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  • The always nefarious internet

    How long has the local news been showing off Google Earth in it’s evening segments? In it’s post-game, 11 o’clock show, channel ten was telling a story about something that happened in the Ocala National Forest. (I wasn’t paying close enough attention to learn what happened. I only left the TV on by accident.) Despite being less than one hundred miles away, there are probably more than a few folks around that couldn’t correctly pick wich state the Ocala National Forest is in (FL)… enter Google Earth. It’s awesome when the local newstainment scares mommies into believing that the internet is going to eat their children, then turns around and uses it as a prop in their regular broadcast.

    Whoa Nelly, it’s going to be a long night.

  • And in the end…

    I can finally exhale. Gators by one in a nail biter. The Gators played just well enough not to lose.

    I suppose UT had something to do with it too.

    I can’t remember the last time a national broadcast team made so many mistakes. Not since the Lightning won the Stanley Cup anyway. Getting player’s names wrong and mixing up one player with another (even if their number is CLEARLY visible), but mixing up the teams?

    Irv: “That’s first down FLORIDA!”
    Me (from the couch at home): “Ah, Irv… the team in orange is Tennessee… it has been all evening.”

    CBS happens to be the network for the SEC, and it has been for years. Irv has been along for the ride the whole time. That means he’s had a long time to tell the teams apart.

    I’m a prickly bastard, aren’t I? Imagine if UF lost.

    I should be settled down enough to sleep in three… four hours tops. Maybe I should play some Halo on the ‘ole Xbox. That ought to settle me right down.