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| Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | | 10:53 am |
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2941117
Aww, I made all-star teams in youth baseball every year, but I was never given a deal like that... | | Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 | | 9:29 am |
| | Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 | | 1:02 am |
| | Thursday, August 7th, 2008 | | 8:18 pm |
I NOW KNOW THE NAME OF THE GUY THAT STOPPED ME FROM DOING THE AWESOME THING SO I MAY HUNT HIM AND EVERYONE HE KNOWS.
If anyone is going to have a problem with this, say something now. :) | | 12:11 am |
J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS | | Sunday, July 6th, 2008 | | 9:18 am |
Woo, I've been published twice in the last month on wrestling news sites. I should see if I can get them to give me a column on a major site if they publish one of my emails in a regular feature again, eventually they'll start recognizing the name from the emails. | | Friday, June 27th, 2008 | | 7:09 am |
| | Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | | 2:12 am |
[CLU] Ugh, I don't ever want to have to do that again.
[CLU] I can't imagine my mom or my sister being there for 12 hours at a time, I couldn't handle 45-60 minutes.
[Tezuka0] what did you do?
[CLU] Watching someone sleep with 13 IVs and three fluid drains is no problem. Listening to him for three minutes while they turned him to do one abdomen x-ray was too much.
[CLU] My brother-in-law is in the hospital for pneumonia or some other infection from pancreas cancer treatments. | | Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 | | 11:45 am |
| | Monday, June 2nd, 2008 | | 4:26 am |
I need to see if the US or at least Nebraska has a similar law for surveillance video... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1938076/The-Get-Out-Clause%2C-Manchester's-stars-of-CCTV-camer as.html I guess what Osborne was trying to explain to me in his ten page reply to my one page letter on immigration policy was that both he and Bush actually tended to agree with me, with a few differences in actual numbers (and my draconian border patrols and enforcement coupled with massively increased quotas to reduce the need for enforcement to begin with.) I agree with the critics complaining about narrowing the fields foreign students might enter because of the specifics of this plan, but I like what they're trying to do in principle. (Anything to get more foreign students. Everyone that knows me knows what I'm thinking, heh.) http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/01/1817240 | | Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | | 6:18 pm |
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I was mostly crying while reading this comic because of how funny it was... http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/05/26If you aren't familiar with the series, I recommend going back to the first comic, work your way forward, and check the news page for each comic you understand the game reference for. http://www.penny-arcade.com/Also the video to Black Diamond by Double and Amuro Namie is awesome, I highly recommend setting up an account at http://mullemeck.serveftp.org/jps_beta/ and downloading it. Made me finally catch up on all the Amuro albums I'm missing. Current Music: DOUBLE - BLACK DIAMOND | | Saturday, May 17th, 2008 | | 7:04 pm |
http://www.wlky.com/news/16316041/detail.html
Metal bats are no more dangerous to someone getting hit by a batted ball than a wood bat. Definitely neither the store nor maker are liable, the bat worked as intended. If there could be any problem in the story, it's that the league doesn't force participants' parents to sign waivers limiting both lawsuits and damages paid by the league, just like the ones put in place here after some mother nearly ruined the league for the entire state in the mid 80s here when her son was hit in the eye and blinded by a batted ball. Luckily, the judge ruled medical expenses only, probably because it's hard to claim pain and suffering damages from doing a voluntary recreational activity. | | 9:22 am |
Drove through the poorest town in Iowa you'll ever see only to not find the wrestling event I was trying to go to.
My latest student loan application was declined, so now I can't pay my bill yet to register for summer or fall classes, which may be needed to apply for further loans. (At the very worst, I'll go in to my own bank and get one through them, they can't decline someone who has perfect credit through them, heh.) I think it may have been a typoed phone number on the application, though, so I'll see what the reply letter says and fix it if I can. If I can't, there's still one bank in the program that I use that didn't cancel their student loan program as of May, so I'll simply reapply through them for the old balance plus what I need for the summer.
