The Real Billy Madison

Just a few days ago the Summer season officially began, which we here in Santa Barbara celebrated in full drunken debauchery with the Solstice Parade, oh yes, and Fricker's birthday getaway weekend. (Thanks for the beer pong games, Hank enjoyed my vomit spewing yet again) As the welcomed sun pokes his head out from behind the cover of June gloom clouds, so to do the women of summertime. Imagine ice cold Adolphus (Adolphus) filled coolers peppering the Eden-esq beaches, refreshing every last supple, sun kissed, bikini wearing  beauty on the Pacific Coast. Sounds like an oasis, but this is no mirage.
    I was always committed to attaining my degree, well, mostly receiving Arnold's signature, since a film and media studies degree won't amount to much, (you're welcome Scott).  I've picked up the books  and enrolled in the last of my classes this summer, trust me when I say the beard DOES NOT disguise the quarter century wearing on a man. Although I'll be frequenting the Davidson Library (we can carpool Mikey) and the purgatory that is the world of Al Bundy, I do have time to make one request of you fellas. Take a weekend off to enjoy the pleasures and pitfalls that are IV/Santa Barbara one more time before the majority of us move away or no longer have the access to attempt relating to young boozed-up 3rd year communication major sorority girls. I love you all and hope to see you soon.

Happy Gilmore for Real!

 

Remember in that movie Happy Gilmore when there's the alligator down in the swamp in Florida and it mauls the club pro "Chubs", and bites off his hand.  Well it happened for real, and the alligator had only one eye.  Coincidence, no way Jose.

Venice, Florida

(AP) -- A man who lost his ball in a golf course pond nearly lost a limb when a nearly 11-foot alligator latched on to his arm and pulled him in the water, authorities said.

Bruce Burger, 50, was trying to retrieve his ball Monday from a pond on the sixth hole at the Lake Venice Golf Club.

The alligator latched on to Burger's right forearm and pulled him in the pond, said Gary Morse, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Burger used his left arm to beat the reptile until it freed him.

It took seven Fish and Wildlife officers an hour to trap the one-eyed alligator, which measured 10 feet, 11 inches, Morse said.

The pond at the sixth hole has a "Beware of Alligator" sign.

Sweeten, Enhance, Beautify

IHOP In Mexico? I.F.S In Mexico?

Did anyone else know that there is now an IHOP in Monterrey, Mexico?  Or that the Mayor of Monterrey, Mexico, Adalberto Madero is a member of the National Action Party, which is known by the acronym "PAN". 

With the recent acquisition of Applebee's, IHOP is on the move. We need Nic Cage to unearth this vast conspiracy.  Or we need to have a meeting in Monterrey.  Or is Mexico too dangerous for our outfit?  It's an easy way of popping the proverbial cherry on our first International meeting.  The city does have the highest GDP in Mexico, and brews plenty of beer.

Don't Leave E Near A Computer....

There Will Be Blood Trailer

If Daniel Day Lewis as a frontiersman isn't enough for you, the trailer for 3:10 to Yuma is up at Yahoo! as well.

Typepad - Create Pages

Hello Ministers,

Typepad has made an upgrade to their service that allows everyone to create pages, not too much difference from a post, but where posts have comments, and move around based on other posts / dates, pages would allow you to create something like this.

In the next week or so, I will look into adding a navigation bar to the top of the content section, which would allow us to quickly access these new permanent pages to make it more useful.  Right now all I can think of is an About IFS page, this could use some content, but I'm sure something else could be done as well, like a page that houses the information for the next meeting so that you don't have to search through posts and comments.  This would be Coordination and Athletics job to update.

Anyway, this will be pretty useful as we continue to get bigger and stronger, we could also make a new layout for these pages if we want to mix things up a bit.

Let me know if you have any ideas for permanent pages, and we can start using this new feature.

Good Flapjack,
M+T

WHO IS STRONGER?

The Swear Jar

American Gangster

Crowe takes on Denzel in American Gangster coming out in Novemeber.  Check out the trailer, it looks decent.

Here's the synopsis from Yahoo:

Based on the life of drug-kingpin-turned-informant, Frank Lucas, who grew up in segregated North Carolina where he watched as his cousin was shot by the Klan for looking at a white girl. He eventually made his way to Harlem where he became a heroin kingpin by traveling to Asia's Golden Triangle to make connections, shipping heroin back to the US in the coffins of soldiers killed in Vietnam.