TEAM ZISSOU HOOOOOOOOO

Halloween this year will be glorious. Team Zissou will be in full effect at Snyder and Dennis' (better?) party. I will be playing Klaus Daimler, short shorts and all. Stay tuned for updates on how successful the party was. Check that grill out... calm, collected, German.

AVIAN FLU HOLY SHIT

Fact is, the bird flu will strike probably within the next 10 years and kill 10's to 100's of millions of people and it is basically the fault of South East Asia. They lack proper (civilized) methods of animal slaughter and storage and its just basically a breeding ground for disease. The flu itself is a virus we have shared with birds and pigs for thousands of years and occassionally once one strain that affects one species jumps to the other, then you see these super hi death tolls ( i.e. 1918). The virus now deemed "avian flu" is a flu virus that primarily affects birds but has shown it can crossover to humans and pigs. There are three main parts of a flu virus each with 5 minor sub parts and 2 of the three main parts have become basically "humanized." The only thing preventing the flu from going global fast is it has not yet evolved to transfer effectively from human to human. Up till now, most cases ( 99.8%) of human acquisition can be traced to contact with infected animals and the disease probably isn't even as bad now in them as it would be if it was transferred directly to humans. Once the virus evolves (and it will after enough human infections) into a human to human virus, watch out! Flu vaccines are basically made after the flu comes out originally so we have a chance to vaccinate the populace b/4 the virus emerges but flu vaccines are hard to make and have to be refrigerated ( i.e. eliminating vaccines for 2/3's of the planet) so it will be nasty for most of the world but the US and Europe should be ok.

Have fun with that!

Eat more chicken, the less of them there is the less chance you'll get sick... trust me!

Letter to the Collegian

Hopefully this gets published. I'm sick and tired of whiny fans bitching about college students being college students so here was the letter I wrote in true Pineapple fashion.

Fan's reaction to Fan's reaction:
I am sick and tired of reading letters to the editor about how horrible PSU students are and how horrible we behaved at the game. I have one question for all you "haters" out there, ask the players how they would rate the fans?? The fans were more or less responsible for making OSU burn two time outs, causing confusion on the field for the Buckeyes, and pumping the players up. Ohk, so there were some "bad words" chanted. Guess what? This isn't a church league basketball game, its a freaking college football game (please BOLD college!)! You are coming into an environment with 10's of thousands of young adults age 18-25 who don't care what you think about what we say. Be prepared! We, the "real" fans, created a hostile environment for the opposing team not by sipping tea, golf clapping with scattered "Huzzah's!" but by jumping around and screaming Zombie Nation, WE ARE PENN STATE, and of course, the controversial F$$$ the Buckeyes until we lost our voices. I don't buy an ice cream cone expecting it to be warm, expecting us to "behave" to whatever sacred standards you whining fans have is just about as dumb. I am proud of my pride....are you? Now that's class!

BCS should be BSC (guess what BS stands for)

The Bowl Championship Series was the brain child of Roy Kramer (former SEC chairman) and was instituted in 1998 to elimnate doubt for the NCAA college football championship. This formula can easily decide which 2 teams from 119 are deserving enough to play for the championship. I can't wait until we get a playoff series 40 years from now and I have to explain to my kids that, when I watched college football, the championship was not determined on the field but was determined in cyberspace by a bunch of nerds who haven't seen a woman naked other than Aunt Gerti at the family reunion and have never touched a football EVER. Ever since it's inception in 1998 there has been controversy. How can you pick from the top 8 teams in the country based on biased opinions (which is basically what the polling system is)? Well, the BCS uses strength of schedule to help elimnate that (which ironically is based on the same biased polling system). To counteract human bias, the BCS is also made up of 6 computer polls which are so erratic. Some polls have teams with 3 losses ahead of undefeated teams as of today. I don't care who you are playing, if you are 5-0, clearly you did enough to NOT LOSE three times no matter to who. In most of the polls used (the Billingsly Report for example) there are two 3-2 teams ahead of Alabama who is 5-0 coming off a schilacking of #3 Florida. The two teams are Michigan and Arizona State. Arizona State's schedule is now giving them inflated rankings. They are the only team #1 USC has played that is ANY GOOD so they get inflated rankings JUST for playing this team. How dumb is that? The fans don't like this system, the players don't like this system, I guarantee the coaches don't like this system, the media doesn't like this system (the AP said the BCS can't use their poll anymore because the system is sooo stupid (how's that for a blow of confidence)), so who does like the system? School presidents and the networks. I don't understand how but they do. They would make more money if they just had a 4 team playoff. This would just mean AN additional game on top of the normal bowls. You can't use the tired excuse of "Well the players would just be out of school too long." BULL SHIT ITS OVER WINTER BREAK YOU DUMB FUCKS. How can you justify keeping basketball players out for THE WHOLE MONTH OF MARCH but you can't keep football players out probably 3-4 days max??? DUMB EXCUSE. So the real excuse has to be money. It doesn't make any sense to me though. More games + more TV commercials = MORE MONEY. I don't know, all I know is the BCS is about as smart as slamming your dick in a car door.