User talk:Tbooz

Nick Saban and Jimmy Barnes

You may have a point. I guess I have a natural tendency toward current events, being a reporter (and a correspondent for The Birmingham News, covering high school sports). The Jimmy Barnes story seemed to get a fair amount of attention — Lord knows we did our part — so it seemed notable to me. I think I'm also getting weary of the Auburn fans posting every little factoid that seems detrimental to Saban with the Bammers quickly deleting it, or the Bammers posting something favorable and the Aubies deleting it. It's kinda like a Wikipedia version of a Paul Finebaum Show pis— uh, urination contest. Oh well, it helps s sell papers. :-) Remove the Barnes thing if you want; I don't feel that strongly one way or the other. Realkyhick 02:42, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I try to be as neutral possible. Dealing with the battle between Bama and Auburn fans is one thing. Dealing with the battle between Hoover High School fans and (choose one: Spain Park, Vestavia, Mountain Brook, all of the above) can be even worse, because you're dealing with all the moms and dads. It can be interesting when you're parked in the stadium lot with a quarterback's parents on one side of you and the newly-appointed "big dog" of the Hoover School Board on the other. Neutrality is a virtue. Realkyhick 00:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am originally from B'ham, so I understand the high school thing. It's a lot worse now though. Back when I was there, there was no Hoover High School, it was Berry High School, and I went to Shades Valley High School, but it was sitting near at the corner of 280 and 31, I think there is an office complex there now. Higginbotham was the coach at Valley then, of course he's now at Tuscaloosa County. My how times have changed. --Tbooz 01:11, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I remember the old SVHS on 280. I covered Shades Valley's baseball team a fair amount this season. They had a good kid named Jade Todd, really good pitcher and pretty fair hitter too. His uncle is the coach now.

Re programming: I work with Microsoft .NET languages, mainly Visual Basic.NET and ASP.NET (web programming). I used to work with PHP a fair amount, but not nearly as much demand anymore. Send a note to my e-mail address with what you need and I'll give you a quote. Realkyhick 16:39, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]