Wednesday, April 15, 2009

42


Today Major League Baseball will honor the most important player in its history. Jackie Roosevelt Robinson. All players will waer the number 42 - which was retired in 1997 in perpetuity for every team in the majors. Above is a picture of the retired numbers at Boston's Fenway Park - including Jackie's 42

Monday, April 6, 2009

Its Going to be a Long Week...

Monday - just finished up some work for judicial affairs and my final project for my program's seminar
Tuesday - travel to Cal Poly SLO for an interview
Wednesday - all day interview with SLO and drive back home
Thursday - work at SJACS and meet with other RC to deal with student staffing isues
Friday - SJACS and final prep for Saturday
Saturday - cousins birthday party, semi-formal dance that I am in charge of
Sunday - CATCH UP on everything I missed this week...

On a solid note the Dodgers are 1-0. at this rate they will go 162-0!!! Monday is also Opening Day at Dodger Stadium and I will be there to root on the boys in blue.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Hell Yea Circumcision!!!

A new study has found that circumcision helps to prevent men from contracting two STDs (the Herpes simplex type 2 virus and HPV). Circumcised men were 25 percent less likely to contract HSV 2 and 35 percent less likely to contract HPV which causes genital cancer. As a side not how great would the name genital cancer be for a punk rock band. So in conclusion: circumcision rocks!!!
Also I saw this video on MTVU today and I loved it. very weird but fun. enjoy.


Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Food, Food and How To Stay Thin...

So just when you thought that this country was struggling economically people come along to show us that we are still a thriving nation. And how do they do that you may ask? By turning food consumption into a competition.

In a time when people can barely keep there home or put food on the table a minor league baseball club in Michigan has introduced a 4,800 calorie hamburger. The burger has five meat patties, five slices of cheese, a cup of chili, salsa and chips served on an bun that is 8 inches in diameter. This four pound beast will run you about 20 dollars. Its so big that you can ask it to be cut with a pizza slicer so that you and your friends can share it. If you eat the burger in one sitting you win a "special t-shirt." Does the t-shirt read: "I ate a four pound burger and all i got was this crappy t-shirt and a blocked artery?"

Or if you happen to be around the Renaissance Hotel this Sunday from 1 - 4 p.m. you can drop 40 bucks to see the 2009 Los Angeles Cupcake Challenge. People who pay the 40 dollars can eat mini cupcakes (how freaking small must a mini-cupcake be?) representing the 34 competition entries.

Now what if you want to eat this but not gain weight. Well, you can head to UC Berkley where scientist think they have found the gene that turns carbs into fat. Mice who had the gene removed and ate a low-fat/high carb diets are 40% thinner than mice who had the same diet but still had the gene.

Twenty dollar four pound burger, cupcake contests and mice who can eat all they want and stay thin. What a world we live in.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Things A-Holes Say...

So i have been trying to keep track of things that a-holes say in conversation and for the next month or so I plan on rolling some of these beauties out. Our first installment of this series is...

"Listen, here is the deal..."

Has anyone ever said this and not sounded like a douche? Lets translate what the person means when they say this. The person says, "Listen here is the deal..." but what they mean to say is, "I know we have been having a conversation for the last hour but I am going totally ignore everything you've said during that time. Now I am going to tell you my opinion again, but this time I am going to talk to you like your a five year old."
Besides that the phrase sounds like an ultimatum is being given. Either you accept the following statement as fact or your a moron.
Here is the worst part about this phrase, you may not necessarily be an a-hole and yet you still might use it. For example, you are in a heated conversation or argument with someone while at dinner with friends. That someone is being stubborn, they frustrate you enough to turn you into a temporary a-hole and you end up dropping the dreaded, "here is the deal..." line. Now you look like a world class dick in front of everybody simply because you have let your emotions get the better of you.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

WTF...

I just saw what I can only imagine to be a pudgy 14 or 15 year old latino kid with Sideshow Bob like hair at a Yoshinoya Beef Bowl wearing a Iron Maiden jacket and underneath a Nazi shirt. I stared and stared thinking, "Nah. No way." But no. The fucking shirt had a giant swastika on the the right chest, the face of Hitler over most of the left part of the shirt and then marching SS as kind of a faded backdrop. It was f'ing surreal. I am fucking confused. What the hell is going on in the world? Its at moments like this I wish I had a iPhone so I could have taken a picture of this nonsense and posted it.

p.s. Jorge and Taralee thanks for the comments. they were awesome.