Justin's Blog

I was searching through the web for pics of WVU and these were the two best that I found. I just had to share them with the world.

Ever since WVU made it to the elite 8 last season, every college basketball coaching position opened has had John Beilein’s name on it. Coach has always avoided any questions about any possible moves. I was never that worried until today.

Today it was announced that he was the leading candidate for the head coaching position at NC State. As usual he refused to comment on it. Every news story about it said it was a sure thing, and that there was nothing that WVU could do. Then this afternoon the 2nd candidate withdrew his name from the running. Needless to say I was starting to come to terms that WVU was losing there coach.

This totally ruined my day. I have been moping around all day.

I decided to tune in to the WV State Wide Sportsline radio show. This show is basically a weekly radio show about WV sports. Coach Rod and Coach Beilein are regulars on this show. I didn’t think he would be on tonight, but thought I’d at least hear what everyone thought about the situation. About 20 minutes into the show they received an official statement from Coach Beilein. He’s NOT going anywhere! Here’s a link to the statement:
http://msnsports.net/page.cfm?cat=netnews&story=9364

I’m glad he’s staying, at least for next season. I hope he decides to finish his career here at WVU.

So by now most people already know the story about Governor Manchin forcing WVU into a 7 year deal to play Marshall University in football. Governor Manchin is a WVU alumnus, but you’ve got to wonder where his loyalties lie. The deal definitely isn’t good for WVU.

Over the weekend I saw this picture of him sporting Marshall green and a MU lapel pin:

It hit me the after seeing the picture. Governor Manchin must think MU stands for Manchin University. I just can’t wait until it becomes WVU Huntington Campus or Huntington Community College, take your pick.

Yes that is Matthew McConaughey with him. He decided to ruin his career by taking a role in the upcoming blockbuster flop “We are Marshall.”

Yesterday I went down to Bridgeport, WV for a Sun Microsystems event. They went over Solaris 10, SunRays, and the new x86/x64 line of machines as well as other stuff. It was a pretty fun day. I can’t say that I learned much as most of the stuff they went over I already use, but it was nice to get out of the office for a day. The best part of the day was at the very end. They had a door prize for 2 tickets to any 2 WVU football games for this up coming season. When they picked the name they said Justin. I thought to myself that It couldn’t be me and decided I wouldn’t stand up until they announced the person’s last name. Low and behold the name was Justin Haggerty. I won!

Sun has been pretty good to me over the last couple of weeks. They have given me 2 free t-shirts at WVU’s annual tech show (one from talking to the vendors and 1 as a door prize), a couple cool pens (one that can blow bubbles), a water bottle, a travel clock, some thing for my cell phone that is supposed to have games and ringers (I haven’t opened that yet), a leather portfolio, and now 4 football tickets. They ran out of shirts at yesterday’s event, but our sales rep felt bad and says she’s going to mail some to us. Tonight Jason sent me another thing on Sun’s website where they’re giving away free shirts if you update your information for them.

Anyway, last night I watched the 1st DVD from season 1 of 24. If you haven’t seen 24 I definitely suggest you start watching. I have missed the first 4 seasons, but i got hooked this season. So now I am trying to borrow the first four season’s worth of DVDs from friends so I can catch up. On episode 3 of season 1 I was surprised to see a homeless guy was using a Sun crate they use to ship high end servers as a wall of his “house.” Here’s a screen capture (click to make bigger):

Here’s a screen capture with the scene lightened up a bit:

It seems as though Sun is giving everything away these days. All of there software is free now, I’ve been given a ton of free stuff, and now they’re giving homeless guys houses. What a great company.