Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Band of the Month: November 2008

Published on November 29, 2008 in Band of the Month and music. 0 Comments

Howdy to all of my 4 readers out there!

Sorry I haven’t written in a while, alot has been going on these days. Those darn college applications and this whole senior year thing keeps taking up all of my free time. But as you can see I am back and hopefully the useless knowledge of my interests will continue to be updated on this webpage on a consistent basis. Anyways off to the post!

One thing that I’ve noticed alot is when people ask me about my taste in music 99.9% people have no idea about who the bands I like are and how amazing they are. So while working on my college applications a genius idea came along to post a new band every month that I like on my blog that needs to be shared with the world around me. All the bands I will be posting are indie bands and are one’s that can’t be found on your local radio station. Anywho for November:

Bon Iver

(link to his myspace music page: http://www.myspace.com/boniver)

it wasn’t planned. The goal was to hibernate.

Justin Vernon moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin at the onset of winter. Tailing from the swirling breakup of his long time band, he escaped to the property and surrounded himself with simple work, quiet, and space. He lived there alone for three months, filling his days with wood splitting and other chores around the land. This special time slowly began feeding a bold, uninhibited new musical focus.

This slowly evolved into days filled with twelve-hour recording blocks, breaking only for trips on the tractor into the pines to saw and haul firewood, or for frozen sunrises high up a deer stand. All of his personal trouble, lack of perspective, heartache, longing, love, loss and guilt that had been stock piled over the course of the past six years, was suddenly purged into the form of song. The end result is, For Emma, Forever Ago, a nine-song album comprised of what’s been dubbed a striking debut by critics and fans alike… [To continue reading you can go to the source article bio listed on his myspace music page http://www.mysapce.com/boniver]

I heard Bon Iver for the first time on my favorite Sirius Satellite station XMU (Formally Left of Center) channel 26. Normally when I’m listening to Sirius it is when I have no clue what to listen to but when I heard Bon Iver’s song “Skinny Love” it instantly caught my ear and got me interested in the band. You can be the judge for yourself by checking out his myspace music page. Stay tuned for December’s Band of the Month.

Playoffs: (3) Chantilly vs. (1) Oakton Breakdown

Published on November 17, 2008 in sports. 0 Comments

When it comes down to a rivalry game all statistics really don’t matter anymore. It’s Oakton vs. Chantilly and normally during the regular season these two rivals are fighting for position and bragging rights. But on Saturday the stakes are much more important, they are playing for the Regional Championship and the right to keep playing football. Although these numbers won’t matter at kickoff, here are some astonsihing numbers to show the quality of each team. (All statistics are year totals)

Chantilly:

Chantilly’s Offense has been averaging 30 points per game

Chantilly’s Defense has been allowing 18 points per game

Key Players for Chantilly:

Torrian Pace (RB, #25): 2609 rushing yards, 32 TD’s, 9.4 yards per carry

Kevin McGrath (FB, #31): 752 rushing yards, 7 TD’s, 6 yards per carry

Mike Ryan (TE, #47): 14 Receptions for 250 yards and 2 TD’s

Rodger Strittmatter (QB, # 7): 51 – 108 Passing for 793 yards, 9 TD’s, 6 interceptions and a 76.7 QB rating

Oakton:

Oakton’s Offense has been averaging 36 points per game

Oakton’s Defense has been allowing 17 points per game

Key Players for Oakton:
(*Stats from Madison are not included, they could not be found)

Trey Watts (RB, #28): 577 rushing yards, 615 Receiving yards, 21 TD’s

Jonathan Meadows(RB, #25): 749 rushing yards, 103 Receiving yards, 10 TD’s

Jay Young (WR, #11): 14 Receptions for 246 yards and 8 TD’s

Chris Coyer (QB, # 10): 64 – 115 Passing for 1085 yards, 15 TD’s, 3 interceptions and a 116.5 QB rating, 993 Rushing Yards, 10 Rushing TD’s.

