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I really don’t think I’m overstating it when I say that The Blind Side is one of the best movies that I’ve in quite some time.  I’ve always been a big fan of inspirational sports movies, and this one makes it towards the top of the list.

Continue reading Go See the Blind Side

What a way to finish the season.  Last weekend was the final weekend of the regular season, including conference championships, and there were some pretty incredible games.

Pitt-WV was tight until the end with points flying left and right.

The ACC championship was the same.  The game actually went the way I wanted.  I was rooting for the higher ranked Continue reading Final Weekend of College Football

So the coaching carousel has started turning in a big way last week.  A number of lower profile coaches lost their jobs last week, but there were a couple of others who were the subject of much debate due to the nature of the coach or the nature of the program they headed.

Continue reading Charlie Weis and Bobby Bowden

Every year leading up to Christmas I still love to catch all the animated kid shows.  Behind the night before Christmas with the Christmas clock that breaks, Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer was my favorite.  I say was because seeing Rudolph through adult eyes leaves a pretty different impression.

I never realized how crappy Santa and Comet are through pretty much the entire show until the end.  I know that the other kid reindeer shun Rudolph, but the parent reindeer suck too.

And when you really look at it, Santa is a user because he doesn’t really accept Rudolph until he needs him to drive the sleigh because of the storm.  If there was never that storm, Rudolph might still be wandering around the tundra running from the snow monster.

Its kind of sad when great memories of things from your childhood gets messed up when you revisit it from an adults perspective.  I better not watch The Night Before Christmas and I find some kind of crapiness about that one as well.

XKCD.com is beginning to replace Wikipedia as my Internets rabbit hole.  Damn you “Random” button.

Maybe the most amazing day on our trip, the Swiss Alps are simply incredible.  These photos are from the morning in Montreux and the afternoon spent at the summit of Rochers-de-Naye.

Continue reading Photos from Montreux and Rochers-de-Naye

This day takes on the mantle of contender for best day of the trip.

We started out pretty simply, walking along the lake in Montreux sampling tasty local Swiss ice cream, called Movenpick, and taking photos of the lake and parks along the walk.

The main event for the day was a train ride, essentially straight up a mountain, to one of the higher peaks in the immediate area. We had hoped for Continue reading Montreux and Rochers-de-Naye

Just posted a few quick comments on Vevey and Montruex.  Really awesome, laid back area with amazing scenery.  Here is a sampling of that scenery, but I don’t feel like it did it justice.

Continue reading Photos from Vevey and Montreux

I just finished resizing a bunch of pictures from our first day in Switzerland and was getting ready to post them when I realized that I hadn’t finished a post talking about our time in Switzerland.  So here is a quick rundown of a couple of our days there.  We spent one day on a nearby peak name Roches-de-Naye that gets its own post because it was just that cool.

Continue reading Montreux and Vevey Switzerland

From the world of strange and bizarre.  First, its weird that someone cut off his fingers and saved them.  Second, its even weirder that someone paid, what probably amounts to, a ridiculous sum for them at auction.  Sort of reminds me of St. Catherine of Siena’s head.