Photos from the February 20, 2010 game against the UT Grads have been posted to the Gallery.

These photos were taken by Roy S. Calfas.  My photos from this game will be posted later this week.

Photos from the Huns vs Shreveport have been posted to the Gallery.

These photos were shot by Roy S Calfas.  I am still working on the photos I took from that game.  I hope to post this later this week.

Photos from Saturday's game against the Austin Golds have been posted to the gallery.

Although the weather was again cloudy and overcast, the Huns D3 team beat the Austin Golds with a score of 28 to 0.  It was a high action game and a well fought victory.

All the usable photos from Saturday's game against the UT Grads have been posted to the gallery.

The division 3 team was playing.  It was a bit of a messy game, and I don't just mean the mud.  Attendance was sparser than usual, but it was still a lot of fun.  

Final score was 26 to 21 with the Huns taking their second straight victory in as many weeks.

• Lose 50 lbs
• Ride the Concours at least 12,000 miles.
• Use the treadmill at the gym every work day.
• Smile every day.

• Work my full schedule every week.
• Not miss any work due to illness.

• Stop eating bacon.
• Eat more chicken.
• Eat less beef.

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A member of the New Hampshire Republican Volunteer Coalition had this to say yesterday at a protest outside the high school where President Obama was holding a town hall on healthcare reform:

Why are we bankrupting this country for 21 million illegals who should be sent on the first bus one way back from wherever they come from. We don’t need illegals. Send them home once. Send them home with a bullet in their head the second time. Read what Jefferson said about the Tree of Liberty — it’s coming baby.

The bad part is that this is the most concrete idea that the Republicans have put forth on healthcare reform.

Disgusting...

I bought myself a new Verizon MiFi wireless modem to use at work this week.  Setting it up to connect to my Asus 1000HE was simple and now I can cruise the internet while at work using my personal machine instead of my work machine.

It's great for reading my RSS feeds, and well as checking my personal e-mail and my Facebook and Twitter accounts.

I'm back at work today. Jason's wedding went well on Saturday. I'm glad I went. I got to introduce Roy to a lot of my co-workers and they all enjoyed talking with him. The ceremony was quick and Staci look beautiful in her white gown.

We stayed for the reception, although by the end of it, my back was pretty much wrecked and I had trouble walking. I forgot to take any of my pain medication with me, which made things that much worse.

Roy is off traveling again this week. He's due back on Wednesday, just in time for the son of a friend of ours to get back in town. Will is going to stay with us Wednesday night and all day Thursday until him mother arrives.

I took my netbook home with me over the weekend and ran updates on it last night. There has finally been an update to my Ubuntu kernal which allows my wifi to connect to the home network. Prior to this update, it couldn't authenticate through our home router. Now I can switch over to Ubuntu full time on the netbook instead of having to run Windows XP on the home network.

Last weekend, I ordered a new case for my G10 through Amazon. I ended up ordering from one of their 3^rd party sellers who had the case, as well as a new battery for the same price that Amazon was selling the case only for. I figured the battery would be from a 3^rd party manufacturer, but when I got it this weekend, I found that the included battery was from Canon. Normally, the battery alone sells for more than the case does. It turned out to be a great bonus deal for me.

Over this past weekend, I found a great little program from a company called Flexibits. It's a preference pane plug in for OSX that allows you to setup actions for up to 4 different cameras that you connect to your Mac. Plugging in each camera can trigger a different program to start. The preference pane is called Cameras.

I know I've not been good about updating on a regular basis. I do have a couple of ideas for articles for the site, but I just haven't been disciplined enough to sit down and write them. I hope to get to some of them soon. In the meantime, you may begin to see some short posts about various websites and products that catch my eye. You can also follow me on Twitter at @greghavican.

Yesterday, a couple of hundred "Tea Party" protestors ended up booing their own invited guest speakers, including John Cornyn (R - Senator, Texas) and Rick Perry (R - Governor, Texas).  

Hundreds of people holding signs denouncing big government, taxes and illegal immigration gathered on the lawn of the Texas Capitol on Saturday, booing a U.S. senator and cheering multiple jabs at actions in Washington.

Sen. John Cornyn, who'd been invited by organizers, was booed at the start and close of his remarks assailing federal spending and taxes.

Many shouts concerned Cornyn voting last year for the federal bailout of Wall Street approved by Congress, the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

"You're the problem!" one crowd member hollered. "You voted for TARP," yelled another.

Boos interrupted Cornyn, who won his second term last year, after he said: "This is a day of celebration, the day we celebrate our Founders, who defied empires and declared their independence."

He resumed: "I realize not everybody wants to listen, but maybe some people do."

The boos dissipated while Cornyn awarded a Purple Heart to William Warren, a Copperas Cove resident injured in Iraq in 2006.

It should be noted that a U.S. Senator cannot "award" a Purple Heart to anyone.  Only the military, or the President of the United States (in his/her capacity as "Commander in Chief") can award a Purple Heart.  What Cornyn did was present an already awarded Purple Heart to the awardee.

Cornyn later tried to distinguish himself from the Washington scene that the crowd and speakers were protesting.

"I'm not part of Washington," he said after his speech. "I happen to work there, but on behalf of Texas, and I can vote no on these reckless spending bills, on the refusal to cut taxes."

As usual, Cornyn is talking out of both sides of this mouth. Even he is smart enough to know what would happen to Texas if we didn't receive any stimulus money.

Gov. Rick Perry, among other Republican officeholders to speak, drew scattered boos, notably about his advocacy of toll roads to relieve traffic congestion.

Of course, the idiots don't seem to realize that the only alternative to the toll roads is for the state to build and maintain them, which is paid for by the same taxes they are protesting.