I'm too pumped up.

Head over to my friend's house at 3, with beer, brats, some cheese dip and chips.

At 4:30, the brats are on the grill, I've got a beer in hand, other friends are showing up, it's time to do this.

6:35pm: Kickoff!

WOOOO!!!!

Devin Hester, you da man!!!

OMG Payton threw a pick! This is gonna be a walk!

WOW what a run by Thomas Jones! Great catch Moose!

then the bottom fell out. Where was the vaunted D? Why were they giving such a huge cushion the the Colts receivers? Why the fuck can't you guys stop the run? Holy hell! This is getting annoying.

Well, halftime, we're down by two points, no biggie!

What do you mean the Colts are gonna go on a 942 play drive and score? Come the eff on!

Rex? What was that throw? I realize it's wet, but TJ has been running the ball solid! Turner, are you watching the game you're calling plays for?

DEFENSE WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?

Game over.

Good game, Colts.

My Bears just didn't show up. Everyone will blame Rex, but fuck, the "vaunted" Bears D couldn't make a stop. How many 3rd and 5s, 3rd and 8s did the Colts convert? Christ.

RUN THE BALL, TURNER! It's a fucking monsoon out there!

For all you Rex haters: Homey was scrambling the entire fucking game. The Bears o-line sucked. The Bears D sucked. Special teams, other than the first play of the game, sucked. The turn-overs sucked. The only player who it seems even realized this was the Super Bowl was Thomas Jones.

Everyone else: I'm ashamed to have watched that pitiful effort. You sacked Manning once. One time the entire game. You got ran on (Rhodes should have been the MVP, not Manning)

A huge let-down, to be sure...

Next year: The only player on D that doesn't have a contract through 2008 is Lance Briggs. You might know him as the guy who doesn't get credit for being the bad-ass he is. Urlacher gets all the credit, when play after play after play it's Briggs making the tackle, or busting through the gaps to stop the run, taking on the fullback head on.

I sincerely hope the Bears lock him up for a few more years at least. Next year, we'll get the hardest schedule in the NFC. Which means I don't see a 13-3 season...but the North is weak, especially with Favre coming back for one more year of abuse in Green Bay. We'll make the playoffs, and then it's "all bets are off"

I hate this time of year...nothing til hockey playoffs. :(

Mac:Hi, I'm a mac.
PC:And I'm a pc.

Mac:Hey pc.
PC:Hey mac.

PC:Hey mac, bring out "Teh Ubuntu".
Mac:Shh, "Teh Ubuntu's sleepin"
PC:Well, wake him up.

(Cut to Ubuntu humping pc's leg viciously)
(cut to Mac's mouth gaping wide open)
Mac: Holy cow, you can do that??!?

Ubuntu: HUMPINDALEG, HUMPINDALEG, HUMPINDALEG, HUMPINDALEG

PC: oh boy, that's warm!

Mac: wow.

How about it?

I'm mulling over a few choices...might go with Five Guys burger for lunch. That ish is goot.

You?

It's time for your nap.

(is this thing on?)

I KISS YOU!

So, my beloved Bears are playing in the superbowl.

This team is different from the team that played a hugely overachieving Seahawks. Everyone talks about Manning, and him getting to the SB, but on a larger scale, the Bears finally got past the 1st game of the playoffs, which is nice. That to me was huge. I watched that game with baited breath the entire time waiting for them to implode. I never worried during the Saints game.

This team has the chance to win, even though the NFC is a huge dog to the AFC again this year. Rightly so, as the AFC is a much tougher league...this year.

However, you don't go 13-3 over the course of a season and suck. The Bears did have an easy schedule, but for the most part they blew out the weak teams and outlasted the stronger teams. I'm liking their chances against the Colts much better than I liked their chances against the Pats, so that's a good thing.

This game is a validation, imo, of the system they have in place and the personnel they have on the field. I just wish Mike Brown wasn't out, he's such a difference maker.

Speaking of difference makers, Sexy Rexy has taken me on a roller coaster this year. I never waivered in my faith of my boy from FLA, unlike the media thinks pretty much every Bears fan has. He's the best shot we have. The game, luckily, doesn't solely depend on him having a better than average game. He's come up huge in the clutch, which for me is a sign of good things to come.

I'm not gonna kid myself, the Colts are a damned good team, and that D has tightened up a ton during their playoff run. However, if the Bears can do three things, they'll win this game.

1) Run the ball effectively.

2) control the clock. The longer they can keep Manning and Co off the field, the better.

3) stop the short pass. The deep ball isn't as much of a threat as the media portray. Any time a QB throws a long pass, there's a damned good chance it will get picked off. When the Bears played badly this year (Miami, Arizona) it was because they were missing tackles and getting nickle and dimed to death by the short pass. If they stop the short pass, they have a legit shot at winning this game.

