The World’s 18 Strangest Roadways
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Dallas’ High-Five is 16th. Little do they know that this interchange is still shit. All they did was make congestion, stupid merges, and unrelenting traffic look cooler. It’s really cool to drive up the high ramps (the young-uns will find it fascinating) but it didn’t really relieve any of the problems that Dallasites thought it was to fix.
Whether you are heading north or south on 75 and you are looking to go East or West (which is worse) on 635, you will still slow down for the stupidest reason: the road goes from two lanes from 75S to two lanes on 75N merging together into two lanes on 635W which then merges into 1-2 lanes on 635W depending on if you are exiting or staying on 635W. The merge from 635E to 75S is almost as bad. I would assume that 635E to 75N is similar but I don’t go that way often if I have at all.
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Tomb Raider: Underworld
Is it wrong that I am mildly aroused by these screen caps from the game Tomb Raider: Underworld?
Video game programmers are evil to make me out this side of myself. Bastards! 
* Screen caps are from NewEgg as they were advertising TR:Underworld on sale.
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Email humor 12/04/2009
In lieu of Tiger Woods’ transgressions, he has decided to change his nickname from “Tiger.” Keeping it in the cat family, he will now be known as “Cheetah.”
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In the news 12/03/2009
Apparently a “friend” of Tiger Woods is a little miffed about his extracurricular activities [article here while it lasts].
It says this friend and fellow golfer, although no where near a golfer of Tiger’s caliber, introduced his nanny [Elin] to Tiger. I can see being a little bitter if it was a good friend, a relative or someone really close but being bitter because your nanny got shat on by a dude you introduced her to? C’mon! Again, I don’t condone cheating but it’s not like Tiger hasn’t provided above and beyond for Elin allowing her to live a very, VERY comfortable lifestyle. Shit happens and yeah it sucks when it does but don’t dick on a guy for getting busted. Who the hell knows what you, Jesper Parnevik, has done “on the side.”
Jesper, by the looks of your 2009 tournament finishes, you’d be lucky if someone on the street actually knew who you are much less want you to bang them on the back nine! I think Jesper just wants to get famous off of Tiger’s name and wanderings. It’s a good time to do it!
Yes, I just pointed fingers and name-called but I got pushed. Who the hell does he really think he is saying, “We probably thought [Tiger] was a better guy than he is”!? Sounds like jealousy to me.
What an Ass! LOL!
I’m done!
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Two black guys do something very stupid…separately
Catchy title, huh? Okay, maybe not so catchy. I have nothing against black people. It just happens that I have watched or read recent occurrences that included two black people.
Why am I explaining myself!? Anyway…
First, I just got around to watching last week’s episode of the Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins on my TiVo. It’s a comedic and sometimes frustrating show to watch. I get agitated, aggravated, or some “-ated” when I see how ignorant, cowardly, egotistical, retarded, retardedly inebriated, and whatever other demeaning adjectives some these people are. I would be embarrassed if I was a friend or family member to most of these people.
So, this episode contestant Brad gets shit-faced drunk. For some reason, he starts talking smack at Darrell, not like my brother Darryl but like Duhrail, the only black dude in the house. I’m not sure if it was because he’s black since no slangs or slurs were used in his drunken rant or that Darrell just happened to be holding the biggest pot of money ($33,000) and worked a guaranteed trip to the finals with his team.
Brad is so drunk that he can barely stand upright while he’s ranting and flexing his muscles at Darrell. The other dudes are trying to keep things cool without redirecting Brad’s ire towards them. Darrell is mocking Brad and Brad finally gets to a point where he touches/pushes Darrell on the shoulders from the front while Darrell is sitting on a bed.
Darrell finally gets off the bed and grabs Brad’s shoulders and it becomes a sort of wrestling grapple shoving match. It gets a little more out of hand where Brad, already unstable and unbalanced, loses footing and stumbles backwards all the while Darrell is shoving. Brad topples kind of backwards/sidewards to his right and hits hard the wooden floor. While on the ground, Darrell stands over him and swings away with his right arm/fist to the back left-side of Brad’s head. The other guys pull him away to see that Brad is gushing blood from his brow.
