What's up with Dragovic?

Have not been a fan of UCLA basketball starter/thug Nikola Dragovic ever since his girlfriend accused him of assault last year. The charges were dropped, as they often are when a woman is being abused, and Dragovic was allowed back on the court.

Now he's in jail for assaulting a man and pushing him into a glass case, after which Dragovic's friend proceeded to pummel the guy until bystanders broke up the fight.

From the LA Times:

According to prosecutors, Stanisic began arguing with another man and his girlfriend during the concert by Daniel Johnston. Afterward, Dragovic allegedly rushed the victim and pushed him into the case, prosecutors said. As the two men were on the ground, Stanisic allegedly began punching the victim until security and bystanders broke up the fight, prosecutors said.

Dragovic reported the incident to campus police and team officials shortly after it occurred. As soon as charges were filed, Dragovic -- accompanied by Coach Ben Howland -- surrendered to Hollywood detectives. He later was released on bail.

I want to win as much as the next fan, but really? Our coach has to accompany players to jail when they turn themselves in? I agree that he is innocent until proven guilty, but it's a little suspicious that anger issues keep coming up off the court.

East Coast Bias Actually Pans Out for Once, Slingbox Update

I was going to write a long diatribe about the ridiculous pre-season college basketball polls that omitted UCLA in the top 25, but after our loss Cal State Fullerton, I see their point.

I think we will do far better than our football team did this season. Just sayin'.

We always start out slow. Two seasons ago, Kevin Love peaked in March. In February, there was still talk he was not going to enter the draft because he was still working on his fundamentals. He was, but he got it together quickly and ended up going fifth in the draft, third Pac-10 player in the first five selected, second Bruin. What's up.

With that said, my life is again centering on watching as many UCLA basketball games as I can. With DVR, this isn't very difficult to do at some point. I used to dream of setting up Slingbox on my Blackberry and watching the games on my phone. That was before I got cable with the sports package and realized every game could be recorded. No, my body, now over 30 years old now has a problem staying up for the games.

Obviously I cannot resist looking up the score of a game the morning after, to make sure my guys pulled out a win. The games usually start recording at 10:30 at night and end well after midnight. On a school night, that's rough. However, if I have plans after work, I can often go several days without watching the game. So my focus is now on how to watch the games as quickly as possible after I wake up.

Comcast has recently unveiled TV Everywhere which in theory could allow you to watch anything in your DVR via the interwebs. IN THEORY. In reality, it's probably not going to have that functionality, at least not from what info is on the web. I wish I could download the game to my iPod and watch it on the way to work, but that's not even close to possible.

Slingbox still looks like the best option to watch games on the go but...

1. It is not yet available on my Blackberry model.
2. Can the Verizon network support video? I can't even get to my Google Reader in less than ten minutes on my mobile browser on most mornings.

The search continues...

A Great Flash Add-On for Pets (and People) - Gadgetwise Blog

Every time I use flash to snap an indoor photo of my dog Patti, her eyes are transformed into fluorescent turquoise headlights. It’s not a good look for a dachshund.

I finally found a way to avoid that: Professor Kobre’s Lightscoop is a $35 add-on that snaps into your D.S.L.R.’s flash hot shoe and bounces the light from the pop-up flash off walls and ceilings. This creates softer, more even lighting for snapshots of babies, adults, and pets. No more bleached-out faces, harsh shadows, or devilishly tinted eyes.

It’s all remarkably low tech. Simply pop up your flash unit, then slide the Lightscoop into the flash hot shoe. The Lightscoop places a mirror directly into the path of the pop-up flash to bounce the light off the ceiling (or walls if you hold the camera in a vertical position). The Lightscoop requires a surface to bounce light, which is why it won’t work outdoors.

The Lightscoop comes with instructions for suggested manual settings. I tried it using full manual mode with a +1 flash compensation (the most my camera offers). It worked great, as you can see in the photo of the dark-eyed dog above. I also tried the Lightscoop in Auto mode, which doesn’t allow you to set the flash compensation. Depending on the lighting and walls in your shooting location, this may work, too.

One nice thing about the Lightscoop is that it doesn’t draw any battery power. It’s also very lightweight. On the downside, it only works with D.S.L.R. cameras.

The Lightscoop is available in a standard light and a warming light version. It fits hot shoes on Canon, Nikon, Fujufilm, Olympus, Pentax, and Sigma cameras (check here to see specific models). The company will release a new version for Sony D.S.L.R.s in early December.

The holidays are bearing down on us, and chances are you’ll be snapping a lot of indoor shots of your friends and family, not to mention the dogs and cats decked out in Santa hats, festive little sweaters, and reindeer antlers. The Lightscoop is a great little gadget for improving these indoor shots.

via gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com

If I get a DSLR camera, so getting this.

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