Sobos’ success groomed on playground a Rockford Register Star article explaining how Coach Potthoff first learned about this present Sobo team way back in 1996. It’s a good read for any Sobo fan.

This article does bring up a something I complained about before:

This season, South Beloit beat North Boone for the first time in 13 years to win the conference title in the last game of the regular season.

Now unless I just don’t know how to add, we beat them 12 years ago. During the 1990 football season when I was a senior we beat North Boone. It was a come from behind win. I still have the WZOK School Of The Week dog tags to prove it. This just offends my pride. While I wasn’t a super football player, I did play and we beat them. I just wish they get this right one of these days.

Four years. Man time flies when your having fun. So four years ago I was fired from this same hotel I work at now because I was not happy. That probably sounds strange, huh? This is a day I have forever vowed to never work again. I had to swap New Years Eve with the Dude so I could have it off.

I use this for my look back at the past year. Past installments include Year In Review 1999, Year In Review 2000, and Year In Review 2001. Per the usual for me this year has been more of the same.

Of course it was a strange year for the hotel. The events of the hotel being sold was something new. The whole auction and wondering if the place would still be there was interesting. New owners are always fun. All in all it’s been business as usual. Which isn’t a good thing.

As I said in the first (which still applies) one I owe lots of people thanks. Thanks for just being there. These thanks go to all of my family and friends. And I of course consider my friends family. So it’s a shout out to all of my peeps, be it friend or family.

The South Beloit Sobos are the Class 1A State Champions! The Sobos beat El Paso 50-22. The IHSA has a page with all kinds of stats right here. Congratulations to Shipley and crew.

**Update** The IHSA also has another page here that has play by play summaries, box scores, and quotes.

Did you hear about how an early version of Doom 3 was leaked onto the net? This was so big it even made CNN. It’s been floating around the net now for almost a month and I finally got a hold of a copy. I know that this is wrong. At least form id’s stand point. And I do happen to agree with them.

But I’m only human. I found a real copy and I had to download it. I won’t give the link out so don’t even ask. Find it yourself. I now know that my computer has once again joined the lowend. I have a AMD Athlon 1.2, Thunderbird with 512mb’s of ram, a GeForce 3 video card, and a nice big 80 gig harddrive. Doom 3 laughs at my pathetic computer. My computer is shit.

I have to run the leaked alpha at 640×480. Everything is on by default graphics wise. I get a very low 6-8 frames per second. God forbid more than one monster is attacking. Wow, playing Doom 3 just doesn’t make me care about my now pathetic computer. What a game. The monster detail is amazing even at 640×480. Here are 6 screenshots of the doom 3 Alpha leek:

By the way, if you have the leak I do have a link for you. It’s to a forum post that explains how to make the alpha work. This’ll Help U Get Doom Running OK is the name of the post. One thing it forgets to mention is the fact that clicking Single Player and then New Game will make the game crash.