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Feb, 2011
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Feb, 2011
Brain Teaser
Find the sixth number in the sequence:
1, 2, 6, 42, 1806,?
Supposedly, only those with an IQ greater than 120 can solve this.
I was able to solve this.
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Feb, 2011
Facebook Follies
I’m going to give you my opinion on some facebook issues. Let’s face it, facebook has 500 million users, is the talk of the town in the investment world, and is going to be a leading player in social networking for years to come. Most of the baby boomers view facebook from the macro sense. They might create an account, get some friends and feel “in touch” with social networking. My generation, facebook was created while we were in college, uses facebook for invitations to events, constant status updates, messaging, chat and most of the bells and whistles. I’m not in tune with the younger high school crowd but I notice terrible spelling in their posts, pointless posts, farmville out the ass and other time wasters that I just don’t know. I do have my quips though and I’m going to use this post to share them.
The sick status updates
Evan and I talked about this one girl who would only post things like “feeling ill” or “don’t want to get out of bed” and it just got to the point that you are barely even my friend I’m not going to let you contaminate my news feed with your bad attitude. It just gets annoying and eventually leads to a de-friending which I only use as a last resort. Bad news isn’t facebook news worthy because you are just looking for sympathy that you aren’t going to get from me.
The constant updater
Oh so you just got a new pair of shoes. Oh you stepped in a puddle wearing your new shoes. Oh your socks got wet. Oh now you just bought new socks. Seriously, no one gives a shit about every moment of your life. I don’t mind when people post where they are or what they are doing because it lets your friends know where to find you but I don’t need to know every waking moment of your life. The mobile facebook app makes people feel the need to constantly be in touch with facebook. This is not needed.
The lonely wife poster
I’m at the age where some of my facebook friends are married and have kids. I however cannot stand seeing posts about their kids or how they have to stay home because of their kids. It wasn’t my life decision to get married, get knocked up and then spend my time at home because I have a little munchkin running around. I also don’t care that you need to post status updates because you are lonely and want to feel like you have friends out their in cyberspace who actually give a fuck about what you doing. We don’t. Yes, you made a terrible decision to get married and now you are forced to live in boredom. Don’t spread it to the entire facebook community.
The Secret Message Poster
I don’t understand this one. People post lyrics or lines from something that maybe one person might have any idea what they are talking about. If your update is only geared to one person, then send the fucking message to them. I’ll read your cryptic message and think “wow, that was really gay.” The people who post song lyrics get on my nerves too. I know the lyric. What am I supposed to do other than read your stupid lyric and assume you like this song. Is there hidden meaning behind “airplanes in the night sky?” No, save the lyric for your own head.
Here are some other examples of updates that should never have made it to facebook:
“rainboots on!” – NO!
“Everything has to do with everyone. Everything. Everyone. One.” – “POINTLESS!”
“I need to talk to you asap.” – It’s called a phone, not facebook
“I hate writing papers…” – We don’t feel sorry for your life decisions. No one cares.
I know I’m unusual and I have my own way of looking at things. I never put status updates unless it’s self promotion for my blog. I don’t feel it’s necessary to let people know where I am and what I’m doing in real time. I actually prefer people never know where I am. I find the tagging of pictures to be a nuisance because you can be in a blackout state and then find yourself in a disastrous situation that then gets shown to the entire facebook community. I do use facebook to find out about events, contact info, and stalking hot girls so it does have it’s uses. If you find yourself in one of the classes I described above there is no need to fret, a simple pointing out of your actions can make them easily correctable. Yes I am a facebook critic. I am also extremely conservative and anything that deviates from the norm is uncomfortable to me. I’m also a simpleton and find that the simpler things are, the better. These are only my opinions. If everyone was like me, we’d have routine but no innovation.
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Feb, 2011
Ice and Running
The roads in Manayunk and Philly were perfectly fine, although the driveway was pretty icy. There were only a couple spots that even had ice patches. I guess because I live with a weather maniac that the weather gets blown out of proportion, but MY weather forecasts begin when I walk outside and not 48 hours before. Predicting weather seems pretty dumb in my opinion. Lets spend time watching weather models and then guessing what’s going to happen. And then when we are guessing, we’ll get all worked up over what MIGHT happen and base our life decisions on these predictions. I live in the present and I base my decisions on present conditions. If I wake up and turn on the news and see traffic accidents and problems all over, then I’ll know what I’m dealing with. If I watch the NAM or GFS for 24 hours straight, I still won’t know jack shit.