Interjection: Most would think this injury is from Darrell but I am sure it was from when Brad “falls” over and hits the floor without being able brace for the fall with his hands. Add to this the hitting from behind the head on the left-side by girly Darrell and now Brad’s brain was probably bouncing continuously on the floor.
Now, finally, here’s the mistake…There is one major rule: no fighting. If someone hits you, protect yourself without hitting back and only the “hitter” goes home. So, Darrell, you dumb ass. You royally f-ed up! You had $33,000. You were secured in going to the finals. Your team would have at least had 3 guys and 1 girl if not 4 guys while the other team was definitely only 1 guy and maybe 3 girls. The odds were 99.9% in your favor of taking home at least $33,000 with whatever the final bounty portioned out would be. I’d have to say that constitutes you being labeled as Senor Dipshit!
Second, and less elaborately describe, Tiger Woods. I haven’t followed closely the whole “cheating” story but if any part is true, dude, WTF were you thinking? You NEVER, EVER leave texts or messages from traceable numbers or addresses. If you cheat, especially as a celebrity athlete, you keep it so buried and secretive that it’s almost like you aren’t having an affair at all!
I don’t point fingers at Tiger. We are all human and I sometimes believe that as humans maybe we are not supposed to be “tied” to one person. Procreation would have suffered if we were. Just my opinion but I think it’s a testament for us as humans to remain faithful and not stray compared to seeing it as a failure if we do. It’s not that things are better on the other side of the fence. It’s that there are a lot of “other sides of the fence.”
Anyway, I don’t fault Tiger for being a celebrity that was found to have cheated on his wife. He’s not a role model of life and those that make him as such are foolish. He’s not Mrs. C. What he is is an athlete, a very famous and skilled athlete. A role model on how to play golf? Sure! Does that directly correlate to a role model on life? Not just no, but HELL NO!
Anyway, I’m done ranting now. It’s time to move on to more productive things like getting ready to go home for the day.
Live Long and Prosper!
The understanding of college football rankings eludes me
I don’t follow football which means I don’t follow college football. But I noticed a few news stories that kind of made me think…yes, the gerbil wheel still runs occasionally.
It seems TCU has gone undefeated (12-0, 8-0). They are the Mountain West Conference Champions.
But this is where my ignorance shows through. They are or are not going to a bowl game? In the article [here], it wasn’t clear. It especially was confusing when it said,
“The only chance TCU has to become the first outsider to play in the BCS national championship game is for No. 3 Texas (12-0) to lose to Nebraska (9-3) in the Big 12 title game.”
Okay, what? You lost me!
I’ll just rant on about what I am not clear. A team goes undefeated, some of those wins by huge margins, and after all that effort they maybe will play in a bowl/championship game? To me, that’s like working 12-hour days and still getting 8-hour pay. What’s the point? I’ve heard some people say that those wins came against not-so-great teams. Every team has an off season but that doesn’t mean they weren’t good at some point in time.
So, let’s take a look at TCU’s cross-town rival, SMU. After something like 25 losing seasons, SMU goes (7-5, 6-2) and gets the Hawaii Bowl. I don’t know if that’s a championship or what but they already get a bowl game with a 7-5 season where as TCU goes 12-0 and is iffy? SMU article here as long as it lasts at Dallas Morning News.
Now, I think I understand there are different levels of conference play. Wrong or right, I kind of relate it to NHL, IHL, CHL, etc. because I have a decent grasp and understanding on ice hockey leagues. I also relate it to high school competitions where the break down is something like 3A, 4A, 5A depending on the size of the school and school district.
So as there are different levels of play, why not different levels of bowl games? Again, I don’t know college ball so there may be something like this already in place. I just don’t see why a team that goes 12-0 for the season is not rewarded in the end for their amazing effort but a team that’s sucked for twenty-five years with a barely winning season of 7-5 is in a bowl game.
