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Friday, August 29, 2003
 

Video Music Awards



My God this was a yawner. If there were funny parts, I missed them. Sure Britney and Madonna 'kissed'. I didn't see it but I can bet it wasn't really spectacular. I say that just shows the tone of the show. Trying desperately to be on 'the edge'. Mtv is going the way of Rolling Stone. Both are getting washed up. They are in their middle ages, yet still trying to be cool, hip and edgy. Still trying to be controversial. Give it up and go back to what you do the best Mtv, music videos.



This VMAs was almost as bad as the Carson Daly roast. Musicians should NOT try to be comedians. Most of them have NO TIMING. They are reading off the teleprompter in flat voices and fail to deliver the lines. Between that and the HORRIBLE material they had to work with, it was a recipe for disaster. Hopefully the Movie Awards will still be amusing, because the VMAs are rolling down hill. Fast.


Thursday, August 28, 2003
 

I Knew racism would come up


Well here it is. The proof that race would become an issue.

Thanks Jason Whitlock for proving my point: http://espn.go.com/page2/s/whitlock/030828.html

He does make a good point about Croshere though. He is a bum, I don't think he will get too much playing time this year, except maybe early on as the Pacers try to sucker a team into trading for him. (Good Luck with that).

"If Thomas is as conniving and ego-driven as Bird -- which I'm sure he is" -- Ah its true, but don't you need an ego? I think that Bird wanting to prove how good he is would be a good thing. It means he will want the best team out there to make him look good.

Oh well I am sure there is more out there about this situation


 

Larry Legend makes his mark


Larry Bird, the Pacers new president of basketball operations, has fired head coach Isiah Thomas. Good move by Bird. As has been mentioned before, Thomas was absolutly TERRIBLE in last years playoff loss to the Celtics. He needed to be shown the door no matter how much the players claimed they liked him. I find it amusing that O'Neal is upset that Thomas left. Why? The kid wants to win, Thomas blew that last year. He really resigned with Indiana because of the money not the coach, so that is off the table. He will play and he will be happy to play for a good coach like Rick Carlisle.


Rick Carlisle of course should have been the coach to replace Larry, when Larry retired. Unfortunatly the Pacers thoguht it would be wiser to go with Isiah. Good move, as Isiah led your team to early playoff exits and Carlisle only was coach of the year and made a pretty bad Detriot team into the #2(maybe #1 this year with Darko) team in the east.


Carlisle isn't the players coach that Thomas was, but maybe the Pacers don't need that right now. They are an uprising team, led by a "legitimate" (in this day in age, he is legit) big man. They should've done better and gone further in the playoffs last year, but Isiah decided to coach like this was a 4th grade recreation team, and everyone gets to play. His substitution "pattern" was ridiculous. I imagine players will enjoy Carlisle rotation when he implements it, because It must be easier know when and how much you are going to play each game. Unlike Isiahs 40 minutes tonight, 10 total minutes the next 3 nights.



Of course Larry's firing of Isiah does open a few cans of worms. One being that there was said to be animosity between the two that dates back to their playing days. The other Can? I will say it. Someone will bring it up, might as well be me. Racism. I will deal with the animosity can first. Who cares? Even if it is true, Isiah made this real easy for Larry to do by laying down in the playoffs last year. If he had done a good job and showed that he might be able to take this team to the next level, then this firing might not have happened.



Now the racism angle. I firmly believe this is bull-oney. First, I believe that when it comes to basketball, Larry doesn't see the color of peoples skin. He is too much of a competitor to care. He just wants to win. Add this to the fact that he became good friends with Patrick Ewing (whom, i do not need to remind you is African-America just as Isiah is) while playing for the (one and only) Dream Team in Spain.


Yet people will still say Larry fired the black man to hire his white friend. Is it his fault his white friend was the NBA's Coach of the Year? Is it his fault that the other guy was a terrible coach? It simply is not a matter of race in this case. Anyone who thinks it is, just needs to review tape of last years Pacers/Celtics playoff series to know.



In Summary: Kudos Larry, Kudos.


Monday, August 25, 2003
 

random thought...



Is it bad that the one song i have most memories associated from high school is Will Smith's Gettin' Jiggy Wit it? I remeber that whole album. What a come back that man made. Good times. Special nod to 'Miami' which is right up there. Good times....


