Friday Question.....
Question: It is 10:00 at night on a Wednesday you have not eaten all day and your gas light comes on as you pull into a quick stop. You have $5 in your pocket and that is all you have to your name. This gas station only has three items for sale..and all other stores are closed till Friday.
1.) Gas 1 gallon = $5
2.) Sandwich = $5
3.) Lottery ticket =$5 (in the lottery bin there are only two tickets left one of them wins you ten dollars the other loses)
As you debate what to do a homeless woman approaches you and asks if you can buy her a sandwich. She has not eaten in a week and is so hungry she can barley stand.
You do not get paid till Friday and will not be able to get gas or eat till you get paid. You don't know if you have enough gas to get home and if you don't drive to work Thursday you may be fired.
You are so hungry you are salivating and you know you will not get another chance to eat for another 48 hours..
What do you buy with your five dollars? Why?
Friday, August 31, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
What makes me, me?
I would like to think it is the thought in my mind. That with a longer nose, bigger dick, missing limb or 20 lbs lighter I am still me.
But I am not...
For example if I get a boob job or lose my leg I am a different person then I was before. The attention I get is different. How I feel is different. How the world treats me is different. I have different experiences and life a different life...I am a new me.
My body shapes how I interact with the world and how it interacts with me. Those experiences are what makes me, me. Some are interactions shaped by genetics, some by choice.
For example if I smoke, I deaden my taste buds limit the types of restaurants I enjoy and frequent and people I meet and hence the experiences and feelings I have. If I choice to go to the gym I take another path. Regardless of the path I take I am different after the choice then before it.
Since I make 100 decisions a day I have a 100 ways I have changed by the time I go to bed.
Have you ever ran into someone you haven't talked to in years? Had that awkward silence and looked off into space....that is the weight of change. The gulf of how different you are...it is the space finalized by divorce...drifting...alienation.
You have not known me since I was 10....you knew me when I was ten.
There is a difference, if you paid any attention, if my life mattered to you, if I have done anything worthwhile, you won't know me after years apart. Those who know this, accept this, embrace this may enter my burial chamber for you are my friends.
Those who stare and laugh at my death bed jokes muttering same old Brian are the ones we can all laugh about as an inside joke because we know they are full of shit.
But I am not...
For example if I get a boob job or lose my leg I am a different person then I was before. The attention I get is different. How I feel is different. How the world treats me is different. I have different experiences and life a different life...I am a new me.
My body shapes how I interact with the world and how it interacts with me. Those experiences are what makes me, me. Some are interactions shaped by genetics, some by choice.
For example if I smoke, I deaden my taste buds limit the types of restaurants I enjoy and frequent and people I meet and hence the experiences and feelings I have. If I choice to go to the gym I take another path. Regardless of the path I take I am different after the choice then before it.
Since I make 100 decisions a day I have a 100 ways I have changed by the time I go to bed.
Have you ever ran into someone you haven't talked to in years? Had that awkward silence and looked off into space....that is the weight of change. The gulf of how different you are...it is the space finalized by divorce...drifting...alienation.
You have not known me since I was 10....you knew me when I was ten.
There is a difference, if you paid any attention, if my life mattered to you, if I have done anything worthwhile, you won't know me after years apart. Those who know this, accept this, embrace this may enter my burial chamber for you are my friends.
Those who stare and laugh at my death bed jokes muttering same old Brian are the ones we can all laugh about as an inside joke because we know they are full of shit.
It's Showtime....
Are you kidding Monday night in Television has become where it is at. If you have not checked out showtimes new series Californication do it. Following Weeds my other favorite show Monday night is the new best night on TV.
I just love DAVID DUCHOVNY!! perfect role this is exactly who I want to be a failed writer who is a smart ass who gets a lot of tail....some of the best dialog I have seen in a show since Seinfeld. Check it out.
"It was the best of times, if only someone would have told me."
HBO Fell-off they should all go down to the set of Entourage and kiss their asses since that show is the only reason I haven't canceled HBO.
