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I saw commercials this week for Inside the UFC, which I haven’t seen yet because I’m usually in bed when it airs. This week’s commercial for it said Randy Couture was going to make an announcement. I also saw an article about Randy participating in Pros vs. Joes, and figured that would be the announcement.

Boy was I wrong.

On March 3, 2007, Randy is going to fight for the UFC Heavyweight Title! The dude is a Hall of Famer, and 43 years old. He kind of reminds me of Rocky, when Drago says “He is like a piece of iron.” You look at the guy and you can tell that he probably wouldn’t flinch if you hit him in the face with a sledgehammer. Anyway, I’m excited to see him fight again. He hasn’t fought in the heavyweight division since I started regularly watching the UFC, even though he was twice the title holder in that weight class.

From what he said in the interview (link below) with the UFC, he feels like his techniques and skills have changes, giving him a chance to still be on top of the UFC. Reminds me of how Michael Jordan came back as a mid-range jump shooter after his retirements, and was still the league’s best player…well, at least after the first retirement.

Couture Returns to Face Sylvia at UFC 68

A quick idea that is fun to do from time to time here. 1) Highlight all of your desktop icons. 2) Hit Enter. 3) Sit back and watch the fun (make sure your speakers are on, just in case).

My typical desktop goes from completely iconless to about five columns of clutter. Around then, I clean it up again and start over. This is a fun thing to kill a bit of time when the clutter builds up good. That’s all for tonight.

One last thing, Ryan from The Office: “Hi. Hi. Hi.” – Instant classic.

Sorry, I couldn’t hold back using the title of one of my favorite Dandy Warhols songs. Anyway, I finally have my full fledged active Utah mortgage broker license, yay. So everybody who reads this blog (all 5 of you), go ahead and buy that house or refinance (and use me to get that money). That would be super, thanks.

But really, I can now do home loans, constructions loans, refinances, all that stuff here in Utah. Exciting times. Apparently the toughest part of this business is finding loans to do. That’s what I’m currently learning. Apparently if you work during the day pushing couches, then come home and surf the web for hours, it’s tricky to find people buying houses, weird.

Just today I realized that my current job is leaving its mark on my person. I’ve got at least four good scars over the past year that I got from working with furniture. Although I appreciate the future value of them in the ever popular (thanks to Jaws perhaps) scar comparison conversation, I’m not too fond of mangling my body for minimal pay. So yes, I’m excited about the eventual change of jobs, it’s just a bit tricky to get things rolling.

Well it’s late, my brain’s not so hot right now. So on that note, peace outside.

A couple neat videos by this Norwegian dude, Lasse Gjertsen. Apparently he couldn’t sit down and play either a drum or piano solo, but has some serious musical and video editing talent. Good stuff. I downloaded his songs from here. I think it’s pretty good different stuff. Enjoy!

Update: I can’t stop watching these videos. I just now realized in the second one that there is cleverness to his attire in each half of the video. They are backwards from the norm (pianist is dressed like a drummer, and vice versa)! How absolutely clever…and not clever of me to realize it just now.

Oregon vs. BYU in about an hour from now. Prediction: Oregon 72 BYU 0. I have a bet with the wager of a wooden nickel on the game, good stuff.

Everybody else is talking about AI now that he’s finally talking trade. I’ve found it annoying how a lot of media has tried to make him look like a quitter and like he’s betraying a team who has been good to him for a decade. His “possible trade” each summer has been making reporters all kinds of money for the past five years or so, even though all of them are based on the team themselves trying to get rid of him, all the while he was insisting on never leaving Philly. Most players would have demanded to be traded long long ago, probably the year after they made the finals and looked to be going downhill. Even then Iverson had class and asked to not be traded.

I could go on for a while, but I found a great article that finally pays him the respect he deserves. Allen Iverson is possibly the most loyal player in all of sports, aside from being the league’s most talented scorer. He’s under six feet tall (listed at 6′) and nobody can stop him from putting the ball in the hoop.

Anyway, here’s that article: Neither side will like The Answer

So yesterday I finally tried a trick that a roommate of mine told me about years ago. Every now and then the gas pump will just crawl. I’m talking when it takes about two minutes for each gallon to come out of the hose. I had that happen to me last night and I was expected at a friend’s house soon after, so I contemplated whether I should just put in $10, or even $5 for the night so I wouldn’t have to wait for an hour to finish pumping. Then I remembered something I’d heard from my old roommate Brian.

Stop the pump, lay the handle down on the ground for a bit, then pump again. Not really faithful in the new method, I didn’t keep it down too long, probably five seconds, then started pumping again. Bam! That sucker started pumping nice and fast. I filled right up and took off. Pretty awesome little trick. If I remember right, it has something to do with some type of bubble getting stuck in the hose somewhere. Lining it up like that gets rid of it I guess.

So next time you get that slow pump, try it out, it’s swell.