Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Buckeyes top Dawgs - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com – OK ridiculously early but I can’t argue.

Getting geared up for this game already. A classic for so many reasons.

First of all, a great personal history with the Buckeyes – been at their games since I was a kid, we are alums, my father played for Woody, my grandfather was an alum.

Amd the schools have a great history, particularly in the Rose Bowl. My dad was on the team for the ‘55 win and national championship; I remember the great ‘69 and ‘74 wins, and still suffer from the ‘73, ‘75, ‘80, and ‘85 losses. I hated John McKay and his teams.

In this century, Jim Tressel and Pete Carroll have arguably been the best coaches with the best programs, albeit stylistically very differently – Tressel is buttoned-up, a solid midwestern values kind of guy. Pete is a flashy new media loosey-goosey kind of guy, and I have hated him.

So a great early season matchup this year, and particularly so, because a family member will now be attending USC! So I am going to have to cheer for the Trojans in every game except the OSU matchup – that is going to take some getting used to.

Sigh been trying to make this work and it looks like it never will – Networking a mac and a xp computer with a kodak 5500 printer - FixYa – apparently a lot of printers don’t support the necessary features for network use from a Mac. So I am going to have to buy another freaking printer – official Mac driver support here – you have to make sure you get one with a “modern” driver.

PS Thanks to the Pure Networks guys for helping me figure this out.

AT&T Disables Free iPhone Wi-Fi (For Now) - Mac Forums – this is my experience too, the wondrous free wifi service is now gone at my local sbuxii. bummer.

More airplane reads, I have been doing a lot of air travel:

* “The Ghost War”:amazon by Alex Berenson. Good cloak and dagger tale, china and the us brought to the brink by a rogue megalomaniac general. No new ground here but well written with a nicely flawed hero. * “Glasshouse”:amazon by Charles Stross. Far distant future, nano-enhanced humans fighting off bad guys who are infecting human society with the nano equivalent of a virus. Fun romp, nicely imagined. Stross is reliably entertaining * “The Monsters of Templeton”:amazon by Lauren Groff. A young woman returns to her hometown in a moment of personal crisis and delves into her own surprising past, uncovering a lot of dark family secrets. Oh and there is a sea monster too. And a ghost. Tho the titled monsters are generally the human and personal kind. * “Thirteen”:amazon by Richard Morgan. Wow, way better than I anticipated. Crazy mix of biotech, world domination schemes, secret agents, super humans, social criticism, with some extreme objectivism thrown in.

MD Manufacturing - VacPan for Central Vacuum installation – these are reportedly useful. We are doing a remodel and may want to add some of these.

American Le Mans Series :: World Class – likely going to be attending this next week. Looks like fun.

Skull-A-Day – daily inspiration

Electric Motors for Props - Bride of Power Pack - Halloween Prop Building Supplies For The Home Haunter - Monster Guts – new product from these guys for halloween, a variable speed power controller for wiper motors. pretty useful and not crazy expensive. and halloween is less than 6 months out…

El Gato Azul :: 316 W. Goodwin St. Prescott AZ :: – awesome tapas place with great margaritas and a great creekside location with indoor or outdoor dining. live music. we had a great time. PS Google Maps and Hertz EverLost both have the wrong location for this restaurant. 316 West Goodwin is right – about a block and a half west of town square on Goodwin.

sPortability - Playoffs – here we go, a first round by, and home field for the second round. Go Owls!

Residence Inn Prescott: Spacious suites and amenities for longer stays – this place is amazing. I’ve stayed in a number of Residence Inns, this one is fairly new and has great furnishings, interesting room designs, full set of services. Amazingly nice, much much nicer than the typical Residence Inn