I just love DAVID DUCHOVNY!! perfect role this is exactly who I want to be a failed writer who is a smart ass who gets a lot of tail....some of the best dialog I have seen in a show since Seinfeld. Check it out.
"It was the best of times, if only someone would have told me."
HBO Fell-off they should all go down to the set of Entourage and kiss their asses since that show is the only reason I haven't canceled HBO.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Laid to Rest
Anyone who knows me knows I am a huge fan of naps. It is almost a religion to me. I darken the room, spray my pillow with lavender, put some nice fresh crisp sheets on and blast a fan. Spending an afternoon in the darkened bliss provided by my comforter is my version of heaven.
There is a counter culture out there who does not understand or respect the nap. They will do things like wake up up after 20 minutes and ask how your nap was, as if to stop a ball game in the first inning and ask who won.
I realized this might be due to undefined terms relating to the nap. So I have taken the liberty to jot down a handy guide for people to use when dealing with my naps.
I will define it by the term and then duration I should be left alone...
Quick Cat Nap = 20 Minutes (I know this is supposed to be all you need otherwise you will feel tired later but that is horse shit)
Cat Nap = 30 Minutes
Rest for "a bit" =30 Minutes
Rest for "a while" = 1 Hour
If I say I am tired and going to rest or nap without a qualifier I am to be left alone until I wake up even if it is a week from next Thursday.
I hate telling people how long I am going to be laying down for...as soon as you mutter a limit out loud you never will sleep as good. Hopefully with widely held defined terms we can leave out verbalizing the duration and waking up crabby.
Do these durations work for everybody else? Does anything need to be added or amended?
There is a counter culture out there who does not understand or respect the nap. They will do things like wake up up after 20 minutes and ask how your nap was, as if to stop a ball game in the first inning and ask who won.
I realized this might be due to undefined terms relating to the nap. So I have taken the liberty to jot down a handy guide for people to use when dealing with my naps.
I will define it by the term and then duration I should be left alone...
Quick Cat Nap = 20 Minutes (I know this is supposed to be all you need otherwise you will feel tired later but that is horse shit)
Cat Nap = 30 Minutes
Rest for "a bit" =30 Minutes
Rest for "a while" = 1 Hour
If I say I am tired and going to rest or nap without a qualifier I am to be left alone until I wake up even if it is a week from next Thursday.
I hate telling people how long I am going to be laying down for...as soon as you mutter a limit out loud you never will sleep as good. Hopefully with widely held defined terms we can leave out verbalizing the duration and waking up crabby.
Do these durations work for everybody else? Does anything need to be added or amended?
Monday, August 27, 2007
WARNING: OFFENSIVE TOPIC CONTAINED
In defense of Michael Vick. (I am going to leave this post up today and tomorrow to get feedback of anyone who can stomach the comments that I am making)
Warning this is going to offend a lot of you.
I know it is going to be wildly unpopular to do this but I am a huge fan of doing wildly unpopular things.
If anything just for the sake of discussion I think it is worthwhile.
1.) We have to admit this is a US Cultural issue. Several first world cultures have events that are considered cruel by American standards. Bull fighting, Cock fighting, Bull riding, Snake and Alligator wrangling etc.
2.) All animals fight in some capacity for dominance including humans. It is not an accident that cocks will fight if you put them in a ring. They do this in the wild in a displays of violence that are used to court females. Animals clash with antlers, teeth, hooves, tusks in displays of manhood across the animal kingdom...yes even dogs do this battle for dominance. Even men!! (If you doubt this watch the discovery or national geographic channel instead of the teen choice awards once and a while)
3.) Dogs are special here...but they are on the menu in other countries and treated like cattle. Our reverence for the dog is more of a cultural aspect then a divine trait that they exhibit.
4.) If people do the time the should be absolved having paid their debt to society. He should be allowed to try out for the team once his sentence is done.
5.) Athletes are poor role models in general as are movie stars. We should be ashamed that these are the people we let our young people emulate. This is our cultural failing and not Michael Vicks fault. If anything a flawed role model is good in teaching that we are all human, that people have faults and that we should forgive and acknowledge others differences. This is a global world and to judge through an American looking glass needs to be examined. Here is an article that disproves that high school athletes are less likely to be criminals.
