Everyone’s getting into MMA these days.

Posted by Otis Kimzey on May 31, 2008 in Sports | Comments Off

This weekend will be capping off, what is probably the biggest 8 day stretch in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) history. Last week UFC 84 took place with three big fights and many other good undercard fights. Tonight Elite XC will have their first fight night on CBS, which will mark the first time MMA has been broadcast on network television. Then, to cap it all off tomorrow night W.E.C. (another MMA league) will have the biggest fight in their history on basic cable (at least I think VS is still considered basic cable).

All in all MMA is becoming more and more mainstream with the media, the sponsors, and even more so the participants. There will be girls fighiting on the Elite XC show tonight and this morning I just saw this piece from 20/20 with John Stossel looking into kids who are now getting into MMA.

I may be jaded as I don’t have kids, but I think this is actually great. Getting kids into the sport at an early age will help teach good technique, and really, how much can these kids hurt eachother. MMA has proven to be safer than many other sports and I think teaching kids how to take a hit at an early age will be a great thing in our current society. It’s refreshing to see some parents not get so scared for their sons and daughters to even play tag or kickball on the schoolyard.

Watch the piece above if you have a spare 6 minutes and let me know what you think. Is it to early to get kids into a contact sport?

Also, if you want a good little introduction on MMA check out this blog post. It doesn’t give you everything, but at least a good base to go off of. AOL Sports Blog

Hat tip: AOL Sports blog [Stossel looks at kids in MMA]

Prince, forgets who the artist is.

Posted by Otis Kimzey on May 31, 2008 in Random | Comments Off

Prince recently played a cover of the Radiohead song “Creep” at the huge concert festival “Coachella.” Since Radiohead won’t play the song anymore, it’s good to see that somebody is still playing the song as it’s such a great one. Well… after the concert Prince talks to his people and starts having them take the video off the internet. Flagging it as copyrighted by the owners of the content.

The problem with this, is that Radiohead owns the song since they wrote it, even though Prince performed it. Radiohead’s lead singer Tom Yorke wants to see the video and he wants the video to be spread around the internet. So in a funny, or forward thinking artist, twist Radiohead is telling Prince’s people to stop blocking the video and to let it live online and let people see it.

Funny that the person who owns the copyright wants it distributed, and that the person who doesn’t have the rights to pull it off the series of tubes that is the internet is trying to get it yanked.

You can’t find the videon on YouTube, but there are a few versions floating around. Hopefully the video embedded above will continue to work.

Yahoo News Story

My new power cord.

Posted by Otis Kimzey on May 27, 2008 in Random | Comments Off

My new, makeshift, power cord… for tonight at least.

I came home a little early today after picking up my car from the shop. After working for awhile on my laptop it was time to grab my power cord as the battery was low. After realizing I forgot the key piece to connect my Apple power supply to the wall I was a little worried I would be without my laptop for the rest of the night (Not a problem if I wasn’t downloading something, but well, you know).

Luckily I was able to remember a post I saw on Gizmodo a few months ago and was able to take another power cord, shave off a little plastic and use it for a makeshift extension cord for my macbook pro. Yes, the ground is a good safety, but when you’re in a pinch this works.

For the full instructions check out this blog post by Brian Lam.

This is Ridiculous.

Posted by Otis Kimzey on May 24, 2008 in Random | 2 comments

Watched So You Think You Can dance last week and caught this guy who is just crazy. Check out the video and enjoy.

The Alp D’Huizze!

Posted by Otis Kimzey on May 23, 2008 in Sports | 2 comments

Know what I mean? Fo’ Sho’. Know what I mean D’Huizze!

Just a quick note on what I have been really excited about this week.

I recently figured out that my suit pants that I haven’t worn for the past 9 months, just don’t fit like they used to. Yes, I’m getting older and my activity level just isn’t matching my lifestyle anymore. So after buying a pair of new running shoes and remembering that I’m not a big fan of running I have figured out what I will be doing to stay active.

I bought a road bike! Yea, the LeMond Alpe D’Huiz you see there on the right is my new baby. I have my eyes set on the STP ’09 (Seattle to Portland in two days). I bought the bike last night and was already able to get myself out of bed early this morning to go for a four mile ride. It was a great way to start the morning and the bike was alotof fun. I can’t wait to ride it more and get to the point that I can start riding with some friends who are much more experiences, wear much more spandex, and are in much better shape.