Filed under: Life, entertainment, sports, thoughts | Tags: hate, Random, thoughts, wtf
For those not in the know LLWS stands for the Little League World Series. The LLWS happens this time every year and like every year ESPN/ABC/Disney gin up the drama and televise this “oh so important game.” Mind you this is the same brain trust who televise the twitchy freak kids at the National Spelling Bee.
As you no doubt can tell I hate this. Every year I ask myself the same question:
Who gives a fuck?
Unless you know one of the kids or they are related to you, why would you watch this? I get tired of hearing how awesome the LLWS is and how it reaffirms the love of the game.
Bullshit.
It reaffirms entitlement and is yet another way for parents to love through their children. The same network whose talking heads ponder such issues as why athletes have such sense of entitlement fail to realize that by televising the LLWS, high school football, high school basketball, and the fucking NCAA Football Signing Day they themselves are creating the very beast their Talking Heads demonize.
The LLWS is not good baseball nor is it good TV. There is nothing pure about this. It is exploitation.
Been busy with GenCon just two weeks away. I am working on a couple of posts, but time is short right now. One of them will deal with my iPhone experiences and a review of some of the apps I have been using pretty heavily. For now, enjoy this:
I made this on the Harry Potter App. This took me all of 2 seconds.
…about time.
I do not wear watch. I have not worn one for close to ten years.
I am addicted to podcasts, and I have not listened to the “radio” for close to three years. I listen to my favorite radio shows, via the full episodes podcasts. For me, the iPod/podcast has turned into my “radio dvr.”
A slingbox will be in the house by the end of next month.
What this says about me, I have no clue.
All of this “high tech” is really about making life easier for me.
25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about me.
1. I do not believe in the supernatural, ghosts or the like.
2. I am an Atheist. Though I am one, I do not subscribe to the religion of Atheism –practice and believe what you like.
3. I cannot read just one book, I have to read at least two, and I average a book a week.
4. I make everything from scratch — sauces, bread and the like.
5. I worked at Starbucks as a coffee monkey. I could and still can make foam art.
6. I am too motivated.
7. Rainy days, bad weather, and the like are days that I am at my happiest.
8. When writing Colonial Gothic I use a ink pen that I must dip into a ink well. In fact all my first drafts are always written in long hand.
9. I am tech savvy, but the more tech savvy I have become, the more I embrace low tech.
10. I am member of the Mac Cult, made the switch, never will go back.
11. I am a free thinker, which is a trait that many people do not like, and has cost me people who I considered to be friends.
12. I have seen Prince in concert more times than I can count.
13. I have no tolerance for lazy thinking.
14. I have not bought a CD since 2002 — all my music is digital. I have a 2 TB hard drives on my home network, which serve as music servers. Eventually I will have the same thing set up for movies.
15. I can make pasta sauce blindfolded.
16. I know more about the history of DC Comics history than a normal person should.
17. I hate the color purple.
18. I am an Eagle Scout.
19. I do not like Jane Austin.
20. I once hit Bob Barker with a snowball — on purpose.
21. My favorite place to visit in Chicago is the Museum of Modern Art. I go there at least once a month.
22. I could eat popcorn every day of the week.
23. I do not like Star Trek, or science fiction in general. Hell, the older I get the more I dislike genre fiction on a whole.
24. I shop at Farmer’s Markets always.
25. I wake up every morning with a smile. I am truly the luckiest guy in the world to be married to the girl I love.
Like the need to convert someone to their way of thinking.
When did it become a bad thing to have your own outlook or ideas
One of the things I have been thinking about lately is life.
Life is short.
We as humans created a device to measure life — the clock.
The clock ticks away the seconds, minutes and hours of life, and we put so faith into it. Time is what our life is. There is never enough time to do things we want to do, and there is always more than enough time to do things we have no desire to do.
We live by the hours, and we do not pay attention to the seconds. We are so busy trying to do everything needing to be done, that we spend so very little time taking a moment to enjoy our lives.
Death is something that we think about and worry about. We live in fear that everything we eat, or drink, or drive, or do, or breathe, or wear, or sleep in, or sit on, or walk across, or swim in, or fly over, or fly in will shorten our lives. So worried about this shorten life, we spend hours upon hours preparing ourselves in the futile thought that by protecting ourselves we can stave off life and prolong time.
It is all for naught.
In our desire to prolong life, and slow down the advance of death, we have taken the joy out of living. What kind of life is it that you must deprive yourself of joy, in order to live?
A life with no joy is nothing more than a living death. I refuse to live like this, and so it is time to embrace life and embrace the joy found in it.
It is time to live, and stop worrying about what is too come. I am concentrating on the now.
When my time comes, I do not want to be plagued by thoughts and wishes of doing things differently. I want to look upon the past as something wonderful. The fear of living has crippled me to the point that life is not enjoyable.
