If you watched the first half, you saw one game.
If you watched the second half, you saw a completely different one.

I liked the Second Half better.

The bottomline: The Eagles (now 3-1) beat the Kansas City Chiefs 37-31.
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With the Roberts Court now officially underway; Bush has also announced his surprise second nomination to the Supreme Court: Harriet Miers; the Chief Legal Council for the White House.

The political world is in uproar, and Senate researchers are working overtime for the next few weeks, as before 7:00 AM EST, no one knew who Harriet Miers was.
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This was a strange reverse-meme that Cindy found.

Leave your name and…
1. I’ll respond with something random about you.
2. I’ll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I’ll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
4. I’ll try to say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I’ll ask you something that I’ve always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST.

And she was brave enough to complete one for yours truely:
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Now that the pundits have had a full day to brood over this out-of-left-field choice for a SCOTUS Nominiee, we have some more theory as to why Bush made this decision:

Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard has, what I think, is the best theory for the events of yesterday. Especially the last two paragraphs:

So why did Bush choose Miers? For him, these nominations are quite personal. He wants to feel comfortable with his nominee, confident his pick will be a conservative now and conservative 20 years from now. Bush picked Roberts after being impressed while interviewing him. His doubts were erased (and there were initial doubts about Roberts). My guess is with Miers his doubts were washed away too.

Conservatives shouldn’t throw up their hands in despair, at least yet. They should wait until they hear from Miers as a witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It’s then that we’ll begin to find out if Bush was correct in his view that she’s the person to fulfill the dreams of so many conservatives and finally shove the Supreme Court to the right.

And Barnes is not calling it cronyism.

I like reading Barnes, he writes better than he speaks. (I think when he debates, he gets tripped up over his own thoughts. When he writes, he can speak his mind uncluttered.)

At this point, I’m ready to relax and wait for the Senate hearings.

You may not have recognized it, but the John Roberts Confirmation Process was a moment in history. It was not a major moment, like a December 7, 1941; or a June 13, 1974; but it was a moment, none the less.

Opinion-Journal-dot-com’s Manuel Miranda captured some thoughts as he looks back over the confirmation process.
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Time for the September Edition of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Searchy Fun!

For those of you who came in late, these are the top-20 search strings used to find Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com on the various Search Engines on the World Wide Web.

So its time to Do the Needful.

Let’s get to checking!
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One of the major problems with Cubicle Jungles around the world is the issue of communication. Its the common thread in my previous posts regarding Jihads, Bulldogging, and Ghost Hunting; because people and groups are simply not communicating.

I ran into another issue, around poor communication, yesterday. It happened twice, and I imagine it happens a lot in a matrixed organization like my cubicle jungle.
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Once upon a time, blogress Dawn Eden (The Queen of the Headline Pun) re-introduced me to the G.K. Chesterton Novel, The Man Who Was Thursday.

A few years ago, I was first introduced to the novel, via the hit FPS video game, Deus Ex, in which snippets of the book were littered throughout the gaming environment.

So, I vowed to myself to pickup the book and read it. This summer I finally got around to it.

It met my expectations

— === Spoilers Below === —
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One of the more annoying things to a professional geek, is the constant badgering about passwords and security compliance.

Now, I’m not the most co-operative person when it comes to mandates from the IT department in our cubicle jungle; but at the same time, I’m also one of the least threatening users in the cubicle jungle.

So I find it tedious, and unproductive to constantly change my logins and passwords for the variety of internal tools that I use every 45 days.
(and all the rules about passwords that come with it: You can’t alternate! You can’t have real words! You have to use gibbrish characters! You HAVE to use letters AND Numbers! It HAS to be 16 characters long! You can’t be able to type it with one hand! The numbers can’t be sequential! The passwords can’t be sequential! The passwords cannot be changed on the Full Moon! You have to capitalize every other character non sequentially! You can’t be able to remember the password! You can’t write the password down!)

Today, a colleague and I were discussing the fact that yet another tool was swallowed by the password police.

I mean, I can understand the need for security, but I can’t understand (and there is probably a reason) why we’re trying to enforce a 3rd-party standards and practice on all our internal systems.

Then I looked down at my desk, and saw something funny. My infamous non-Macintosh Mac is ISO 9000 compliant (and probably the ONLY ISO Compliant system in the organization)

See below:
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I just got back from seeing The Original Blues Brothers Band, in concert at the UofA Centennial Hall.

It was an awesome show for any Blues Brothers fan (and I went with several.) We all had a great time.
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So sorry, Cisco, that this Eagles post is so late. (The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com spent the afternoon and evening at a friends, and had a nice sit down meal.) Its late, but its still Sunday.

Anyways, to the game:
What is worse than your favorite team losing?
And so poorly?
Its when the loss is to the Dallas Cowboys
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Today, was the Greatest Day in the cubicle jungle.

And you missed it!

I was listening to the Tony Snow show this morning. For a conservative talk-show host; he’s very fair handed; and I’ve found that his reasoning and his tact of looking for the best in everyone makes him a clear voice in politics.

This morning he was talking about, as most of Washington, the appointment of Harriet Miers. But he said something that I’ve not heard from any other pundit/newsperson/public agent.

The main reason why Bush chose Miers, over Rogers Brown, or McConnell, or Michael, is most-likely because Rogers Brown, McConnell, and Micheal wrote letters to the President to decline the invitiation to become nominees to the SCOTUS.
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For those of you (which are many I think) that were not paying attention, “The Yankee Curse” continued, last night, as the New York Yankees failed to advance to the American League Championship Series as they lost to the Los Angeles/Anaheim/California Angels.

