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I Play Rugby

September 30, 2009 / / 0 Comments

I play rugby because it’s the greatest game in the world.

I play rugby because somebody has to.

I play rugby because I want to be a participant, not a spectator.

I play rugby because it makes me feel alive.

I play rugby because it makes me smile.

I play rugby because so many people built and maintain clubs to give me the opportunity.

I play rugby because refereeing rugby is way too hard.

I play rugby to learn life lessons about hard work, sacrifice, perseverance, and loyalty.

I play rugby for my teammates–past, present, and future.

I play rugby for the funny stories from road trips.

I play rugby because it makes beer taste better.

I play rugby because it’s too late to turn back now.

I play rugby because it’s given me so many great memories and friendships.

I play rugby to spite the bodies that govern the game. šŸ˜›

My Ghetto Gym

September 27, 2009 / / 2 Comments

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I’m not really tooĀ keen onĀ paying for a gym membership every month, and at this point I’m not really interested in building new muscle or bulking up either. I really just want to do some core workouts and focus on toning and endurance to supplement triathlon training. So I was looking around the web and found some stuff on the Bulgarian training bag–pricey. I also foundĀ Matt Wichlinski, whoĀ has a great video on making your own, so I thought I’d give it a shot.

The only thing I did different was to use a kid’s inflatable ring pool toy instead of a tire inner tube. I needed it to be lighter because The Missus wants to use it too. It seems to be working pretty well (I’m sore).The bag I made weighs 16.5 pounds. It cost me $2 for the ring, about $4 in duct tape, and the sand was free at the beach. I’m going to make a bigger one, hopefully around 35 lbs for some other exercises.

While I was at it, I bought a basketball from Walmart for $4, cut a small hole in it and filled it with sand too. I used Gorilla Glue to seal the opening, duct taped it shut, wrapped the whole ball in a garbage bag, and duct taped it more. I ended up with a 23lb medicine ball! Here’s a photo of the finished ball.

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Quote Of The Year?

September 25, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson:

If I got to beat some ass for my family to like me, so be it.

To get girls to like you? Maybe.

To get your friends to like you? Definitely.

But your family? That’s about as hard core as it gets.

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Sep 24, 2009

ā€œRampageā€ Jackson: Iā€™ll Be Damned If Anybody Disrespects Me

from MMAFrenzy.com RSS Feed by Kris Karkoski

Quinton JacksonOn the heels of his Tuesday announcement that he was ā€œdone fighting,ā€ Quinton ā€œRampageā€ Jackson has posted another blog post (ā€Whoā€™s the baby?ā€) in which he says heā€™ll ā€œbe damned if anybody disrespects meā€.

The complete post from Jacksonā€™s official website is re-published below:

Make no mistake the UFC treated me a lot better than Pride. If you get hurt in training in a UFC fight then will send you to the best doctors. If you get hurt in a Pride fight most of the time they will tell me ā€œoh you better take care of that!ā€ The UFC will always let you know in a timely matter who you will be fighting & give you enough time to train but with Pride if I knew 4 weeks ahead I would be happy cause most times they just give you a 2 weeks notice. Pride will rip you off on your merchandising but the UFC would find someway to hook you up on merchandising deals. Pride will make fights easier for certain fighters inside the ring (like standing up fights early). With the UFC whatever happens happens. The only thing I see the UFC needs to fix in this area is to get better judges. Ones who know about MMA & not from the boxing world.
The reason why Iā€™m talking about all this is that I feel like this whole situation could have been avoided if UFC would have respected me more & rescheduled the fight about a month or more in my hometown, which I know fights can be rescheduled because of the Matt Hughes & Matt Serra was postponed due to injuries. Instead, Dana went on the internet & started talking bad about my decision. All we had to do was come to a certain type of argreement or understanding, which later came after a lot of trash talk from Dana. My manager flew to Vegas & talked to them & tried to work things out like a MAN. & still I keep quite & I didnā€™t talk trash back on the internet. The only reason why Iā€™m even talking now is because I feel like I owe my fans an explanation because I am a MAN, a real MAN. Yeah I made good money with the UFC more than Pride, but I made both shows more money than they made me. I didnā€™t care too much about Pride treating me like crap cause I was an American in a Japanese company. Now in my own country, I feel like Iā€™m being disrepected. Everything is not about how much money you make. You could be the richest man in the world but if nobody repsects you then it donā€™t mean shit. You canā€™t buy respect. It should be earned. & thats what Iā€™m all about.