6.) We allow people to be bread to fight for entertainment in boxing, ultimate fighting championship, karate etc.. If we allow people why not and I will tread lightly here allow a less evolved species do what they do for our enjoyment. We pay millions of dollars to watch Whales mate and journey along (Even Whales in captivity for our enjoyment) So why be against cock fighting when it is just as natural? P.S Yes even in the wild animals are wounded and die during these rituals.
7.) Why bar him for gambling? It is not like he was betting on his team and taking dives to beat the spread.
8.) If you think it is cruel that is fine but you should have to justify it from a moral standpoint then that does not have an exclusionary list. Do you also eat at KFC? McDonalds? Eat rice that is cultivated by oxen plowing fields? Bet at the horse races?
I guess this just seems like a morally self righteous witch hunt in some respects and the ramifications people are calling for such as making certain breeds of dogs illegal just seems ridiculous....if I were to lobby for something I would say make all little dogs that bark constantly extinct. Its seems silly to terminate dogs that were breed to protect people too... I would even wager that more people are bitten by the little shits then the big shits every year as well and that this is a witch hunt being waged on a social economic factors and fear as much as anything...
Warning this is going to offend a lot of you.
I know it is going to be wildly unpopular to do this but I am a huge fan of doing wildly unpopular things.
If anything just for the sake of discussion I think it is worthwhile.
1.) We have to admit this is a US Cultural issue. Several first world cultures have events that are considered cruel by American standards. Bull fighting, Cock fighting, Bull riding, Snake and Alligator wrangling etc.
2.) All animals fight in some capacity for dominance including humans. It is not an accident that cocks will fight if you put them in a ring. They do this in the wild in a displays of violence that are used to court females. Animals clash with antlers, teeth, hooves, tusks in displays of manhood across the animal kingdom...yes even dogs do this battle for dominance. Even men!! (If you doubt this watch the discovery or national geographic channel instead of the teen choice awards once and a while)
3.) Dogs are special here...but they are on the menu in other countries and treated like cattle. Our reverence for the dog is more of a cultural aspect then a divine trait that they exhibit.
4.) If people do the time the should be absolved having paid their debt to society. He should be allowed to try out for the team once his sentence is done.
5.) Athletes are poor role models in general as are movie stars. We should be ashamed that these are the people we let our young people emulate. This is our cultural failing and not Michael Vicks fault. If anything a flawed role model is good in teaching that we are all human, that people have faults and that we should forgive and acknowledge others differences. This is a global world and to judge through an American looking glass needs to be examined. Here is an article that disproves that high school athletes are less likely to be criminals.
6.) We allow people to be bread to fight for entertainment in boxing, ultimate fighting championship, karate etc.. If we allow people why not and I will tread lightly here allow a less evolved species do what they do for our enjoyment. We pay millions of dollars to watch Whales mate and journey along (Even Whales in captivity for our enjoyment) So why be against cock fighting when it is just as natural? P.S Yes even in the wild animals are wounded and die during these rituals.
7.) Why bar him for gambling? It is not like he was betting on his team and taking dives to beat the spread.
8.) If you think it is cruel that is fine but you should have to justify it from a moral standpoint then that does not have an exclusionary list. Do you also eat at KFC? McDonalds? Eat rice that is cultivated by oxen plowing fields? Bet at the horse races?
I guess this just seems like a morally self righteous witch hunt in some respects and the ramifications people are calling for such as making certain breeds of dogs illegal just seems ridiculous....if I were to lobby for something I would say make all little dogs that bark constantly extinct. Its seems silly to terminate dogs that were breed to protect people too... I would even wager that more people are bitten by the little shits then the big shits every year as well and that this is a witch hunt being waged on a social economic factors and fear as much as anything...
Cocktail Evolution
Over the last three years my cocktail of choice has slowly digressed from manly to fruity here is that evolution
Makers Mark with a slash of Ice Tea
Tequila and Coke (This made a brief reappearance a few months back when Cuervo black came out)
Vodka Martinis
Vodka Sprites
Absolute Pear and Mountain Dew
Vodka Red bull
and most recently Vodka Cranberry.
