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Monday, December 10, 2007
Brady talkin' trash
How come Tom Brady never gets a taunting penalty?
I feel I need to comment on the shalacking that my Steelers were given yesterday. First of all, does everyone know what a guarantee is? A guarantee is something that if "A" does or does not happen then I will do "B". For example, if you have a reservation guarantee and the hotel does not have a room for you they will send you to another hotel and pay 1 night of your stay. That's a guarantee, not I booked a room and you have to have it...
Anonymous Steeler player (that is what he was before the "guarantee") promised a win. That isn't good as the team was good enough without needing a press release to motivate them. And to see him get beat a couple times, real bad, was sad or funny depending on what team you like. So, with that in mind, I thought the Steelers were going to hang in there but they could not score when they got close. I feel they missed Santonio Holmes and also that they should have run Fast Willie more. If he had 300 yds rushing they probably would have won and he most likely would be close to that as the Pats can't stop anyone running the ball. So what do we do? Pass and pass some more.
My hope is the Pats go undefeated in the playoffs and lose the first round so they will be a great regular season team and LOSERS when it counts.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
6 Things
Shelly wrote in her blog that she was tagged (I am assuming in my nerdy voice this means challenged...hohi) to write 6 interesting things about her and then wrote "And since I'm in the mood I will tag the rest of you out there! Show me what you've got!!!" So I guess I can participate - - -
1. I have about 50 "homies" figurines. They used to be on display in my office at work but they are now "chillin" in a box waiting for a new location
2. At work we once named a street pan handler "hungry santa" because he was real skinny and had a santa beard. Notice I didn't say poor santa, I watched him one day and he made a minimum of 10.00 in 5 minutes. I would guess he made around 100.00 a day tax free and only working by our building. We even have a cartoon that appeared in the newspaper with a santa taht had lost weight and posted it on the wall - it's still there. (I know, now you also know how insensitive I am)
3. In 5th grade i once asked a noon duty lady permission to fight a kid that was a bully. It was such a lame "fight" I think a couple of swings (not connecting) were thrown before that noon dudy lady realized we took her permission seriously.
4. Since 5th grade is now an open subject, I wrote a ton of short stories in and for class. I had three tales of Giant Pickle Man and a horrible story I read for class, among others. I will spare you the name of it and I am ashamed and have learned a lesson from it because I used people from the class in the story and exploited their quirks. Wow, I am an awful human being....
5. My secret superhero ability would be invisibility - amateur psychologists have at that one!
6. On a rainy day I like to curl up on the couch with a nice comedy on the TV. Well that's everyday if they put enough of them on that were funny...
wow, I am so not interesting. If shortfalls are interesting than maybe I am.
1. I have about 50 "homies" figurines. They used to be on display in my office at work but they are now "chillin" in a box waiting for a new location
2. At work we once named a street pan handler "hungry santa" because he was real skinny and had a santa beard. Notice I didn't say poor santa, I watched him one day and he made a minimum of 10.00 in 5 minutes. I would guess he made around 100.00 a day tax free and only working by our building. We even have a cartoon that appeared in the newspaper with a santa taht had lost weight and posted it on the wall - it's still there. (I know, now you also know how insensitive I am)
3. In 5th grade i once asked a noon duty lady permission to fight a kid that was a bully. It was such a lame "fight" I think a couple of swings (not connecting) were thrown before that noon dudy lady realized we took her permission seriously.
4. Since 5th grade is now an open subject, I wrote a ton of short stories in and for class. I had three tales of Giant Pickle Man and a horrible story I read for class, among others. I will spare you the name of it and I am ashamed and have learned a lesson from it because I used people from the class in the story and exploited their quirks. Wow, I am an awful human being....
5. My secret superhero ability would be invisibility - amateur psychologists have at that one!
6. On a rainy day I like to curl up on the couch with a nice comedy on the TV. Well that's everyday if they put enough of them on that were funny...
wow, I am so not interesting. If shortfalls are interesting than maybe I am.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
My New Tech Crusade
So I have a new tech obsession. No, it won't help me stay organized, stay in touch with anyone, or improve my career or life situation, but will, however, ease the itch inside. You know that itch, the itch of a chicken pock that you know you shouldn't scratch? You move your body in hopes that maybe some clothes will ease the itch and maybe it does and yet the itch is still there and getting harder to ignore. You cannot scratch it because they say it will scar. But, if you do the relief feels good. The old instant gratification. Well my chicken pock is a video game: Guitar Hero! www.guitarhero.com My scar however is worse than a little mark on my skin but would be a gash in my wallet where there is no money. Not to say that it's that expensive but it is when you consider it's a game and food and safety and health are 1 kagillion times more important. Yet there is the itch...