Ryan Harris (QB, # 6): 22 – 47 Passing for 346 yards, 6 TD’s, 1 interception and a 102.5 QB rating

Playoffs: (3) Chantilly vs. (2) Westfield Breakdown

Published on November 9, 2008 in sports. 0 Comments

Since Westfield beat Chantilly in week 4 here is how each team has been doing to this date:

Has been 5-2 against a combined opponents record of (45-29)

Chantilly’s Offense has been averaging 31 points per game

Chantilly’s Defense has been allowing 14.5 points per game

Key Players since the Westfield game:
(Stats since the Westfield game)

Torrian Pace (RB, #25): 1448 rushing yards, 21 TD’s, 8.5 yards per carry

Kevin McGrath (FB, #31): 500 rushing yards, 4 TD’s, 6.5 yards per carry

Rodger Strittmatter (QB, # 7): 22 – 45 Passing for 410 yards, 5 TD’s, 4 interceptions and a 80.8 QB rating

Westfield:

Has been 5-2 against a combined opponents record of ( 34-29 )

Westfields’s Offense has been averaging 34 points per game

Westfields’s Defense has been allowing 21 points per game

Key Players since the Chantilly game:
(Stats since the Chantilly game)

Jordan Anderson (RB, #38): 1184 rushing yards, 17 TD’s, 8.6 yards per carry

Danny Fenyak (Qb, #12): 63 – 106 Passing for 871 yards, 10 TD’s, 4 interceptions and a 101.5 QB rating
*(Danny’s Stats from the Oakton game could not be found)

(The winner of this game will play the winner of (1) Oakton vs. (4) West Springfield)

Statistics book joke #2

Published on November 5, 2008 in etc.. 0 Comments

For some reason I’m really good at finding the hidden jokes from my book while doing my Statistics homework. This time rather than the joke being in the question, it’s in the answer from the back of the book.

#6.27 A BATTLE PLAN A general can plan a campaign to fight one major battle or three small battles. He believes that he has probability of 0.6 of winning the large battle and probability of 0.8 of winning each of the small battles. Victories or defeats in the small battles are independent. The general must win either the large battle or all three small battles to win the campaign. Which strategy should he choose?

(Answer) Fight one big battle: His probability of winning is 0.6, compared to (0.8)^3 = 0.512. (Or he could choose to try for a negotiated peace.)

…I’m on to you Statistics book with all of your dry humor and horrible grammar.

2008 Election

Published on November 5, 2008 in videos. 0 Comments

I’m not here to tell you my political views because this may cause a good portion of my 3 readers to stray away. But instead I’m going to talk about what I saw on CNN last night, was it just me or were there some freaking holograms? On top of everyone’s special touch screen boards which gives you access to every possible statistic used in elections, how unnecessary were the holograms from CNN. Then again I’m not going to lie it did sound pretty cool how they introduced everyone “We are about to beam in our correspondent from Chicago.” Now only if they can have some legit hologram where the person in the studio can actually see the person without looking at the monitors. Future of communication?

Playoffs: (3) Chantilly vs. (6) Annandale Breakdown

Published on November 1, 2008 in sports. 0 Comments

Since Chantilly beat Annadale in week 3 here is how each team has been doing to this date:

Chantilly:

Has been 4-3 against a combined opponents record of (44 – 26)

Chantilly’s Offense has been averaging 31.5 points per game

Chantilly’s Defense has been allowing 18 points per game

Key Players since the Annadale game:
(Stats since the Annadale game)

Torrian Pace (RB, #25): 1255 rushing yards, 16 TD’s, 7.9 yards per carry

Kevin McGrath (FB, #31): 500 rushing yards, 5 TD’s, 6 yards per carry

Rodger Strittmatter (QB, # 7): 25 – 59 Passing for 395 yards, 4 TD’s, 4 interceptions and a 59.5 QB rating

Annandale:

Has been 6-1 against a combined opponents record of ( 30 – 40)

Annandale’s Offense has been averaging 32 points per game

Annandale’s Defense has been allowing 19.5 points per game

Key Players since the Chantilly game:
(Stats since the Chantilly game, *Stats from Hayfield are not included, they could not be found)

Cason Kynes (Qb, #17): 61 – 118 Passing for 1296 yards, 14 TD passes, 6 interceptions and a 109.2 QB rating, 590 Rushing Yards, 7 rushing TD’s, 4.6 yards per carry

(The winner of this game will play the winner of (2) Westfield vs. (7) Herndon)

Halloween

Published on November 1, 2008 in etc.. 4 Comments

–Photo by Phil Dolinger

If you watch the office you know that on this seasons episode “Employee Transfer” Pam walked into her job at corporate on Halloween dressed up, but she was the only one. That’s how I felt like last night, I thought everyone would be dressing up all crazy since it was Halloween but apparently only Chris V. and I got the message. Well anyways here is how ridiculous I looked in the crowd, now I look at it I don’t mind cause I got all the photographers attention at the game. But I’m never going to do this again.

(By the way my friend Joe, the person standing to the right of me, tried to dress up as me to the game. You can be the judge if he pulled it off or not)