This of course does not include shots, beer or morning cocktails which have remained the same for quite some time.
Here is also some shooter etiquette for those looking to buy me a shot.
1.) I love tequila...good tequila. If we are doing this as a shooter please don't buy this for me at the end of the night. Tequila should be done up front when we start drinking. It does not introduce itself well into my blood stream and stomach after a night of hard drinking. At the end of the night stick with something light and easy. May I suggest a St. Anthony, Grape Ape or Pineapple Upsidedown Cake etc.
Makers Mark with a slash of Ice Tea
Tequila and Coke (This made a brief reappearance a few months back when Cuervo black came out)
Vodka Martinis
Vodka Sprites
Absolute Pear and Mountain Dew
Vodka Red bull
and most recently Vodka Cranberry.
This of course does not include shots, beer or morning cocktails which have remained the same for quite some time.
Here is also some shooter etiquette for those looking to buy me a shot.
1.) I love tequila...good tequila. If we are doing this as a shooter please don't buy this for me at the end of the night. Tequila should be done up front when we start drinking. It does not introduce itself well into my blood stream and stomach after a night of hard drinking. At the end of the night stick with something light and easy. May I suggest a St. Anthony, Grape Ape or Pineapple Upsidedown Cake etc.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Diasters to the Rescue
The salvation of the economy is going to come in the form of flooding, bridge collapses, hurricanes, and tornado's. If we wish to avoid a recession we need Hurricane Dean and a few others to roll our way. The ripple effect of destroyed houses and infrastructure creates jobs in building, lending, etc. Appliances have to be purchased, new furniture etc....it might be the only thing to save us from ourselves and hopefully too many people will not die in the process.
Prediction #123429 Wal-Mart Invents the Shopping Mall Again
Mighty Morphing Wal-Mart
Imagine this you walk into a Wal-Mart Super Store. You see a food court, eye doctor, pharmacy, grocery store, clothes, auto parts, toys, etc. Now imagine that Wal-Mart outsources each of these areas to the lowest bidder so you have several separate owners under one roof with Wal-marts only function to manage space. Wal-Mart has just reinvented the shopping mall.
They have streamlined your purchasing decisions, limited your variety, crushed competition and lowered prices and expectations...
Do you love stylish clothing and make up? Check out this online shopping site that sells women's shoes, handbags, and great luggage at affordable prices!
Imagine this you walk into a Wal-Mart Super Store. You see a food court, eye doctor, pharmacy, grocery store, clothes, auto parts, toys, etc. Now imagine that Wal-Mart outsources each of these areas to the lowest bidder so you have several separate owners under one roof with Wal-marts only function to manage space. Wal-Mart has just reinvented the shopping mall.
They have streamlined your purchasing decisions, limited your variety, crushed competition and lowered prices and expectations...
Do you love stylish clothing and make up? Check out this online shopping site that sells women's shoes, handbags, and great luggage at affordable prices!
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Tic-Toc
Another Post on Time....see yesterday's post where it all started.
R: But my watch stays the same...
What if time is relative? What if a person, a tree, a rabbit all experience time differently? The watch is set to the time of the cycle of the planets a planet who's duration is in billions of century's handfuls of decades.
If slowing down meant you would live longer would you do it?
What if there really was more to the following sayings then we expect
"Moments that take your breath away"
"Stop and smell the roses"
"Life in the fast lane"
I am starting to believe my professor, "Too much study on any one subject will lead to insanity."
R: But my watch stays the same...
What if time is relative? What if a person, a tree, a rabbit all experience time differently? The watch is set to the time of the cycle of the planets a planet who's duration is in billions of century's handfuls of decades.
If slowing down meant you would live longer would you do it?
What if there really was more to the following sayings then we expect
"Moments that take your breath away"
"Stop and smell the roses"
"Life in the fast lane"
I am starting to believe my professor, "Too much study on any one subject will lead to insanity."
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