20 Supporting Characters From ’90s TV Shows Then And Now – BuzzFeed – Stevie’s ear spacers are freaking me out. Dewey looks cute though. And as I may have mentioned before – Ferguson went to Notre Dame a couple years ahead of me.
Category: Notre Dame
Blog posts related to the University of Notre Dame, including posts from the early 2000s “PW Blog” (Pasquerilla West, my dorm)
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BetterWorldBooks
I randomly followed a Twitter link today to a blog by a fellow Sydney I.T. person and started reading a post about “humanising a product.” I was amused to see this bit in an email from a book he’d ordered:
“I can’t believe I’m leaving Mishawaka, Indiana already – the friendly people, the Hummer plant, the Linebacker Lounge – so many memories.”
HA! I had to know more. You don’t see Mishawaka references every day over here! The email was from BetterWorldBooks, a company that sells new and used books to fund literacy projects around the world. It turns out it was founded by three Notre Dame grads in 2002! What a great idea. I don’t remember any of their names… I wonder if I knew them.
Edited 21/03/2025: original blog link is dead and not archived.
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We Support Notre Dame
We support Notre Dame and its President, Father John Jenkins, for inviting President Obama to speak at the 2009 commencement. Sign the petition, folks.
Edited 27/03/2025: Link is dead and not archived.
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Famous Last Words
The Snook directed me to this slideshow of Famous Last Words. “Scroll along to the ninth one,” he suggested. Hey, it’s Touchdown Jesus!
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Go girls!
Wow. Thirty-five years after admitting women, Notre Dame finally elected an all-female ticket to the office of Student Body President and Vice President. Well done, ladies!
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Go Irish!
Rumors are flyin’ in the lead-up to this weekend’s ND vs USC game. Bon Jovi at the pep rally? That’s nuts. Okay, so the game is in South Bend at 3:30pm, right? That makes it Sunday morning at 6:30am here. Ouch. The question is, how can I watch/listen/follow along to the game? Even if I could find a sports bar that broadcast American football games, I doubt any would be open then. Does anyone know of a radio stream online?
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Go Irish!
Thanks to some stellar numbers from Brady Quinn, the Irish were able to beat Purdue and reclaim the Howard Family Football Title from my brother’s team. (Don’t worry, Ant; you guys will kick our asses come basketball season.) Man, what I wouldn’t give to be there for the USC game though!
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Hertz Discount
Note to self: Next time you go to the States, remember that Hertz gives a car rental discount to ND alumni…
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New racial brouhaha at Notre Dame…
Another year, another racial brouhaha at my alma mater. On Tuesday, former Notre Dame player and Heisman winner Paul Hornung gave a radio interview in which he offered this analysis of our string of losing seasons: “We can’t stay as strict as we are as far as the academic structure is concerned because we’ve got to get the black athlete. We must get the black athlete if we’re going to compete.” What an ass. The university was understandably annoyed and commentators were offended. I especially liked this scathing response: “Never mind that about half of Notre Dame’s current roster is black. Never mind that Notre Dame football doesn’t lack black athletes, just great athletes. That’s irrelevant. Of significantly greater relevance is Hornung’s assumption that academic standards must be lowered to give the darkies, er … I mean the colored, er … I mean the black athletes a chance. After all, the white athletes clearly have no problem meeting these standards — the evidence being the brilliant sociological elucidation offered by Professor Hornung.” Right on. After initially defending his boneheaded remarks, Hornung today apologized.
He reminds me of the chubby kid on the tour my Mom and I took for prospective students back in 1994. Most of us wanted to hear about student life and classes, but that idiot only wanted to know if we’d get to go inside the stadium. Finally the tour guide snapped. “Look,” he said, “if all you’re interested in is football, don’t apply. Notre Dame is a tough school and there are only six home games a year. A Notre Dame degree is about more than being just a fan.” We nearly applauded.