I am college football ignorant so this may not be as dismal as it seems to me. If I’m sort of right, hooray for me and colleges that continually get shafted should push for change!
Live Long and Prosper!
Vanilla Ice…Ice, ice baby
From a Frontburner post to a New Times article.
It’s a good read especially if you grew up during that time as I did for Rob’s, Vanilla’s, one year of stardom!
At the time of this post, I’m only about halfway through the article as I’m at work. But, so far, one of the funniest things Rob’s said is on page 10. And I quote:
“It was a million dollars. I’d lick my mother’s asshole for a million dollars.”
Now that’s funny!
Click to see the Ice, Ice Baby video on YouTube as embedding has been disabled.
By the way, did I mention there’s like 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon between me and Ice? I went to high school with one of his dancers. We weren’t best of buds but we knew each other. I remember he sort of quit school to go backup dance for Vanilla. Talk about a story to share with your kids.
Live Long and Prosper!
OMG! More more in the news 12/01/2009
From Dallas Morning News:
University Park to vote tonight on smoking banClick here for article as long as it lasts
Just thought I’d let you know that I commented on the article. My handle was JustAnOpinion007.
Or you can just read it here:
Not smoking is a natural, innate process. Smoking is a chosen, learned habit. When a smoker and non-smoker stand beside each other and the smoker lights up, the smoker’s habit infringes upon the non-smoker’s environment and affects their choice.
Telling a non-smoker to just go somewhere else is ignorant. If smokers boycott a place for not allowing them to smoke, so be it. Same with non-smokers. I personally don’t understand why a smoke is needed while enjoying a dining-out meal. I don’t see that one could properly and thoroughly enjoy the taste and flavor. But I won’t pass judgment at this time.
The part that smokers don’t get is that their habit affects other people. Plain and simple, it’s downright disrespectful to smoke without asking if it would bother anyone. It’s rude but the smoker’s don’t get it for some reason. It’s like smacking while eating, picking your nose at the table or sneezing without covering your mouth. Would you really fart loudly in a room of strangers just because you can? Highly doubtful! It’s called common courtesy but most smokers (yes I generalize because it’s true) believe that it’s their given right to smoke wherever and whenever they please. If anyone tells them no, then they feel like someone’s questioning their entitlement to do so.
If it takes government to step in and show people the courteous way, then I’m for it because the smokers aren’t leading by example. I agree that the owners should be able to pass/fail the option but it’s about money and they don’t want to be the one’s holding the blame. I’m sure many feel this is a good measure to pass but don’t want to openly say it for fear of customer backlash. Like it or not, that’s business. If the businesses were smart, they would have better ventilation, have smoking only in the bar area or have an air-tight separation between bar and restaurant with smoking only in the bar area. It’s simple, really.
I make a conscious choice to enter a bar (90% of revenue is from alcohol) and I fully expect there to be smoking.
I choose to enter a restaurant even though it has a bar and I expect not to smell the smoke.
Common courtesy is all it takes but our society as a whole currently lacks.
End of Commentary
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Free speech flag
This may be above my intelligence quotient but I’m not sure what this is other than a support for free speech flag. The article ended with “spread the word” so I am. You can click here to help yourself understand what this is for…if it helps…as I’m still confused…sort of. Let me know if you can make more sense out of it for me. I’m sure it makes sense. I’m just not getting it while I’m at work. I will have to ponder when I am at home, during my down time.
Visit Badmouth anyway. It looks like a decent site. I’m adding them to my Google Reader and we’ll see how it goes.
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More in the news 12/01/2009
I guess I’m out of the loop but saw this story on the “Obama party crashers” on MSNBC. I’m not going to waste my time with further comment other than if these people were of different color, I don’t think they would waste time pressing criminal trespass charges even if they were black. Just because we have a black president doesn’t mean that a black’s skin color has made miraculous strides in overall perception. Sorry, that’s just society not my personal feelings.
Click to see article while is lasts.
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