Fortuitous Bouncing
2009
December
05
About the only thing to talk about in Oregon this week was the Civil War, annual Oregon vs. Oregon State football game. This year was easily the biggest game ever because whoever won would go to the Rose Bowl. I’m from Oregon, but I didn’t care much who won the game.
What I do care about is tonight’s game with Nebraska playing in the Big 12 Championship against Texas. I have no expectations of them winning, but I’ll be rooting hard for them. I have my lucky Nebraska Pez dispenser on my side.
There’s a chance of snow today in Portland, but since even Houston got snow yesterday, I won’t make a big deal about it.
Blogs
- NT Wright has some very poignant thoughts on social media and blogging. We would all do well to heed some of his advice.
- Spending less on food and more on health care.
- This post from my favorite Quaker blogger helped me get into the Christmas season.
- One of my favorite tweets (@hardlynormal on twitter) made the frontpage of CNN.com earlier this week for this article they ran.
- A helpful perspective on all this news about Tiger Woods.
- Leave it to Los to know just how to put it.
News
- Buying a bike in Portland? Hire this guy to help you buy a quality bike off of Craigslist without getting ripped off.
- I enjoyed this article: what would you do if you could do what you really wanted to?
- Top 10 unscripted moments caught on video from the past decade.
- How climate change is changing the life of a village in Alaska. Interesting, very interesting.
Go Huskers!
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we got snow too. So weird. I don’t think i’ve ever seen it snow here this early. It rarely snows anyway so we never believe the forecasters when they say it’s gonna snow. This time it was nice to find out they were right!
BTW, I wrote a post on why I felt all week that Bama would win the game yesterday. Too long to tweet you yesterday but just some of my thoughts from last week. It was pretty crazy here yesterday in particular. I have a friend from Brazil that lives in an apt. in town and he said he “Turned on the news to see what was wrong because people were yelling and screaming”. He was the only person in Alabama that didn’t know the game was on. So funny.
Yes, I finally made it into Fortuitous Bouncing.
Check that off the lost.
PS: sorry about your huskers, they should have won.
I hate Texas, the entire state that is and the football team.