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20 May, 2011

Protest Post

By |2016-11-01T23:43:28-04:00May 20th, 2011|My Brain|18 Comments

2 people are in my good graces. I asked for feedback and got 2 responses. 1 being the Shee’s smart ass reply which I honestly do appreciate, and one being Sam’s friend Mark who I barely know but will forever stick out to me as someone I like. The rest of you can go pound sand. If I wanted to keep a journal, I could do so without publicly displaying it. If you want to read my material and use me like a whore, that’s perfectly fine but I’m taking a stand. I want 15 comments on this post. I want initials to confirm you read my blog and choose not to participate. Until I get 15 comments, I’m not posting again. I have a story about some 22 year old I met last night that will go untold…

19 May, 2011

Steven Hawking Vs Kirk Cameron

By |2016-10-28T16:01:42-04:00May 19th, 2011|My Brain|0 Comments

This is the battle between two extremes, science vs religion, proclaimed genius vs born again childhood TV star, blah blah vs blah blah. I want to comment on some of their quotes and then I’ll give my opinion on the subject.

He (Hawking) told the UK newspaper The Guardian last week, when asked to share his thoughts about death: “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”
This makes sense to me and I view death exactly as Hawking describes. Basically you die and you are buried and that is all she wrote.

Cameron, who is a born again christian and religious to the extreme was quoted saying “To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man,” Cameron, 40, said in a message posted on his Facebook page. “He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.”
You are attacking his credibility by insulting his appearance, childish and completely out of line and it makes him look foolish in my opinion.

“To speak on issues of science and violate it’s essential laws is like playing checkers with a someone who changes the rules when he’s losing,” Cameron added. “Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking’s writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?”
I completely agree with Cameron here that everything can’t come from nothing. Problem is I also don’t think a supreme being was here before everything and decided to create the universe. My mind tends to lean more towards science here but to think that Cameron’s belief of a supreme being is any more believable then the science approach isn’t being realistic.

The bottom line is that no one knows for sure and it’s easier to say “you can believe whatever you want to believe and I’ll believe whatever I want to believe and we’ll leave it at that.” Now here’s why I believe there is no god.

Does anyone have any proof HE exists? ANY? How can you believe in things with no proof? I need more then just HE’s watching and you should do the right things because you want to be in his good graces when judgment day rolls around. I believe Christianity and the belief in God was created by people way back when to try to help society achieve common goals and continue to move forward in the best means possible. Plus the satisfaction derived from helping people is the most value you can have as a meaningless peon in the grand scheme of things. I understand the idea that people who have god in their lives feel more fulfilled but can’t I feel just as fulfilled without believing in him? Can I not help people the same way Christians can without believing in god?

I feel like I can describe “miracles from god” as dumb luck. When I narrowly missed getting crushed by a car and t-boned, that was God’s doing? There was probably another car accident somewhere else where the person didn’t get so lucky. Where was god for that one? Oh I forgot, God picks and chooses who he wants to help because he’s all powerful.

I can’t explain how everything came from nothing. I can’t explain how a supreme being created everything. All I can do is live my life, try to be happy, and enjoy it the best I can because I’m just one of the masses in this slither of time that is the universe. God or no god, I don’t think it matters much to me.

19 May, 2011

Chuck Klosterman’s Questions – Question 6

By |2016-11-03T15:28:31-04:00May 19th, 2011|Books|4 Comments

With 0 serious feedback, onward we go. Question 6.

6. At long last, someone invents “the dream VCR.” This machine allows you to tape an entire evening’s worth of your own dreams, which you can then watch at your leisure. However, the inventor of the dream VCR will only allow you to use this device if you agree to a strange caveat: When you watch your dreams, you must do so with your family and your closest friends in the same room. They get to watch your dreams along with you. And if you don’t agree to this, you can’t use the dream VCR.

Would you still do this?

There’s no way I would do this. I have had some really funky, perverted, cruel dreams. If people knew what my sub-conscious thought of sometimes, you’d look at me like a complete nut job. I’m pretty much an open book with this blog and I share mostly everything but some of my dreams are pretty far out there. I know it’s just a dream but I think there may be some inner truths found in dreams that can possibly come out that I just would rather not share with people. Everything is really a matter of perception and how you perceive me is how I am in your eyes. You perception if formed by how the way I control how I act. Now if you saw my dreams, you’d perceive me from a view that I wasn’t controlling and that could get ugly. Plus I don’t hold dreams as full truths which would be totally misleading.

