Sara Bareilles

Friday night I headed over to Legends at Notre Dame with Jason and some other friends. We were REALLY excited about the chance to see Jon McLaughlinlive for the first time. If you haven't already checked out his music, I highly recommend it. We've already played his song 'industry' as a prelude at GCC and more songs may be on the way.

However, that's not the point of this post. A girl named Sara Bareilles opened up for Jon, and man she was great. She was a great song writer, keyboard player, and all around performer. And in my opinion, he band was tighter that Jon McLaughlin's. I just picked up her CD on iTunes and I'm lovin' it. Check her out!

My brother is....in a word...hilarious.

LIFELINE 9.23.07

Lifeline 9.23.07

Sports Update

-Red Sox pulled out the W today so they're holding on strong and clinched a playoff berth
-Cubs won in nice fashion
-Brewers lost in extra innings
-Ohio State smoked Northwestern
-Penn State almost beat Michigan
-LSU perfected the "No look-hook shot-fake field goal"
-Ball State almost beat Nebraska
-My fantasy team is winning our league, and this week's gonna be cake
.......it was a good weekend

Oh ya, I forgot to say Michigan State BEAT THE BRAKES OFF NOTRE DAME!!!! Guess something had to ruin this perfect weekend.

Baby Dedication

Some of my friends had their babies dedicated at New Community tonight. Thought I'd throw up some photos.

I've got an idea for ESPN

ESPN is, by far, my favorite channel on television. And there's also ESPN-2 that covers even more sports, ESPN-News to cover breaking news stories, ESPN-Classic to replay some great moments in sports history, and ESPN-U which covers collegiate athletics. I decided today, while watching sportscenter, that it's time for the sports giant to branch out yet again. ESPN-C, or ESPN Courtroom, which covers all the legal messes that professional athletes get into. I even made a logo to help get them started. Trust me, there's enough things happening to justify a 24 hour station.

In one episode of Sportcenter today, I heard about...
-Stephon Marbury settling his sexual harassment suit
-OJ Simpson possibly going to jail for life for assault with a deadly weapon
-Isiah Thomas is being sued for sexual harassment
-The NFL Players association is testifying in Congress against the leagues disability fund
-Michael Vick's impending sentencing for his involvement in dog fights
-Someone possibly sueing the NFL for leaking a copy of the New England Patriots game film incident
......and others

I, for one, would just like to say that I do not care about these things, and ESPN should not cover them. I watch ESPN for scores, highlights, predictions, commentary, and obviously to watch games. If I wanted to hear about people in court, I've got court-tv and a remote. I am fully capable of switching the channel.

The Front Fell Off...

Baptism @ The Cove

Now that's Graffiti

Steve Smith told me there was something I needed to take some pictures of. He was right.

It's Official!

Now about Jason...

College Football Week 2

I love this time of year...absolutely love it. This fall has been an interesting one. Ohio State is obviously undefeated, but they haven't really played a good opponent yet (although the same could be said for originally higher ranked michigan). Notre Dame is improving, since they obviously played much better yesterday. Scoreboard didn't really reflect that, but those who know anything about football would probably agree with me. And Michigan....well, let's just say that next weekend will be interesting in the battle of the uhh....beatens. Can't wait

That's better...

Steve Jobs wrote an open letter to all early iPhone adopters to explain his position on the new price, explain why this was inevitable, but to also inform us that we will be receiving a $100 credit for our troubles. Sigh of relief, I don't have to be upset anymore.

A Bit Surprised...

Today, Apple launched the new line of iPods, and the wireless iTunes store. The new products look absolutely AMAZING. But they also knocked 200 dollars off the price of the iPhone which I just recently paid a rather large sum for. I figured by waiting a short while to purchase mine, I would avoid either a total product flop, and things like this. Apple offers a return policy for updated products within 14 days....I bought my iPhone 18 days. Although I love Apple and it's products, I'm a little upset about the 33% price drops. In my frustration I hop'd online to see what the buzz was. Not surprising, a lot of loyal apple customers are a little hurt. According to one article I read, apple.com discussion board admisistrators have deleted over 2,200 anti-apple posts since the announcement this afternoon. Several publications have quoted apple store managers saying "You're out of luck," if you didn't purchase within the last 14 days.
However, I have found reports of people receiving free apple products equivalent to the price drop, or apple store credit. Also, there are some reports of ATT stores giving iPhone users $200 credits on their bills.
In 2006, Apple released Aperture, a photo management software, and then quickly dropped the price from $499 to $299. Apple gave early adopters a $200 dollar e-coupon for their early purchase. Let's just hope that Apple get's the jist from all the hate mail they are supposedly receiving and do something similar. I personally think they will, because I've never known them to treat me, or any other customer, poorly.

ND Game.....still worth it

My friend Jeff and I were lucky enough to land tickets to Saturday's Notre Dame home opener. It was great to take in the game, and spend the afternoon with 40,000 of my closest friends. Even though Notre Dame got stomped, I still had a blast. A ND loss used to ruin my day, much like my friend Corey said it used to for him. But I had to remember, of course, that Ohio State still won, and Michigan did get beaten by Appalachian State....Appalachian State........Appalachian State.........one more time for any michigan people out there......Appalachian State. I mean come on, at least (unranked) Notre Dame got beaten by the best running back in the SEC. (No. 5) Michigan got beaten by a former Division IAA team. Needless to say, I went to bed smiling...nay, giggling on saturday night.

Take me out to the ballgame

Hey sportsfans, so tonight I had the opportunity to do something new. My friend Geoff Cocoanower is the P.A. announcer for the South Bend Silverhawks (Single A baseball team for those of you not from around here.) He had to ref a high school football game tonight so he asked me to fill in for him. Without hesitation, I said, "Why not." Of course, when I got to the stadium tonight and sat down behind the mic, I started to think maybe I should've hesitated. But after calming the nerves, I got right into it and had a blast. I had friends there who didn't even believe it was me...guess my radio voice does sound a little different than more normal voice...even though it wasn't radio. But it was a great time, and I was so pumped that so many of my friends came out to see me.