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

Architecture astronauts take over - Joel on Software – “It’s Groove, rewritten from scratch, one more time. Ray Ozzie just can’t stop rewriting this damn app, again and again and again, and taking 5-7 years each time.” Ouch.