Umm... haven't really been doing much else, still looking for seomthing new to waste time on. | | Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 | | 10:03 pm |
I just got an... interesting... random object in a brown envelope with no return address, mailed from somewhere in the city. Makes me wonder who would send me... that. | | Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | | 8:00 pm |
| | Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | | 10:38 pm |
More soccer!
We had two more players this time than last, one of which was a proper goalkeeper. I didn't do a whole lot other than a couple lucky defensive plays and scaring the defense into double teaming me on corner kicks. The only really good play I set up with minimal dribble and a nice pass got blown off by the wind on the shot. We ended up winning 2-0 with a controversial goal. One of their players thought they were fouled and were complaining at the nearby referee. When the referee didn't agree, he started swearing and got a yellow card for sportsmanship. I'm not sure why the referee blew the whistle to stop play to give the yellow instead of waiting for the next stoppage, but he blew it right as our player was taking a shot that went in. The referees took a minute to talk it over and counted the goal. I think they only got their later yellow card for a minor push off from behind because of the first yellow, but that one didn't affect play. The other goal came when their goalkeeper moved too far to one side to cover the guy with the ball, and his very nice through pass went into the net without the other forward even touching it.
Hopefully I'll get more chances to press forward on plays, but I don't want to mess with the team dynamic that we have now, everyone knows how everyone else plays by now. With these guys, I tend only to get forward when a midfielder drops back for a bit to rest and I see a section of open field to sprint to. | | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | | 11:09 pm |
Soccer!
I am surprised at how good of a team we have just with what few people showed up and the recruits they brought. I didn't get any of the people or groups I asked, so I'm going to expand my search and ask each person individually, in person if possible.
We were a man short (the game is 8 on 8, counting the goalkeeper) for 40 minutes, and two men short for the final 10 minutes when one of our players needed to leave to get somewhere on time. We started out down 1-0, as two of our players didn't realize offsides is not called in these games and let a player and pass go by. I managed to put a hand on the shot, but I didn't have gloves and it rained yesterday, and the shot barely stayed inside the post with my deflection. (I'll be buying or checking out gloves for tomorrow and every game after, just in case.)
Our team showed off its ability to drive and score, and we went up 1-2 in only a few minutes. They started keeping a lot more guys back on defense after this, forcing worse shots that their keeping made some nice saves on.
They went back up 2-2 on a phantom foul inside the box. The head referee admitted at the end of the game that he didn't know if it was a foul or just looked close, but that he saw a player go down dribbling toward the goal and reacted by blowing his whistle. The guy who took the shot telegraphed it the whole way, but I didn't dive far enough toward the post and he just barely got it around me anyway. We went into halftime 2-2.
A decent way into the second half, the frat teams playing on the other field lost their game ball onto our field. I made a diving catch save and passed the ball out to my teammates. It looked like we were driving well with it, so I ran over to clear the other game ball off our field, and my team lost possession with two guys on the break toward our goal. Our defense dropped back enough to force a pass, giving me time to get back into goal, and I made a diving fist save on what should have been an easy goal for them, to the roaring approval of the frat guys who hadn't restarted yet because I kicked their ball back short.
