Category Archives: Friends

My 2011 Fantasy Baseball Draft Results

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Another year, another awesome day.  Draft day has to be placed right up there with Christmas and Birthdays, for a lot of reasons.  In some ways it’s even better, there is way more anticipation that builds as websites and periodicals begin to be released prior to the season.  Later I will do a round by round analysis of our FIJI league Baseball Draft results, a la ESPN style, but for now I’ll simply post my teams and my thoughts on my individual picks.   All my thoughts on my picks will be after the photos.   Here is the slideshow below: Continue reading →

Matt Has a Game on the Android Store!

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My friend Matt is pretty brilliant with lots of things, namely music and computers.  His major was computer science I believe and has been working with computers for a very long time.  His company, SuperChop games, just released its’ first game:  Brutal Farmer for the Android App Store.

Now I would love to give this game a glowing endorsement, however Matt apparently doesn’t like Steve Jobs and hasn’t released it for the iOS App Store.  He has said that his next game will be for the iOS store, probably because he realizes how much cooler it is.  That has to be the reason.  Check out the video after the page break… Continue reading →

Friend Profile: Hank Vogel

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When I first started blogging, when I was blogging a ridiculous amount about stuff no one in the world cared about, one shining gem was the friend profile thing I did about once a week, detailing odds and ends about some of my friends from Drake and Illinois.  Well it’s time to start making fun of my friends while boosting their ego all at the same time again.  The first person selected in random lottery style (believe me I had custom made ping pong balls designed), is Hank.

I met Hank through the fraternity and quickly realized how horrible it is to know someone from Illinois that is a Packers fan.  Terrible.  Besides that Hank and I did share one thing in common: our 1st semester GPA: 2.46.  I know this and likely won’t forget it to this day because at the time we were told that to make it into the fraternity we needed a 2.50 or better.  So Hank and I were as close as we could come without making it.  So I imagine Hank went through the same brief turmoil before we were informed the cutoff was actually 2.40.

Sophomore year Hank was a roommate along with Garrett and Justin.  Probably the best room ever.  Most stories from that year cannot be posted publicly for fear that my relatives that read this blog will disown me and not allow me to speak to my friends again. Continue reading →

Shameless Plug: Chris Noel’s Photos on Sale

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My roommate Chris is a togger, a photographer that is, but he’s so hip and with it that’s what we call him.  He has been doing it for several years and actually takes some of the best pictures I’ve ever seen.  He has such a great interest in the subject that he has actually gotten me into it somewhat, thought I will never understand all the stuff he doesn or have the expensive equipment that he has.

One pretty popular photo method that is used to make really vibrant shots is an HDR shot, which stands for High Definition Resolution, I think.  Basically it works like this:  You have the camera on a tripod and you take different shots of your subject with different exposure settings.  One of high exposure, one normal, and one low exposure.  Then in photoshop you combine them all together and you have yourself an excellent photo.  The results are amazing.  I don’t think it’s possible to do an HDR shot of a moving subject, as combining three photos doesn’t work well if your subject moves. Continue reading →