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Aaron Ross beats his chest & high 5s teammate after tackle on Welker, but Welker ran for 11 yards & picked up 1st down in red zone.
New strings, vol pot, knobs, pickguard on bass. Ready for @the1969s show at Sons of Hermann Hall w King Khan on 2-9-12
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I know stats aren't everything, but lets compare #AarongRogers vs #DrewBrees. One stat alone put AR ahead, INTs.
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I know stats aren't everything, but lets compare Rogers vs Brees.

Rogers main stats that pushed him ahead of Brees (I think) was the number of wins and his QB rating. That must be it, because Brees pretty much has him beat in most other categories.

Rogers had the highest QB rating in the league at 122.5. Brees was #2 at 110.6. This was due to one stat (an important one). INTs. Rogers on had 6 and Brees had 14. Brees did thrown over 150 more passes, but Rogers had

Rogers' Packers had a league-leading record of 15-1. Brees and the Saints went 13-3 which was tied for 2nd most wins.

But despite Rogers' excellent season, I think Drew Brees should have won the MVP. And this his why:

- Brees was #1 in passing yards this season.
- Brees was #1 in completion percentage this season.
- Brees was #1 in TDs this season (46, which is 4th most in NFL history)

Drew and the Saints set some all-time NFL records

- Drew Brees passed for the most yards in a single season ever. (5,038).
- Drew Brees passed for the most completions in a single season ever (468).
- Drew Brees had the highest completion percentage in a single season ever (71.6).
- Brees surpassed 300 yards passing for the seventh straight game and 13th time this season, both NFL records he already held and simply extended.
- The Saints set the league record for most yards from scrimmage in a season (7,474).

I dont' think postseason stats matter for the MVP voting, but they matter to me.

- Brees passed for 466 yards, the most during a postseason game to end in regulation.
- The Saints broke the single-game  postseason record of 610 yards.
- In the playoffs Brees had a 110 QB rating and AVERAGED 464.0 yards and 3+ TDs per game. Far surpassing Rogers stats. Not to mention Brees won a game in the playoffs.

Whoever whens the game tomorrow will not care about Rogers or Brees' stats, records, awards, etc. The ring is the thing. But thankfully for both Rogers and Brees, they have their rings and don't have to prove anything.

I'm hoping the Saints go on another run next year and become the first team in NFL history to play a home game for the Superbowl. WHO DAT!.

Trying to understand the "Primary" process. I didn't understand the difference between caucus and primary. Well, I didn't understand a lot more than that.
Trying to understand the #Primary process. I didn't understand the difference between a caucus and a primary. Well, I didn't understand a lot more than that.

Primary, caucuses, delegates, superdelegates, binding primary, non-binding, winner-take-all, proportional vote, etc.

The delegate process alone is confusing.

Can't we  just vote and then the person with the most votes wins?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_primary#Types_of_primaries_and_caucuses

Another good practice with The 1969s. We are ready for Sons of Hermann Hall on Mon Feb 6th. Come check it out.
@49thVibration rehearsal - Getting closer to having the new tunes ready
New @49thVibration song "Waiting" is pretty much written and arranged. Tomorrow the band nails it down and then possibly into the studio soon. #49thVibration
Good 1969s practice. Working on new and old songs. We have a few gigs booked the next couple of months so the year is starting off good.
Attending Webinar: Expanding creative possibilities in Vegas Pro: masking and compositing techniques
Another productive 49th Vibration rehearsal. We just about have the new song, "Waiting", arranged and ready to add to the list. Very excited about it.
working on new song. I'm getting very close.
There cannot be better running weather. 74 degrees with a slight breeze it feels great.

there cannot be better running weather. 74 degrees with a slight breeze it feels great.
Just now getting into the world of mobile computing. I have my first real smart phone: Droid Charge. It's pretty damn awesome
Samsung Droid Charge

I went from what some called a "phone first smart phone" in the Nokia Nuron. It ran the Symbian OS and Nokia's Ovi apps. Well, it was pretty much crap. It had some cool features and apps, but for the most part it didn't perform well and added frustration because it gave me taste of what I really wanted in a phone.

The Droid Charge is really a whole new world. I don't have anything to compare it to. I have not owned or messed with iPhones and other Android, Windows, etc. smart phones, so I can't tout this phone over any other (what I consider) high-end phones. But for me, it's awesome.

I had my contacts all backed up so I imported my contacts from my old phone to my Gmail account and set up my Gmail account on my phone and that was done.

So what did I use most often on my old phone, and how easy was it to get up and running on the Droid and how did it compare?

Calling and texting:
That was pretty simple to get used to. It was very intuitive. I quickly leaned to call and text and to create quick desktop links to my most used contacts.

Camera
There was a link to the camera app, but I had to click on "Applications" and then scroll over to get to the button, but I easily figure out how to add the button to my home screen. My old phone did have a manual button to quickly bring up the camera. I do miss that, but not a big deal to use the screen button. The quality is a million times better than my Nuron. It has an 8mp camera with another lower quality camera for self portraits and video chat. Just like my Nuron, you can  quickly send a picture to an email, text, blog, etc.