18 May, 2011

Rnningfool.com To Infinity and Beyond

By |2011-05-18T23:12:21-04:00May 18th, 2011|My Brain|5 Comments

I just went back to post #1 and read about 50 posts from about two years ago. It was a blog but it wasn’t a really good blog. I honestly feel that the present day entries I have been putting out have been good reads. Back then my thoughts were all over the place, there are no images, its just a lot of gibberish. There are some funny things but I had no SEO, bad titles, and there was barely any concepts to the posts. I know I still write posts about my life which are nonsense but I feel like it’s focused nonsense. I think just owning this site has been a really good experience for me and I hope to develop this website one step further. What I really could use is some feedback. I’m basically pleading for help here. If you read this blog on a fairly regular basis, can you give me any thoughts on what you like, what you don’t like, what I should do more of. I’ll even give you some nudging. Do you like when I pick something like Klosterman’s questions and answer them? Do you like reading about my daily life? Do my opinions on facebook, movies, and celebs make for interesting reads? Is current news make for good posts? When I started this blog it was about me. Now I have tried to turn it into my thoughts entertaining you. It can still be a journal but there has to be more then just my boring life. You can help me tailor it to something better. Any thoughts are appreciated.

18 May, 2011

RnningFool’s Running Group in Philly

By |2013-03-15T03:41:37-04:00May 18th, 2011|Running|1 Comment

CK4 and I like to think of ideas about what type of business to start. Say I want to start a running network within Manayunk. I create a webpage and tell people that I’m looking to train for some race and anyone who wants to run with the elite Tom Stortz can do so. So I start small, maybe get a few people who just need something to do. Then I start growing with more members because I create a forum on my website and actively participate. As we grow I start expanding the area outside of Manayunk. Next thing you know, I’ve created a network of people who like to run, they like me because I’m awesome, and they come to my website because I keep people up to date on new shoes, places to run, good dieting, etc. Now I have tons of people coming to my website and I start selling ads to runner’s world and the like and now I’ve created a business with the simple idea of giving people information. Plus everybody would make guest shout outs in my blog and I’d stay in great shape like always. Who wants to go running with me?

Now just to go one step further on my running bio. My time of 60:15 two years ago in the Broad Street run was good for 170th or so out of 25,000. I got 3rd place in last year’s Philly Mud Run out of 1,500. I did the Half Marathon in 1:19 something which was probably my best effort. I recently broke my ankle but am mostly healthy now. I have horrible feet that blister up so a half marathon is about the extent of my mileage. I’m ready to start going on longer runs and getting in shape for the Sea Isle 10 miler. I will also be doing Phils 5k. I’m a great running partner who knows time for talking and time for running. The main problem would be the pace as not everyone is at my level but if money is involved, I can make the situation work.

18 May, 2011

Chuck Klosterman’s 23 Questions – Question 5

By |2016-11-03T15:28:19-04:00May 18th, 2011|Books|2 Comments

5. You meet your soul mate. However, there is a catch: Every three years, someone will break both of your soul mate’s collarbones with a Crescent wrench, and there is only one way you can stop this from happening: You must swallow a pill that will make every song you hear—for the rest of your life—sound as if it’s being performed by the band Alice in Chains. When you hear Creedence Clearwater Revival on the radio, it will sound (to your ears) like it’s being played by Alice in Chains. If you see Radiohead live, every one of their tunes will sound like it’s being covered by Alice in Chains. When you hear a commercial jingle on TV, it will sound like Alice in Chains; if you sing to yourself in the shower, your voice will sound like deceased Alice vocalist Layne Staley performing a capella (but it will only sound this way to you).

Would you swallow the pill?

This one is a little tricky for me. I can’t stand the way Alice and Chains sound. I think all of their songs sound the same and I really have clue how people find them so great. So telling me that every single song I’m going to hear for the rest of my life is going to sound like them is a bit disturbing. Almost too much to handle. I really enjoy music and this would essentially eliminate listening to music for pleasure and turn any song into a torture session.

Knowing this, I have to put a lot of emphasis on “soul mate”. Do people really believe there is a soul mate out there specifically designed for you? People who get married find their soul mate… Yeah right. Case in point, people who were high school sweet hearts are really soul mates? You mean that out of the 6 billion people on this Earth, your soul mate just happened to be put right in your location where you went to school? Not very likely. I think there are probably plenty of soul mates out there and ruining music for my life doesn’t seem like a realistic sacrifice. If every song would be to the Beatles tune, I’d probably have a different opinion but Alice in Chains really bother me. I’ve forgone the wrench idea but I wouldn’t wish harm on anyone.

