This post has been stewing for a while.

My last post about Fuller House is a prime example of posting to post. When I don’t post, it means I have nothing to write about. I went 3 days without a post and felt like I was letting the blog down. I watched Fuller House with the sole intent to write about it and that doesn’t make a good post. That’s doing a job.

I even published the piece without proofreading. I watched the episode and instead of taking notes I said I’d remember my good thoughts. I had at least 3 better than what I published thoughts and by the time I was done writing (and forgetting) it, I said, “who really cares about this pointless show?”

I didn’t care. My brain went to the fact that I’m alive during this age and in this spot right now. What if you were born around the bombings in Syria? The anaconda grip of North Korea? The starvation and corruption in Africa. I couldn’t have been born in a safer environment vs the other 90% of the world. Maybe 85%. I don’t think it’s quantifiable but America is probably the top destination and I grew up well off. Why did I get so lucky? Things are becoming much more real as I look at a global perspective.

There are 7 billion people on this planet. You aren’t unique. You are 1 out of 7 billion. Do you ever think about that?  You were 1 of 25 in Kindergarten. 1 of 1,200 in high school. 1 of 35,000 in college. 1 out of 350 million in the USA.  1 out of 7 billion is unheard of. This idea is foreign to many people. The circle of life has been around for a long time which starts to put the vast amount of time vs the vast amount of people in perspective.

People die. I was going to do a post on celebrity deaths and came up with Ryan Dunn and Brandon Lee (Bruce Lee’s son) as dying way too young but there is no purpose to post it. Why is it that celebrities are huge draws? I go to reddit and view the celebrity tab instead of the normal people tab. Celebrities are the best of what they do. Think about the 7 billion number again. Most people are not celebrities. Most people work to make money and figure it out from there. I love the movie Office Space because it puts that into perspective. I could explain that viewpoint as well as Mike Judge and Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston who never got as good a role) because it was a precise depiction of cube monkey. This last topic caught me rambling and I can’t tie this paragraph to my last one.

Think about Jesus for a second. Jesus happened around the year 33. Does that seem strange to anyone? 2,000 years ago, the son of God walked the Earth.  The Earth is 4.5 billion years old and our civilization worship’s a character from 2,000 years ago.  I believe the best word to describe faith is agnostic. Atheist is believing there is no god, agnostic leaves the possibility. It’s nice to have God or Jesus of Buddha or whoever people worship nowadays to live a straighter, more purposeful, life. In the end though, I’m not sure it’ll make much difference.

I always write when I steal directly from Reddit.

This is the 90’s kid I wanted to be:

 

This was the 90’s kid I was.

 

A few other great parts to this thread:

Christian Bale in the 80’s – Only a rebel would play videos games with his monitor off.

 

I wanted to be the kid that won this.

–]unholycowgod 52 points 4 hours ago

I entered one of those in the mid/late 90s when I was about 14 I think. It was a little different, almost like a crossword. The puzzles get larger and more difficult but only slightly until you get to the last one. It was a huge full-page-size puzzle but it was completely blank with no word bank. The goal was to come up with your own words to fill it in and to use the “best” words to get the highest score. So I did what any 14 year old boy would do, nothing.

They said they would mail a list of winners no matter what… but it never came.

Duck Tales Theme Song

I’m currently sitting at a 1229 ranking which is my highest of all time. I
recently beat an opponent that was 1400, my highest win to date. A
grandmaster plays at 2000+ to give you an idea of how much more room there
is for improvement. Basically anyone under 1,000 is a noob. 1,100 means your
grasping some basic concepts. 1,200 shows your delving deeper into openings
and positioning. Over the years I’ve gotten in and out of chess. Basically
when I get to a point where I hit a wall, I give up.

I’ve played 3,792 games and my record is 1,863-1,835. You’ll always stay
close to even because as you get better you get matched up with better
players. I’ve learned some valuable lessons from chess.

*       Unlike poker, there is no luck aspect to chess. When you lose, it’s
because you were outsmarted. In poker when you lose it’s easy to blame being
unlucky and continue. In chess there is no one else to blame but yourself
and this can take a toll on you and your confidence to continue playing.
*       It’s a game that requires experimentation. The game only has a
finite number of openings and the best players know how the games play out.
Being different is the only way to compete effectively because good players
have done certain scenarios so many times that they aren’t going to make
mistakes. However, usually experimenting leads to losing which gets
frustrating.
*       It is a game which doesn’t get old easily. There are always better
players and new ways to play.

I’ve moved some of my free time from Photoshop and German to chess which I
enjoy more because it’s fun compared to feeling like work. Next stop is to
get to 1,300.

Donald Trump has decided not to partake in tonight’s debate because of a spat with Megyn Kelly. Do you really think that Donald Trump is doing this over a feud with a reporter who questioned his attitude towards women last time? It’s quite possible but I doubt the Donald backs down from many fights. My take is that Donald is using this more for future ammo.

The Republican debate in August got 24 million viewers. The one in November got 13.5. If Donald Trump isn’t a part of the debate, what do you think that number would go to? 10 million? 5 million? 2 million? He’s basically saying that he’s the main draw and people are only interested in this Presidential election because of him and he’s going to prove it by not attending.

Donald’s antics (see you later Muslims and immigrants) and his in your face behavior is unprecedented and the populous is eating it up. The people have had enough of the Clinton’s, Bush’s, and other officers who have been running our country for decades. Donald is the unknown and people are tired of the known. It doesn’t matter that Donald doesn’t know the difference between Hezbollah and Isis. People love the mystery he provides.

I also think people like that although Donald is running as a Republican, his actual stances are flexible. There so flexible because he makes decisions on the spot instead of doing what the party “is supposed to do.” This annoys the politicians because it’s not the way it’s supposed to be done. They want to know what is going to happen before it does so they can prepare and Donald does not allow that because he’s a complete loose cannon. Of course he is going to make everyone uncomfortable because he operates on the edge of his seat.

I look at the other candidates and even though I hardly think Donald is perfect for the position, I don’t see anyone else winning. Ted Cruz, who? Marco Rubio seems to know what he’s talking about but he never makes the news so how can the public ever vote for him. Bernie Sanders is a socialist who will be dead by the time his time is up. Hilary will get female votes but I don’t think American men are ready for a woman president.

Which leads to Donald Trump. I could easily see him telling North Korea that we’re going to drop a nuclear bomb on their nuclear bomb for a double dose of nuclear. In the grand scheme of the universe, this is a tiny 4 year window. What’s the worse that can happen? Now of course this answer is where people would say, “are you an idiot.” Yes. Yes I am.

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