Do Not Pass Out
Posted by derickson on Aug 14th, 2005
2005
Aug 14
Internet Marketing Posts
Posted by derickson on Aug 14th, 2005
2005
Aug 14
For those of you interested in online promotion, here are some links to my posts at my e-strategy Internet Marketing blog.
I plan on experimenting with podcasting failry soon, so I’m starting to pay attention to the subject quite a bit. My inagural post at e-strategyblog.com was a piece comparing Radio Userland and my new best friend, TypePad. I also did a short piece on business podcasting.
I first read about the Greek Tragedy blog–basically Sex and the City in blog form–in a piece the Strib ran. Read about the elements I believe make it, and other blogs, sucessful. I did a short piece on the pissing match between Yahoo, Google and MSN over which has the larger index of documents. Madden video game fans can read my piece on product (music) placement in that game and GTA fans
might be interested in my Advergaming piece. Finally, I did a piece on online political marketing through Wikipedia
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Three On Threes
Posted by derickson on Aug 14th, 2005
2005
Aug 14
Yesterday was the perfect day for three full games of touch football and I expected nothing less. The temperature must have been about 75 degrees with a nice little breeze to keep you cool after you started breaking a sweat.
But the football gods must’ve been frowning–or so I thought–when it became apparent that most of the core Saturday touch football guys would not be playing.
There’s The Core, who, for the past two years, has been about eight to ten guys that you can usually rely upon to show up nearly every Saturday. And then there’s The Inner Core. The Inner Core members only on the most rare of occasions miss a Saturday and that’s usually because you accidentally chopped your head off or something. Then, when you do miss, you agonize over it.
The Inner Core has consisted of myself, The Veteran, Delicious, and, when he still lived here, Surfer Dude. Unfortunately, the Inner Core is down to myself and The Veteran.
And that’s who showed up yesterday, along with Izzy, a new guy who is quickly gaining both the attendance and credentials to become an Inner Core member. Last week, Izzy brought along a new guy who had played for the National Indoor Football League. This week, three more of Izzy’s friends showed up, including a college kid who plays for Concordia University and a guy who plays DB for Central Minnesota Thunderbirds of the Mid-America Football League.
We had three on three and that’s plenty enough to play so it appears the football gods were merely testing my patience.
I’m pleased to say that after all that waiting, I proceeded to have an outstanding day. I had a lot of things going my way. For both games, I had The Veteran as my quarterback, and, having played together for three years, we obviously know each other’s game. Because it was only three on three, we had a small field. And this was touch football, not tackle. Touch football’s my game. Tackle is the new guys’ game and taking away that aspect of the game is a major disadvantage, if that’s the way you’re used to playing. There’s no jarring the ball loose with a huge hit after the receiver has made the reception. There’s no wearing your smaller opponent down play after play with relentless hits.
With all that going for me, I had a superb day. I had an end-zone-to-end-zone interception return for a touchdown aided by excellent blocking. The Veteran hit me absolutely perfectly on a seam route and I caught the ball in stride, over my head and away from my body, and the defenders just sort of stood there, not moving, as I streaked by them for a touchdown. I caught a little ten-yard hook, got enough of a block so that the defender could only touch me with one hand, and slipped past his teammate who gave up because he thought I was down: Touchdown. I had another touchdown on a fourth down play where we were at midfield. I headed to the back left corner of the end zone but the defender had the area covered by positioning himself in the front left corner so I moved up to the front left cone and The Vet threw a perfect low and outside strike that only I could catch. Which I did, my two big toes hugging the sideline.
The last game was close; tied up at four each in a game where the first team to five won. The Veteran hit me on every play of the drive, culminating in a toss to the middle as I was crossing the back of the end zone. I bobbled it but held onto it for the final TD.
I always tell people I have the patience of a gnat. I really don’t know anything about gnats’ patience but it just seems to me that since they are such tiny creatures, they must not be capable of holding even one iota of patience. That’s me.
Except, maybe, when it comes to football. After a discouraging start, patience paid off.
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Touch Football
Posted by derickson on Aug 14th, 2005
2005
Aug 14
Every Saturday, year-round, rain, slush, snow, or shine, for about three years now, I’ve been playing a pickup game of touch football with a core group of guys at a park in Northeast Minneapolis. We play one to three, sometimes four games, for two to sometimes four hours, depending on the weather and the number of people who show up.
I was first invited to play by The Veteran and I’ve been coming ever since. I was extraordinarily out of shape and I smoked at the time and so I definitely felt it the first few times out. But since then, I’ve gotten into shape, stopped smoking, and now I can hang with the kids.
Considering how much I love football, it should come as little surprise that I rarely miss a Saturday. The great thing about it is that the guys we play with all come from different walks of life, different backgrounds, levels of education, race, color, creed, et cetera, and all that matters is for those few hours is our game of football.
It’s the great leveller.
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God Bless Emily Robbins
Posted by derickson on Aug 14th, 2005
2005
Aug 14
Thanks to Emily Robbins‘ wonderful How To Blog blog, I can now offer you, gentle feed readers, specific RSS category feeds. The ability to categorize posts was a very appealing feature of TypePad when I decided to go with it as my primary blogging platform, but I assumed that the ability to offer category-specific RSS feeds would be built in.
It was not. Thus, Ms. Robbins’ "Create Category-Specific RSS Feeds" post was particularly helpful.
As a result, you now have a brand-spanking-new Vikings RSS Feed. I’ll post a page of all the category-specific feeds after I’m done creating them.
Minnesota Vikings RSS Feed: 
Video Games RSS Feed:
