Tech lost to the University of New Mexico last night in a horrible loss. We haven’t lost to New Mexico in 20 yrs….

Now I am just hoping my Houston Texans can pull out a win against the San Diego Chargers, even though the stadium just lost power.

The second of week of school has passed and I am becoming more and more convinced that this semester is going to be a push over.

My management class, while interesting, is very slow and at times almost able to put me to sleep. The professor is very good but she sidetracks herself so much that it ruins the content of the lecture. Some of the examples that she has given in class I can already see being very useful in the future, she just needs to work on her presentation style.

My programming and database classes are both extremely easy. We will be covering PHP, MySQL, ASP.net, and probably a little JSP. All server side technologies with very little focus on anything client side. My database class is, as far as I can tell, a theory class almost completely. The professor has mentioned that we will be doing some SQL but we will mostly focus on the ideas behind effective database design.

The Poli-Sci professor announced today that she would be dropping a test, meaning that we would only have to take 3 tests and a final (optional). It’s good and bad news. Less tests mean less of a chance to make up for any mistakes but I am not too worried about that to be completely honest. I’ll probably spend this Sunday reading the required congressional information this weekend.

Oddly enough, I caught an article in the University Daily a few days ago that mentioned that the Rawls College of Business at Tech would be moving. From what I gathered they are going to move it closer to the library (there is some open land there). Their reasoning was a need for more space because of the number business students increasing over the past few years. So what are they going to do with the current building? The article stated that it would be used as a general classroom building. I am all for this move. The building has been extremely crowded these first few weeks of school and even though I probably won’t be at Tech when they finish the building I know that building a new business school is the best decision Tech could make.

I am still trying to decide which PowerBook I want. When my mom and I paid a visit to the Apple store in Houston I messed with the 12″ and the 15″ and while the 12″ was ultraportable and fairly compact the 15″ had more speed and was a little thinner.

Yesterday I was working on my bosses 15″ and I really liked it. The only thing that is a downside is the weight. It seems a little heavy but I guess that is something that I can get over.

Now to save up some cash and buy the thing! What options am I wanting with it? Well, I don’t need the SuperDrive so I will probably load up the 15″ model with 1GB RAM and that’s about it. I might get a carrying case as well, haven’t really decided.

I decided to see what Sean Hannity was all about so I streamed today’s broadcast. He has a great show and presents the “right” very well (at least in my opinion). Tonight he focused a lot on Kerry’s job and how little he has done at his current position. The best point he made was that Kerry had poor showings at the intelligence committee meetings after 9/11. Yet Kerry wants to make you think he’s been on top of the intelligence game this whole time.

I really don’t like Kerry/Bush bashing but I think that Mr. Hannity presents the facts in a decent manner without belittling anyone. He had Bush Sr. on his show and he asked some tough questions but he let the former president answer them without twisting the facts around.

Definitely one of the better radio broadcasts that I’ve heard.

I was thinking about movies that I need to pick up and came up with the following:

• The Passion of the Christ
• Kill Bill (Volumes 1 and 2)
• Eternal Sunshiine of the Spotless Mind
• Wayne’s World
• The Life of David Gale

That’s all I can really think of right now… More to come later!

I’ve spent most of the weekend catching as many football games as possible, even if only on the radio.

Texas Tech got off to a slow start last night with our place kicker missing a field goal and an extra point (why is this guy still on the team?). Tech went on to win 27 to 13.

Surprisingly Bowling Green State University stuck with Oklahoma to only lose by 18. I was waiting for Oklahoma to step all over them (kind of like Texas did to UNT).

The first week of school is over and the weekend is here. So far school has been treating me well and my classes seem like they are going to be interesting and easy (always a good thing).

Political Science has been exactly what I expected, hard to pay attention in. The professor is scatter brained and likes to change the subject from government to religion but does not inform anyone that that is what she’s doing.

I will probably end up working some this weekend. I ran into a database problem with a current project and I need to get it resolved ASAP. Don’t you just love how little things always seem to pop up?

I just caught Snow Patrol on Letterman and I wasn’t too impressed with their performance but I do like the band. They just seemed to be very unenergetic when performing that it made me want to change the channel.

Since they have such a unique sound you would expect them to have a different way of presenting themselves on stage, but I guess not.

Google has added some new features to their AdSense program. The ability to have multiple ad units on a single page is probably the biggest news, so I will be playing with this tonight!

I have been itching to play a few rounds these last few days, especially since the weather has been awesome (yesterday the temperature hovered around 70°). What frustrates me is the fact that I left my clubs in Houston thinking that the weather up here would turn sour really soon and it’s done exactly the opposite.