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What a rediculous day in Texas. 10 home runs! Just rediculous.
I remember when Houston hit 3 in one game and I threw a party.

Remember this game? It definitly ranks up near the top of my all-time favorites. Anyone happen to have it on a CD anywhere?


Thats all folks
- posted by Mike @ 5:33 PM 2 comments

 
Wha?
So I log onto yahoo's fantasay sports page like I do every morning to set my daily lineups and check if any players have become available (I don't know if Dennis reads/knows about this site but why would you hold on to Schilling all season only to drop him right before he returns from the DL? oh well, hes mine now). Then I check on my football pools to see if Mike Vick has broken anything yet (I've had 2 drafts and I took him in both). This is when I realize there is a mysterious extra pool under my name, I click on it and see that the draft was last night....what the fuck?! I check this site a minimum of once a day and this extra pool was never there, and the draft has already happened so I can't get out of it. Now the fact that I somehow am in more pools then I planned doesn't bother me, the fact that I missed the draft and my team BLOWS does!. Okay its not really a shitty team, because the yahoo rankings were actually pretty decent but damnit I missed a draft through no fault of my own....I was sitting home bored out of my skull last night, a draft would have been great. Oh and it drafted me two kickers! TWO! fuck if I don't get Vinatieri I'm probably not gonna draft a kicker at all. Bah humbug!

Plus now if I win that pool I can't even really brag too loudly cause I wouldn't have picked this team in a million years....maybe even two million. Oh well. If anyone stuck through that post to this point you are formally invited to join my last football pool of the year. The draft isn't til mid-August, but its never too early to sign up. So if you can read this you're invited, holla at me for the signup info (if you can't read this and someone is reading it to you, you're BOTH invited...2 for 1 deal!)

"Thats not only a technical foul, but possibly a homicide"
- posted by Mike @ 3:03 PM 3 comments

 
No... This Sucks...
well went to the Toronto Film School yesterday for a tour and to ask some questions... looks like the 9 month Digital Editing program they have there will cost me $17,000. Of course thats assuming I some how get in. Won't worrying about that for awhile thou cuz i think i'm gonna have to finish with glendon first, i've booked a meeting for next wednesday to see what i have to do to get back in.

BAH!!! i hate school..... my 100 list is slowly getting done.
- posted by steve @ 3:00 PM 2 comments

 
This Sucks
I hate being sick, its no good fer nuthin.

And speaking of being no good for anything, how bout them Raptors. Let me first say that I don't follow any kind of pre-NBA basketball outside of the Maddness in March (and even then I don't pay much attention to individuals), so I might be way off in smack-talking the Raptors because I really don't know anything about the players they got. What I do know is the player they were expected/predicted to take/get with the #7 pick was some kid named Granger, ok fine whatever they didn't take him that doesn't bother me (but good call getting the 'shock' pick of the early round). The Raptors also had the #16 pick, when that pick came around this Granger kid was still available (sweet!), but do they take him then? no, of course not, this is the Raptors we're talking about. Then Granger goes with the #17 pick....now I really don't know anything about any of these guys, but.....if there was a guy ranked as the 7th best player in the draft wouldn't it be an idea to grab him if you could at #16?!! I know math was never my strongest subject, but c'mon, I can see this one is a 'no-brainer'. Or maybe Joey Graham will be the greatest player to come out of this draft.....but don't hold your breath.

On a more positive note, I suggest tracking down the song 'Posed to Death' by The Faint, its fun.

"ah ah ah oh-ah oh oh oh oh oh oh ah-oh oh-oh ah-oh"

Update: I don't know how to describe this....but damn is it ever hypnotic, and you don't know the history of hynosis. I do.
- posted by Mike @ 11:01 AM 0 comments

 
98....99....100!
I've seen a few blogs with their "100 things about me" posts, so I decided it'd be a fun thing to jump on (and I encourage the other members of this blog to participate). I didn't want to dominate the page with the rediculous length of the post so I tucked it into the archives for February....check er out if you care, or have some time to kill. It was also my first time using blogger's picture hosting, so thats cool too.
Heres the latest game to take up my time....enjoy.
- posted by Mike @ 11:01 PM 11 comments

 
The Power of Bacon
So.......angry. Just got back from poker and feel like kicking something, fortunatly for my toes I saw THIS and it calmed me enough that now I'm just thinking of kicking something instead of actually doing it.

That my friends, is the power of bacon.
- posted by Mike @ 1:30 AM 1 comments

 
Evil Fans, A Good Movie and Baseball
I recently installed a ceiling fan in my bedroom, and it wobbles on the highest setting, either because I'm incompetent or because my ceiling isn't level. Thats all fine and dandy 'cause I run it on the middle setting most of the time and its all good. But every once and a while it makes this kind of clicking noise, so I look up at it to see if its wobbling or about to fall on my head or something and the noise stops. I go back to whatever it was I was doing and the clicking starts again, I look up, it stops. This goes on for about half an hour. Then I just sit there staring at it waiting for it to start again, but it won't, it knows I'm watching. So I've reached the only logical conclusion.....I have an evil fan.

