Greensboro Fantasy Football Draft

Don’t talk strategy with Ken, Darren, Jay and sometime Pete if you have any desire to field a decent team.



Fantasy Football After Party
They sold us the wings.

More Hooters Photos

This photo was taken right after the manager gave the boys free beer. Everyone looks so happy.

I Made Them Go to All Those Hooters

Check out Chris in the chair behind her giving "Two Thumbs Up". Dude it's hard for me to take the blame for making you go to Hooters with shots like this one.


I've worn the same shirt to every Hooters on the East Coast.

Cartography at Hooters (Told in reverse)

You can't spell Jeremy Bray without J&B.
So we found the promise land. Liquor sales at the Costco.

Janna drew this very detailed map. Who needs a GPS when you have a cute Hooter's girl with a paper towel and an ink pen?
We were sitting at the world's greatest Hooters when Dr. Bray said he wanted to go to the Costco-because he had heard they sold liquor there. The funny part about that is, Chad and Randy are the only two of the foursome that remember being at this Hooter's the first time. The last thing the group needed was more liquor. (In other words-why did we ever leave?)

More Scenes from this Year's SSGCI

Chris wears his sunglasses at night. He may be asleep in this photo it's really hard to say.
Chris is "Number One" to fans of the SSGCI.
I know this photo was taken on the first day because he's not just eating white toast.
All players at this year's SSGCI ate at the Sunrise Pancake House.

Chad and Chris at the Best Hooters in the World

I wanted to post this photo of Chad and Chris at the best Hooters in the world mainly because Chris has no memory of having been there.

Morehead City Hooters

I have the best father-in-law in the world. On the way to the wedding this weekend he stopped at the Morehead City Hooters so I could get punch number nine on my Hooters passport. (The Boss Lady and I stopped at the Greenville Hooters so I could collect punch number ten.)

This was not our most favorite trip to Hooters

Don't let the smiles fool you. One of these people is pure evil.

Scenes from the SSGCI

Poor cart girl.
One of these men has been over served.


Chad Ice takes the prize in the first round of this year's SSGCI at John Daly's Wicked Stick. The SSGCI Commissioner looks very serious during this presentation.

Check Out the Fat Floating Head on the Back Row.

My new golf buddies Chad and Chris sent me this video clip. Check out the fat floating head on the far right at the end of the video.

http://www.pgatour.com/video/?/video/pga-tour/highlights/rocksolid/2008/08/17/onsite_high_08wyndham_rnd4_pettersson_xm.pgatour

A Vote for Claudia is a Vote for America

I'm not really sure what this is all about, but Mike D has a very hot girlfriend. With that being said go to the following link and vote. http://www.pxspot.com/public/file_viewDetail.asp?uid=685&fileID=36511&albumID=3633

Critics Agree "A GGO Thing" is a Book

With the Wyndham Championship's return to Sedgefield many golf fans are pulling their old Sedgefield memorabilia out of storage and dusting it off. These cherished collectibles will undoubtedly include a GGO decanter or two.

A GGO Thing:A Brief History of the Greater Greensboro Open Commemorative Decanters is the new book written to answer some of the questions that may be asked by those that do not remember a time when the tournament was held at Sedgefield. This volume begins with a brief history of how the Greater Greensboro Open began and then moves to a discussion of each of the eleven bottles produced to market the GGO.

Randy Harris, 2002 President of the Greensboro Jaycees, presents a brief history of the commemorative decanters produced to promote the Greater Greensboro Open from 1972 until 1982. This account details the way in which the bottles were used to market the golf tournament during the 1970's and beyond. It includes dozens of photos and interviews that bring these collectible decanters to life. A GGO Thing also details the move from Sedgefield to Forest Oaks and back again as seen through the stories told by each decanter.

A GGO Thing takes its name from the back of the very first decanter produced in 1972 that reads "In the Spring, It's the GGO Thing".

When asked why the GGO decanters remain so popular, the book's author Randy Harris had this to say. "The decanters have become a part of our shared past. They are more than souvenirs, they are a limited edition piece of our community's history."

A GGO Thing is currently available on Amazon.com.

A GGO Thing is the first book written by Randy Harris. Harris, also known as the ggoblogger, writes the Greater Greensboro Open Blog. This journal is dedicated to the preservation and discussion of memorabilia and related topics from the Greater Greensboro Open, Kmart Greater Greensboro Open, Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic, Chrysler Classic of Greensboro, Wyndham Championship and occasionally the Nike Greensboro Open and the Greensboro Buy.Com.

For more information about A GGO Thing, please visit Amazon.com or contact Randy Harris at randyharris@triad.rr.com

Nunnsense at the Wilmington Hooters

I'm not really comfortable with this photo of Dr. Bray and myself. "Doug" and Scott share a moment at the Wilmington Hooters.

