Podcast #3

We are changing number 3. Instead of being about food. I dceided to interview Alex about his second girlfriend, the Ohio State Buckeyes. Here is his opinion: Gabcast! Ohio State/BCS title game #1

Podcast #2

Here is the second debate: Hardees vs. Wendy's Gabcast! Hardees vs. Wendy's #1

Podcsat #1

Click this link to get the flashplayer needed for this podcast: Gabcast! Qdoba vs. Chipotle #1



This is a link to the first episode: Qdoba vs Chipotle. Gabcast! Qdoba vs. Chipotle #1

Harvest Moon

Most people think about an orange moon when they hear harvest moon. Anyone in the Ultimate Frisbee world only thinks of the annual Halloween tournament in at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. It is THE single biggest party tournament of the Fall season. Aside from it being a party tournament in the spirit of Halloween, the actual games are very competitive. There are 20 college teams attending the tournament, along with 20 college women's teams.

There are two traditions that are vital to this tournament. The first is that every team comes to the field on Saturday in a team costume, and plays in it all day. The SLU team is going as Peter Pan, Rufio, and the lost boys from the movie Hook. The team judged to have the best costume gets awarded a wooden disc trophy. The other tradition is that the team who is judged to have had the best spirit over the weekend, also gets a wooden disc.

Usually the wether is bad, but it should be an all-around good time. Here is the website for the tournament: http://www.fayettevilledisc.org/moon.shtml

Post Fall Break

Fall break rolled around last weekend and myself and four friends decided to go camping. We traveled down highway 67 way south to Sam A. Baker national park. This is definitely in the middle-of-nowhere-Missouri. It took about 2 hours to get there, and the closest gas station, besides the Amoco stationed right next to the park, was 30 minutes away.
We went there on Sunday morning and came back Tuesday midday. Sunday was pretty low-key. We set up the camp site and sat around the fire at night. One of my friends is a big cleveland Indians fan, and we somehow managed to pick up slightly enough reception on the radio to listen to the game. So we sat around the fire, ate hot dogs, drank a few beers, and listened to the game. It was fun, but not for Bryan; his team lost.

We got unlucky the second day though. The temperature dropped to about 50. It also started pouring rain. That was just plain awful. We got a short hiatus from the rain in the middle of the day and went on a 5 mile hike, but once we got back to the campsite, it started raining again. We tried to keep the fire going, but pretty much just remained uncomfortable together. Between the cold, rain, and mountains of hot dogs, it was pretty miserable. But it was still awesome- probably because we were miserable together.

I have two funny things to post tonight.

1.) I was jumping around on cnnsi.com today and found this hilarious clip of a division three football game. You should watch it, it's pretty incredible. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/10/28/trinity.lateralapalooza.ap/index.html

2.) I have a picture to show you guys. I have a project in an English class in which I had to find something on SLU's campus that I think should be changed. I picked the statues that surround the campus. I won't go into details but I will show a picture. It's called the Madonna Del La Strada. I call it the Virgin Mary of the ice cream scoop.

Monday night football

Dallas Cowboys 25, Buffalo Bills 24.... Greg Vukelic you can eat your heart out.

I'm a huge Dallas Cowboys football fan. I was born in Dallas and had no other sports team, college or pro, to root for when I moved to North Dakota. Ever since I can remember I've been a Cowboys fan. I had one of my buddies over last night, Pat Austermann, to watch the game with me. We're both diehard fans and were excited to watch the game together. The Cowboys are still undefeated, but the game was a downward spiral and hopeless show of offense for the 'boys. I probably almost turned off the tv ten times. Add to the fact that during the Cowboys' fourth quarter rally my roommates from Cleveland came back and were demanding to see the end of the Cleveland Indians game. Long story short, (trust me, you can find the long story all over ESPN) the Cowboys won on a 53 yard field goal with 1 second remaining. I was super excited!

This weekend is the first college Ultimate tournament that the SLU teams is traveling to. I've been waiting for this tournament for months, ever since the last tournament was finished in April. The tournament is called Glory Days. The website is www.glorydaysultimate.com/info. It is held in Naperville, Ill. right outside of Chicago. Truman State is the hosting school and it boasts a very competitive field of about 40 college men's teams. I'll post again when the tournament is over with results.

My roomate Alex (the one in the ridiculous mexican hat) turned 21 this weekend. So it was a busy couple of days. We started out the night- and finished it later- at Iggy's, the new Mexican sports bar on campus by the Village Apartments. It was really fun because it was the first time in a while that a good core of my friends were able to get together for a while. We are all involved in various clubs and majors, so it's hard to coordinate a time when everyone can get together.

