Confuseyus: NCAA Week 11 & NFL Week 10 Predictions Results

Confuseyus

Another week of football is in the books, so it’s time to see how our resident pigskin prognosticator fared. Click below for results from the weekend (updated with Monday’s NFL result).

Random Chiptune Of The Day #6

Another of the very popular chiptunes on the scene, especially among fans and listeners, is “Plastic Pop”. The versions I’ve heard range from interesting to funny to downright grating, and there’s quite a variety in styles of the remixes-I’ve heard versions that sound like hip-hop with computer vocals at one point (cool), fast-paced “happy hardcore” (fun) and slow tear-inducing love ballad (can’t stand it) among others. Today my choice is the middle one, here is “Plastic Pop”, composed by Tomas Danko, arranged/remixed here by blasterNOX:

You can download this song for FREE at RKO (Remix.Kwed.Org) by clicking on the link below:
http://remix.kwed.org/index.php?search=BlasterNOX

Once you arrive at this page, click on the song name under “Title”. The song will load and begin playing in a few seconds. Click on “File” > “Save Page As…” to save the MP3 (this assumes you’re using Firefox).
This is one of 2 songs by blasterNOX and one of over 2500 songs you can listen to and download for FREE on RKO, no registration required. There is one catch though: To keep bandwidth costs reasonable there is a limit of 50 downloads per IP per hour (a download is when you listen to a song even if you don’t save it to your PC). But unless you’re only listening to a few seconds of a song before going to another one, not really a problem.

(Disclaimer: Per their own disclaimer/fine print, all songs on RKO are assumed to be freely distributable. They generally are submitted by the composers/arrangers/remixers themselves)

For more on blasterNOX, visit his/their website at the following address (but be advised that it’s written in Hungarian or whatever language they speak in Hungary…it’s not English):
http://www.rave.hu/

Random Japanese Bikini Idol Pic Of The Day #172

The plan was to do this one last week but the day I did the last one fell on the holiday, so that messed up things just a little bit. Now then, time for a make-up…

UFC 105 Post-Show News

A lot of news came out of the UFC 105 press conference. Unfortunately, most of it was bad. Very bad…
First the good:
The Bonus Of The Night winners, each gets $40K:
Fight-Bisping vs. Kang
KO-Siver
Sub-Etim (Default, he had the only submission finish)
Attendance: They claimed 16,693 paid for a live gate of $2 million. Attendance-wise, that’s probably a record for England.
If the plan from before 105 holds, Dan Hardy gets the next shot at GSP. I’m thinking spring 2010.
The return date for England is probably 2nd quarter of 2010, meaning between April-June.

The bad and very bad:
UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar is out indefinitely, and that’s going to be perhaps a long time. Hospitalized after collapsing while at some property he owns in Canada, unknown what happened but word is it’s serious. Not known yet if it’s career or even life-threatening, but just the thought of it’s scary. Hopefully Brock can fully recover and soon.
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira is off UFC 108. Severe staph infection, probably will need antibiotics via IV as it’s in the bloodstream. That sounds just as bad.
Shane Carwin, who was mentioned as a replacement for 108, won’t be available. He just had knee surgery.
This all leaves Cain Velasquez without an opponent yet again  in a fight to perhaps determine the challenger for Lesnar-Carwin had all gone as planned. The only worthy name left I can think of to face Cain now is Junior dos Santos (Cain just beat Ben Rothwell, Stefan Struve is rising fast but probably needs one more fight, Pat Barry is out a while with injuries, don’t even start thinking about Mirko Cro Crap-and besides, word is he’s got Rothwell in February). No word on the title picture yet, it’s going to depend on once Dana White finds out more about Lesnar’s condition. The most likely scenario would seem to be creating another interim title, as stripping Lesnar would seem to be a last resort. We’ll see what happens but, through no fault of UFC’s, it’s all starting to fall apart again in the HW division just as it was all coming back together and looking outstanding.