The best feeling as a coach is when one of your students has a great day. Yesterday evening was one of those days, and it means enough for me to be slightly late to work in order to write about it. There are three major components in cheerleading for a guy, throwing people around, throwing ourselves around, and yelling. Yesterday was a very strong day for our guys, to be called Big and Little. ...
When I went to UCA camp last weekend there were two new dances being pushed around: aka, the Soulja Boy. And: Check them out. They are fun.
Recently a friend and I had a conversation about the quality of programmers in the workplace. Without delving too deeply into the specifics (so as not to get anyone in trouble), we discussed various metrics for measuring programmers and how they perform. That conversation, along with a recent talk I heard about quality of code, leads to the conclusion that as systems get more and more complex in our society, quality of code, effected by the quality of programmers, will become a serious matter. ...
Its official, I’m now a volenteer assistant coach for the St. John’s Cheerleading program. I’m very excited to be working with such a wonderful program and team. I have been helping out a few practices prior to camp and I will be going to visit them (and my college program, Villanova) at UCA camp tomorrow.
I saw the new movie “Live Free or Die Hard” the other day, and I wanted to speak some praise about it. As I’ve gotten older I have become more of an action junkie, and this movie fit that mold perfectly. Bruce Willis was really great. I had been afraid from the commercials that he wasn’t going to act like the same character in the other Die Hard movies, but in the end he played it great. ...