We all suffer from this, this fear of what is too come. We all worry and fret about things that might never come true. By fretting we are no longer happy, and instead we rage and gnash our teeth impotently. All the information we have, has done nothing too improve our lives, it has made it worse. It is time to use information as a tool, not as the guiding principle of life. It is time to use information to allow us to change, and not prevent us from changing.
The passion is gone, because we have driven it out in the hope that we will be protected. A life without passion is a life not worth living, and it is time that passion once again is welcomed and embraced.
I am ready to live my life.
I was once a fan of Lost, but then I realized that I did not have the patience to sit through it anymore.
Anyway the new season starts tonight, and here is what will happen:
The Sub Prime Crisis led to the foreclosure of the island — thus it disappeared.
I also heard that the Dharma Initiative had to close its’ doors due to not getting any access to TARP Funds.
Due to a lack of being able to put my thoughts in order, I post the following image I created over the weekend.
For those who are wondering who or what the picture is of — it is the great and mighty Cthulhu. One of the long lasting creations of H.P. Lovecraft.
So why have I been so silent?
Sick.
Came down with something over the weekend, and have been fighting it every since. I took one day off from work, but really can’t take more because I have too much to do.
So when I am not sleeping and recovering, I am reading.
I hate being sick, and the reason is that I hate not doing anything. I have games to design, edits to make, reports to write and, well the more I write what I need to do, the more down I get.
I am a worker. I work. I do not complain about the work, because even though I can complain, complaining does not get the work done.
Anyway, this long winded post is a way for me to explain my silence over the past few days.
24 is back, and I thought last night was good. The following was posted over at Survivor Sucks, and I found it very funny:
- Killing Jack Bauer doesn’t make him dead. It just makes him angry.
- If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he’d shoot Nina twice.
- If you wake up in the morning, it’s because Jack Bauer spared your life.
- Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
- If it tastes like chicken, looks like chicken, and feels like chicken, but Jack Bauer says its beef. Then you better believe it’s beef.
- Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.
- 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.
- Let’s get one thing straight: the only reason you are conscious right now is because Jack Bauer does not feel like carrying you.
- Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.
- Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.
- When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists. Jack Bauer hates lemonade.
- Jack Bauer once won a game of Connect 4 in 3 moves.
- Osama bin Laden’s recent proposal for truce is a direct result of him finding out that Jack Bauer is, in fact, still alive.
- Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men.
- Jack Bauer doesn’t miss. If he didn’t hit you it’s because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.
- When Jack Bauer was a child, he made his mother finish his vegetables.
- Jack Bauer killed 93 people in just 4 days time. Wait, that is a real fact.
- Simon Says should be renamed to Jack Bauer Says because if Jack Bauer says something then you better do it.
- Jack Bauer won the Tour de France on a unicycle to prove to Lance Armstrong it wasn’t a big deal. He thinks yellow wristbands are gay.
- When Jack Bauer pisses into the wind, the wind changes direction.
- Jack Bauer’s favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
- When you open a can of whoop-ass, Jack Bauer jumps out.
- When Google can’t find something, it asks Jack Bauer for help.
- You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make him drink.
- Jack Bauer can get McDonald’s breakfast after 10:30.
- When the boogie man goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Jack Bauer.
- Every mathematical inequality officially ends with “< Jack Bauer”.
- In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What the hell have you done with your life?
- Jesus died and rose from the dead in 3 days. It took Jack Bauer less than an hour. And he’s done it twice.
- Jack Bauer killed so many terrorists that at one point, the #5 CIA Most Wanted fugitive was an 18-year-old teenager in Malaysia who downloaded the movie Dodgeball.
- In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for Show and Tell.
- What color is Jack Bauer’s blood? Trick question. Jack Bauer does not bleed.
- Guns dont kill people, Jack Bauer kills people.
- If Jack and MacGyver were locked in a room together, Jack would make a bomb out of MacGyver and get out.
- People with amnesia still remember Jack Bauer.
- Sun Tzu once wrote, “If your enemy is weaker, conquer him. If he is stronger, join him. If he is Jack Bauer, you’re f***ing dead.”
- Jack Bauer literally died for his country, and lived to tell about it.
- Jack Bauer has been to Mars. That’s why there’s no life on Mars.
- Superman’s only weakness is Kryptonite. Jack Bauer laughs at Superman for having a weakness.
- When Batman is in trouble, he turns on the Jack Bauer signal.
- It took Jack Bauer two minutes to beat a confession out of OJ.
- If Jack Bauer was gay, his name would be Chuck Norris.
- The bumper sticker on Jesus’s car reads, “WWJBD?”
- Jack Bauer was conceived by torturing the other sperm until they gave up the location of the egg.
- After 7 minutes of interrogation at the hands of Jack Bauer, Tom Cruise admitted that he was gay.
- Jack Bauer’s family threw him a surprise birthday party when he was a child. Once.
