Watch – Painfully slow. 162 games makes the players tired of playing. Since it’s always on in season, it gives people something to do which I think is it’s biggest allure.

Basketball
Play – Pick up games can make for decent basketball. Everyone can get involved because there are the right amount of people on the court. You can be a good role player even if you aren’t good at offense. Requires a decent amount of endurance which keeps the heart rate up.

Watch – The NBA has gotten pretty lame. The players play when they want to and you can tell that they don’t give it their all during the regular season. Watching the Sixers shows how teams can really D up and produce low scoring games. Where is that defensive effort during the season? College bball is fun to watch because they are giving 100% every game.

Football
Play – Fun to play but relatively hard to get games. Getting a good amount of people together who all want to play football doesn’t seem to happen all that often. A good QB is essential to having a good football teams. A bunch of average joes can’t have a good football game without a Q. Physical ability and speed come into play as it is easy to expose your defender if you are a superior athlete.

Watch – Easily the best professional sport & collegiate sport to watch. Fast paced. Big hits. Action packed. Fantasy stats are also making the game more exciting. The best sport to bet on as well.

Hockey & Soccer
Play – Nope.
Watch – Nope.

After that I went to Double Visions which is a strip club. First off, Double Visions is amazingly enhanced since the last time I went there 3 years ago. Rock and I walked in and walked out because it was embarrassingly disgusting. This time, I must say, the girls were pretty good looking and the interior was well suited for a good time. I ended up telling one girl that I would go for a lap dance (20 dollars) after she did her routine on the stage. My initial plan was to leave before then but as it played out I got a lap dance from her. Surprisingly, this didn’t really get a rise out me. I can’t really explain it but I think the friction just wasn’t happening and even though she was a pro of 9 years, she failed. Aside from that 20 being a complete waste of money, it was a pretty entertaining night for a Tuesday. .

Mark Cuban’s Blog

You can’t be happy if you don’t abide by what I wrote above. Conforming to the way other people want you to live your life is one of the greatest crimes. Your parents want you to go to this school, your professor thinks you should do this job, your friends don’t think you should go out with that girl… These types of decisions lead to unhappiness and that should be our main goal in life. A feeling of fulfillment because we carry out our life exactly how we want it to be should be our focus. I am the first to admit I let people influence my decisions. I either don’t want to let this person down, I’m expected to be somewhere, or I have to agree just to agree. From now on things are changing. If I want to do something, I’m going to do it. Howard would be proud.

Law of Gravity – Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible place in the universe.

Law of Probability – The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

Law of Random Numbers – If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal and someone always answers.

Variation Law - If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will always move faster than the one you are in now (works every time).

Law of the Bath – When a body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

Law of Close Encounters - The probability of meeting someone you know INCREASES dramatically when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.

Law of the Result - When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, IT WILL!!!

Law of Bio-Mechanics - The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

Law of Seats at the Theater & Hockey Arena – At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle, always arrive last. They are the ones who will leave their seats several times to go for food, beer, or toilet and who leave early before the end of the performance or before the game is over. The folks in the aisle seats come early, never move once, usually have long gangly legs and stay to the bitter end of the performance.

The Coffee Law - As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

The Airplane Coffee Law – As soon as flight attendants start serving coffee during your flight, the plane enters turbulent airspace. Therefore, logically, serving coffee on planes causes turbulence.

Murphy’s Law of Lockers – If there are only 2 people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

Law of Physical Surfaces - The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on Law of Logical Argument – Anything is possible IF you don’t know what you are talking about.

Brown’s Law of Physical Appearance – In a store if the clothes fit, they’re ugly.

Wilson’s Law of Commercial Marketing Strategy – As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.

Doctors’ Law – If you don’t feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you’ll feel better. But if you don’t make an appointment, you’ll stay sick.

As you well know, I have been known to have had brushes with the authorities on my way home from the odd social session over the years. A couple of nights ago, I was out for a few drinks with some friends at the Marriott Hotel and had a few too many beers and some rather nice red wine. Knowing full well I may have been slightly over the limit, I did something I’ve never done before:

I took a bus home.

Sure enough I passed a police road block but as it was a bus, they waved it past.

I arrived home safely without incident which was a real surprise, as I have never driven a bus before and am not sure where I got it.

AHHH, Now that’s better!

When I presented this idea to Steve and then asked him “would you still respect me as a human being,” his answer was “perhaps”. I find this to be a phenomenal answer. I would turn into a completely fake person. Not participating is me being real. Going out of my way to use Facebook for social means would be a different part of me (ala Katy Perry). On one hand, this is a great idea on self promotion and almost a necessity to expand my network. On the other, I’d become a huge sellout. However, what choice do you have if you want to find the limelight?

Howard Roark (another Fountainhead reference, sorry) relied on the fact that his work was his advertising. The quality of his work would be seen by other people and they would directly come to him to do other projects. What I’m suggesting goes against anything real and involves artificially creating your path towards success. This is how I view celebrities like Paris and LiLo. They actively do things to get their name in the paper. They want to be in the limelight. To put things in perspective, they are commenting on everything on Facebook so people know who they are. The problem with the limelight is that it is unhealthy. This false lifestyle eats away at you. It isn’t pure and sound. So why do people want it? Money helps. Recognition. Feeling important

I do think that there can be a better ways and the answer is my favorite, balance. You have to balance the self promotion. What good is your work if nobody reads it? Sure you have the feeling on the inside but that only takes you so far. There has to be some essence of putting yourself out there to take your work to the next level. Sharing with people to enrich them. This isn’t 1950 when Howard Roark roamed the streets. This is an information society where things happen in the wink of an eye. To reach the limelight you have to take part in the social craze. A rare few people can do it without this medium. Those are the people who can survive the limelight. For the others (my idea), a life of misery awaits.