18 May, 2011

Bayou, Kildares, and some mindless thoughts

By |2011-05-18T08:17:53-04:00May 18th, 2011|My Life|3 Comments

Ck4 and I went to the Bayou yesterday for their 10 cent wings. They had a message on the table that said we will be adding 18% gratuity on every bill which is actually a loss to them because we would tip more. After thinking about why they are putting that message on their tables I came to the conclusion, people are cheapskates. I can already imagine people coming in, ordering water and then buying dozens and dozens of wings and leaving no tip. I think it’s pathetic to be completely honest. They are already giving away their wings to try to draw crowds on a Monday and Tuesday, the least you can do is be appreciative and leave them a generous tip or buy some beers. I find the wings to be borderline horrible by the way and think they are worth about 10 cents. I’ve found one or two that was literally just the bone. After that we met with Jess and Meghan at Kildare’s for some trivia. My biggest problem with Kildare’s trivia is that it’s cumulative. Meaning that if you miss round one, you shouldn’t bother playing because you can’t win over the course of 5 rounds. The way Fireside does it round by round is much better. Jess was pretty good at words that start and end in L but I have to look at her funny when she thinks I should know the name of the cult of Charles Manson followers. She was doing the Ck4 catch-phrase action of “cmon, cmon” you can think of it. How could she have any idea my knowledge on serial killers and their cults? I also think it’s funny I can offend people by telling them I’m not a Phillie’s fan. If there was a team in baseball and there was a gun to my head, I’d say I like the Phillies out of the other MLB teams but here’s the thing, I don’t like baseball. I find the sport slow, boring, and uneventful and therefore have no interest. I’ll go to games from time to time but it’s just for the experience and not because I care about the team. I personally feel that way about all professional sports.

A few things that I’m just going to write about real quick because people have one way of looking at things and I have another.

  • On Sunday when they told us we couldn’t play golf because of the lightning, CK4 said he wouldn’t chance it. I would have chanced a lightning strike. Unless I could physically see the bolts coming down in my vicinity, I think the probability of getting struck is slim. I’m a real bad ass I know.
  • When Bud was driving to golf he said he wouldn’t change lanes in the middle of an intersection and I would definitely do it. Unless a cop was in the intersection, I disregard that law.
  • I also disregard straight and dashed lines. I see no reason why I can’t switch lanes because a line is straight or dashed. An example is tunnel driving where they have straight lines. If someone is going slow through the tunnel I shouldn’t be forced to drive behind them because the way a line is painting. It’s a big picture thing of viewing authority.
  • Also it bothers me when a traffic light goes from red to green and the first person just takes their good ole time getting through the light. I get it buddy, you are going to make it through the light no matter what but what about the 10 people behind you, show some common courtesy.
  • I also had a bum ask me for a sandwich?!? at D&D and I was like “no.” I gave him a buck instead because I wasn’t going through the process of asking what sandwich he wanted and it would have totaled more then a dollar anyhow.
    • 17 May, 2011

    Re-Organization

    By |2016-11-01T23:42:26-04:00May 17th, 2011|My Brain|0 Comments

    This will be post 644 of rnningfool.com. I notice that some of my better posts just get hidden away in the archives so I’m going to do a little clean up and try to create better categories and make things a bit more specific then just life and thoughts. After today the Shee will just get buried as another post but it’s up to me to have these posts live on. I intend to have a major re-organization and most likely a makeover. If anyone ever has any suggestions or thoughts on improvement, I’m happy to listen.

    17 May, 2011

    The Shee

    By |2016-10-28T15:58:36-04:00May 17th, 2011|My Brain|2 Comments

    I’ve decided to choose the Shee for my second player biography. I feel like these turn more into a psychological analysis of the person rather then my dissection of their abilities on our softball team. Basically it’s me nitpicking a person’s strengths and weaknesses and pointing them out in my blog. Baker told me that he thought his was relatively accurate so I’ll see what I can do with the Shee. I also can only do people that I know well because I really write what I believe is accurate and I need to have spent a decent amount of time with the person. Here you go Shee, this is your moment in the limelight.