Several astue individuals have taken the time to point out that the heralded New York Yankess (the best baseball team money can buy) has failed to win the national title since October 2000.
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Five years ago today, the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole was the watershed event that never was.
But because 2000 is an election year. An incident, on the other side of the world, with less than 100 total causalties does not rate as a news item.

I’d argue that this pre-strike in the then-undeclared War on Terror was the first al-Qaeda attack on the United States. It was easily the first time we heard of the name Osama Bin Laden.

Looking at a Timeline of Terror, the Cole incident was a major event.
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The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com are on a “Road Trip” for the next few days, as the Not-So-Small-Software-Organization is sending us from our own cubicle jungle to the cubicle jungle of our co-workers Cisco (who is becoming a frequent commenter here) and Neil (who comments not so much) in the greater-Sacremento-area.

It should be a fun trip (and it better be, from all the cat herding that went on Tuesday Morning). It will be my first business trip since the cubicle jungle sent us to Virgina back in December 2001.
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G.B. sented me some more pictures of my favorite niece.

Is it me, Dad, or is that little smile very familiar?

Home sweet home.

Just got back into the house just moments ago. Poured myself a relaxing tasty adult beverage, looked over my 2 days worth of snail mail, and now posting to let everyone know I made it back safe.
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Very little to be excited about, this week, in Eagles football.

After a depressing loss to the most-hated-team in football, last week, the Philadelphia Eagles have their BYE this week, so no Eagles game.
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The Avian Flu is coming! Hide your Poultry!

I don’t know, but I have a feeling this is Y2K all over again.

In my mind Y2K and H5N1 have the same threat rate; which would be none.
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Saw this article on Wizbang, and Samantha Burns.

Concurring-Opinions :: A Day in the Life of Blogging

Um, … no comment.
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Lots of Carrier activity these days, but only 2.5 carriers are actually deployed. Lets find out what’s going on with the mighty-mighty Supercarriers.

Sources

Navy-dot-mil
Global-Security-dot-org

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The last article of Best of the Web Yesterday, features a little fun at the expense of Chuck “The Dagger” Schumer.

It seems Chuck is overusing a metaphor:
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Number 54 – Middle Linebacker – Jeremiah Trotter

I only saw the last quater of the game. The offense didn’t even get a single First Down. The Defense let 10 points drift on the board. It was dismal.

But it sounds like the Defense had their way with the San Diego Chargers.
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This morning, in my rush to get in the car and get to the cubicle jungle, I neglected to bring along my Sirius Shuttle. So I had to put up with local Terestrial Radio on my 20-30 minute commute.

After almost a year of Sirius, I can now say I hate Terrestrial Radio.
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As with most Blog authors, I’ve been watching the attention paid to Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com over the past 3-years-and-change.
As Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com is kind of a variety website (a no-no amoung most professional bloggers) there is a lot of subjects covered here. (Chalk that up to my divisive and er.. diverse, personality!)

As you can see from my categories, I’ve had quite a lot to talk about, everything from Book/Movie/TV Reviews, to life in the cubicle jungle, to politics and even some religion. (The last two are dreaded no-nos in most internet etiquite guides, but I just point to my disclaimer below.)

So, what tracks the most attention/response? That is the question I’ve often asked myself.

I mean, I’ve got an acceptable amount of traffic, and a fine group of regular commenters (Yes, even you Cisco), and its clear to The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com that some entries are far more engaging than others.
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In non-surprising news this morning, Last Night, Harriet Miers withdrew herself from consideration for Supreme Court Justice.

Michelle Malkin has been collecting much of the news and reactions to the event.

Now, the Democratic Talking Points (as heard from Harry Reid, Chuck “the Dagger” Schumer, and Ted Kennedy) “The White House is being coerced by Right Wing factions in the Republican Party”

Well, DUH! It was the Right Wing factions in the Republican Party who turned out to vote to see George Bush elected and re-elected.
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Yesterday, the Navy announced that Japan will replace its exiting Forward Deployed carrier base from a Diesel port to a Nuclear port.

Navy-dot-mil
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I guess this is fitting, the Operative was a pretty cool grey character

You scored as The Operative. You are dedicated to your job and very good at what you do. You’ve done some very bad things, but they had to be done. You don’t expect to go to heaven, but that is a sacrifice you’ve made for a better future for all. The Operative 94% River Tam 75% Inara Serra 75% Jayne Cobb 69% Zoe Alleyne Washburne 69% Simon Tam 63% Kaylee Frye 56% Capt. Mal Reynolds 56% Hoban 'Wash' Washburne 56% Shepherd Derrial Book 50% Which Serenity character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

Saw this first on The Pirate King, amazingly, Chad and I have a simillar profile.

From the Archives of Scientific American:

What a lousy stinkin’ game.

I was able to see the whole first half (I missed the Eagle’s touchdown) and the last two minutes of play.

While I’m not one to blame things on officials (and I’m not) the officials in this game were some of the worst I’ve seen in the NFL. (And that is all I’ll say about that.)

The Eagles lost this game. No argument there.
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Beware, the following image contains some of the most graphic and horrible imagry involving the most favorite niece of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com
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This morning, President Bush announced his next choice for the replacement of Sandra Day O’Connor. Samuel Alito.

His nickname should be enough to tell you what most think of him: “Scalito” – as his views often reflect those of current Justice Antonin Scalia.

So it looks like President Bush got the message that Conservatives were trying to tell him.
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