Now Rashad wanna put his two cents in. Rashad remains to be a boy under me. He wins a few fights, and some of them I thought the judges fell asleep during the fight & woke up & saw him playing with his nipples & guessed he won. He knocked Chuck Liddel out when Chuck wasnā€™t even the same man anymore. & now he thinks heā€™s on my level. Yeah he talks about how he beat Forrest & I lost. But when I fought Forrest that was the worst Rampage I had ever seen. & I still know in my heart I won that fight. So now heā€™s Mr. All Cocky & says I got a big mouth & talk a lot of smack. If my memory serves me correctly, heā€™s the one that got into my face after the Jardine fight & started talking trash when he was the one that was originally supposed to fight me that night, but he told Dana on the phone he didnā€™t want to fight. He wanted to keep his belt longer. Now, Iā€™m not saying wether or not I would have beaten Machida, but I wouldnā€™t have went out like a bitch like the way he did. So Iā€™m the one that was looking forward to the Rashad fight the most. I have always been a fighter my whole life. As a kid my family treated me like shit which made me the person who I am today. This is why when I meet people I treat people the way I want to be treated (unless they approach me wrong or piss me off). I grew up thinking that I wasnā€™t even important to my family which made me not even care about myself. Thatā€™s why I can get knee-ed in the face 15 times & come back for more. Thatā€™s why I can get my legs seriously hurt in a fight & still try to win. Thats why I can get my ribs broken in a fight & not tap out because my whole life I never thought I mattered to anybody or anybody cared about me. But now I have kids that love me & care about me & Iā€™m not used to people caring about me but it feels good! Iā€™m a very loyal person. Wolves are the most loyal animals on the planet. I was very loyal to the UFC, but now I owe all my loyalty to my kidsā€¦ the ones who really care for me. The majority of my fights on the street I fought for free & they all were with emotion. I am a fighter, I will always be a fighter but my professional fights that were fought with emotion, I ended them all in devestating fashion. I am the wrong fighter that should fight pissed off professionally. I donā€™t even consider it fair. So Rashad says he will fight me for free. I will gladly meet him at any gym & fight him just to shut his mouth up. & I mean that for real!

When I told Dana I did not want my belt back & that I just wanted to make money, it was around the time when they gave me Vanderlei & actually it was around the same time when my mind wasnā€™t right (my mind was at TRUCK status) & thatā€™s the way I felt because I felt I had been robbed out of my belt. After the Jardine fight I did want my belt back because my family was so proud of me when I was champion & I want to make my family proud cause now I finally feel like my family cares about me & they accept me & this is what Iā€™ve been wanting my whole childhoodā€¦ for my family to like me. If I got to beat some ass for my family to like me, so be it. But now, Iā€™m a grown man & Iā€™ll be damned if anybody disrespects me. Iā€™m not having it, itā€™s not happening!

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Bill To Allow Tax Deduction For Health Care!

September 23, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Finally, a bill has been proposed that would allow you to deduct medical expenses from your tax bill!

Oh, not your medical expenses and insurance. This is for your pet’s expenses. You would still subject to these rules:

You can deduct only the amount of your medical and dental expenses that is more than 7.5% of your adjusted gross income.

Of course, employers get to deduct the full amount of the premiums for providing health insurance, but if you decide to buy it yourself you don’t get the same benefit. And it would be ludicrous to propose such a thing for people until those benefits have first been given to dogs and cats.

If this bill passes, what’s the over/under on how long it will take for video to be released showing ACORN workers encouraging people to claim 3 of 13 nonexistent exotic pets smuggled in from Central America as dependents in order to get a tax break?

Yammer Outlook Plugin – Don’t Tease

September 22, 2009 / / 2 Comments

I meant to write this post a couple of days ago, but lost track of time when I got distracted trying to find a way to visit links posted in Yammer through their new Outlook plugin. </sarcasm>

Right off the bat, let me say I’m pretty fond of Yammer so far. It’s a very convenient communication tool for work, and the more people use it the more powerful it becomes. So I was pretty excited when they announced a plugin for Outlook (which I’m not a huge fan of). My initial thinking was that the plugin would remind people who were about to send an email that they could just as easily send out a Yam, increasing the use of Yammer and making it more powerful in our organizataion.