Google Maps:

There was already and app/link so that was a click.

Endomondo (workout, run/ride tracking app)
I went to their site and installed the Android app. done. I have not tried it yet, but this could be a big deal as Endomondo on my Nuron was really quirky. My times were never real accurate as I had to wait sometimes up to a minute for it to start tracking and it never seemed to get my mileage right. I'm hoping the Android version can actually show me the map during my workout. I need an armband phone holder to start using it for running. I have one on the way.

Voice Recorder:
This is where it starts to get fun. The Nuron was such junk in this regard. I used the voice recorder a lot at first because I like to record song ideas and other notes. Well the Nuron many times would jack up the audio and it was listenable. With the Droid I downloaded a free 4-track recorder. Boom!. How sweet is that?

Video Playback:
The Nuron was shit. It was unwatchable. It was pixelated, show, jerky, crap. With the Droid I plugged the phone into a USB port on my PC and dragged over 3 video files. An AVI (divx), and AVI (h.264), and an MP4 saved from YouTube. The two AVIs were HD 720 and the MP4 other was 360. They looked awesome. The phone with the video playback capabilities and screen size makes it truly a media player that I could watch movies on during boring plane and road trips.

Of course all of these apps worked even better on the Droid: Facebook, Twitter, Posterous, Foursquare, etc. and just plain browsing the web is so, so much better.

Voice recognition:
And I big deal is the voice commands. they seem to work pretty good. This will come in handy in the car when trying to dial a number, text, or search Google maps. I'll  have more to say on this the more I use it, but so far it has worked pretty good.

Phone call audio quality:
The only thing that is not clearly better is the audio quality of regular old phone calls. The sounds is pretty bad, but that was what I had before. It's what I've come to expect with cell phones, but I wish it was better. That could be a Verizon issue and not phone issue.

Battery Life:
My only concern is the batty life. I have not really got a handle on how well it performs here. I will defiantly test it one a long run or bike ride. I was able to get in at least two hours on a run with the Endomondo app running with the Nuron. I hope I can get that out of the Droid.

49th Vibration rehearsal tonight. Worked on new tunes. Very excited!
Mastering Elements Part 1: The Buss Compressor - http://tinyurl.com/3taqffc
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From http://audio.tutsplus.com:

Mastering is a pretty big subject, so instead of tackling it in one tutorial I thought it might be easier, for those new to the subject, if I split it up into bite sized pieces. Each tutorial will look at a separate process used in a typical mastering set up, why we use it and what it achieves.

One of the first processors used in any mastering chain is a buss compressor, this is really just a name for compressor used to treat an entire mix (i.e. the master buss). Let’s take a closer look at how the compressor is used in mastering and the different processors used for the task.

http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/mastering-elements-part-...

Birthday present to me...out of gas on the tollway. Crap.
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Weird disappearing content on refresh using JQuery with WebKit broswers. Using a table fixed it. Go figure.
A few more pics from @the1969s rehearsal last night.
49th Vibration - 1st rehearsal for 2012. Ready to rock the new year!
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49th Vibration - 1st rehearsal for 2012
We played through some old songs and worked on a new one. We sounded pretty good for not getting together in over a month. We hope to nail down a few new tunes that we are working on and then book some shows. Stay tuned.
49th Vibration 1-8-12

1st 1969s rehearsal of 2012. Getting ready for first show of 2012 next month at Bryan Street Tavern
1969s rehearsal tonight and after I got to hold little Maisy.
Not one for consiracy theries, but did Les and the offense get paid off? #LSU refused to alter their plan or QB.
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@SportsSturm, Lions were the beneficiaries of the inadvertent whistle. Lions were awarded the fumble even though the whistle had blown the play dead.
That was not a potential game-changer or anything for the Lions. They were awarded the ball, but because the whistle blew the Saints stopped playing, so if Bob Strum is saying that the inadvertent whistle robbed the Lions of a touchdown.... uh, not so much. It was in fact the right call, as far as the fumble goes, but the whistle stopped the play before the Lions could "potentially" advance the ball, but it also stopped the Saints from pursuing the runner, and probably tackling him, so I think without the quick whistle, the Lions might have gotten a couple of more yards... maybe.

League admits errors on Lions-Saints fumble

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/08/league-admits-errors-on-lions...

This prompted outrage from Lions fans, who believed that Detroit had been robbed of a touchdown. < -- Bullshit!

Update: According to the article, the whistle was blown before the fumble was recorded, so even more reason to see why the Saints were standing around and not trying to recover the ball and not trying to tackle the Lions player who recovered the ball.
My Favorite Smallware: http://www.marktaw.com/reviews/MyFavoriteSmallware.html#Backup
NIce list of useful programs. Some I use and know about and others I will defiantly try.
What a finish to the #Broncos - #Steelers game. First play in OT #Tebow nails it. Wow.