Random musings of Jeromey Balderrama
If you’re looking at losing 6 minutes of your life forever, check out this video of how to host a Windows 7 Launch Party.
At what point did making this video seem like a good idea?
I love this video: the same video above with some strategically-placed bleeps to make it more “interesting”:
I’m surprised that in the 4 & 1/2 years of blogging, I never actually posted an entry about 9/11. I want to offer some modest homage to this day, a day when the entire world changed.
The memories I have of September 11, 2001 begin with Monday, September 10th. There was a Broncos game the night before, the first home game at the new Mile High Stadium against the New York Giants. Although the Broncos had won that night, I went to bed worried about Ed McCaffrey’s broken leg, and how that would impact their season. I think back to that game and the thoughts I had when I went to bed on September 10th, and how insignificant they turned out to be the next day. People speak about how our generation lost their innocence on that Tuesday, and I believe that it couldn’t be more true.
I learned about the first tower being hit by the TV that was one while I was getting ready. At that point I assumed it was an accident and didn’t give it a second thought. It was on my way to work when the 2nd tower got hit, and the evil of the acts revealed itself. Then came word about the plane hitting the Pentagon, and the 4th plane that went down. At that point I was concerned because my uncle was currently on a flight en-route to Washington, DC. I was filled with fear those first developing hours, as I wasn’t sure what was going to happen next. Luckily my uncle’s plane was turned around (like all flights that day) and he was safe. My mind shifted from gratitude for the safety of my uncle to trying to comprehend what just happened, and how the world had changed. I just remember being afraid of what was to come.
My heart goes out to all of those that were impacted by that horrific day, and those that continue to fight for our country’s safety to this day.
Tomorrow Denver’s biggest villain since. at least Ashlie Lelie, Eddie Kennison, Brandon Marshall (but who knows?) is coming back to Denver for his home-coming. Who would have thought anyone would be excited to see a pre-season game, but I can only imagine the amount of vitriol that is going to come from the Orange & Blue fans in the stands when Cutler takes the field.
I’m sorry to say that I actually have a Broncos Cutler jersey in my closet. Even though I had the Cutler #6, I still couldn’t resist wearing my John Lynch jersey last season. Now I have a perfectly bad Cutler jersey and I’m trying to come up with a ceremonious way to get rid of the jersey. We’ll be tailgating at the stadium, so tomorrow would be the perfect opportunity to destroy it. The obvious answer is to burn it, but I think the stadium security and police would frown upon that. One idea I have is to use it as a doormat, but that seems to obvious.
Basically I’m looking for the perfect idea on how I could destroy my Cutler jersey. Any suggestions?
Just a quick note that I’m playing a little with Disqus, which is a new comments system. It looks like it has some pretty cool features, but one of the drawbacks is that it’s basically replaced all of the comments on my blog. I want to apologize for those of you who took the time to comment on my blog. They’re not lost- just hidden right now.
This is floating around the Internets today, and with our wedding still in recent memory, I can’t help but have a vast appreciation (and maybe a little envy) for this: