Epic Photo: A Public Service Announcement

It's Saturday. Have fun. But JustSON reminds you to be safe.

Check out this poster from the United States government during World War II. Got to love old marketing campaigns.

MLS fans hate the Sounders

So I was told to go to SeattleSoundersFC.com as opposed to the Sounder's normal SoundersFC.com website. Then I found this abortion of a website.

That's right "FVCK Seattle" Scarves. I have a feeling that this somehow the work of insecure soccer fans who have nothing better to do. Basically they're the Philadelphia Eagles fans of the MLS... wonderful, go boo Donovan McNabb.

I hopped on the message board for about .3 seconds and I think by IQ dropped by about 80 points. Apparently they're a lot of Portland fans on there, you know the same fans that throw full water bottles at Sounders players, so congrats Rose City, your pathetic attempt at major league sports in the Portland Timbers has been elevated to you to Montana status in my book along with the rest of MLS soccer fans (except Sounders fans of course).

Go smoke a bowl and complain about your high unemployment. SCARVES UP!

Epic Photo: Hiding

At first I thought this was Casey, but he's gained quite a few pounds and can't wear kids clothes anymore.

Gabriel Harpe ,8, of Port Orchard, Wash. plays peek-a-boo with a squirrel at Evergreen-Rotary Park in Bremerton, Wash on Tuesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, Larry Steagall)

Found this on Huckleberries.

Epic Photo: Winnie the Pooh gets rid of swine flu

Former Eag rejoins the Spokane Shock

So the new Arena Football 1 league hasn't finalized teams, salary, division or anything like that. The Spokane Shock do have their act together though, signed a handful of players in preperation for the upcoming season. One such signing is none other than former Eastern Washington Eagle Harrison Nickolao.

Nikolao, 6-4 313, is now the third member of the 2009 ArenaCup Champion Shock to return to Spokane.

Over the last two seasons with the Shock, Nikolao rushed for 191 yards and nine touchdowns. Defensively, he collected 20.5 tackles including seven sacks.

“Harrison has been an anchor for us the last two seasons,” Head Coach Rob Keefe said. “He was a leader for this team this past season and I know that he can fill that role again for us in the upcoming season.”

That's great we're going to see some familiar faces, but I would honestly like to see more info about the actual league itself. Word of advice though... don't copy the UFL.

Aliens are a letdown

After seeing the initial creepy trailer for the fourth kind, I thought "The Fourth Kind" might has some potential as the continuation of the "Blair With"-type movies but with aliens. But apparently it gets run into the ground by showing actual real footage... not sure how they screwed that up.

The new sci-fi abduction thriller The Fourth Kind should really be called 'The Fourth Wall', because right from the start the film consciously makes the choice to break that wall and have the actors talk directly to the audience as themselves. As the camera annoyingly spins around her, star Milla Jovovich walks right up to the lens and tells us that she will be playing a real life person, psychiatrist Abbey Tyler, who you’ll sometimes see on screen in purportedly “real video footage” of the incidents portrayed. Jovovich then warns us that what we’ll see is deeply disturbing, but the ultimate effect of all this explanation isn’t disturbance, it’s just distraction.

Writer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi tries to convince us that the story is true by constantly using a split screen of the “real footage” next to his actors’ word for word reenactments. Unfortunately instead of making the film more chilling and unsettling, that technique just makes the whole thing obvious and theatrical: you’re always aware you’re watching a movie with actors and are never drawn into the mythology of the story.

The movie operates under dual assumption that you’ve either never seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind or The X Files, or that you’ll buy into this as an unofficial sequel to both. But the sad fact is that The Fourth Kind plays more like one of those cheesy alien documentaries you see on Discovery Channel, complete with low budget abduction vignettes intercut with the real victims interviews about what you’ve just seen. 

So basically I'm going to see middle-aged housewives complain about alien abductions? Forget about it, I'll just watch "Unsolved Mysteries."

Epic Photo: Epic Skiing

Nordic skiers strut their stuff in “Ultimate Skiing Showdown,” one of the films featured at the 2009 Banff Mountain Film Festival. (Photo from Ultimate Skiing Showdown)

Found this on Huckleberries.

Epic Video: Crazy women's soccer player

New Mexico's Elizabeth Lambert (15) is the sports world's biggest thug, and she plays soccer!



WOW. That's stuff that would make Ron Artest go "ya know, that's a bit nuts."

Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

Remember the movie V for Vendetta and that crazy bugger who ran around in that silly mask? That would be a Guy Fawkes mask, and apparently this fellow is a pretty big deal in the UK. Let me bring up the Wikipedia on him so you all can be enlightened...

Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries,[1][2] belonged to a group of Roman Catholic restorationists from England who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.[3] Their aim was to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while King James I and the entire Protestant, and even most of the Catholic, aristocracy and nobility were inside. The conspirators saw this as a necessary reaction to the systematic discrimination against English Catholics.[4]

The Gunpowder Plot was led by Robert Catesby, but Fawkes was put in charge of its execution. He was arrested a few hours before the planned explosion, during a search of the cellars underneath Parliament in the early hours of 5 November prompted by the receipt of an anonymous warning letter.

Guy Fawkes Night (or "bonfire night"), held on 5 November in the United Kingdom and some parts of the Commonwealth, is a commemoration of the plot, during which an effigy of Fawkes is burned, often accompanied by a fireworks display. The word "guy", meaning "man" or "person", is derived from his name.

Yeah, this guy tried to blow up Parliament AND he got Natalie Portman to shave her head. Wow. Anyways today we're suppose to celebrate Guy Fawkes and his pyro-tendancies. Hopefully Casey doesn't wear one of those weird masks...

Google becomes Big Brother and lets you know about it

In a rare move in big company history, Google is actually letting everyone know how much information they have on you. Now if only the CIA would do the same...

"Over the past 11 years, Google has focused on building innovative products for our users. Today, with hundreds of millions of people using those products around the world, we are very aware of the trust that you have placed in us, and our responsibility to protect your privacy and data," said Google in a blog post today. "In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we've built the Google Dashboard."

The company said the Dashboard is set up so that users can control the personal settings in each Google product that they use. Google said the Dashboard tool supports more than 20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts and Google Latitude.

I took a peek at my Dashboard and basically Google knows everything about me, which is kind of creepy. It's like a spouse but without all the arguments about who left the toilet seat up.

(From Tech Rave)

Epic Photo: Another athlete who had his career ruined because of weed

Or not. Great Halloween costume, found it on Deadspin.

We're endorsing Tim Lincecum's weed problem

Wait... so you're telling me that this guy to the right smokes weed? Nooo! Really? I would have never guessed. All you had to say is that he came from the state of Washington and I would have been like "case closed."

Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum was pulled over and found with 3.3 grams of the happy grass. And after the story broke, all I could really think to myself was "who cares?"

I'm not trying to make it seem like drug use is fine and dandy, but I think we need to be progressive and open-minded enough to realize that if someone is found with pot, it doesn't mean they're a bad person. If you were to take a cross-section of America, you'd find that Tim Lincecum is like a lot of other 25-year-olds in this country. Everything I've heard about Tim has been good, many have said he's a remarkable person so this incident seems more amusing than anything.

The Bleacher Report has a nice take on the incident too.

Regardless of the speeding or weed involved, Lincecum has no prior history of indiscretions and no tarnish’s on his record up to this point, so can’t we just give him a break on this one.

I’m sure that Timmy will be the first to admit that this was an extremely poor decision and come on folks—he’s still a kid.

Knowing the kind of guy Tim has been over the years, I would be greatly surprised if he runs into anything remotely like this throughout the remainder of his career.

I'm sure some moralists and parents will come out and tear Lincecum a new one, and to that I say - perhaps we should follow them around for a day and see what they're doing. Might we find one of those moralists with a porn addiction or one of those parents (who care about "their kid's role models") sleeping around? You always find iffy behavior in the most unexpected places.

As for Tim, he's just a normal guy.

Epic Photo: Worst headlines ever

Apparently "clever" journalists thought they had something original. Problem was, they all thought the same thing. Or copied one another. I'm gonna go with the latter.

Epic Video: Awesome Sounders Commercial

Come on, this doesn't get you a little excited about soccer?

Things I'd rather see than the Yankees win the World Series

Okay I'm trying to be mature here, but with the New York Yankees winning their 27th World Series Title, I felt a need to write this. Things I'd rather see than the Yankees winning the World Series.

• A Rosanne Barr striptease.
  

•  Any one of the other major-league baseball franchises winning a World Series. The defunct ones too. Heck it could of been a team of old-timers who stumbled into the Pittsburgh Pirates locker room, anyone but the Yankees.
• The Lakers winning the NBA Finals with Stephon Marbury at point guard (and him doing YouTube Videos during timeouts)
• The creation of the "Ghost Hunter Network" where all they show is those crappy "we're looking for ghosts" reality TV shows that basically consists of a bunch of stupid overweight guys prancing around old houses looking for "ghosts" and then making up noises they hear. 24 hours. 7 days a week. I would have no remote. Just this channel. I would take this over the Yankees.
• This Miss Northern Canada Beauty Pagent, complete with an armpit hair part of the contest.
• Iran taking over the world and installing OctoMom as the supreme ruler.
• Gili 2 staring Ben Affleck and the latest actress who has their career killed by dating him.
• The Al Davis Variety Comedy Show starring Tom Cable.
• The Matt Stairs workout video.
• A Gonzaga exhibition game against a Canadian team with absolutely no chance.
• A UNC team against a Gonzaga team with absolutely no chance.
• Somebody running at me with a vat of molten metal.
• The T-2000 from Terminator 2 bearing down on me.
• The XFL2.
• Any UFL game.
• A University of Montana instructional video on how incoming freshmen can best catch wild animals for their pelts.
• The WNBA for 72 hours straight.

As you can see, I'm not a happy camper at the moment.

Northern Rangers: Eastern Eagles football

On October 24, 2009 the Northern Rangers headed out to Cheney, Washington to take in the Eastern Washington University homecoming game.

This is what a football gameday experience at Eastern Washington University is like.

Go Eagles!

Epic Video: Tyler Hansbrough is impressed

WOW! This car commercial is terrible. And Hansbrough is a terrible actor.

JustSON Numbers: The terrible, terrible NFC West

You think the Seahawks are bad? Well, they're not out of it yet because everyone else in the NFC West is stinking it up too. Here are the standings from the division with Arizona LEADING at 4-3 (that's a game above .500 for those counting at home).

1. Arizona (4-3)
2. San Francisco (3-4)
3. Seattle (2-5)
4. St. Louis (1-7)

That's a combined record of 10-19 between four teams. Not something you want to be proud about. I know that Seattle absolutely stinks right now, but they're not out of the race if they can figure out how to get on track. However, that's probably not going to happen because what they heck are they going to do? They're injured, they're offensive line play is blah, they're receivers are underachieving and their defense couldn't stop WSU at this moment in time.

It's a sinking ship and you can't plug all the holes, but hey, this whole division is a sinking ship.

Why Matt Stairs is a bad ass

For those of you that think everyone in baseball took steroids (except for Derek Jeter) I present to you the curious case of Matt Stairs.

The Phillies hitter not only looks like he belongs at a McDonalds (on a daily basis, large-sizing everything) but he also has facial hair that would make players from the 1970s smirk a little. Anytime he's up to bat during the World Series, I drop everything and watch him for the sheer comedic value.

And then I ran across the quote he said about steroids.

“People are going to have to stop taking this health bulls*** and go back to being chubby and having fun.”

God Bless Matt Stairs.

Epic Photo: This is how America camps

Teddy Roosevelt would be applauding these people for the proper use of America's wilderness. Screw all these "we need to keep nature undisturbed" people. If raccoons figured out the wonders of a Beer Garden, they would be the ones ruling the planet.

Things you'll find in my fridge

I was looking through my fridge the other day and found these items.

• Three eggs, not sure of their age. I will have my roommate eat them.

• Roughly 20 full bottles of Bud Light. That along with a keg out on the balcony of my apartment means that if society ends tomorrow, I'll have enough beer to last me until 2040.

• A large growth of mold that resembles this guy...

• An Ice Cream flavor that has every type of candy shoved into its mixing. I'm pretty sure it's like 80 percent Snickers, Reese's Cups, Twix Bars, Milky Ways and like 5 percent ice cream. In fact... wait no... that's marshmallows. There is no ice cream in this ice cream.
  

• That 2001 World Series Trophy that the Seattle Mariners were suppose to win.

• Ryan Leaf's football career.
• I think I found the state of Rhode Island in my fridge. Considering how small that state is, and how much it smells like fish - that seems about right.
• Fruit and Vegatables, haven't been touched in three months.
• The cold, beatless heart of Clay Bennett.

Hope you enjoyed this trip through my fridge. What did you find in your fridge?

Epic Video: Barats and Bereta

A new video from those amazing Gonzaga grads, Barats and Bereta. They're the 2nd best thing to come out of the Spokane region. The 1st of course being the Northern Rangers.

This is a sketch from our unaired pilot "This Is Culdesac" for NBC. It's one of many sketches that made it into the show. Enjoy!

Reasons why you're still single... Kansas Jayhawks fan

Okay so your team might be the No. 1 basketball team in the country but THIS is your football head coach.

I was unaware that Jabba the Hutt was in Kansas this time of year...

Why Vampires Suck... In bat form, they're not that scary

Look at the video below... if that was a vampire ... he just got owned.

Epic Video: Manu Ginobili the bat-catcher

Watch Manu Ginobili smack this bat out of the air. Wow! I'm pretty sure he can play basketball too.

Turkey will now go to war with the Googlebots

Turkey is not happy with Google, saying that they owe $47 million in back taxes. Look for that country to be eradicated from the face of the planet by Googlebots.

TechCrunch reports Turkey is claiming Google owes them 71 million Turkish Lira or 47 million US dollars in back taxes.

In fact, the Turkish government is fining Google for the money. Google claims all the funds are through their Ireland branch and Google does not owe Turkey any taxes. Google technically has a company in Turkey named Google Reklamcılık ve Pazarlama Ltd. Şti. but the company is technically set up as a ‘liaison’ branch. If set up properly, TechCrunch reports Google would owe little to no taxes to the Turkish government.

I know what you're thinking... Turkey has taxes? Yeah they do, they have a government and everything. It's quite fancy. This also isn't the first time Google has been accused of evading taxes. Should be interesting to see how this thing pans out.

(From Tech Rave)

Epic Photo: Hopefully that's a wide biking lane

Team members of Spin Cycle Racing out of Salt Lake City enjoy a ride on their 4th annual Halloween “Sumo Ride” Saturday in Salt Lake City. The annual event organized by Ken Webster, amused motorists with a group of 13 riders, up from 3 in it’s inaugural year. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson)

Found this on Huckleberries. 

Reasons why you're still single... Gonzaga Basketball

You're going to break down every dribble, pass and score in tonight's game against the University of Alberta - a team that isn't even involved in NCAA basketball. Then you're going to post on the message boards about how nicely all the players did and how the the coaching staff made the proper adjustments.

Nevermind it's an exhibition game, ladies and gentlemen!

The Internet will eventually run out of space

Just when you thought that the internet would never run out of space - we've got some serious web address issues. It seems that at our current rate, we will run out of internet address within the next two years. Does that mean we just have to start using geocities and blogspot domains?

A survey, conducted by the European Commission, found that few companies are prepared for the switch from the current naming protocol, IPv4, to the new regime, IPv6. Web experts have warned that we could run out of internet addresses within the next two years unless more companies migrate to the new platform.

The IPv4 and IPv6 protocols refer to the way in which web addresses are created and assigned. Each website has a unique IP address, represented by a string of numbers, such as 192.168.1.1, which are then given a user-friendly web address, such as telegraph.co.uk, to make them easier to remember.

Credit card details freely available on webThe IPv4 protocol uses 32-bit addresses, which enables the web to support around 4.3 billion unique addresses. By contrast, IPv6 uses 128-bit web addresses, creating billions of possible new web addresses – experts estimate it could assign a unique address for every blade of grass on the planet.

Ahhhhh! This is worst that Y2K. Everyone run for the hills Hopefully Casey paid the internet bill.

(This is from Tech Rave)

Epic Photo: Casey's Fiancee's favorite quarterback

That's right ladies and gentlemen, a Kyle Orton costume.

Casey and I own this T-shirt

Reasons why you're still single... spray-painted EWU shirt

Wait a minute... you made a custom EWU spray-painted t-shirt? Really? Do you show that off at the bar?

Windows 7 fail...

Usually when you upgrade an operating system you would expect things to either work or just reboot and go to the old operating system if the upgrade failed. However, Windows 7 has a fantastic little feature where it actually just keeps rebooting if your upgrade is unsuccessful. And rebooting. And rebooting.

Users remained stymied today by endless reboots after trying to upgrade their PCs to Windows 7, according to messages posted on Microsoft's support forum.

An answer has yet to be found for all users, who began reporting the problem last Friday after watching the upgrade stall two-thirds of the way through the process. Most users said that their PCs had displayed an error that claimed the upgrade had been unsuccessful and that Vista would be restored. Instead, their PCs again booted to the Windows 7 setup process, failed, then restarted the vicious cycle.

Several Microsoft engineers, including the company's senior group manager for Windows supportability, have offered advice, but on Monday users continued to publish complaints on a growing forum thread.

"I think I've gotten to the point where trying to install Windows 7 is simply not worth it," said "Chimaera717" around 1 p.m. ET today. Chimaera717 was one of the first users to gripe about reboot hell. "I'm more content with actually having a working computer. Anyone know if we can get our money back?"

Obviously this isn't everybody but there is a growing number of people - something Microsoft is going to have to take a look at unless they want another repeat of the Windows Vista hellstorm of user discontent.

(From Tech Rave)

Reasons why I'd rather play soccer than hockey

Do you realized it took them decades to think that maybe the goalie should wear a mask for hockey? I'm not genius, but I would think a hard chunk of rubber sent hurtling towards your head would cause you to think of protective measures earlier than 1959. That's when Jacques Plante decided he wasn't going to use his nose as a backboard for hockey players.

Should this be celebrated as a great innovation or just one of those "well duh!" moments?

Why vampires suck... hair care

You girls out there may be quite enamored about vampires but do you know just how much time they spend in the bathroom making sure their hair is just right?

And too make matters worse, they can't see themselves in the mirror. What a bunch of reflectionless divas!

Really, if you girls want to find somebody that aren't so "high matinence" I might reccomend rock stars, tennis players, Mike Tyson, any child star and the male cast of "CSI: Los Angeles." You'd be better off.

Reasons why you're still single... Anchorman costume

You dress like this for Halloween. See the Trident? Yeah I killed a man.

Tom Cable has anger issues

We all heard about Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable allegedly assaulting his assistant coach, giving the public even more ammo for people to sling at the worst-run organization in the NFL. Well apparently things are worse, a lot worse, in fact you probably don't want to invite Cable to a Thanksgiving dinner anytime soon.

Two women, including his former wife and a recent girlfriend, say that Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable has a history of violent behavior toward women.

In separate interviews with ESPN's "Outside the Lines", Sandy Cable and Marie Lutz say that Cable hit them during relationships dating back more than 20 years.

Cable's alleged temper has been in the news since August, when Oakland assistant coach Randy Hanson accused Cable of breaking his jaw during an altercation in a coaches meeting.

On Oct. 22, Napa County district attorney Gary Lieberstein said he would not pursue charges against Cable, citing inconsistencies in Hanson's story that were not corroborated by the three assistants in the room at the time.

But the two women interviewed by "Outside The Lines" say that Cable, in his first full season as the Raiders' head coach, physically abused them at various times during their relationships.

In 1989, Sandy Cable sought a temporary order of protection, which said, in part, "On two occasions, one back in '86 and the other in '88, he hit me. The second time in the face, however on attempts to call law enforcement, my husband would rip the phone out of the wall."

Did the Raiders even try to do a background on this check before they hired him? How about the University of Idaho before that? Did somebody ever thing that this sort of behavior might be a bad thing for a head coach? Considering that Cable has some huge Northwest ties, it's really sad but I have absolutely no respect for a guy that beats women. Hopefully the Raiders fire him after the season.

If they don't, I'm waking up Al Davis' corpse and telling him to fire Cable.

Outdoor Photo of the Week: A Northwest Fall

This picture was taken 10/21/09 at a pumpkin patch in Everett. Photo by Lindsay W./Covington, WA.

*JustSON Note: We think this really shows fall in the Pacific Northwest. We personally love the wheelbarrows all lined up. Thanks for sharing!

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