Went and saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith last night. *****Again if you don't want me ruining movies for you stop reading here, 'cause I'm totally going to give away the ending***** I give it the good ol' two thumbs up. It had everything a good action movie needs, explosions, gun fights, car chases, more explosions, Seth Cohen as 'The Tank', good one-liners and a couple more explosions. My only beef with the movie was that my favorite new actress, Jennifer Morrison wasn't given any good lines, and when you put any female actresses in a movie with Angelina Jolie shes gonna make them look like dogs, its a shame really. I also thought they were gonna go with the 'Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid' ending, which woulda been kind of neat to see, but they took it the other way, which is cool too cause it leaves the door open for sequels.

Tom's team the 'Scarborough Sirens' went absolutly ape-shit on me last night, picking up home runs from A.J. Pierzynski, Richie Sexon, Derek Jeter, Tori Hunter, Cliff Floyd, Andrew Jones and Jim Edmonds (with 2). He put up more homers in one night then my team has mustered all week....thank goodness my pitching has held up so far this week.
Adam Everett of the Houston Astros stole home last night, how cool is that?....just thought you should know.

And to cap off this post here are the top 5 baseball related sites you should check out, 'cause they rock.
The Dugout: Its all about the Astros, so you know its good.
Miles from Fenway: The Stories of a Red Sox fan in New York City.
The Hardball Times: Tons of baseball information, updated daily.
The Soxaholix: A daily comic strip following the Red Sox.
Toronto Blue Jays Rumors: Who doesn't love a good trade rumour.

P.S. If anyone knows of a good Blue Jays blog that is updated regularily, hook me up, 'cause I've yet to find one that I really like.

P.P.S. Check this out too:
- posted by Mike @ 2:03 PM 2 comments

 
Game 7
My Prediction:

Pistons 101 Spurs 92

seeya after the game
- posted by Mike @ 8:51 PM 3 comments

 
Mike is an idiot.
The weather was great today, sunny with a nice breeze, and I was sitting around the house bored out of my skull so I decided to go for a walk. I headed on down to Lake Ontario and walked along the beach for a while til it met up with the path that I used to rollerblade on all the time back when I had functional rollerblades. Then I hit a point that I recognize and say to myself 'this isn't too far from home' so I decide to run the rest of the way home. Big mistake. I don't know what I was thinking, I haven't run for any reason other than to escape a pursuer in like 5 years. Its been 9 years since I've run competitivly, shit its been almost a year since I've participated in any kind of physical activity. Yet today I decided to be the marathon champion...needless to say I didn't quite make it. In fact I think I was clinically dead for a couple seconds there. For a while I actually thought I was doing ok, I was in pain, but I was a good pain.

Then I got to the monster hill....oh crap, this hill and I have a history. This hill is right at the start of the path, so if you're rollerblading its great because you can build up some crazy speed at the start of your trek....unfortunatly the hill is still waiting for you at the end of the trek too. So I say 'fuck it, I'm tough this hill ain't got nuthin on me', or at least thats what I said when I was still at the bottom. Halfway to the top I think one of my legs fell off, I'm not sure because I had pretty much lost feeling from the knees down. So I limp/struggle/roll myself to the top of the hill and just sit there sucking wind for a good ten minutes (it coulda been longer, I kinda zoned out for a bit). Then I just walked the rest of the way home on my rubbery legs, wobbling all over the sidewalk, I think the people I passed figured I was drunk and/or high but I didn't care, my only focus was on the ice cold pepsi waiting in the fridge for me when I got back.

I get home and open the fridge.....no pepsi....motherfucker!


Bonus Random 10*:

In A Cage (On Prozac) - My Red Cell
Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
Right Now - Van Hallen
Paper Wings - Rise Against
Horse With No Name - America
The Weight - The Band
You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones
Hells Bells - AC/DC
Pressure Point - The Zutons
Blow At High Dough - The Tragically Hip

*Today's Random 10 comes from my "no rap" playlist (just in case you thought something freaky was going on)
- posted by Mike @ 9:31 PM 5 comments

 
Test time

Which Colossal Death Robot Are You?
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How Dumb Are You?
A Rum and Monkey stupidity.

What kind of pirate am I? You decide!
You can also view a breakdown of results or put one of these on your own page!
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- posted by steve @ 6:54 PM 1 comments

 
Batman Began
Eat it Star Wars, Batman just dominated the movie season!

****If you haven't seen the movie yet, and don't want me to ruin all the good parts for you STOP READING NOW****

That movie kicked ass on so many levels that I'm pretty sure I recieved some bruising. Okay I really don't know what I'm talking about, but trust in what I say, if you haven't seen the movie yet and you're still reading this I urge you to turn your computer off, go see the movie, and then comeback and finish reading this post.
Okay here is my list of the things in this movie that made it dominate the game. The final ninja training when bruce was all hopped up on 'flower powder'. Morgan Freeman in classic Morgan Freeman-mode. The bat-tank (I admit I didn't think I'd like it because it was so far away from the batmobile we all know and love....but it worked). Michael Caine as Alfred....dominant. The batman costume....no nipples. Future police chief Gordon as officer Gordon (well played by Gary Oldman). Katie Holmes is hot. Great job showing Bruce Wayne vs. Batman. Two torched living quarters. Appropriately cheesy comicbook lines. The Joker's calling card to end the movie/set up the next one.