 

I know I have a good credit rating but ...



I am used to getting credit card offers in the mail, but this offer took it to the next level. It was for a Banco Popular Platinum mastercard. I think it is a good offer at least. THE ENTIRE OFFER WAS IN SPANISH. I have no idea how these people thought I would be interested in a SPANISH card.

Its good to know that my good credit still counts for something in the spanish speaking world!


 

more about veggies


I was listening to Real Big Fish's 'say ten' today, and i found the lyrics quite amusing so let me spell them out for you:



she's not eatin' bacon, not
eatin' sausage,
and she won't eat eggs,
not eatin' chicken
not eatin' turkey, she
won't have a steak,
but i just can't help feelin' sorry
for this poor little lettuce head
you know, i can't stop cryin' cause i
know this broccoli's dead

vegetarian? i'm not a vegetarian,
vegetarian...she's a
poor little cow, little sheep,
little fish
how can I sleep? when carrots
are bleedin'
plants are screamin' and tomatoes cry,
you say "it's not so bad, they're only
vegetables", that's what you said
maybe i'm a murderer, but i'm hungry
and they're better off dead.

save a plant, eat a cow,
i want beef, i want it now!
i'm gonna eat it cause it's red!
i'm gonna eat it cause it's dead!
maybe i should eat it raw let the
blood run down my jaw
i'd eat people if it was legal,
i'd eat people if it was legal!



Now doesn't that just make your day?


Sunday, August 24, 2003
 

The Osbournes'



So the Osbournes tried to fake everyone out on their finale. They prentended to show that the whole show was scripted. When I was told that the Osbournes was 'fake', I was a bit stumped. Then a few days later I saw the episode myself. I immediatly said that there was no way that coudl be on the level. If it was truley scripted the OSbournes would not have shown that. It would have ruined them. A slap in the face of their fans. Not to mention why MTV would have ever put it on in the first place. Alas, it was truly only a prank. According to MTV's episode guide that is. Still, I can't help to feel a bit insulted. Not that I was a HUGE fan, but still i was occasionally entertained by them. Oh well, I am sure some fans were alienated because, if they can script up one show (the finale) why not the rest?


Monday, August 18, 2003
 

Self patching virus?


http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5065117.html?tag=fd_top

Apparently a new worm, W32.Welchia, a variant of the MSBlast you may have heard about last week, downloads a patch to prevent future worms to attack your computer the same way it did. Also the worm deletes itself the first time it is run in 2004.

So will this be the new trend? 'helpful' viruses and worms that actually download patches for people, thus preventing future attacks? Hopefully it is not. While this worm appears to be 'helpful' it is still causing the major problems of its more harmful cousin. This worm still wants to propagate itself to as many people as possible. That means the worm is still clogging up networks with its own traffic plus the additional traffic of the patch downloading.

So as cool as it may seem to have a virus that patches yoru computer and deletes itself, you are better off NEVER HAVE GOTTEN THE VIRUS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Here is a horrible comparison: Man-made Cancer that will cure your body form ever developing Cancer again. The hitch is that you still will have the worst symptoms of Brain Cancer for two years. Sure you will never have Cancer again, but maybe you wouldn't have in the first place. Was the 2 years of suffering worth it?

Ok, like I said, horrible comparision.

Get Anti-Virus Software, Download your patches, and try to get some sort of firewall (hardware, software, it doesn't matter anythign is better than nothing).

Wednesday, August 13, 2003
 

vegetarians



After reading a little article that mentions this, it got me wondering. One thing you hear most out of vegetarians mouths is that they don't want animals to be killed so that they can eat. What about crabs and/or lobster claws? You could pop off a claw form a lobster, let the lobster live and enjoy they claw. The lobster could live in a posh lobster farm, get fed well and just loose a claw once in a while. Since food and security is provided to the lobster, you could actually make the case that the lobster is living better off.

Sure its still meat, but its an interesting idea. With that said, vegetarians are still stupid. Eat some meat. Cows would be extinct if humans didn't eat them. Seriously. Who would protect the cows? They are slow moving and stupid. Do they have an natural defense? Or is it the crazy farmer with the shot gun and fencing that allows the animals to live?