    The name the Shee is derived from Addashee, which has some back story that I’m not 100% familiar with. The more recent nickname has been “Bro” because to him everyone gets called Bro, so it came full circle. The Shee has been part of almost all teams except our basketball team which he just likes saying no to when I ask him. At this point it’s almost a running gag because he has this mentality that since I didn’t ask him to play on the very first team we put together, I didn’t want him on the team and now he just sticks it to me every time I ask. He has been a member of our softball, football, and even the sole season of volleyball.

    The Shee has been known for his blazing speed around the base paths and burning defenders on long bombs in football. Just kidding, the Shee has lead feet but that doesn’t stop him from being extremely effective anywhere on the field. I want to point out that it won’t matter what type of compliment I give, he’ll always think I’m being sarcastic. So that last line of extremely effective, he’ll read that as “a waste of space” and think I’m completely writing that just to be nice. However there is truth to what I write. Even though he’s not the fastest or the strongest (he’s been on an all protein diet that has him jacked up beyond your wildest imagination), he plays the games intelligently. I’m telling you that the Shee is fundamentally sound and knows how to play games well. Aside from striking out in slow pitch softball, in the 2nd to final at bat of the game, in a much needed win for the team, I can’t think of many more errors.

    The Shee is our defensive lineman for football and has the much acclaimed tip the QB’s pass up to yourself interception in the championship game last season. His creative blitz scheme of calling out a number to let the defense (and offense) know if he’s blitzing or not shows the leadership position he’s willing to undertake. He’s like a Steve Largent at wide receiver with the ability to rely on route running to get open opposed to speed. He sometimes takes my cleats and forgets to return them.

    I think the Shee will agree that his volleyball game is probably the most impressive out of any sports we play. This is a game I really don’t find that much fun and almost refuse to play but Adam is definitely one of the best players I’ve seen play considering he can jump about 6 inches off the ground. He has a good serve and a good knack for the ball. His softball ability is pretty solid and we are going to get to see him pitch a complete game in about 2 week so I’m definitely looking forward to that. We saw him get some action at the hot corner a few weeks ago error free. He made one off line throw last week that I would have gotten if it had just been a bit more accurate…

    This is my real favorite paragraph to write because you’ll get my inside look on other things than just sports. I will completely admit the Shee is the best Scattergories player of the group. I’m sure Evan will read this and disagree but his answers are usually legit (unlike Evan’s) and he’s probably the best at the doubles. He’s also the best dancer of our group, which isn’t really saying much but noteworthy for him being white and Jewish. His golf game is coming along and I haven’t seen many club slams this year which means that his focus and game management should be improving. He’ll probably think his poker game is the best too but I beg to differ, stats in 2006 don’t correlate to today. I’d say the Shee also gets ridiculed a fair amount but it’s because he makes it really easy on himself. Bake tends to keep “the bro” grounded with tasteful shots here and there. Also he’s our insider in the rap/hip hop music to keep us white people up to date with “hot” and “fire” music. I have plenty of stories about the Shee but I’ll save them for another time.

    17 May, 2011

    Schwarzenegger Stiffs Staff

    By |2016-10-28T16:01:32-04:00May 17th, 2011|Celeb|0 Comments

    I really have little interest in this story and to write how Arnold had a kid out of wedlock with a nanny means nothing to me. This happened over 10 years ago and it wasn’t even while he was in office. A divorce from Maria Schriver makes sense to me and that’s really all I have to write about. However I do want to critique his statement because it struck me as the perfect way to handle this situation.

    “I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. There are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family. I am truly sorry.”

    “I ask that the media respect my wife and children through this extremely difficult time,” the statement concluded. “While I deserve your attention and criticism, my family does not.”

    The publicist or whichever media monkey came up with this statement deserves everything they are being paid for. The first key is taking full responsibility, he isn’t making any excuses for banging the whore. He then apologizes to his family and says he’s sorry. Whether he means it or not isn’t important because it’s all down on paper. Next he asks for the media to leave his family out of this, what is going to become a huge charade of attention and that it should be diverted towards him and he will handle it accordingly. Picture perfect.

    I have never really had any feeling towards Arnold in one way or another. I think his ability to get elected Governor of one of our most important states really says something about his abilities. He may not have been perfectly qualified for the position but I bet he did the best he could in a situation that is nearly impossible. I think his movies are all second rate except for Terminator and the Predator, and even that’s being generous. Arnold, you banged a slut and didn’t have Plan B on site, shame on you and now the cat’s out of the bag.

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