Albert Banks

Did you feel that cool breeze this afternoon? Did a leaf fall from above? Did you wake up this morning feeling more alive? The answers must be yes, because today is the start of a new College Football Season! Tonight the season officially gets started with an SEC clash between Spurrier’s South Carolina Cocks and Croom’s MSU Dogs. Not exactly a thriller, to be sure, but it’s not baseball. This weekend is the launching point of my favorite time of year. One final look at the checklist:

Beer – of course
Couch – broken in
2nd TV in living room – setup saturday
Gator shirts – cleaned (thanks Katie!)
ESPN GamePlan – ordered
Message Boards – perused and participated
Preseason Polls – read and ignored
BCS – already pissed
Kram Yam (Mark May) – still hate him

Well, Flickr can tell you! Yesterday, Flickr (purchased by Yahoo!) launched geotagging. You can now tag where you took your photos. There have been 1.2 million photos geotagged in 24 hours. What’s the big deal? Well, it further enhances the current tagging ability of photos. It is not a virtual memory – you now know the where, when and what of your albums.

Check out the map of our photograph taken in Times Square. You can see other people’s photos from the area. I have geotagged most of my images and will be adding more shortly.

A few months ago, my company Myjive launched a press site. Recently, we overhauled the style and updated our recent “drips”. Check out the Leak to see what we have been up to: ABC-HD, Dumb Luck Productions, Many Grains…

Rating:
Release Date: 05/09/2006
Critic Review
Purchase

After finally hitting big with Final Straw, the pressure was on to produce again. Showing cool under pressure, Snow Patrol triumphs with Eyes Open. The album is heart-warming and melodic, yet powerful and audacious.

Favorite Tracks
Chasing Cars
Onen Your Eyes
You Could Be Happy

This is the dreaded sports void known as Summer! It’s the time of year that no real sports are in season. Don’t try to convince me baseball is worth watching. There is no basketball or football. Hell, I’d watch Hockey at this point, but no dice. At least we had the World Cup for a month (not the most exciting game either).

Instead of watching SportsCenter in the mornings I now watch The Daily Show and/or The Colbert Report rerun from the night before. They are on at 8am and 8:30am, respectively, on Comedy Central. They are much more entertaining than baseball “highlights”.

Check out SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays during the Summer:

10. Guy catches baseball (whoopty do…)
9. Guy hits home run (this is baseball, right?)
8. Different guy hits baseball (see above)
7. Guy fucks up fielding a baseball (dumb ass)
6. Guy doesn’t fuck up fielding a baseball (so…)
5. Guy from #9 hit another homerun (holy crap! two home runs by the SAME guy!)
4. Mascot does something (best play yet!)
3. Pitcher strikes a guy out (yawn…)
2. Guy catches baseball near edge of playing field (isnt’ that what he’s supposed to do?)
1. Pitcher catches ball hit right to him (so, he almost allowed a hit? bench him!)

The first NFL Preseason game is August 6th, if you can stay awake until then…

So, yes, this blog still works. No, I’m not dead. Yes, I’ve been busy. No, I’m not ignoring you. Yes, you can post comments – do it! No, I don’t want spam. Yes, I will post more often.

I am vowing to not let this site sucumb to Blogrot… I guess I just made that word up. I’m going to have to be a big nerd and post it on Wikipedia.

Blogrot
v. blogrot·ting

n
  1. The process of an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts
      published on a Web page
    a. Becoming damaged, weakened, or useless
    b. Decaying; becoming degenerate