Calvin and Hobbes in the Snow

Not having a good day? Get a hug from a friend, and cheer up!



You can also infuse joy into your life by visiting a wonderful collage of great Calvin and Hobbes winter-themed cartoons by clicking here

Cutest Christmas Boy Ever

Maybe I'm overstating it a bit, but he's my son.

Your Best Life Now! - The Board Game

In case you're not done with your Chris..err...Holiday shopping, don't worry. This will make a fine gift for anyone on your shopping life.

Your Best Life Now - The Board Game
By Joel Osteen

Compete against your family and friends to see who can have the "best life now." Get through all 7 of Joel's "Steps to Living to your Full Potential" and you can work your way up the ladder to heaven.

Full for the whole family! Unless you lose!

Ridiculous. Adj.
Causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable:

Hu's On First....

Take a look at this hilarious video that's a take off of the old classic Abbot and Costello skit.

Tieche Solves BCS Playoff Nightmare - No One Listens

I have solved the BCS problem. Me. Singlehandedly. Here is my explanation. Hope it makes sense.

Format = 8 team playoff.

Round 1 of Playoff: Quarterfinals
1 vs. 8................2 vs. 7
4 vs. 5................3 vs. 6

Round 2 of Playoff: Semifinals
Semifinal Game 1/8 vs. 4/5
Semifinal game 2/7 vs. 3/6

Round 3 of Playoff: Championship Game
1/8/4/5 Winner vs. 2/7/3/6 Winner

So that's the format. But now the tricky part. You have to ensure that the Big Bowls get great matchups that will make them tons of money, because this is what this is about. So, here's what you do. There are three huge games. The two semifinal and the final. These matchups are clearly better than the current lottery pick format the BCS uses. Then, you use a rotating formula every year. Rose/Orange/Fiesta/Sugar. So for instance, the first year, this is what it'd look like:

Week 2 of Playoff: Semifinals
Semifinal Game - Orange Bowl
Semifinal game - Fiesta Bowl

Week 3 of Playoff: Championship Game
Championship Game - Sugar Bowl

Objection 1: So what about the Rose Bowl?
Answer: They lose out every four years because they don't get one of the "Big 3." So here's what you do. You give them the choice of whatever First Round game they want. 1 vs. 8? 4 vs. 5? Whatever they think will be the big money maker. It's theirs. They can choose the teams with the biggest fan bases (like Notre Dame). They can choose the No.1 team to hype that. Whatever they want. Then the next three years, they're set, guarenteed a killer matchup in Rounds 2 and 3.

Objection 2: Why only the top 8? Can't you make a case for say, team 9 and 10? This year, Oklahoma, Auburn and Notre Dame would be left out of the playoff.
If you're not in the top 8, you don't deserve to make the playoffs. Those are all two-loss teams. Shouldn't have lost twice. Of course, Oklahoma didn't really lose that game to Oregon...

Objection 3: Who gets the other three games in Week 1?
Answer: I say, rotate between the following mid-major bowls:
Cotton
Alamo
Chick-Fil-A Peach
Gator
Capital One
Outback

That's seven bowls, three spots in the First Round. Rotate. Guarenteed three out of every seven years, you're going to have a first-round playoff game. Right now, the best those bowls can do is get ONE TOP 10 team. This method is WAY better for these bowls, considering that they can't even get a top 10 team in any of their bowls in the current system.

Objection 4: This system currently entirely destroys the Bowl System and Bowl Tradition.
Answer: The BCS did that anyway a long time ago.

Tieche Sermon on Sex

Over Thanksgiving, because of some unfortunate arrangements on the part of the pastoral staff, I had the unenviable task of being slated to speak on the main stage on week 3 of our sermon series, which was titled "Desperate Households." The title is obviously a take-off of the hit television show "Desperate Housewives."

Anyway, week 3 was about sex. So. Yeah.

There were two parts probably worth calling attention to. The first was my opening joke, which I thought was pretty funny. I was about my family at Thanksgiving.

The second part is a little more startling. A few years ago, there was a song out whose lyrics went "You and me babe, ain't nothin' but mammals, so let's do like they do on the Discovery Channel." the point in my sermon was about how that sentiment simply isn't true. Sex isn't just sex for humans. It's holistic. We are not just animals, we have the Imago Dei - the image of God. Which explains why there are so few break-up songs sung by tigers and dogs. To show that our emotions and souls are wrapped up in this thing called sex, I created a medley of some of the most famous break-up songs of all time. And then I sang this medley acapella.

It sounded like a good idea at the time.