The problem is we use Yammer for sharing links a lot at work, both internally and externally. With the Outlook plugin, you can’t click (or even copy) links. MAJOR FAIL!

Hopefully they’ll get this issue resolved in the next release. It seems like a pretty important feature to me.

Calling Dibs on “How To Draw Flies”

September 22, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Johnon:

Everytime someone from Google speaks, we need to listen carefully.Ā Eric Schmidtā€™s latest comments reported by TechCrunch include this little gem. He was asked to look 10 years out, and what the future Google looks like. He answers that Google will determine the best, most authoritative site for a given question, read it, and summarize it back to the Google user as ā€œthe answerā€

Yeah, that’s a scary proposition, but also a stupid one. Really…how often is there just one answer? And isn’t this (sort of) what Wikipedia does already. What Schmidt is completely missing is that the web is becoming more and more about conversations, not facts. Even when I want an answer to a technical question, I’d rather read it in the form of a tutorial example as opposed to the manual.

Tutorials are to manuals what historical novels are to textbooks.

Besides, it seems like facts are becoming less and less relevant…at least to the web.

May as well give my post about how to draw flies some Google juice while I’m at it.

15 Ways to Charm Her — How I Ended Up With a “Farner”

September 21, 2009 / / 4 Comments

I’m definitely a Southern guy. I don’t need a stupid Facebook quiz to tell me this. It’s just something I know. Want proof? Try saying I’m not. Say it to my face! šŸ™‚ However, according to this guide to winning over Southern girls, I don’t know much about how to woo women.

That explains how I ended up with the low-maintenance, easy-going, unpretentious, jaw-droppingly-beautiful girl I did instead of Scarlett O’Hara. Who wants a girl that wears curtains?

Still, I think I did pretty well for myself when I was fishing out of the Southern Pond, despite the fact that I frequently broke many of Bickers’ rules. You can click over to read the 15 things she recommends, but here’s a quick run-down on how I score with each of them.

  1. I actually do this one
  2. I agree with this as well…so far, so good
  3. I’m not getting up just to do that
  4. Yeah, but I do this for everyone, not just girls
  5. I pay people to do this one…does that count?
  6. Do rugby boots count? If not, it was over before it even started
  7. At the table, yes. Inside, not always
  8. I can do that
  9. I don’t chase girls. Even when I was single, I didn’t chase them. Ok, I didn’t make it obvious that I was chasing them.
  10. No way! I gotta eat!
  11. C’mon! Do you think your life is some sort of fairly tale? Really?
  12. I’ll buy dinner…no problem. But if we go for coffee after, you should at least offer to pay for it. (Of course, I wouldn’t let you).
  13. Some guys can pull this one off, some can’t. It’s worth not making the effort to see which kind of guy you are.
  14. Never? Never? That’s not really fair to ask of us.
  15. Twist my arm–I promise to do my best to get you drunk, just don’t make me listen to the novel about your day.

Jamie Dupree Gets the White House Heisman!

September 14, 2009 / / 0 Comments

I heard WSB Atlanta’s Jamie Dupree, a bona fide member of the media, talking about getting the Heisman from the White House and found an account of it on his blog:

I emailed Deputy White House Press Secretary Reid Cherlin, who was quoted extensively in a story in Saturday’s New York Times, and asked if I could get the information emailed to me.

“Where are you seeing that I distributed “talking points”?” Cherlin replied somewhat huffily to me by email.

He then went on to say that “having never worked with you or heard from you before, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that I didn’t send anything to you.”

Hmmm.

I guess I hit a nerve by having the nerve to ask for information from the White House Press Office.

At least he didn’t give me a Serena Williams reply.

KTown Cage Fights

September 13, 2009 / / 0 Comments

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My buddy Doug is the fight director for a local organization with an MMA fight card coming up next Friday. Local MMA fans who would like to see more events in East Tennessee should check it out!

Doug worked really hard to bring legitimate MMA fighting to Tennessee. I’ve seen him in many bouts myself, though none of them sanctioned, and participated along side him in a few Battle Royals.

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