Last Saturday we were at Sam's Club waiting for pictures to be finished and normally I would have been going bonkers with the wait. After going around the whole store I see something up the aisle that has piqued my interest...hmm...what is that, someone playing a guitar? Oh, it's that guitar hero thing I have heard so much about. Ty and I check it out and it looks cool. Ty tries it, likes it but has a hard time getting it. A guy shows us how to play. Ty tries again and is better. Then I get the pox!! I try and do OK and love it! We play a couple of more times and we are hooked (me more than Ty, of course). So, when I am walking along the parking lot and find 89.99 (or something similar) I will itch my pox and not even get a scar!!!!!!!
Last Saturday we were at Sam's Club waiting for pictures to be finished and normally I would have been going bonkers with the wait. After going around the whole store I see something up the aisle that has piqued my interest...hmm...what is that, someone playing a guitar? Oh, it's that guitar hero thing I have heard so much about. Ty and I check it out and it looks cool. Ty tries it, likes it but has a hard time getting it. A guy shows us how to play. Ty tries again and is better. Then I get the pox!! I try and do OK and love it! We play a couple of more times and we are hooked (me more than Ty, of course). So, when I am walking along the parking lot and find 89.99 (or something similar) I will itch my pox and not even get a scar!!!!!!!
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
NBC Green Week
Drafting off of the waste of time / my favorite tv shows, NBC is jamming "Green Week" onto each of their shows. I thought this to be ridiculous but thought the shows would go off without a hitch. Well, it's Wednesday and already this environmental propoganda is causing brain impulses that bring on irritation or something of the like.
Last night on my favorite comedy, drama, action, and love story, Biggest Loser, they incorporated "Green" into everything they said. "I always have my team eat organic and it saves money because it is local and doesn't have to be shipped." Well, since this is the first time I heard this from a trainer I had to wonder if she did but I am assuming she did. The other thing is that Organic Food is usually more expensive as the grower does not use products that help their food grow so they have to offset the lack of production somehow. All of the contestants were all of a sudden worried about the environment as well and included this worry in their little one on one interviews. Of course they never changed the fact they drink bottled water instead of drinking from the tap. All that plastic from the bottled water; all of the equipment and electricity used to filter the tap water to put in plastic bottles; all of the man power used to run the equipment and they drove their cars to work. Do these things not hurt the environment.
Oh, and on Sunday Night Football they cut their light usage down and had candles. This was one of the lamest stunts pulled. Hopefully NBC can get a Peace Prize for their work on the environment. . . Of course next week the 3 sets they have will be fully lit. I guess it's ok for them but we, as regular people, have to save the world. Maybe Al Gore and the CEO of GE/NBC can take private jets to my house and show me how to be Greeeeeeeeeeen.
I know this will continue through the week and one of my favorite shows, 30 Rock will have Schwimmer as some Eco-Superhero and Al Gore making a suprise visit and being "funny". I am all for cutting waste as no one wants to live next to a landfill and I understand not hurting what God has created but this corporate push to be green is only a push to produce GREEEN...Dollar Green.
I did forget one thing, if TV says it's true: it's true!
Last night on my favorite comedy, drama, action, and love story, Biggest Loser, they incorporated "Green" into everything they said. "I always have my team eat organic and it saves money because it is local and doesn't have to be shipped." Well, since this is the first time I heard this from a trainer I had to wonder if she did but I am assuming she did. The other thing is that Organic Food is usually more expensive as the grower does not use products that help their food grow so they have to offset the lack of production somehow. All of the contestants were all of a sudden worried about the environment as well and included this worry in their little one on one interviews. Of course they never changed the fact they drink bottled water instead of drinking from the tap. All that plastic from the bottled water; all of the equipment and electricity used to filter the tap water to put in plastic bottles; all of the man power used to run the equipment and they drove their cars to work. Do these things not hurt the environment.
