A interesting conversation with God. [via Adam]
March 2003 Archives
New York is now smokeless. Out in California, it was the same way. Being a non-smoker, it was refreshing to come home without the stench of smoke filled clothes. Here, I think it would a bit more difficult to get everything to be smokeless, but there are pretty stringent rules in effect. I continually say that if I were to open a bar, I would offer a smoke free environment. I don't know if that would help or hurt me, but I think it would be worth it to find out.
Mena made a short film incorporating the theme "What RU W8ing 4?". As the movie progressed, hairs on the back of my neck started rise, nerves twitched throughout my body, and the mouse hovered over the pause button to kill the screech before it started. I hate that sound, even thinking about it makes me cringe. Watch the movie and tell me you don't feel the same way.
I would love to know what Calvin said to Latrell.
Kris brought up an interesting point while watching the war; Does Aaron Brown wear a hairpiece? Your input is welcome.
As part of my morning ritual, I watch ESPN's SportsCenter. The anchors have made the show very popular through the years, to a high status level in pop culture. But, as I watch some anchors try so hard to keep changing and evolving, they seem to fall to a lower status. Stuart Scott was the first to fall. He exploded onto the scene with his hip-hop "flava." He continues to force his sayings down viewers throats. "Boo-yah!" is old and tired. Please stop using it. North Carolina is not that great. You're embarrassing MJ. I am not alone in thinking this. Another anchor that continues to bother me is Linda Cohn. She is trying way to hard with her catch phrases. I continuously ask "why?" when she runs through the highlights. Please, report the sports news. Spend less time on catch phrases that don't make sense. Try "He hit a home run." and lose, "He's a big boy now!" Please?
Here's a tip to those who travel. First, before you check out and return the rental car, always check with the airline to make sure your flight is on-time, no matter what the weather is like where you are. Second, don't expect to fly through Denver during the worst blizzard in twenty years. Then after getting on a red-eye so that you can make it to work the next day, don't expect to fly through pea soup.
Prior to our travel woes, great things happened. Paul and Jess got engaged. It rained. Hard. Jan and Matt were married. There were many wonderful photo ops. As a result, there's more than 330 pictures to go through, but I arduously present the best of them here.
For our bowling party last night, we took in a show. Not a movie, but rather a comedy show. For $10 plus a 2 drink minimum, we left thoroughly pleased. Our stomachs and faces hurt from all of the laughter. If you compare that to going to a movie, you spend a bit more, but you can drink alcohol, and are pretty much guaranteed an entertaining show. Which is not always the case at a movie theater. We should do that more often.
This is that time of the week when time...seems to slow down to a crawl. If only I could take a nap, then it would be time go to our end of the year bowling party. Stat of the week: At $6 a pitcher, we gave the bowling alley over $1500 over our ten-week season. Out league consisted of six teams of 4 people. That must been why the center gave us a 4-foot trophy to the team who drank the most beer. We came in second. (There's always next year.)
Approximately 2,000 students protested in Madison on Wednesday, as part of a nation-wide protest. The rushed the capitol, yelled some things in the rotunda, and demanded to talk with the governor. Their theme was "Books not Bombs." So why weren't they studying their books?
The house was a rockin' from the tip off right through the final free throw to win it all. It was a sweet night to be at the Kohl Center. I've never heard it louder. Congrats to the Big 10 Basketball Champions.
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The opening montage of Six Feet Under's first episode of the third season got me thinking. It explores the "Many Worlds" quantum theory with Nate walking through his house seeing alternate lives of his own. All lie in the future and all are vastly different. There have been many, many other examples of this in Hollywood. However, Back to the Future, dealt with only one continuous life, but allowed the future to exist in the past, constantly interacting with each other and shaping outcomes by altering important events.
Does everything happen in alternate realities? If so, how small are the branches? If I decide to cross the street in front of a car (and subsequently get hit), the resulting "life" will obviously be different than if I choose to let the car pass first. That's a big branch. But, if I decide to put my left pant leg on before my right like normal, how much different will my life be? Although it's cool to think about, I am not really buying it. As complex as the human body is, can you imagine an infinite amount more, all living out an infinite amount of your life?