Last night I dreamt this : 

It’s 4pm on Saturday… I’ve been tailgating for a couple of hours outside the hideously small Tech stadium… somewhat sad I won’t be going to watch the game, but enough brewski’s down the drain to not care too much. Anyways, Erik and I approach the area where the teams unload as the buses pull up. The Tech team gets off the buses to a loud applause from the idiots in lubbock, but as the Texas pulls up the atmosphere gets decidedly uglier.

More than your normal boos, the lubbock faithful are degenerates yelling all sorts of phrases that I can’t repeat on this blog . Then Colt McCoy jumps off the bus, to the applause of the few Texas fans who could weasle their way to the front (I am one of them). It’s at this time some crazy lunatic fan from tech jumps out into the opening past the security wielding a knife lunging towards Colt. Those brewski’s I mentioned earlier kick in and I duck under the outstretched arms of the cop holding the crowd back, take two strong steps and leap off my  feet in a full on dive at the intruder. More than just hit him, I level him, put him in the air and disorient him enough to get away the knife. 

Will Muschamp picks me up off my feet and says nice hit and then Colt comes to say his thanks for saving his life. Apparently I got cut in the ruckus and need stitches. The thankful coaches get the trainers to do it for me so I go with the team to the locker room the whole team being thanked by various members of the team. Even Orakpo looks stunned by the quality of the hit…

So I get to hang with the team for a couple hours and Mack comes up to me and says I should be on the sideline for the game as some sort of good luck charm but that they don’t have any more sideline passes so I’m gonna have to wear a uniform and sit on the bench. This is terrible terrible news for me, but I reluctantly go along with it, it being the greatest moment of my life. I go all out with the uniform, pads, everything.

Texas is down at half. Graham Harrell is just too good and our defense is getting its secondary destroyed. We have lost two safeties already and there isn’t anyone left besides redshirts. Its a 21 point hole and the team is dejected. Coming out into the 2nd half no one thinks a win is possible. It’s then that Muschamp pulls me aside. He says “Can you recreate that hit from earlier?”…..

I then go on to rack up 4 sacks, and force a fumble that Orakpo runs in for a touchdown. After the last sack, the one that ends the game with a Texas victory, the Tech fans aren’t even mad because they have just seen the greatest athletic performance of all time, I receive a standing ovation.

And then I woke up to my dog licking my face.

Edit : Further reason to watch this video. 1 in 4 texas residents polled believes Obama is a muslim. REALLLY?!?! ….. No, wait…. REALLY?! Sad. Sad. Sad. 45% (yes, less than half) correctly identifed him as protestant.

This video is worth a gander. It is 27 minutes long though so be ready for it. This is the Barack “infomercial” you may have heard about. Really unprecedented media buying that went on to get this on the air. Prime-Time tv on CBS, NBC and Fox for about $1 million per network. It also ran on about 5 or 6 other smaller networks at a different time from the 8p/et time slot he bought up on those main 3.

Not like that really cuts into his overall money lead (700 million dollars which is Bush & Kerry 04 combined). I’m gonna go ahead and call the election, McCain is grasping at straws and Palin is aiming for 2012. Now, if someone could give me my $700 billion back already I would be happy.

It’s a pretty good video… 

I saw this at last week’s game but was too far away to pick it out… I thought it was just a normal Come and Take It flag, but no.

I had to explain half a college course’s worth of Texas history to Erik to make him understand because apparently he’s never heard of this phrase, seen the flag, or known anything about Texas because he is a retard. He’s also never ridden a horse but calls himself a Texan. Roots for the Astros and Spurs but also the cowboys (WTF?) and is a ginger… So all around, just a complete special-ed head case.

If you are like Erik and uneducated on the Texas Revolution this is one of the famous flags flown during it… specifically the Battle of Gonzales where a small squad of Texans held off a much larger force of Mexicans coming to take the cannon.

There are good advertising campaigns… and then there is “What Starts Here Changes The World.”

Everyone who has watched a football game in the last couple of years or has heard of the University of Texas probably knows what I am talking about. Simple, to the point narratives stretched over different imagery of Austin and the campus, the ads ‘give you the chills’ if your a UT student / alumni and pretty much tell everyone else what they are missing out on.

