Well, just got home from the second Rapids home game at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, and I never posted about the first game here. So, as requested, please enjoy the following, X-posted from my MySpace blog...I could hardly sleep Friday night. I basically took a brief nap and then woke up to get ready for the big day. I went downtown and picked ( Read more... )

Forgot to write about my dream from the other night. I got a phone call from a man with a British accent, and I couldn't make out a damn word he was saying. And then he was saying "Rooney ( Read more... )

1. Ever punch someone in the face ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got really in the mood for Greek food, so we went out to dinner. Cute little Greek place in a strip mall right at Monaco & Evans. The owner came by and poured us some ouzo right after we sat down, nice touch. We got tiropita for a starter, Matt had the pastitsio and I got shrimp souvlaki, and then I had galaktoboureko and a Greek coffee ( Read more... )

Since about mid-December, Denver has received a healthy blast of snow on an almost weekly basis. It has been above freezing for days at a go, yet there are still massive blocks of snow ice everywhere. This is the sort of stuff a plow can't take care of. There's not enough manual labor in the Department of Transportation or whoever's purview it ( Read more... )

I am reading a book for grad school called The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World by Charles Yang. So far it is a very layman-friendly take on Chomsky's and Pinker's views on language acquisition. I haven't given a lot of conscious thought to hardcore linguistics since my grad school class in summer of '05, ( Read more... )

I haven't even seen "Alatriste" yet, but I'm already looking forward to Viggo's next flick, "Eastern Promises." I like it when he plays the sort-of-bad guy (Albino Alligator, American Yakuza, G.I. Jane, A History of Violence). This morning I ran across this interesting tidbit from today's Chicago Sun-Times...

Viggo's tats evoke terrorThe N.Y. ( Read more... )

There are things people have said to me only once that I will never be able to forget. I think the oldest thing on this list dates back to 1980. Most of these are pieces of advice or observations on life that friends of mine have made. It is a very incomplete list by the way. Some of the most influential people on my life aren’t on this list, ( Read more... )

What’s your all-time favorite team(s)?  Colorado Rapids

How did you become a fan? living here, going to games

All-time favorite sport? soccer

Favorite player currently on the team: Kyle Beckerman

Favorite player of all time: John Spencer

Has your team won a championship in your lifetime? never

Where were you when it happened? see above

Did you ( Read more... )

X-posted from MySpace...

I took a lot of physics in high school, and though I don't remember all the equations, I still remember arcane stuff (arcane for an ESL teacher anyway) like Ampere's right hand rule. Now that I am in education and know about the notion of "Enduring Understandings," I can say will all certainty that the Enduring ( Read more... )