Ever since I graduated from Tennessee people always ask me "What happened to Tee Martin?" 

For uninformed Tee Martin was the starting quarterback AFTER Peyton Manning and in one year did two things Manning never did in 3 1/2 years, he beat Florida AND won a National Title.

Manning has gone on to much more success in the NFL while Martin never quite made it.

In any event, I found this article on Yahoo! Sports and it should answer your questions about "What happened to Tee Martin?"

Google is taking some heat lately. They are trying to cut deals with media companies like CBS and NBC Universall to be able to show their content on You Tube.

As you remember, Google bought You Tube for $1.5 billion last year. Now they are in the midst of trying to get in front of the lawsuit train but cutting deals with content providers to show their stuff.

It's not going well.

About two weeks ago the Wall Street Journal reported that some film studios had sued Google over their ad support to web sites that sold illegal movie downloads. Now folks like CBS and NBC seem ready to let the lawyers loose and sue Google back to the dial up days if they don't become more aggressive in marking and pulling down pirated content.

According to an article today in the Wall Street Journal, after Google bought You Tube their CEO Eric Schmidt was making nice with content companies. Supposedly he was offering Viacom a 70-30 split on ad revenue and was almost guaranteeing $500 million in ad revenue. It was reported that Google later backed away from those commitments.

Both sides of the debate, Google and the content companies, are trying to avoid going to court. I think  they've seen the errors of the Recording industry and are trying to figure out the business model. All this pointing back and forth and leaks to reporters could just be negotiating tactics. 

Content companies should use sites like You Tube as testing grounds fro new shows. Use them to develop programing.

Yes You Tube and MySpace need to get on the ball and do a better job of protecting copyrighted content by making it easier to take down pirated stuff.

Both sides have a long way to go but at least they're not just suing everyone under the sun little the Recording industry did.

I got a couple of CD's from Andrew who is a friend of mine I met while working in Austin, TX. I trust his musical judgement more than anyone else's. We usually send each other a couple of sets of CD's a year and continue the musical sharing that we started in Austin.

It is one of the few things I continue to carry with me from that town. I think I would have liked Austin better if I were there now, at this age, in this time, with this state of mind. Then again maybe not.

I can look at each place I've lived in and take away good and bad. I keep at least one friend from each town I've lived in. Stockton, Knoxville, Savannah, Austin, and Charleston. I will probably keep one from Las Vegas as well, if history has any say.

It's not that I'm trying to keep a friend from each town. It just sort of happens.

For as many friends as I keep from each town I haven't yet found my "tribe." I have members of it scattered around but not one that was strong enough to keep me around.

The last place I lived was Charleston. The tribe there consisted of a bar, soccer, and the beach. One of those things was likely to have something in common with someone.

Vegas is tough. I think I may have found a relatively cool bar but I have only been there once. I hung out at this huge soccer park yesterday just to sit outside in the sun but it was a far cry from Waterfront Park in Charleston. There also wasn't a whole lot people other than kids hanging out.

I still look for a tribe but I am having trouble finding one. This town is so transient and predatory that it is tough for people to kind of let go.

Since I have a job that keeps me very busy I don't have much time for politics. Besides, all I hear in the end is one side becoming more inept by the day (republicans) and the other blaming everything one the President.

My personal favorite lately has been this non-binding resolution against the President's proposed troop level increase in Iraq.

A non-binding resolution? Give me a fucking break!

They might as well say "I hate your war Bush!....but I'll fund it."

This is the best idea a Democratic controlled congress can come up with? Well maybe not, John Murtha. D-PA., actually puts his vote where his mouth is. He's calling for a measure to require the Pentagon to meet certain standards before giving them money.

I don't agree with Murtha but at least he's got a pair unlike the rest of the Democrats.

I like the quote by Rep. Geoff Davis, R-KY., said; ""This non-binding resolution serves no purpose other than pacifying the Democrats' political base and lowering morale in our military." This from a guy who graduated from West Point and was a flight commander in the 82nd Airborne.

 I thought Congress was bad before. Now they seem more incompetent than ever.

Lets' be honest, the best chance we have in Iraq is listening to the Military and Intelligence folks. To bad Congress doesn't.

I feel bad for my friends in the field right now. They show more heart and courage than anyone I've ever seen to this point and yet they're getting their paycheck from a Congress that lacks balls, direction, and courage.

So this buying a home thing is a little more complicated than I knew. I knew it was complicated but I didn't know it was stupid. Maybe I was stupid for thinking it wasn't stupid.

I spent part of the day Saturday trying to find out how big of a loan I could get. Well all the sites I tried all asked you the price of the home you were looking at. Yet they didn't leave a section for 'I don't know. I want to know how much I could get and THEN look.'