I truly don't have a problem with people who don't eat meat because they just don't want to or for dietary reasons. I think not eating meat "for the animals" is just plain stupid. The animals aren't going to thank you for not eating them. They won't know that you don't. If you don't want to eat meat, because, you don't like it, or you are afraid that it will make you fat (or something) then don't that's fine. Heck I don't drink soda cause I felt like stopping and because I felt is wasn't doing me any good. I didn't want to save the cola from the embarrassment of being grown to be consumed. Then again I still indulge in the occasional soda, so what the hell do I know.

Of course I am against veal because that's just cruel. I never ate it in the first place, but after seeing some cows raised for this I am embarrassed. Poor cows are trapped and not allowed to move around. Now THAT is cruel. The free ranging cows being eaten? They had a good life, longer than should have been expected by the cow.


Monday, August 11, 2003
 

Back to School tips #1


I figure I will try to help out all the kids headed back to school again this fall. This one is courtesy of collegehumor.com. A few little aim tips to improve you CQ (cool quotient)

let us begin ....

In a post-September 11th environment, away messages are now more important than ever. They define who we are as Americans and separate us from those dirty Ay Rabs. They provide differentiation amongst the masses, and allow for individuality in this highly amalgamated industry. Sure one can make a case for Profiles, Buddy Icons, and maybe even Screenname Format, but it’s who you are when you leave the computer that provides the lasting impression on your “Buddies.”

So what can you do to seal your fate and place yourself high atop away messaging lore, only to be praised alongside such legends as SurfrDude19, I Love Pretzels 8, and URAQTPi12345? Well the answer isn’t derived from some hackneyed three-step process. That is why I have devised a four-step process that should boost your Away Message status from Geek to Dweeb in no time FLAT.

Step 1 – Ditch the Classics. Nobody wants to read whether or not you're playing a game that takes up the whole screen, or that you are “away from the computer right now.” Spice it up a notch. Some favorite spins include “The one about playing the game that takes up a whole screen.” Or “I’m away from the computer right now.” Subtle skews really perk up the flavor of an old time classic. Rule of Thumb: Any away message that was written before 2002 is an antique.

Step 2 – Sure you’re out, but what, or whom, are you out like? In the world of away message writing, nothing gets your heart racing like a simile or metaphor. Where were you the first time you realized somebody was out like an obese child in a game of “dodging the ball.” Ahahahahah… oh man, that one still tickles me where it hurts. But once again, be original, and this may even include not making sense. “Im out like Haley after his Joel Osment surgery.” Sure it doesn’t follow a logical structure, but those are the type of away messages that hero’s are made out of. (Not to be confused with steak, which is what gyro’s are made out of.)

Step 3 – Links are Funny. Fake Links are Funnier. What separates the good away messages from the great ones are their ability to link the readers into a dreamland of pure imagination. Making your away message a link to a funny website provides double the normal entertainment value. Though try to experiment. Write Yahoo.com, but make that a link to a senior citizen homosexual pornography site. The shock value will make your away message worthwhile… especially to that old homosexual who’s probably secretly reading your away messages.

Step 4 – Cram a lot in. Recent literary criticisms about away message often hark upon the same points: They lack depth, theme, and motif. You can fit a lot into the allowable 900 characters. Shakespeare wrote plays that were that short, Dickens' first 12 novels only totaled 898 characters (numbers taken from reliable fact finding website: fakefacts.org.uk). Most away messages lack the character development necessary to place themselves among the elite. In 2002, famed away message theologian URAQTPi12345 was three votes shy in receiving a Nobel Peace Prize on his away message Mini-Dissertation “On the cultural discourse in Middle Eastern Policy.” His away message was a poignant 730 characters (including works cited). Interestingly enough he put it up because he was away taking a crap.

Follow these four steps as stringently as you would a food pyramid. Be concise yet thoughtful. Say everything, yet nothing at all. And most importantly, if youre playing a game that takes up the whole screen, don’t bother telling the world. I’m Amir Blumenfeld, and you’ve just been educated.

And now that you got your learn on, learn to click on these awesome hotlinks. Word.


Saturday, August 09, 2003
 

The Bankees


I was flipping through the channels this afternoon and on nickleodeon had a show of some kids playing baseball. It had Robin Williams as the announcer, and the boy from Malcolm in the Middle as the star. The kids' team was the losers. Who were they playing? The Bankees? with piles of money in the dugout and a quote: they still make $3000 a second.



Good times. Very Good times.



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