Oh, and on Sunday Night Football they cut their light usage down and had candles. This was one of the lamest stunts pulled. Hopefully NBC can get a Peace Prize for their work on the environment. . . Of course next week the 3 sets they have will be fully lit. I guess it's ok for them but we, as regular people, have to save the world. Maybe Al Gore and the CEO of GE/NBC can take private jets to my house and show me how to be Greeeeeeeeeeen.
I know this will continue through the week and one of my favorite shows, 30 Rock will have Schwimmer as some Eco-Superhero and Al Gore making a suprise visit and being "funny". I am all for cutting waste as no one wants to live next to a landfill and I understand not hurting what God has created but this corporate push to be green is only a push to produce GREEEN...Dollar Green.
I did forget one thing, if TV says it's true: it's true!
Friday, November 2, 2007
Cool Candy to BCS analogy
This is from Steve Czaban the funniest sports talk radio host I have heard. www.czabe.com is where I got this list:
1. Ohio State (M&M's Plain)The Buckeyes are a dependable presence, much like good ol' M&M's plain. They won't really excite many people and can be knocked off by a better choice of candy, but they are seemingly always around.
2. Boston College (Bit O' Honey)Nobody likes Bit O' Honey, and even fans in Boston are largely ignoring this year's mid-major Cinderella story. Who wants a chunk of chewy, half-brittle, honey-based candy that gets stuck in your molars? Awful.
3. LSU (Snickers)This is a meaty, serious gut stuffer of a candy, just like the football team. However, LSU isn't likely to make many fall in love with them, just as you don't rave about a Snickers aside from it's ability to satisfy your hunger.
4. Arizona State (Spree)On the one hand, every once in a while, this candy makes sense. A big long roll of sweet, hard, disks. What's not to like? The chafed tongue. Arizona State seems like a good idea now. We'll end up thinking different.
5. Oregon (Mike & Ike)The colorful candy chewies now come in different flavored boxes - regular, tangy typhoon, tangy twister, jolly joes and berry blast. Like Oregon's uniforms, you could theoretically mix and match Mike and Ikes into 2,432 flavor combinations.
6. Oklahoma (Milky Way)They perfected the basic chocolate, caramel and nougat bar combination. A triple threat, just like Oklahoma perfected the wishbone.
7. West Virginia (Fun Dip)This is a "candy" that involves a sugar stick you lick, and pouches of sugar powder to dip them in and lick off. Total novelty, gimmick candy. Like the spread with Slaton and White. Gimmicky, but delicious to watch.
8. Kansas (Candy Cigarettes)People always ask: "Do they still make candy cigarettes?" Yes, yes they do. Just like people ask: "Does Kansas really play Division I football?" I'm afraid so.
9. Missouri (Abba Zabba)Nobody is really sure what they are, where you can find them, and whether anybody really likes them.
10. Georgia (Hot Tamales)A truly second-tier candy amongst the chewy non-chocolate set, no matter what fans of the candy may say. Let's be honest. Hot Tamales are over-rated. Just like Georgia fans think of themselves and their team. Overrated.
11. Virginia Tech (Reese's Peanut Butter Cups)A delicious candy that will melt at the slightest increase in temperature above room level. Not unlike the Hokies, who typically melt once the schedule heats up in November.
12. Michigan (Kit-Kat)What's not to like? Chocolate. Wafers. Simple, satisfying, right? Like the football team however, the Kit-Kat doesn't really inspire or wow you. It's just sort of there.
13. UConn (Nerds)Best consumed in small doses.
There was more but I could not access it...maybe because I cut and paste the first page... Anyway, funny none the less.
1. Ohio State (M&M's Plain)The Buckeyes are a dependable presence, much like good ol' M&M's plain. They won't really excite many people and can be knocked off by a better choice of candy, but they are seemingly always around.
2. Boston College (Bit O' Honey)Nobody likes Bit O' Honey, and even fans in Boston are largely ignoring this year's mid-major Cinderella story. Who wants a chunk of chewy, half-brittle, honey-based candy that gets stuck in your molars? Awful.