If they don't, it will be a long day in the Em household.

GO BEARS! It's been 21 years, time to do this.

So, the company I work for now is roughly 1000 times smaller than the company I used to work for. No more giant undertakings to get an expense report in, I can simply walk over there and get it handled. No more waiting weeks for access to specific things, it's so simple.

It's very nice.

It's also nice to feel like everything I do makes a difference to this place, one of the reasons I was so burnt out was because I felt like no matter how many hours I worked, how hard I worked, or what I contributed, no one would care at my old work. So that's pretty awesome.

On a scale of 1-10, I'd say making this move to here is a solid 23.

How goes it this am* kids?

*for those in the US. For those in Europe/Aus/etc, happy afternoon.

We fly high, no lie...and you know this.

BALLIN!!!!!

Hey linux gurus, here's the haps:

I have 6.10 (thx Jaw) running on a Dell D820. The issue is, the normally intelligent dude who purchases laptops for this company didn't spend the extra $30 on the nvidia graphics card (previous entry was correct, this is a newer laptop than that one was) and instead is limiting me to the 945GM express chipset...basically, the windows video card.

Here's the thing, my graphics are alright, 1024x768, but I know that someone out there knows how to make it better...but all the links I've found to do so are broken. Anyone help out a complete and utter noob? I'll try to actually, you know, stick around and answer questions this time. I'm thinking there's something in the xorg file I can tweak, but I ain't seeing it, and as I said, N00B = me.

Any and all help appreciated.

So, sorry I didn't get to respond to the questions in my last entry, been super busy.

Here's an update:

I took a job with an investment firm in the DC area. Jen and I packed up during the week of the 18th and moved here on saturday the 20th. Our stuff got here the 23rd, and the movers unpacked the trailer that same day. So far, so good, got a lot of unpacking to do, lots of things to go. Had the directv and cox cable guys out on tuesday, and boy, did they ever do the shittiest job imaginable.

So the Cox guy comes out first, 3 hours before he's supposed to be here, and rather than come at the alloted time, he decided to just throw a welcome to Cox packet on my front door and left. Well, I went from DSL to Cable modem, and didn't have a cable modem. So my wife calls Cox dispatch and requests the tech get his ass back onsite. Ok, no problem, tech will be there in 2 hours. Dude never showed. Lovely. So...moving on. Directv dude shows up...4 hours late. I request a 5 LNB setup, since I'll be getting two new HD receivers and 2 new HD tvs shortly. Well, that's a no go, according to both Directv cust. support and the tech onsite. Fine, whatever, see you in a month, dickhead. Anyway, I get home right about the time dude is finishing up, and Jen's been unpacking the entire time...so no one is really paying close attention to what dude is doing. I walk down stairs to dude getting the picture up and working. Sweet. He leaves.

I go to check the lines, (I have a dual line tivo box) and am only seeing one signal. Fuck. Oh, and my cable modem doesn't work, nor does my digital phone line. Double fuck.

Anyway, I got to spend last night unfucking the giant nest of retardedness that was the directv dude's "install" job.

This MFer had removed all the Cox connections, and slapped on his on connectors. No biggie, I'll just move these to the correct places. Except this asshole had DUCT TAPED THE ENDS ON. I shit you not. Not crimped, duct tape. Unreal.

So around 11:30 last night I finally got everything hooked up right. I now have active ports in every room of the house. Sweetness.

Tons more unpacking to do, etc, etc. But I'm here.

How you doin?

Hey folks.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.6 and am having problems with my nvidia drivers on my laptop.

Anyone offer any advice?

Automatix didn't find anything for me....

thanks

Hey folks, been a while.

Been pretty busy with work, and all that.

Anyway, the wife and I are moving.

I was hoping some of you out there have experience moving long distances (state to state)...if so, care to share some wisdom?

Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb1pzayqPaI

QB Jake Delhomme
QB Ben Roethlisburger

RB Clinton Portis
RB Willis McGahee
RB Thomas Jones

WR Hines Ward
WR Roy Williams
WR Mushin Muhammed
WR Michael Clayton
WR Laveranues Coles

TE Tony Gonzales
TE Jerramy Stevens

K Adam Vinatieri

Def: Steelers

This week I am not starting Big Ben, Ward, or Portis. I'm going with Delhomme, McGahee, T Jones, Roy Williams, Mushin Muhammed, Tony Gonzales, Vinatieri, and Pitt's D.

Sup ya'll?

More work, not much else for me. Fun fun.

How you doin?

I'm off thursday through monday, so I'll see you kids next week probably.

Whatcha got planned this weekend?

Me? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. And I love it.