What I can’t understand is how people go running outside in this weather. I get that there is dedication to exercise and how people feel the need to work out, but there is a fine line of sanity. A goal of exercising is not to get hurt and what better way is there to go running on Kelly drive, at 6am, during a icy rain storm in freezing temperatures. I just look at these people and think that this is one of the reason’s I will never understand some people. One misstep and you can twist and ankle, break your back, or just get physically injured from something that should be avoided.
I’ve wrote before that I don’t run outside in any weather under 50 degrees. Even 50 is a stretch. I prefer 90 when you go outside and instantly break a sweat. That’s a good workout. So as long as I avoid heat exhaustion, I’m not getting hurt. I (not me) even will go as far as bundling up to run out in 30 degree weather is normal. Wearing shorts in 30 degree weather is complete stupidity and any one who does can instantly be labeled an idiot. But running outside with ice on the ground is easily the stupidest thing you can do. It’s one day out of the year, run on a treadmill if you need your exercise that badly. People are made to do stupid things. It’s in our nature. It’s how you learn.
My biggest pet peeve is still missing the trash can with trash. It happens on the reg. I’ll drop something from 5 feet and a gust of wind will take it to some foreign area. Then I’ll have to go pick it up in complete frustration. Seriously this is the most annoying thing I can think of.
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Feb, 2011
Kacey Jordan Traffic
So I had a Suri Cruise experience with Kacey Jordan and Howard Stern and had about 30+ people coming from search engines yesterday. What I can’t figure out is that they all just bounce immediately after they click. Like they search for that specific topic, find a site writing about it, and then decide the information is irrelevant and click off. How can I develop traffic if people find what they are looking for and don’t even give it a chance. One thing is obviously evident though, write about juicy current events, put a title that nails some keywords and google will sent people your way. How to get them to stay is a different story. I think I probably need something really unique that no one else has like nude pics of a celeb. Rather than sell the pics, I would just post them on my blog and start making it big that way. Now considering I’ve never used a professional camera and have no interest in stalking celebs, this isn’t a feasible approach. However I do find it interesting that being current is what will get google to drive traffic. So more posts on current events might start creeping up.
A hilarious thing happened to me at the basketball game on Tuesday. When I was sitting on the bench early on I glanced behind me and saw this kid sitting on the bleachers behind us. He only barely caught my eye but I didn’t recognize who it was. After a few minutes and a timeout was called and I noticed it was Jordan Cohen. I haven’t seen him since the summer and it’s not even that he’s changed that much but I just completely spaced. I throw it up to puberty but I was honestly guessing when I was like “Jordan”? The Rock said something to me that I pretty much never forget, he said “I don’t ever really notice me aging because I’m always looking at myself on a daily basis.” I’ve never really noticed myself aging either. At 27 I feel like I look the same as I did when I was 18. I’ve gained about 40 pounds of muscle but facially I can’t tell that much of a difference. I can grow better facial hair now and have a scar on my lip but no funky hairstyles or any major differences. I wonder what age it will be when I look at the mirror and say “Shit, I’m old.” I easily think I pass for 23 but when I turn, 30 I guess I have to hope I pass for 27. I think this is such an advantage that guys have over girls. When I’m creeping on Facebook and see some college girls I can tell instantly that these girls are young. With me being 27, I notice the age difference in a 19 year old college girl. But I would wonder if a 19 year old would look at me and think I could pass as a college senior. I think as long as you stay in good physical shape, you will benefit from this aging process.
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Feb, 2011
Ambler Bball
Team Baker moved to 3-0 after a hard fought win on Tuesday night. We played the team that we beat in the first round of the playoffs in the fall league. They beat us in the regular season when they had one of their better players but we won when he was absent, he was there on Tuesday. We played really well as a team and even though I don’t think they game ever got further than 7 points, I don’t think we ever lost the lead. Our offense was carried mostly by our best weapons in Bake and Ck4 but everyone contributed. We were up by 7 or so at halftime and ended up winning by 7. Play of the game goes to Casey who got burned by his man on D with a minute 30 left and we were up by 3 or so, I picked up his man and he was going hard to the basket. I didn’t want to foul so I did my best to contest but as the ball went up Casey jumped out of the building and pinned the ball against the backboard. We recovered the ball, went up two possessions and won the game. We move to a combined 6-0 in both leagues and are playing the best basketball as a unit since we started. I know most don’t really care about bball but I figure I’ll make a post.