3. LSU (Snickers)This is a meaty, serious gut stuffer of a candy, just like the football team. However, LSU isn't likely to make many fall in love with them, just as you don't rave about a Snickers aside from it's ability to satisfy your hunger.
4. Arizona State (Spree)On the one hand, every once in a while, this candy makes sense. A big long roll of sweet, hard, disks. What's not to like? The chafed tongue. Arizona State seems like a good idea now. We'll end up thinking different.
5. Oregon (Mike & Ike)The colorful candy chewies now come in different flavored boxes - regular, tangy typhoon, tangy twister, jolly joes and berry blast. Like Oregon's uniforms, you could theoretically mix and match Mike and Ikes into 2,432 flavor combinations.
6. Oklahoma (Milky Way)They perfected the basic chocolate, caramel and nougat bar combination. A triple threat, just like Oklahoma perfected the wishbone.
7. West Virginia (Fun Dip)This is a "candy" that involves a sugar stick you lick, and pouches of sugar powder to dip them in and lick off. Total novelty, gimmick candy. Like the spread with Slaton and White. Gimmicky, but delicious to watch.
8. Kansas (Candy Cigarettes)People always ask: "Do they still make candy cigarettes?" Yes, yes they do. Just like people ask: "Does Kansas really play Division I football?" I'm afraid so.
9. Missouri (Abba Zabba)Nobody is really sure what they are, where you can find them, and whether anybody really likes them.
10. Georgia (Hot Tamales)A truly second-tier candy amongst the chewy non-chocolate set, no matter what fans of the candy may say. Let's be honest. Hot Tamales are over-rated. Just like Georgia fans think of themselves and their team. Overrated.
11. Virginia Tech (Reese's Peanut Butter Cups)A delicious candy that will melt at the slightest increase in temperature above room level. Not unlike the Hokies, who typically melt once the schedule heats up in November.
12. Michigan (Kit-Kat)What's not to like? Chocolate. Wafers. Simple, satisfying, right? Like the football team however, the Kit-Kat doesn't really inspire or wow you. It's just sort of there.
13. UConn (Nerds)Best consumed in small doses.
There was more but I could not access it...maybe because I cut and paste the first page... Anyway, funny none the less.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Baseball and wherever the mind goes
So I don't know about everyone else but I really had no interest in the World Series. I believe I can narrow down why that is and clear my own head. Of course a sweep did not help but there are other reasons:
1) The schedule of the playoffs-
a. As with other sports they milk the playoffs to get as much ad revenue as possible
b. This leads to many days when baseball isn't even played and it's easy to forget the days they play.
c. This also leads to a potential where a team or teams can be sitting for a week or more waiting to play thus breaking the continuity of their play and my viewing.
2) Game times -
a. Regular season games take around 3 hours where many of the playoff and WS games lasted in excess of 4 hours. If I was anywhere but the west coast I wouldn't be able to stay up to watch (news flash--I didn't anyway).
b. Saturday at 5pm pacific??? Start the thing at 1pm pacific 4pm est. This is how baseball is shown during the season so why not during playoffs? Oh, sorry, ad revenue....
So I thought I had more breakdown but that is sufficient for my worn out head. Oh, one more thing...I CANNOT STAND THE RED SOX!!!
notes.... I hear Torre to relpace Little?? Let's do it, bring A Rod here with our young core and let's actually win!!! Go Dodgers!
1) The schedule of the playoffs-
a. As with other sports they milk the playoffs to get as much ad revenue as possible
b. This leads to many days when baseball isn't even played and it's easy to forget the days they play.
c. This also leads to a potential where a team or teams can be sitting for a week or more waiting to play thus breaking the continuity of their play and my viewing.
2) Game times -
a. Regular season games take around 3 hours where many of the playoff and WS games lasted in excess of 4 hours. If I was anywhere but the west coast I wouldn't be able to stay up to watch (news flash--I didn't anyway).
b. Saturday at 5pm pacific??? Start the thing at 1pm pacific 4pm est. This is how baseball is shown during the season so why not during playoffs? Oh, sorry, ad revenue....
So I thought I had more breakdown but that is sufficient for my worn out head. Oh, one more thing...I CANNOT STAND THE RED SOX!!!
notes.... I hear Torre to relpace Little?? Let's do it, bring A Rod here with our young core and let's actually win!!! Go Dodgers!
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