UFC lightweight Phillipe “The Filipino Assassin” Nover (6-2-1) has agreed to step in to fight Sam “Hands of Stone” Stout (14-5-1) at UFC Ultimate Fight Night 19 on September 16. Following an undisclosed injury, Stout's original opponent Kyle Bradley (14-6, 1 NC) was forced to withdraw from the event, leaving Nover the opportunity to snap a two fight losing streak. Nover will be taking the fight on just four weeks notice.

I sometimes think back to the things I fought for and believed in over the years. In my mind, I play a huge game of connect the dots. When I think back to what I used to believe in like college, and compare it to what I believe now, I'm like "what the fuck, dude, when did you lose all that?" The thing is, I don't see it that way, I've been there for all the steps in between. It's not like "All I see is 26 dots, how the fuck did you come up with an umbrella?"

The most striking example is drinking. I was so anti drinking up until about March 2005, it was crazy. I was judgmental of people who drank, I looked down on it, I considered it immoral, all kinds of stuff. I wouldn't say I regret any of that; I had very good reasons - drinking represented succumbing to something I absolutely did not want to be. I'm the type of person that when I believe something, I do it all the way, no cognitive dissonance. I really try to behave in a way that adheres to my beliefs, part of my atheism is that only my peers and myself can judge my actions and as my peers change I can be the only reliable judge, and I make sure I do a good job.

I don't remember exactly how I began to reverse course on the drinking thing. Come like 2004, Jenn expressed interest in wanting to drink and we fought and fought and I said terrible things and all this nastiness. I was a huge douche to her over this issue. Somewhere along the way though, I started to realize that I was being that asshole I didn't want to be, and it wasn't a factor of drinking or not drinking. I had always thought drinking led to being an asshole, but I had started to be an asshole without it. I think that planted the seeds of disconnecting the 2; if the eventual goal was to avoid being a drunken asshole, I was only making sure not to be drunk, and I was missing the point. As I began to have a paradigm shift away from "alcohol is the devil," I really began to undergo cognitive dissonance. How do you approach that? When your actions are so determined by your beliefs, but your beliefs evolve, it's VERY hard to reverse your actions. We're talking about Rush Limbaugh suddenly opening a planned parenthood shit here.

I think back, and a huge turning point for me was the HA trip to Miami. Before all this, I hadn't really been around drunk people, and we went to Miami, and to only myself I'd begun turning my opinion around. In Miami, people drank a ton and I didn't, I DD'd the whole time, and we had a ton of fun. I think that experience was instrumental in turning the corner of "people who drink aren't automatically assholes." But, nevertheless, after that even if I'd wanted to drink, how could I? I'm the douchebag who publicly denounced drinking, it's not like I can go ask someone if they want to go get a beer. Quite frankly, I was ashamed of it; I was ashamed for believing something and essentially gradually reversing course on my beliefs, but not being able to reverse course on my actions.

Eventually, I brought it up to Jenn, and we had our first drink probably in May of 2005 (a Mike's hard lemonade) and had a drink at a restaurant every so often. I turned 21 December 1 2004, by the way. We didn't really tell anyone, maybe a few people, but it was interesting to me how much of my behavior at that point was determined by the expectations of others, and at this point in retrospect that's something I'm slightly ashamed of.

So then I left for grad school in Florida. If you don't know the story of FL and me, there's no point rehashing it. In summary, I did not fit in well in Tallahassee FL or at Florida State, I got very depressed and suicidal, gained a ton of weight, and in a lot of ways tried to throw my life away. The t-shirts you can buy there say "Tallahassee: a drinking town with a football problem" and that's true. In SD, you can go to the comedy club, or the beach, or seaport village, or sea world, or the zoo, and on and on; there's always something to do. In Tally, there isn't, people just drink. It was crazy to me. When I first started and was working in housing on FSU's campus, the chief of police came to us and said "we need people to come in, we'll get you drunk, then you'll help our new officers learn to do field sobriety tests." I, being a new drinker, being around people with no social expectation of me and know knowledge of my anti-drinking campaign, and figuring it's the safest environment you can ever learn to be drunk in, volunteered. I was taken to the chief of police's conference room and brought to a .12 on plastic bottle vodka, and resoundingly failed the field sobriety test. Also, one of the people brought in got sick and there was concern they had gotten alcohol poisoning, all of this happening in the chief of police's conference room. Connect those dots: leaving SD as being kind of a closet alcohol-sipper, to getting tanked and someone else getting alcohol poisoned in the chief of police's conference room. Tallahassee represented a huge and immediate disconnect with everything I had ever been familiar with throughout my whole life.

Over the time I was there, I made good friends and went out drinking many times, I was drunk many times and went to clubs and don't remember how I got home and the whole bit; I compressed a reasonable undergraduate career into 2 over-21 years of grad school. And somehow I survived, though at the end I weighed 300 lbs and was on all kinds of psych meds. And after leaving and moving up with Jenn, I lost the weight, got off the psych meds, still to this day I don't know what I want to do with my life, got an M.S. out of the ordeal, and casually I'll responsibly drink. I'd say I've been drunk 3-4 times in the 2 years since then, but mostly it's a beer over dinner or something.

If you were to take a snapshot of me now, you'd think I was pretty normal. I have a good education, I have a good paying job (even though it's not what I want to be doing, it's a recession and I'm happy to have a job) I'm healthy, and I do the things I want to do, I have a great wife, and I enjoy a drink when I feel like it. Nevertheless, we are shaped by our past experiences, and knowing the presentation I portrayed from like 98-2005, I still to this day hesitate doing things like posting pictures of us having a beer over dinner to facebook, or commenting that I tried a local beer and recommend it, because of what people from that time period will think. I need to get over that, and this explanation is in part a self-therapy session of fleshing out that umbrella - it may seem strange to jump to dot 26 when you only ever saw dot 1, but hopefully now you can see how the rest of the picture began to take shape.

