Florida State’s Jameis Winston Performs Admirably Under Scrutiny, at Least on the Field – NYTimes.com – I found it enormously telling that when Winston and his coach met on the field immediately after the game, the microphones picked up the coach’s repeated admonishments: “Be humble. Be HUMBLE.” You don’t normally have to remind non-jackasses to be humble.

20 Supporting Characters From ’90s TV Shows Then And Now – BuzzFeed – Stevie’s ear spacers are freaking me out. Dewey looks cute though. And as I may have mentioned before – Ferguson went to Notre Dame a couple years ahead of me.

I randomly followed a Twitter link today to a blog by a fellow Sydney I.T. person and started reading a post about “humanising a product.” I was amused to see this bit in an email from a book he’d ordered:

“I can’t believe I’m leaving Mishawaka, Indiana already – the friendly people, the Hummer plant, the Linebacker Lounge – so many memories.”

HA! I had to know more. You don’t see Mishawaka references every day over here! The email was from BetterWorldBooks, a company that sells new and used books to fund literacy projects around the world. It turns out it was founded by three Notre Dame grads in 2002! What a great idea. I don’t remember any of their names… I wonder if I knew them.

Edited 21/03/2025: original blog link is dead and not archived.

We support Notre Dame and its President, Father John Jenkins, for inviting President Obama to speak at the 2009 commencement. Sign the petition, folks.

Edited 27/03/2025: Link is dead and not archived.

The Snook directed me to this slideshow of Famous Last Words. “Scroll along to the ninth one,” he suggested. Hey, it’s Touchdown Jesus!

Wow. Thirty-five years after admitting women, Notre Dame finally elected an all-female ticket to the office of Student Body President and Vice President. Well done, ladies!