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The subsequent books in the series are less about military sci fi and more about weird ideas and the future of humanity. They aren't exactly movie adaptation material. Its not the only sci-fi series where a subsequent book is mostly conversations about ideas.

Qatar are my new second favorite team now.

I am keeping the game on while I do stuff around the house.

This kind of performance against a team like Canada is just awful.

I am going to do the rounds at the Husker boards, to see if any of them want to see whatever team Pellini's little brother is coaching at now. Then I looked it up and he is at that one big high school where so many other coaches spent some time. Anyway, we all miss the Pellini brothers and their antics in the Power 5 or at Youngstown State or whatever place is next for the guys.

Part of Solich's accomplishment at Ohio is from longevity and compiling wins. The best MAC coaches are out the door so fast its like "here today, gone today", the fans just expect every guy to leave as soon as possible. But in an industry where every guy leaves the moment the money is good it is highly unusual for a guy to stay on that long anywhere.

How do i watch without cable or espn+ ?

The potential collaboration between the CFL and the XFL has been taken off the table. God knows what they could have done with conflicting schedules, different numbers of players on the field, the rouge, and those dinky stadiums in Canada. How could they have merged or had something like those Conference Challenges in College Basketball?

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I was watching one of the digital junk broadcast channels and saw parts of a movie so bad I could barely believe what I was watching. I looked up the title and found out it was Gen-X Cops 2, sometimes titled Gen Y Cops, starring an obscenely beautiful Maggie Q along with several Hong Kong movie actors and a very out of place Paul Rudd. The English version on Tubi has scenes where they only do one or two takes and the actors don't speak English so the delivery is super awkward. The English dialogue has a couple ridiculous lines thrown in to see if anyone is paying attention. The plot could be summarized as a killer robot is on the loose in Hong Kong and Asia's funkiest cops are the only ones who can stop it. The setting and fashion and music seems to capture Hong Kong in the year 1999 pretty well. In all seriousness the various streaming channels have tons of old HK movies to choose from.

An NCAA Ultimate Team? So I could collect some cards and have Tebow and Herschel Walker in the same backfield?

The local sports talk radio here had a guest from Las Vegas talking about the B1G West power rankings, he had Wisconsin finishing first then Minnesota second and Nebraska third in the division. Iowa won't be able to score points this season and the rest of the division is really low on talent. Biels should have some fun for off the field stuff at Illinois. Anyway, Nebraska at five conference wins is the smart guys projection.

So, how much money are the schools going to make?

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The whole "Nebraska or Alabama" part of the quote is getting a lot of play.

Okay, what does "listos" mean?

The original Twin Peaks series leaves the platform at the end of the month. I don't think I have time to watch it all, and I get the idea that the producers had to put some changes into the show when ratings dipped after it was a hit in 1990.

During my binge I made an attempt at watching a series named Canada At War or something similar, I can't remember. The stock footage was bad, and one episode had a Canadian country music band playing country music with less African influence or rhythm in it because they are from Canada and they didn't have so much African influence in their music. My obsession with WW2 Docs extends to music too, I might get to that later. The narrator always seemed to be making a sarcastic joke, or maybe that's just how Canadians talk, like really awkwardly. There was a series of documentaries aired on the CBC in the early nineties with the awkward Canadian English title The Valour and the Horror. Each one focused on a battle with Canadians fighting in it. The thing is they didn't just focus on the patriot glory and victory, the docs focused on more ambiguous parts of the war. The Canadian war press basically lying about how the battles were going. Poorly trained Canadian kids sent straight from Canada and into war against the best trained and best armed forces the world had ever seen. How would you like it you had been sent to Hong Kong to defend a racist English colonial regime, because the English didn't want to sent their best forces to a place that was essentially indefensible. Another doc focuses on the Canadian role in Bomber Command in the RAF, just following Bomber Harris and dropping payback and miserable death on the Germans. Then there is the story of the Canadians in Normandy running straight into more Panzer divisions and fanatical German units compared to the other Allies in the front. The documentaries were very controversial in Canada, clearly pointing our the bad leadership in the Canadian war planning and leadership. In the interwar years, Canada had a small army and officer corp. They didn't invest in training and equipping them. There is no great military academy on par with West Point, Sandhurst, or the college the General Staff had to train officers. Their most famous general was more gifted at brown nosing the English officers and politicians. Part of the reason they were wiped out in Dieppe or other encounters in the Battle of Normandy was because of that. Okay, this is the first film, and least controversial, The Battle of Hong Kong: Savage Christmas: The experience here is of a short battle followed by years in prison and work camps. The meetings between the Canadian veterans and the Japanese soldiers and camp workers aren't scripted and set up, they just turn out uncomfortable.

I had a long binge of ww2 docs over the past few months. These included one good documentary, and a few other bad nonfiction television programs on the Battle of Singapore/Fall of Singapore, and the Malaya campaign that led up to the battle. The English were always proud of their rich and prosperous colony on the island, and the valuable resources from the Malayan peninsula were integrated into the British economy, the rubber and tin were extracted and sent straight to England. They had maintained their control by projecting a facade of invincibility and superiority. The Japanese came in with incredible preparation, intelligence gathering, tactics like moving by bicycles across the jungle backroads. They were consistently beating the English at every encounter moving down the peninsula towards Singapore. The English and their Imperial forces believed their own propaganda about the Japanese being weak, short, near sighted, and other stuff. The final battle at Singapore could be described as total disorganized bedlam for the British, but that may be too kind. The veil of British superiority had been pierced, and it couldn't be put back up again after the Japanese left. Anyway, here is the first part of the one good doc on Singapore in WW2, I think it is a co-production between Malayan/Singapore/Australian tv channels:

Was Sam the last quarterback selected before the NFL made changes to the rookie contracts?

Now I remember, the lead in to the BCS Championship Game in Miami between OU and Florida, the announcers used the phrase "Touchdown Machine Offense..." to preview the Sooners that day.

If I remember the Tebow and the Gators versus OU game correctly, the television announcers were so excited that they thought Oklahoma was "going for it" on 3rd down in the first quarter.

I can't wait to see this guy finally get out there on the field and show everyone what he has got.

Bettany Hughes taking a motor boat up the river Nile is on Tubi, the free app which is mostly junk content and b-movies

Just finished the documentary Framing John Delorian, about the guy that made the sweet ass cars from the eighties. Evidently, they stopped making the cars at some point since then. Anyway, Morena Bacarin plays his wife in the reenactments and Alec Baldwin gives a lot of commentary too