First off the tagline is great. It is carried over in all the literature and campaigns that go on around a university and has become commonplace on campus, but when voiced over by David Carradine (the whataburger commercials) evokes a completely different emotion. It has its roots in the new plan of the University to not just be a world class institution of higher learning but to spread its emphasis in research and a few other areas; but has coincided with a spreading of UT’s image for a couple of different reasons.

This is not the sole reason, but UT Athletics in the past few years has an absolutely unprecedented string of notable achievements. There is still no greater advertisement than a winning football team. (Applicants to the university shot up 50% after the national championship team and continue to destroy records every year since then) The university was already headed in a very positive direction pre-Vince Young, but the ability to showcase that on a national scale can’t be matched. Then UT came along and got serious playtime for this bunch of ads during that time.

Everytime this commercial comes on (they play them during the football games on the godzilla-tron) it gets the same kind of cheering you would expect from a winning touchdown. Every arm is raised with the ‘horns up and eye turned toward the screen. What kind of ad evokes that reaction? It really is powerful not only to the 100,000 in the stadium on gamedays but every time it is played on TV.

The ads are simple but the images are powerful . Watch ‘ em.

Put Your Horns Up During game :

Quicktime Links
(favorite) : Horns Up
(same vid, different message, hook’em horns)Rallying Cry

Breakfast Tacos

Soul

I got some love from the icons I used on that the new Your Address site, so here I share the wealth : A bunch of the icon sets I have favorited right now : 

All of these sets are free for you to use, and most are brought to you via Smashing Magazine because that is what I’ve been reading lately. I also like how they have a lot more than the usual fair, the icons are all slightly out of the ordinary… you won’t find any blandness here.

Weird : 

An Animal RSS icon set

I think the real question here is …. Why wouldn’t you want all of your social media web site icons in different types of glassware?

Social Web Site Icons (RSS, Twitter, Stumbleupon etc…) :


A social icon set with hearts

Another social web site set — this time all in the shape of leaves — good for a fall theme

Financial Icons :


A financial set — more normal than the others

Miscellanious :


Some misc. icons - used on a couple of my new sites

Some misc. icons - I love the twitter bird and the post it note from this collection

Nothing is worse than buying a new piece of technology for it to be obsolete the next week. If you stay up on your gadget-gossip then normally you know what is and what isn’t going to becoming out soon, but sometimes its hard to track it all. With Apple it is easy, they normally release their products on one of their big days each year so predicting when new stuff will come out isn’t impossible… but mac rumors makes it even easier.

Their buyer’s guide analyzes each product line, when the last update was, the life cycle for a normal product and then tells you a recommendation on if you should buy or not . So if you are going after a new mac pro or sexy 30 inch cinema why don’t you sit back a little bit and wait it out. (Personal tip : as soon as these new products come out the old stuff doesn’t disappear, its either in clearance or the refurb section at what could be a heavily marked down price… if you are ok with slightly-less-than-cutting-edge technology.)

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

Just remember, you could be watching this in December, but the money-grubbing losers who decide movie launch dates pushed it back to next summer to make more money. I argh on their faces.

Working on a new site for work, will take reviews if you have them. This site is only running right now in FF or chrome, so don’t report IE errors, I know they are there.

As you can see I’m taking a pretty big departure from http://www.youraddressmagazine.com with this, and I’m moving from drupal to wordpress. While drupal is sort of nice, I found it to be too unfinished for anyone besides me to use. I tried to train a couple people on it and it just wasn’t working. Wordpress is simple, I can get a site up and running in ten minutes, have it skinned in a day and there is practically no training required. Unlike the other tips and techniques you have to teach to work drupal’s system I’m hoping to just drop people in and let them run with it. 

That was the original point of the site, to be updated by more than just me so maybe I can take webmaster out of my title after this . 

Known issues : - IE (stated above) - Navigation is terrible (the hierarchy makes no sense) - the calendar is broke

Thanks!

Link : http://new.tylerjameslee.com/wp/

Quote from Mack Brown this month’s issue of Texas Monthly : 

More than anything else, I am at a point in my life when I want this place packed. I want the fans having fun. I want them wearing orange. An I don’t want it to be just a football game. I want it to be something you do if you are in the state of Texas on Saturday. You make time in your schedule for it, you plan weddings and anniversaries around it. Because this is Texas football. 

Put. Your. Horns. Up.

Hilarious episode