Irritated T.O. Spreads Blame. Terrell Owens’ (big headed San Francisco 49ers star) latest tirade is eerily similar to the latest Budweiser True commercials where the star football player blames everything on his teammates and takes no credit for a loss. T.O. has been doing this for years though so is this truly life imitating art (okay it’s a commercial so art is a stretch) or art imitating life? Hmm…. a real chicken or the egg conundrum.
Tennis Pioneer Passes Away. Trailblazing women’s tennis player, Althea Gibson, passed away yesterday. She was a classy lady who carried herself with dignity, poise and self respect. Yes there were black female tennis players before Williams sisters. Althea Gibson was the original Williams sister. To top it all off once she was done with tennis she decided to challenge racial and sexual stereotypes in the world of golf. Ms. Gibson was an incredible lady who deserves her place in the pantheon of other courageous atheletes who’s exploits went beyond the world of sports and brought about change in our society at large.
New link to the left there. I rediscovered Mac Hall yesterday. I was organizing my bookmarks earlier this week and realized that I hadn’t been to this particular webcomic in a long time. All year in fact. I was organizing my favorite webcomics into their own folder. There was only one in there when I was done and that was Megatokyo. This other one came to mind but I couldn’t remember the name of it. So I kicked my Internet Searching skills into high gear and scoured the net for this unnamed webcomic. When I get something in my head but can’t put my finger on it it bugs me to no end until I find it. I had pictures in my head of the characters but no names. I couldn’t remember the name of the comic, the character names, or anything else about it. Well to make a long story short after a couple of days I stumbled across Mac Hall and my search was concluded. Check it out if you haven’t already. It’s great. I like the drawing style and the sense of humor. Definitely worth a peek.
I’m not sure where the explosion of posts has come from this week. I’ll try to keep it going but who knows. The last time this happened I didn’t post anything again for a month so I guess we’ll see. I hope I don’t post myself out. I’m enjoying it while it lasts. Gotta post while the inspiration is upon me. Okay I’m really going to sleep now. I mean it this time. Yeah right. It’s hard going to sleep at 4 in the afternoon when it’s still light outside. Mentally I know I need to because if I don’t I’m going to be hurting tonight at work and tomorrow during the day but when it comes to translating that knowledge into actual sleep it doesn’t seem to work.
I loved Matchstick Men. Yet another movie who’s plot/story line is so good that I’m afraid to say anything about it for fear of ruining it for others who haven’t seen it yet. So as usual I’ll just say that it’s really good. I am not a Nicholas Cage fan. I think he’s stiff, dull and totally lacking in talent. Needlesss to say this movie has changed my opinion of him. Not a complete 180 change mind you but his stock has gone up a couple of points in my eyes.
Skating at the skating rink last night was fun. We were there for over 4 hours. About halfway through the night I realized I’m just going round and round in an endless circle. Intellectually this seemed really silly and pointless but I was having fun so I didn’t give a crap. Other than the guy who owned the place, me and my 7 friends were probably the only adults within a 3 mile radius of the place. If we had stopped and actually thought about that we probably would have discovered how pathetic we were but again we were having fun so who gives a crap. There was one lady there with her two daughters who was older than us. She was grooving on those skates man. One of the funniest moments of the night had to be when this little girl, probably a middle schooler, came up the isle, stopped, looked up at us and said there are too many grown-ups in here. We all had several minutes of laughs out of that one. I learned a couple things last night. I suck at the Electric Slide and the Cha-Cha-Slide. In my defense I think my friends were doing some modified form of the Electric Slide. I can’t be held responsible for not knowing all the electric slide hybrids out there. The DJ also put on something called the Bunny Hop which none of use knew. The little kids definitely showed us up on that one. All in all we had fun. I think we’ll be doing that more often. It was very spur of the moment which was cool.
Well my weekend is almost over. Gotta try to get some sleep stockpiled away. Tomorrow will involve getting off from work at 8 am, going to church, playing a soccer game, maybe afternoon church, and then back to work at midnight. In other words, no sleep. Ugh! Can’t complain though. This has been a really fun weekend.
Just got back from skating. Me = 1 tired dude. Left foot hurts. Can barely keep my eyes open. Electric slide was fun. So was Cha-cha slide. Too many little kids. Made us feel old. Going to sleep now.
Okay here’s the rundown on The Rundown. It’s a good movie. Not bad, not great. Just plain old good. I really liked it. I wasn’t sure what to expect so I fell back on the old stand-by. Wait and see what Ebert and Roper say about it. That’s usually a safe barometer for a movie that I’m on the fence about. I had my doubts over the last month or so when I first started seeing the previews for it. A couple of weeks ago they started showing the previews with the critics reviews inserted. They had the typical praise from the scrub reviewers from podunk publications and tv stations which just about sealed it for me. This was going to be another rental. Money is tight at the moment and I don’t need to be throwing it away on another flop of a movie. I’ve seen enough of those this year. Then out of the blue last sunday I see the preview with Ebert and Roper’s comments. The glowing praise they heaped on the movie swayed me. I couldn’t resist. I’m a recovering wresling fan so I had the built in interest in seeing if The Rock could really act. Plus you’ve got the hottie, Rosario Dawson. She’s a definite 10. Then there’s Sean William Scott for the comic relief. As stated before on this very blog any movie that has me smiling most of the way through is a keeper. This one definitely qualifies. I was smiling and laughing the entire 104 minutes. The Rundown isn’t gonna win any Oscars but it’s definitely a nice action flick with a decent plot. Christopher Walken is the icing on the cake. Christopher Walken doesn’t play characters in his movies. He’s kind of like Stallone and Arnold in that respect. They don’t play characters, they play themselves. Christopher Walken plays himself in this joint and does a darn good job of it. Sure he has a name in the credits but it might as well just say Christopher Walken playing Christopher Walken. Classic Walken. The way he delivers his lines is just hillarious. I crack up just looking at the guy. Well I’m on my way to see Matchstick Men and then it’s off for a night at the skating rink. You laugh but while you’re sitting at home I’ll be rolling around in circles grooving to the latest top 40 hits. Peace.
