Riddle #1 - 11/25/12

Level of difficulty - 3 points

White bird, featherless,
Flying out of paradise,
Flying over sea and land,
Dying in my hand.

Riddles 11/24/12 - #2

Die without me, never thank me.
Walk right through me, never feel me.
Always watching, never speaking.
Always lurking, never seen.

Riddles of the Day - Riddle #1

Please click the blog link (the title) to post your guess.
Leader Board is on the blog site.

People are hired to get rid of me.
I'm often hiding under your bed.
In time I'll always return you see.
Bite me and you're surely dead.

Riddles and Trivia Game

So I decided to try something fun and do some riddles and/or trivia towards my friends and maybe family.  I started some riddles on Facebook and got some folks very interested participating.  So far for about a week up to Wednesday, November 23, 2012 the standing are as such:

Riddles Leader Board
Kris Pickard - 3
Mark Howard - 1
Mark Lockard - 1
Mindy Rosado - 1
Heather Van Ess Rotolo - 1

I will continue these riddles on this blog site starting today and I will keep a leader board off to the side.

The way this will work is I will post a Riddle and the first person answer it correctly will gain a point.  Some riddles may be 2 or 3 points base on level of difficulty.  I will post riddles at least 2 a day and maybe a trivia question here and there, which will have it's own leader board.  So subscribe to this blog and try out some riddles/trivia.

Good luck.

The Night of September 24, 2012

I will start off with this, I love American Football.  I really do!  To witness what I saw tonight place such a bitter taste in my mouth, it is horrible.  Now putting the officials aside, Green Bay's offense was bad.  Really, really bad.  Especially in the first quarter.  Seattle's defense seriously owned the Packers.  Green Bay's defense did very well, too, but the final pain was the officiating. 

For almost three weeks I have been giving these replacement referees the benefit of the doubt.  I like a lot of sports pundits would say that we would see the same amount of mistakes with the regular refs, but as the season been going more and more forward, it has been getting worse and worse.  Tonight, I feel was the final straw.

I am irritated with the NFL administration and the regular referees.  They need to put this to bed!  Will it be better when they come back?  Who knows, but I do know that these replacements are getting worse!

Will I continue to watch football?  Yes, but my enthusiasum is starting to fall and it's not because my team is now 1-2, but that doesn't help.

Oh well.  Moving on.

Later.........

Fantasy Football '12 - Week One

So, it is time for the season to begin, well it actually started on Wednesday with the Cowboys victory against the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants, which was an impressive game and happy for the Cowboys win.  Nice work to Mr. Ogletree with 2 TDs for the night and great work to Tony Romo. 

Anyways, I went insane and signed up for 5 FFLs.  I don't know what I was smoking.  The leagues include, my former job (which may be my final year with them), my new job (on ESPN, which I have to get use to), a good friend's league (which I joined when my other leagues seemed to not be happening, but ended up happening), my favorite league (commissioner was just to busy, but still got it going) and my favorite league's defensive league (an interesting look, but it a lot of fun).  I think I'll be able to keep up, but it will be tough with school going on.

So I tried to keep my teams pretty consistent, but is hard to do with drafts, but in most of my leagues I have Eli Manning, Ahmad Bradshaw, Jordy Nelson and Wes Welker.  I think this will be a great season from some of my leagues.  I will talk more on this on Tuesday.  Good luck to me!

Later.......

Podcasts

I know this may sound pretty behind the times, I have now been exposed to the world of Podcasts.  It is a pretty awsome medium.  This best thing about it is that it makes the time past very, very quickly especially at work.  I listen to various types of podcasts including news, education/how to, sports and of course comedy.  Some of my favorites are The Rachel Maddow Show, ESPN's Mike and Mike Show, Nerdist, some of the Smodcast shows (Kevin Smith) and 60-Second Casts (Tech, Mind, Science, Earth etc.). 

My absolute #1 favorite show is the Ten Minute Podcast with Will Sasso (Mad TV and The Three Stooges), Bryan Callen (Mad TV and Hangover) and Chris D'Elia (Whitney and Celest & Jesse Forever).  These guys are extremely hilarious.  It can get a bit out of control, but it wouldn't be great if it didn't.  This show, like its title, is only 10 minutes long.  I kind of wish that it was much longer, but then the title would be pointless.  They would also feature guest including, Shawna and Chank Smith, which makes the show even sweeter.  As you can tell I thouroughly enjoy the podcast and I think you should check it out.

The tool I usually use to listen to these podcasts is Stitcher Smart Radio, which I discovered through advertisement on Hulu Plus I think.  I downloaded the app and I got hooked.  Again, it helps make the day go by quicker. 

Thank you very much folks! 

Keep them coming!

Trivia Game

I want to try a entertainment trivia game.  It is pretty much for fun.  A test to see how many of you entertainment junkies like me are out there.  The way this game goes is as follows:

Each week I will post 1 to 3 questions on entertainment.  The categories will be in Movies, Music, Television, Gaming and maybe even Books (I say maybe because I don't read as much as I would like). 

The question of course will vary.  For example, I could do a series a question on one TV show or a movie (one per week).  Or each week a question could be on something different.  Kind of hard to explain, but you should be able to catch on.

Now I know there is the power of information on the internet so most likely you will find the right answer, so the winner will be the first to answer correctly.

I will post a leader on my website (address coming soon).

You down?

Sweet!

Starting Sunday, July 22 2012.

Dr. Jackson and Lois Lane!

So NBC drops a new summer show called Saving Hope. Starring Michael Shanks (Stargate SG.1) and Erica Durance (Smallville) this shows centers around the Chief of Surgery, Charlie Harris who fall into a coma after a bad accident that he and his fiancé Dr. Alex Reid were in on their way to their wedding.

While in a coma Dr. Harris' spirit moves around the hospital observing things as they goes and especially keeps an eye on his fiancé. Each day he encounters other spirits of folks who are near death either in the surgery table or when coding in their admitted room or ER.

This show is pretty fascinating, but like most shows it makes me wonder what will happen when he comes out of a coma? How will they keep the show going? It's like Prison Break, Lost and other shows that makes you wonder what will happen when the major goal is met. The recent episode a saw was when he meets a guy who like him, falls into a coma, but unlike him comes out of it quickly. Charlie's spirit is baffled and wonders if he is fighting strong enough.

I feel this show will do well, but how long will it last. Too bad I can see how they are doing in the ratings. I'll just keep watching. Check it out if ya like. Thursday nights on NBC.

Until next time...

Stubborn Scots!

So my mother, my wife, my sister, my niece and me went out for lunch then checked out a movie of my choice. See my mom felt she owed me a birthday gift so she wanted to treat me to that.

My movie choice was Brave by Disney/Pixar. Pretty much a story where a young princess becomes very defiant in the way of her kingdom and wished not to be part of an arranged marriage. There was definitely a lot more to the movie than they showed in the trailer, which is how I like it.

Overall I felt this movie was great and hilarious as most Pixar films are and I look forward to the upcoming flicks from this company including Finding Nemo 3D and Monsters University.

Check it out if you like animation.

3.5 stars.

Later...