SSGCI Commissioner Addresses Competitors Concerns

"On another note, the commissioner has received complaints about the numberof trips to Hooters. The commissioner is nothing if not responsive to theneeds of the competitors, so the SSGCI and Bray Transportation are pleasedto announce that multiple trips to Hooters are being planned! The finalschedule of Hooters trips will be decided on course."

Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project

(This is a photo of Matt and his crew checking out the cool 3D effects on Friday night of the 48 Hour Film Project. I've posted a few photos from the event, but I really did understand the 3D portion of the shoot. I was the Best Boy and I helped dig a few graves. So, I will let our director explain the process.)

"After last year's win, we decided to bite off more than we could chew for this year's 48 - not that this isn't already a very difficult exercise on it's own - We decided that we should do something seemingly impossible and a couple of weeks ago my friend Jim Ricker and I began to scour the internet for instructions and theories regarding 3d cinematography.

We decided on a game plan regarding shooting and post and set out to shoot the first 3d flick ever shot in 48 hours. I was under the assumption early on that we could just get a lens for the camera and go for broke. Little did we know as we started the process that there is no "easy way" to do this, no adaptors or lenses - it would involve 2 cameras, a homemade camera rig, terms like inter-ocular distance and convergence, twice the footage and a hill to climb in post production that - as a result of the electrical storm - would prove insurmountable.Production went well - shooting in anaglyph 3d dictates everything - you cannot rack focus, close ups are problematic, and you cannot effectivly dolly forward without consequence, the list goes on... - Luckily, the system Jim and I developed to determine convergence worked like a charm and we were finished shooting by 1 am on Saturday night.

We had a rough by Sunday morning and we began to add the bells and whistles. I was doing the effects and opening title sequence with some graphic elements provided by Donnie Heath. Chris Avedon was working sound, and Dave Harrison was working the edit. This left Ricker to pace back and forth wondering when he could start the tedious task of aligning the shots for 3D.We were racing towards the common goal when lightning struck during a crucial render and shut down and ruined both the title and film exports.

We scrambled to restore one of the two video channels in order to deliver the film. (you have a separate edit for the left and right eyes that are later overlayed to create the 3d effect- so we went back into the left eye edit and exported that singular video track) I whipped up a quick/simpler replacement version of the title cards in After Effects and we inserted them as soon as the render was over. We laid a 2D version to tape and delivered the film with moments to spare.

Certainly not the outcome we wanted but at least we finished and delivered a film. Once back to the studio, the 3d version was rendered, the title sequence was completed and placed and we debated pulling from the competition and delivering the 3d just so we could project the version we intended the audience to see. In the end, we decided to let the 2d version stand with the understanding that we may have the chance to show the 3d version at the awards event for anyone interested.

In all, it was a crazy experience as expected. I really wish the 3d version was in competition as it totally worked - but alas, mother nature had other plans for us...So, I guess we are the first to shoot in 3d - but the title of the first team to deliver in 3d is still up for grabs... That may be a crown we leave for anyone else crazy enough to go down that road in the future.Here's to being clothes-lined by the bar while trying to raise it. "

- Matt McNeil, The Keen Collaboration

This excerpt was taken from the following website. To read more go to:
http://www.48hourfilm.com/greensboro/blog.php

Check Out "Confessions of a Superhero"

After you go see Ironman, Batman, the Hulk and Hell Boy go rent Confessions of a Superhero.

Fun Facts About Lighting

"In the ten-year period from 1990-2000, lightning killed an average of 55 people annually in the United States. Florida led the way in lighting fatalities, typically followed by Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Texas.

Lightning strikes an average of 8.6 million times a day throughout the world. One death occurs per every 345,000 flashes, one injury per every 114,000 flashes.

In the United States, one lighting casualty is likely to occur for every 86,000 flashes. The odds of being a lighting casualty in the U.S. are approximately 280,000 to 1. These odds vary according to your geographical location, climate, personal lifestyle and hobbies. For example, in Florida, the odds are much higher — approximately 80,000 to 1. That means Floridians are 287 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win their state lottery."

These fun lighting facts were taken from the following website. To learn more about lighting, dumbass, go to:
http://www.beauproductions.com/golfswingsws/healthpages/lightning.html

Gas War (Reprise)

(A friend sent me this email and I posted it on April 11, 2006. I paid $4.06 a gallon on July 6, 2008. It's funny to think of $2.79 as the good old days.)

Gas War

Subject: LOWERING YOUR GAS PRICESGAS WAR - an idea that WILL workThis was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It's worth your consideration.Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May!

The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us!

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..not sellers.With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas!

And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.How?Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas.But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do!

Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers.If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!

If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people.That's all! (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people....Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am . so trust me on this one.) :-)How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!

I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you!Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

2008 48 Hour Film Project Porduction Stills

This Ball is Not Lost!

This ball is not lost and I think Mike D should have played it.

Thursday Night at Greensboro's Hooters

Happy 5th of July