After our guy had to leave late, they got a breakaway when their fastest guy dribbled around one of our slower defenders, and I didn't charge the ball fast enough or hard enough in the box to clear his shot, and we ended up losing by the score of 3-2. As close and as well as we played against them short a player, everyone is completely confident that we will win the rest of our games if we can get enough players to have even one substitute. One of the guys even mentioned knowing a better goalkeeper that is probably available, which will free me up to do my awesome sprinting headers on corner kicks and my better-than-my-goalkeeping defensive play in the field. (My teammates did compliment my saves a lot, and I probably did decently for no gloves and a wet ball, but my passing with my feet was terrible with how wet it was. It was a miracle I didn't give away any goals just for that reason, but I saved every shot on every mistake of my own, so...) | | Monday, April 7th, 2008 | | 11:15 pm |
Woo, soccer starts tomorrow. I've decided that I'm volunteering (demanding) to play goalkeeper if we don't have anyone definitely better than myself. I like the idea of legally being able to dive at people to get the ball with lots of extra space to do it when I have 40 pounds on the average opposing player in intramural soccer. Also, most of my practice at goalkeeper is only applicable to outdoor. Then there's the part where I can't run a lot, especially not for 50 minutes out of an hour - I'll either have to play a forward that doesn't drop back for defense much, or a defender that doesn't press much (as much as I love playing defensive midfield or side back...) My dad is coming to at least some of the games, and my mom and other family to the one on Wednesday for sure, so I may even get to post videos on Youtube and let everyone watch. | | Monday, March 31st, 2008 | | 10:46 pm |
| | Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 | | 11:56 am |
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| | Monday, March 24th, 2008 | | 7:52 am |
| | Friday, March 21st, 2008 | | 10:34 am |
| | Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | | 1:56 am |
| | Saturday, March 15th, 2008 | | 7:18 am |
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| | Saturday, March 8th, 2008 | | 5:27 am |
Why people are fuckers, and why I should be too. I have a bowling league on Fridays from 6:30 to 9ish (we're supposed to be done by 9, but the other teams suck.) Then I'm usually at The Coffee House from 10-12 with a group of friends. Both of these can be easily cancelled for a week, although it's better if I know more in advance for the bowling. I'd choose miss it on short notice for many reasons, though. I fell asleep at around 3PM today and didn't wake up until at least 7, maybe later. I got a text message from one of our bowlers, thinking he was just getting to the bowling alley wanting to do stuff with everyone afterward. OMGED
My one friend Adam wanted to go to the arcade with Eddie and Jen and Abby (Abby being our other friend Ben's ex-girlfriend), but Eddie is a putz and didn't go, so Jen stayed home with him, and now I have to drive 50 miles to the arcade myself so it doesn't look bad that Adam is there without Beth (Ben's sister and Adam's not-girlfriend) but with Abby.
At least I get to listen to Slayer and Buono! on maximum volume down the interstate.
(To make it clear, Adam is just friends with Abby. Ben would probably be paranoid if they were doing things together, though. Everyone already thought he was with Ben's ex-wife when he stayed friends with her after they split up. Heck, even I still talk to her online, but I haven't seen her since Ben moved out.)
I drove to Omaha to meet them. We played air hockey, and I got mad that my new horse started losing races (although I turned that around, and she again looks like she'll surpass her parents.) When we got back to Lincoln, we went over to Eddie's and played Wii Bowling until 4. I came back home and checked my e-mail for the first time since noon.
To further set this up, I should point out that I sent a message yesterday to the GFJ president (or whomever checks that address regularly) asking if I'd been missing any EXCOM meetings or events, because I hadn't been hearing about anything at all.
W. T. F.
Arcade was fun, went to a friend's house when we got back at 2 and played Wii Bowling for a couple more hours...
I sent an e-mail to the president of the Japanese student organization here asking if I'd been missing any meetings or events or anything important...
I overslept for bowling, and woke up around 9, just in time to get the message from Adam about going to the arcade, so I'm only just now reading my email for today...
At 5, I got an invite to an event via Facebook... for 7 PM. Tonight.
I practiced those Gackt songs for nothing.
By "tonight", Friday, heh.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10992935811
I love how I'm the biggest complainer that they don't hold enough events in the spring, and I'm also the person that never misses any events if at all possible, and someone decides I shouldn't hear about this until two hours before.
To add to this, the group I go to The Coffee House with called early to say they wouldn't be there because they're planning to go to one of that group's house for the evening. On the phone, the girl that called me invited me to join them there, but it definitely sounded like an afterthought. Not a surprise, I suppose - any time they cancel the regular thing for something else as a group, they only let me know they won't be there about half of the time, and they seem to only invite me to the other activity if it's something I'd probably not be interested in or a place or a time I can't make. | | Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | | 8:13 pm |
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| | Friday, February 29th, 2008 | | 9:15 am |
I have a different take on this…
The country as a whole is notgetting dumber. On the contrary, the country as a whole is more skilledand better informed than ever before. Mass communication and socialmobility have increased exponentially. (Think about what it wasactually like 25, 50, 100 years ago.) And because of this, theintellectual class that previously kept itself apart has been forcedback into line with everyone else.