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Feb, 2011
Kacey Jordan on Howard Stern
For all you poor bastards who are too cheap to pay for Sirius, Howard Stern had Kacey Jordan on and had a really good interview. If you live in a cave or have no interest in Celebrity lifestyles, then you haven’t heard anything about the bender Charlie Sheen has been on. He pretty much is a raging drunk who smokes coke and likes to bang pornstars. Kacey Jordan, in pretty pathetic fashion in my opinion, took her story to the press and is now going to get famous from it. I find it sickening that she’d expose Sheen like this considering he just gave her 30,000! dollars for banging him for one night. The story she told was that she just got done a porn shoot and went over to his house. He focused on her completely even though there were other “whores” there. She said she could out drink him, which he quickly proved otherwise, and then they sat together and watched porn while he was smoking coke. She said that he doesn’t have real teeth because they’ve fallen out due to drug use. Then she said that he banged her and only lasted a few minutes and she was amazed he could even keep it up after being so fucked up. Other notes were that he went down on her with no questions asked which, with her being a pornstar, seems like a risky move on Sheen’s part. He wrote here a check for 30k and she went to the bank a few hours later and cashed it. The story was leaked, presumably by her sister, and now she’s selling out and making a name for herself.
I find Sheen to be one amusing character. He’s supposedly worth 380 million dollars and is rumored to have paid half a million for coke and hookers last year. He buys these pornstars Bentley’s and throws money around likes it’s going out of style. I like how he bangs the hottest pornstars too and not just random hookers. Two examples were Jordan Capri and Bree Olson, and both are huge whores, but both sluttingly hot. The drug use is a little scary as he’s rumored to go on 5 day alcohol, coke induced binges which can’t be healthy. And what’s the most amazing part? They pay him 1.8 million dollars per episode. How the hell does he memorize his lines and still do a good job with all the partying. I spend two days drinking and think I’m going to die of dehydration. This guy spends 5 days banging pornstars and doing coke and he’s able to be the biggest Male Actor on TV. What am I doing wrong here? I honestly envy the guy for what he’s able to pull off. He’s banging 22 year olds, making millions, and even though he’s probably depressed from the drugs, he certainly is getting the most he can out of life. It may not be the most fulfilling but don’t forget he’s 45 and has already done the wife and kids. His wife was Denise “awesome scene in Wild Things” Richards. This guy is really a wild man. A good example of this guy during his heyday:
“In 1990, Sheen accidentally shot his then-fiancee, Kelly Preston, in the arm, after which she ended the relationship.” – Sounds like she needed a shot in the arm to get her going…
I find the whole celebrity life to be overdone with all the programs and attention given to these people but Charlie Sheen is truly a beast and deserves it all. Lets not forget this guy was in great movies like Wall Street, Platoon and Major League. I just looked through his list and those were the only good ones I recognized so maybe he’s not all that great of an actor, but he’s pretty funny on Two and a Half Men. I like him his style.
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Feb, 2011
Ship It!
Quick entry before sleep. I managed to ship a $12 dollar 180 man for $594 today. After the W, I proceeded to donk off $75 in 4 sngs but did cash out some and will continue to try to build the roll. I sucked out with 88 vs 99 in the beginning and then again with A6 vs AT to survive. I got to the final table practically last in chips and tripled up with 33. Then I got it in with 22 vs A7 and then with AQ vs A9, both holding. I went into heads up a 2-1 dog in chips but flopped a flush to quickly turn it around and ended it with AK vs JK. It’s good to finally win won of these and I’ve been watching a lot of videos and have confidence that I’m going to turn in some other bigger scores.
After my win I decided to go to the gym and literally got he A1 parking spot right next to the handicap spot. So I’m thinking life is pretty good at this point after getting completely blanked at work today. So I’m top of the world at this point and I see this girl who I’ve noticed a few times before and decide what the heck. So I walk up to her and say “is your name Melissa?” (I was pretty sure she worked at Summit park when I lived there and sort of remembered her name.) She said, “no.” I said, “oh.” I awkwardly walked away and stayed on the opposite side of the gym. You can’t win em all.