Eventually I just called a cat at Coutrywide.com (takes out the point of .com, they didn't even have a live chat or at least not one I could find. And I was sober) The cat I spoke to was actually very helpful. He seemed to listen, offered what sounds like sound advice or at least advice worth thinking about and explained some things for me. This was more helpful then the web site was.

In any event, I may be renting a little while longer. I could go gang busters and go out and find a home now but then I don't think I would like my eating choices for the next five years.

I am new to this and probably overreacting but hey, in the end it is my money and I like to add zero's to my IRA.

God I'm old.

I was floored by Michael Lewis' Moneyball. I found it insightful, intelligent, and amazingly written. Lewis's latest book The Blind Side is written just as well but isn't quite the level of Moneyball, at least for me.

The Blind Side is about a born to play left tackle human named Michael Oher who is taken in by a white Evangelical family in East Memphis. Oher is black, from super-poor West Memphis and spent his childhood surviving on the streets of Memphis. The story of Oher coming out of his shell with the help of Sean and Leigh Anne Touhy. He makes tremendous strides and in the end gets recruited to play football at Ole Miss.

The story of how these two worlds came together is amazing and Lewis does an amazing job capturing it. Lewis captures all the parties included very well. He does another impressive job in describing people in a way that makes you feel like you've known them for years.

While telling the story of Oher, Lewis gives a history to the changing football mentality towards offensive lineman. How Lawrence Taylor, Bill Walsh and the West Coast offense shed new light on the skills need to play the left tackle position and the dollars that would inevitably follow.

The two drawbacks I have with The Blind Side are: 1) Lewis's quickness in publishing the book and 2) a few historical mistakes.

Michael Oher is currently a left tackle at Ole Miss. He is still in school. The events that Lewis is describing happened very recently and maybe this story would be better is Lewis waited till Oher graduated.

The second complaint are two errors I came across. The first being that Steve Young won 1 Super Bowl not 2 with the 49ers. The second being that Tennessee beat LSU in Death Valley and not in Knoxville at the time Lewis is describing. These are minor mistakes in the grand scheme of things and have no barring on the story. The story is about Oher and the family Tuohy that took him in which is truly amazing.

The Blind Side is good. Like anything Michael Lewis writes, it is easy to read, enjoyable and interesting. I recommend reading it but I liked Moneyball better.

So I have decided to start looking for a small house or townhouse. Not a condo that's for sure. Why? Because in my experience a condo is nothing more than an apartment building sold off to individuals.

And when I say decided, I mean I am actually going to start talking to banks and shit about a loan. I in all honesty don't know what that means but hey, I guess this is a learning process.

To be honest I could really give a shit about owning a house. I hear it's a good investment, I have yet to buy into that theory because if you spend all your money to pay your mortgage and bills and have no money to buy food then what the hell is the point?

I am also anti-home owning dinner conversation. At a party or gathering, when people go into square footage and how good neighborhoods are stuff I lose all interest. I would rather watch the local news. And I hate the local news.

So this is me. Off to home ownership. I suspect this voyage will royally suck but I'll try most things at least once.

Steve Jobs is at it again. He wants to open up the Digital Rights Management on music online. This would be the shit. This would allow you to buy a Zune and download music from ITUNES. I whole heardlty agree with Jobs perspective.

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Apple's Jobs wants music unlocked

Feb. 6: In a Web site posting, he challenges the four major music labels to stop using anti-piracy Digital Rights Management. "On the Money's" Jim Goldman reports.

My first three years at Tennessee was Peyton Manning's last. I was a year behind him. I met him once while I worked in the grocery store in my dorm.

In the three years that we were both at Tennessee Peyton never led the Vols to a National Title, a win over Florida, or claiming the Heisman Trophy.

When he got to the pros not much changed. He couldn't beat this team or win that game.

Now, it appears that he has figured it out. He's got his Super Bowl ring and he got while throwing nearly 10 INT's during 4 playoff games. But he led the team and the team won.

So congrats Peyton. You won't turn out to be like Dan Marino after all.

 It's like the old saying goes, 'why do rats jump ship? They know it's sinking.' 4 times a year the old guard of TV re-emerges with SWEEPS. The ratings period for TV. Granted all of the networks, cable outlets, and most of the top TV markets get the data everyday but a lot of the smaller local markets still have to wait for ma and pa at home to fill out a diary and send it in to figure out what the ratings are.

It's is a old, stupid system that at this point means next to nothing to the savvy media buyer and even less to people who think. The ones who say it still matters are the same ones who will hold a story off a web site so it doesn't hurt a later newscast.

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Networks begin the sweeps weeks battle

Feb. 1: A lot of revenue is at stake, but does the month of ratings really matter as much any more? "On the Money's" Julia Boorstin reports.