Following a controversial disqualification at inaugural ShoMMA event this past May 15, the CSAC overturned the result of the headlining bout between lightweights Billy Evangelista and “Iron” Mike Aina; declaring the bout a “no decision.” The fight was halted and awarded to Aina following a knee by Evangelista to the upper torso of his downed opponent, referee Herb Dean called an end to the bout declaring a disqualification victory for Aina.

Strikeforce welterweight contenders Nick Diaz (20-7, 1 NC) and Jay “The Thoroughbred” Hieron (18-4) were unable to meet at the August 15th “Carano vs. Cyborg” event, however CEO and co-founder Scott Coker hopes they can meet by the end of the year. Following the Sho- wtime broadcast, Coker said of Diaz "I think he's going to meet with the athletic commission, get that all worked out, and hopefully we'll see Nick back here before the end of the year."

I found a lot of disjointed instructions for rooting to the palm pre in linux, so I thought I'd document the process I used to make it work. These instructions were written using Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and WebOS version 1.1.0.

1. Add the repository for virtualbox to your sources list. For Ubuntu 9.04, add deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jaunty non-free A list of repos for other distros can be found here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads, or if you want to download the .deb and install it that way, go here and choose version 2.2: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds I know V-Box is past 3 now, but I had the most success with 2.2. The source for the GPG key can be found here: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc. Virtualbox is a virtual machine platform that acts as a development platform for the pre, so you may not use it much, but you should do it anyway.
2. Install virtualbox using the following command: sudo apt-get install virtualbox-2.2
3. Install the Java JRE using the following terminal command: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre
4. Download the Palm Mojo SDK at the following website: http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_ajaxregister&view=register&sdkdownload. You will be asked to register as a developer, at which point you will be able to choose to Download the sdk, and you should choose the Linux SDK, which will say it is designed for Ubuntu 8.04.
5. The SDK is a .deb file. You should double-click this file, which will prompt you to install. Install the package.
6. Download the Novacom Driver from the following link: https://cdn.downloads.palm.com/sdkdownloads/1.1/sdkBinaries/palm-novacom_0.3-svn177284-hud9_i386.deb Install it exactly as you did the SDK
7. Open your palm pre and load the launcher. Type the following text EXACTLY: upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart
8. This will launch a dialogue asking you to put the phone into dev mode. Slide the switch to activate dev mode, and agree when it asks you to reboot the phone. This same procedure is used to remove the phone from developer mode, and you will be asked to do that later.
9. Once the phone comes back on, plug it into the computer using the USB cable, and choose "Just Charge" on the phone's screen.
10. You now have terminal access to your phone. Open a terminal and type: cd /opt/Palm/novacom If this doesn't work, some people report the files for novaterm are located in /opt/nova/bin
11. Type novaterm and you should be brought to a command prompt that displays:"root@castle:/#
12. Before taking this step, make sure you either have a data signal, or make sure you have wifi access; you need the internet here. Type the following command in EXACTLY to enable Optiware . In fact, it's probably wise to copy and paste them into your terminal: cd /tmp
wget http://gitorious.org/webos-internals/bootstrap/blobs/raw/master/optware-bootstrap.sh
sh optware-bootstrap.shFollow the on-screen instructions to complete the setup.
13. This step istalls the "Quilt" patch manager (pun intended.) Type the following code in exactly: cd /tmp
wget http://gitorious.org/webos-internals/bootstrap/blobs/raw/master/quilt-bootstrap.sh
sh quilt-bootstrap.sh
14. The Pre already has a package management app, called FileCoaster, meaning you can install apps from the pre, without rooting in through a terminal, over the web. To install the package manager though, I recommend using the terminal. At the Pre terminal prompt, type this exactly: sudo ipkg -o /var install http://www.precentral.net/sites/precentral.net/files/webos-homebrew-apps/feeds/com.palm_.net_.precoder.fcoaster_1.1.1_all.ipk Check here for updated links to .ipk files for versions of FileCoaster past 1.1.1.
15. It's annoying to have to type the whole code to turn the developer mode on and off, but fortunately there's a patch to put a button in your launcher. This uses the procedure for applying patches using quilt, and there's an instruction sheet for this process here. Basically, you're going to enter the following code exactly:sudo mount -o remount,rw /
cd /
sudo quilt import /opt/src/modifications/luna/enable-dev-mode-icon.patch
sudo quilt push
sudo mount -o remount,ro / For a complete list of patches you can apply using this procedure, look here: http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Portal:Patches_to_webOS
16. To log out of your pre and close terminal access, type: exit
17. Turn off your pre, then turn it back on.
18. While this is not necessarily a step, you can now ssh to your pre even if you don't have a USB cable attached. I'll check my home router's config to find the IP of the pre (or just use www.checkmyip.com) and ssh in on port 222 with the following command:ssh <IP Address> -p 222 -l <username>

That should set you up to do most of what you could ever want to do with homebrew on the pre. Check out this thread for a list of homebrew apps, and the links to the .ipk files which you can use to install via FileCoaster: http://forums.precentral.net/homebrew-apps/194104-links-all-homebrew-apps-updated-7-31-a.html.

I credit this article to the following sources:

• Palm Mojo SDK Linux Installation Instructions
• WebOS Internals Wiki: Overview
• WebOS Internals Wiki: Accessing Linux Using Novaterm
• WebOS Internals Wiki: Applying Patches
• PreCentral Forums List of Homebrew Apps
• FileCoaster Instructions