I’m going to give one final thought for documentation purposes. I suggest buying the stock MOBI at around $7.00. It is the largest virtual app store in China and they just partnered with one of the largest web portals. Hundreds of millions of Chinese need to be entertained and apps are the newest, cheapest form of entertainment. Don’t say I didn’t tell you so.
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Jan, 2011
Ice Storm on the Way…
Instead of a typical early February snowstorm, we are about to witness a catastrophic ice storm (well maybe not for Philly itself or the immediate suburbs). Locations in the vicinity of 40 – 50 miles North and West of Philadelphia will get the worst of this storm as a very severe cold air damming situation is setting up. The effect known as “the wedge” is the most widely known example of cold air damming. In this scenario, the southern storm system will bring warmer air with it above the surface (at around 1500 meters). This warmer air will ride over the cooler air at the surface (also known as “overrunning” precipitation), which is being held in place by the high pressure system to the north. This temperature profile will lead to the development of freezing rain or sleet, depending on the exact depths of the warm and cold layers. A thinner cold layer will lead to conditions favoring freezing rain, whereas a thicker or stronger cold layer will lead to sleet. Ice storms are extremely difficult to forecast, as the difference in less than 10 miles can be the difference between a much more manageable heavy sleet accumulation, as opposed to a very dangerous freezing rain accumulation. One of the known weaknesses and biases of the computer models is to underestimate the amount of low level cold air “locked-in” at the surface. For this reason, the computer models sometimes depict a warmer solution as compared to what actually occurs. Currently, the NAM and other short range models have shifted slightly colder in the past few runs, while the GFS is consistently warmer. I would think that the cold air hangs around slightly longer than the models indicate and allows for around a 0.25 inch freezing rain (ice) accumulation in and around the Philly metro area before a changeover to rain Wednesday morning. The Lehigh Valley will probably get the worst of this storm with localized 0.50+ inch ice accumulations. This will cause power lines to come down and make for virtually impossible driving conditions. As we all know from this winter, tomorrow morning may bring a completely different view of what will happen, but that is the fun of understanding and studying the weather!
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Jan, 2011
Mixed Opinions
Sam told me that he was getting a message that he was banned from my blog. Then someone told me that they were also getting a banned message. Turns out I installed a spam plugin that must be a bit too sensitive and it must have found these particular people to be dangerous to the well being of my site. I disabled the plugin, and now will be spammed galore, but at least everyone has access to the site again. I was also alerted that I have been slacking when it came to updates. The only thing I can say to defend myself is that I put up 35, this is 36, posts this month and that is my single highest monthly total ever. The person who told me this meant nothing negative by it but do you have any idea it is to come up with entertaining material when you aren’t that entertaining. Not to mention you constantly have people telling you that “that post sucked (ck4)”, “you aren’t more interesting than most (Laura)”, “Sam’s blog is way better (the Shee)”. So not only to I have to write good posts (posts that have CK4 in them are considered good), but they have to be interesting, and they have to be better than Sam’s. That’s some pressure that if I start spewing out random posts, quality will be weak. I have a standard of post quality that I try to maintain. I know the Shee says Sam’s blog is better but that’s just because the Shee likes to read about <20 year old males and what they do when they drink together. Sam, this isn't a call out but what's with the no shirt pictures in your dorm? Do people frolic around topless and everyone just accepts that as standard? I can see if it wasn't winter, and it wasn't the weekend, and there weren't people around, and you weren't surrounded by bros... is there something going on in your dorm that is a secret? I actually never really consider our blogs competing against one another for what it's worth. Neither of us make any money doing this and the time spent compared to the satisfaction of having a blog is skewed drastically. I read on some random facebook wall post that a person was thinking about creating a blog and asking for input and someone wrote that only fags have blogs. I certainly didn't take this to heart but is that the general conception about blogs? I'm aware that most people don't keep one but I can't really figure out why. Is it that they aren't that entertaining or aren't that great of writers because if that's the case I should have given up a while ago. I mainly do it so that when I think back to what I was like when I was this age, I have a clear record of day by day account of how I lived my life. This documentation will never go away as far as I'm alive. I have no desire to quit this and will try to do a better job with posts in the future. I may have to write about more diverse things then just my life but I don't think that should be a problem. Maybe I'll introduce some daily topics that will become staples of the blog.