The intellectuals — teachers,editors, bureaucrats, scientists — pine for the good ol' days becausethat's when they had the power to shape public opinion and policy. Nowthey're panicking because the public doesn't listen to them any more.They assume it's because the public is too stupid to acknowledge theirexceptionalism. In reality, it's because they're not that exceptionalany more.
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| | Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | | 5:55 am |
| | Monday, February 25th, 2008 | | 5:12 am |
| | Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | | 5:38 pm |
| | Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | | 1:14 am |
| | Sunday, February 10th, 2008 | | 4:21 pm |
| | Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 | | 6:07 pm |
We're now in "what the holy hell?" territory with my women's lit class... I finished the first book and started the second, and now I'm in a hurry to finish that one too. It's about a half-Japanese, half-American woman who was hired to translate for American actors and staff for a TV series in Japan called My American Wife that was a promo for the beef industry, and the wife of the man who created the show after trying to get his wife to eat more meat to improve her fertility through her diet. Now I'm stuck hunting some clips or episodes of that TV series while finishing up the book, and finishing that book on women in media in Japan that I was already reading last semester. Now I'm not just going to get weird looks in that class because I wore a Danzig t-shirt the first day, but I'm probably the most interested in the subject other than the teacher herself.
The one sucky part will be having to answer honestly when we get to the part of the first book about men with body image issues. This is not to say that I have any problems, of course - sure, if it were possible, I'd go to the gym for 3-6 hours a day and try to look like John Cena, but I turned my hereditary addictive personality on video games instead of alcohol or drugs, and I'm too lazy in general to put enough effort into it to keep it up regularly. (Being careful with what I eat is no problem, and I get everyone from my mom to teachers to various acquaintances at school and other places asking me if I've lost weight lately - I haven't, but the change in fitness makes it look like it. Heck, I'm below my "target" weight of 240...) Also, because I look at wrestlers and baseball players, and not male fitness models, I know plenty of guys that I'd rather not see often with their shirt off that are very successful. (I don't think I ever wrote about the time I played soccer with a bunch of older Russian guys, and ended up on the "skins" team in front of most of the women's soccer club. Normally I'd resist taking off my shirt, but the 40-50 year olds with white body hair, or the fact that the bigger one of them doesn't show at least some muscles and ribs like I do, made me decide I'd look better by comparison next to them and went along with it.) | | 12:15 am |
Is it bad?
I think I was the only person in my Women's Lit class that read one of the books before the first class. (Opened it up because it looked interesting, and got sucked in. We don't even use the book for five weeks...) Definitely need to find something other than my descriptive physics class, though, it is WAY beneath me. (In that sense, though, it's a free A, and it fills a requirement.) | | Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 | | 12:44 am |
| | Monday, January 14th, 2008 | | 4:05 pm |
Circumcision
I just realized that ever porn I've ever seen qualifies as amputee porn! I didn't realize I was a fan of that fetish... | | 3:54 am |
| | Saturday, January 12th, 2008 | | 9:31 am |
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/1827203 Fun stuff. I have studied theology in some depth. I am familiar with apologeticsand all the classical defenses put forth to support the integrity ofspecific, popular, religious beliefs.
For all the philosophical rambling, none of them, absolutely none of them, escape this simple indisputable fact:
All religious teachings are provided to us by humans.
IfGod Himself appeared next to me and handed me a copy of the Bible, thatwould be one thing. But instead, a human handed to me. And, in fact, ahuman wrote every word that is in it. This notion of "divineinspiration" (which is supposed to remove the element of humanfallibility from the Bible) was communicated to me by...wait for it....A HUMAN.
Ican agree in principle with the presumption that faith in God iswell-founded, and faith in human reason (i.e. the theory of evolution)is not so well-founded. However, to put faith in the teachings (orbooks) of any religion is to put faith in human reason.
There is no denial, only rationalization.
| | Friday, January 11th, 2008 | | 3:15 am |
| | Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 | | 12:55 am |
| | Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 | | 12:02 am |
| | Monday, January 7th, 2008 | | 11:44 pm |
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