According to my quiz results, addicted would be too strong a phrase to use but I’m getting there. Give me time. I’ve only been back online at home since March. It takes a while to build up to my previous usage levels. I’m not a college student any more. I have to earn “a living” now. Being an adult really sucks at times.
Are you Addicted to the Internet?
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The following is a snippet of a conversation one of my co-workers had this morning with one of our wonderful computer users. I’ve come to the conclusion that the majority of us must be crazy. If you had conversations like this all day everyday, you’d go crazy too. When it happens to a co-worker you empathize, laugh, and thank the Lord it wasn’t you this time. Names have been changed and sanitized to protect the innocent and the stupid.
Stupid Caller: My server has a different sequence of lights on today.
Poor Tech Support Analyst: Is everything working?
Stupid Caller: Yes, but it looks different, can you have someone come check it?
Poor Tech Support Analyst: So, it’s working perfectly…but the lights look different?
Stupid Caller: Yes, can you put that as a high priority?
In our organizational structure a high priority ticket means that this is an emergency that requires immediate action. Guess who sets the priority. That’s right. The user. We can’t use our expertise and common sense to evaluate the situation and make an honest assessment of the severity. We have to ask the user what priority they need and almost without fail each user requests a high priority because of course they’re the most important user in the company. Any problem he or she has, no matter how minor, is an emergency. I didn’t come up with this brilliant system. We can thank the powers-that-be for that. I just work here and not for that long I might add. So now probably as I type this some poor lan admin from our overworked and understaffed regional support group will have to go out to this location to look at the lights on this guys server and tell him his server is working fine. What’s really sad is this inconsiderate, brainiac of a user probably makes more money than me and the Lan Admin. Too bad IQ, consideration, and simple human kindness don’t increase as people’s pay grade increases. I spoke to the President of our large, multinational corporation yesterday. When HE calls, that’s a high priority. If he scrapes paint off the case of his laptop and calls about it, THAT is a high priority and I’ll willingly hop to because he’s the one who ultimately authorizes my paycheck. When a regular, average, Joe Blow user calls with a NON-problem that’s NOT a high priority. Even when the user has an actual problem it’s rarely a real honest to goodness high priority ticket. A medium, maybe though more often not is merely a regular or normal priority problem. Man I love Tech Support. Sorry rant over. My weekend has begun. I vow not to think of work again until 11:59 pm Saturday night.
These links speak for themselves. Gotta check them out. If you listen to Mike and Mike In The Morning on ESPN Radio, you’ve probably heard of this. Check out the links. Take the test. See what you think. This is for guys by the way. I don’t believe the concept has been expanded to encompass women. You (women) can of course observe and comment but cannot be classified as such. Sorry.
Are You A Metrosexual?: A brief primer on what that is and a quiz to help you properly answer that question.
A Women’s Take On Metrosexuality: An article written by the sexiest type of woman around. What’s that you ask? A feminine woman with a healthy appreciation for sports. The ultimate combination.
Real World Demonstration of the Concept: Mike and Mike take the test and provide real life examples of a living, breathing metrosexual and a non-metrosexual.
Metrosexual And Proud Of It: Mike Greenberg, the second Mike in the Mike and Mike Show, defends his metrosexuality.
Still Confused? Maybe it will help to view metrosexuals and non-metrosexuals in their native habitats.
Sport’s Metrosexuals: Just because David Beckham, one the world’s best known and most popular soccer players, is on this list it doesn’t mean that ALL soccer players are metrosexuals. Just had to get that out there.
Sport’s Non-Metrosexuals: Men as we should be. ‘Nuf said
….. And Last But Certainly Not Least
How did I score on the quiz?
Check it out: Let’s just say I’m secure in my non-metrosexuality. That being said I feel an explanation of my two metrosexual leaning answers is in order.
Question #3: Do you moisturize daily? My Answer: Always — it’s a necessity! My Explanation: I’m Black! I can’t go out in public ashy (if you don’t know what ashy means, find a black ermmm… African American friend and ask). My Mom would kill me and my friends would clown me to no end. So technically this answer can’t count against me because of extenuating cultural circumstances.
Question # 4: Not counting sneakers, how many pairs of shoes do you own? My Answer: Gimme a second .. still counting … My Explanation: This subject has been addressed previously on this blog. I’ve got quite a few pairs of shoes. It’s not something I’m proud of. It just happened. One question out of twelve though isn’t bad. No metrosexually incriminating evidence here.
Got it? Good. Questions, comments, concerns?
Are You A Drifter? As it is with electronics and to a certain extent technology in general, America is years behind Japan. Folks are still sleeping on drifting. I first heard about drifting back in 1992 or ’93 while living in Okinawa. I’ve never drifted a car though I have been in a car while drifting. Quite simply, cars aren’t made to perform that way but they sure do look cool doing it. Like the article mentions, if Drifting does come here to the States and blows up X-Games style it will be kind of sad. Once something gets really big here and becomes part of the pop culture landscape we tend to overdue it big time. Extreme sports, American Idol, The Weakest Link all come to mind. The thing, whatever it is, tends to get bastardized and ends a mere shadow of its former pre-discovered self. I’d almost prefer to see it stay in Japan for my own personal nostalgia sake. On the other hand the selfish side of me thinks it would be cool to turn on ESPN 2 or the Speed Channel someday and see a drift competition. How cool would that be?
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