I was meaning to post a picture of myself on this blog, so you'll just have to play an easy version of where's waldo. I'm the guy on the right with the shaved head... Also in the picture are my good friends Alex Joyce, Bryan Arko, John Degroote, Phil Clerc, Charles Porter, Kyle Mathis, and Tom Mazuranic. I love my friends

7:10

Good morning everyone! I'm trying to be chipper about this. I'm about to go observe in a school for about 4 hours.... o boy!

A funny thing happened on the way to the Village

Myself and John Degroote, a great friend, we walking through the village on Thursday night at about 11 PM. We met up with a bunch of guys from our fraternity and were hanging out in the upper village quad (behind Apt. B). For some reason I decided it would be both funny and a great idea to shave my head into a mohawk. If you ask me why, I won't be able to give you a logical answer. Anyway, a buddy of mine ran into his apartment and shaved it in the dark by one of the fountains. My hair is kind of afro-ish to begin with, so it looks pretty goofy.

Having a mohawk is almost like a tiny social experiment. Ever since, I feel like at least half the eyes in a crowd are looking at me; and the ones that aren't looking are judging me in some way. I was in an Arby's on Sunday and I looked back at a mother of two young boys. She was scowling at me. Anyone that knows me, would say that I am one of the nicest guys around, I don't do drugs, and I am devoutely Catholic. I feel like people would disagree with all three of these statements based on just my appearance right now. It's humbling, but very frustrating.

Could anybody post on the discussion board what they think about mohawks and judging people with them?

VH1

So, I'm sitting here taking a break from the internet searching assignment eating lunch. I figured I might as well turn on the TV. I'm not the typical guy who just turns on SportsCenter or ESPN to drink in all of the highlights and statistics from the weekend of football. I also don't want to be even close to watching a soap opera. On my basic cable package at Coronado, that basically leaves me with "How things Work" on the Discovery Channel and "Fabulous Celebrity Break-ups" on VH1.

Laugh all you want, I call it a guilty pleasure. It's almost like a trainwreck; what I mean is, once you start watching it, you can't stop. You get sucked into this mess of worthless information about celebrities, some of whom I don't even know, and then you finish the show and realize that you just wasted half an hour. Maybe I should just watch a movie instead.


My roommate just walked in and made fun of me for watching VH1. O well!

weekend in Naperville

I spent last weekend in Naperville, Illinois at a club Ultimate Frisbee tournament called Chicago Heavy Weights. I play for an mixed (which means co-ed) club frisbee team called One Trick Pony. Most of the players on this team are from around the Saint Louis area and 3-10 years out of college. Four of the players, myself included, are still in college. The way co-ed ultimate differs from open Ultimate is that at all time on the field you must have 4 men and 3 women playing. It makes the rhythm of the game a lot different.

This particular tournament is the last big tournament before the postseason series for the club division starts. Ultimate is divided into two seasons: club and college. The club series is in the Fall, and the college series is in the Spring. There were 20 teams in our division this weekend and our ranking was 15th out of 20. We broke seed and eventually finished 10, finishing the weekend with a 5-2 record. What was crucial about the team's performance was that we lost by a combined 5 points in the two losses against teams that had previously blown us out at tournaments in June and July.

A lot of this may not make sense. But the weather was beautiful. It was not even breezy, 80 degrees, and there were no clouds all weekend. I got seriously sunburnt. Being outside and playing all weekend was very relaxing, but at the same time very tiring. Each game lasts 90 minutes. So, if I do the math right, I was running around and playing for about 630 minutes, about 10 and a half hours-which doesn't include time between games. I'll edit this again later

the net gen goes to college

Times are changing. I agree with the article that the college generation is changing, not because it necessarily has to or wants to, it just did. Everything is the world is so digitalized now. Just the other day I saw someone who could not have been more than 12 years old talking on a cell phone to what sounded like a giddy girlfriend. It was unbelievable. Anyway, I think there should be a balance between traditional and modern instruction and technology in the college environment. Obviously, to keep up with the times, college must cater to the technological needs of students and the necessity of their use. Students who wants to enter the workforce must be able to operate technology such as computers and programs. As a teacher I will have to know how to use power points for my classrooms and spreadsheets for my grading. I need to be able to use them without spending time figuring them out first. Technology is a vital part of college instruction.

But, I think there is something to be said about the preservation of traditional instruction and writing. Reading literature and taking notes and writing essays is a skill that must be learned traditionally first. Technology only enhances that skill in word processing form. Maybe my opinion is a little biased because I myself am not always the most savvy with technology; a little uncomfortable if you will. I know books are online. I know classes are offered online. But I will always be a proponent of human to human teaching, written opinions and exercises, and reading out of textbooks. I'll ask one question to end my blog. When the power at school goes out-which it does at SLU- will you be able to read your online text, or hard copy textbook?