I've also got a couple minor complaints. The scarecrow is a weak badguy in general, but the whole master plan was pretty cool so I can let that go. I like Liam Neeson, but hes not a bad guy and shouldn't be cast as such. They changed the whole batman's parents get murdered story (again I'm slightly willing to allow it because they worked it into the story in a good way), its supposed to be the Joker pulling the trigger on Daddy Wayne though. As good as Michael Caine was as Alfred (and I wouldn't change it) hes like 6'6" and HUGE...Alfred is supposed to be 5'2"ish.

So thats what I thought about it....and now for sitting through my poor gramatical ramblings I present not one but two top 5's.

Top 5 Comic Superheros:

5. Nightcrawler
4. Spider-man
3. Wolverine
2. Batman
1. Gambit

Top 5 Comic Supervillains

5. Dr. Doom
4. Magneto
3. Sabretooth
2. Venom
1. The Joker

P.S. for the record Superman blows....that is all.
- posted by Mike @ 12:44 PM 6 comments

 
Top 20 Movie Quotes
Alright I've watched a few movies over the last couple days, so this list is all that my brain has compiled...I'll do my best (your best?!?) to get the quotes right, as I tend to mis-quote movies a lot too. The only rule I'm placing on the list is that no movie gets more then 2 quotes. Also, this list is in no particular order, cause I could't rank them properly.

1. "English motherfucker! DO YOU SPEAK IT?!" - Samuel L Jackson: Pulp Fiction
2. "Wow 'shit', 'fuck' those are highly technical golf tearms, and you're using them in your first lesson" - Kevin Costner: Tin Cup
3. "YOU CAN"T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" - Jack Nicholson: A Few Good Men
4. "I'd like to think the last thing that went through his head, other than the bullet, was how the hell Andy Dufrene ever got the best of him." - Morgan Freeman: The Shawshank Redemption
5. "Hand me the fucking keys, you cocksucker, whathefuck? - Benicio Del Toro: The Usual Suspects
6. "Come back here. I'll bite your legs off." - John Cleese: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. "I know a taxidermy guy back home. Hes gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brought him." - Robert Shaw: Jaws
8. "You ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?" - Jack Nicholson: Batman
9. "If he'd just pay me what he's paying them to stop me robbing him, I'd stop robbing him" - Paul Newman: Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
10. "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker" - Bruce Willis: Die Hard
11. "Shut up and sit down you big, bald fuck" - Dennis Farina: Snatch
12. "I've never seen so many dead hookers in all my life"....."Lord knows I have" - Norm MacDonald/Some Guy: Dirty Work
13. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key."......."Not golfers, gophers"......"Oh we can do that, we don't even need a reason" - Bill Murray/Some Guy: Caddyshack
14. "I think I'll have a drink" - Kevin Costner: The Untouchables
15. "The sign says 'shut the fuck up' or can't you read?" - George Clooney: Out of Sight
16. "You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?" - Adam Sandler: Happy Gilmore
17. "Go sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here" - Jack Nicholson: As Good As It Gets
18. "Hey whats with the knife, we havin' cake?" - Jason Mewes: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
19. "Who you tryin to get crazy with essay? Don't you know I'm loco" - Owen Wilson - Zoolander
20. "Theres no crying in baseball" - Tom Hanks: A League of Their Own

Now hit the comments and tell me what I missed
- posted by Mike @ 12:35 AM 6 comments

 
Okay now this is just getting out of hand
Josh Beckett: DL

"fuck fuck fuck, mother-motherfuck mother-motherfuck fuck" - Jay

You don't know Jungle Love? That shit is the MAD note!

I think I could make a top 20 quotes list from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back alone.

What the fuck is the internet?
- posted by Mike @ 10:25 PM 0 comments

 
Never thought i'd see the day I'd post a bunch of guys...


wooooooooohooooooo
oasis and jet tonight, booyeah grandma!
- posted by steve @ 1:22 PM 5 comments

 
I'm a sucker for a good (or bad) list
The American Film Institute is airing the Top 100 Movie Quotes of All-Time this comming tuesday. I think they do one of these top 100s every summer, last summer was the top 100 movie characters of all-time (50 good guys, 50 bad guys). Fortunatly for me I love movies, and good movie quotes, so the fact that I'm being suckered into watching this doesn't bother me. 'Cause this is how the conversation goes between me and the tv:

TV: Hey theres a show on about ballroom dancing
Me: whatever
TV: No wait, I didn't tell you the best part
Me: ......
TV: They've ranked the 10 best ballroom dancers of all time
Me: Fuckin right doggy! I'm in!

As soon as a list is introduced I'm hooked, the topic doesn't matter. The Discovery Channel might be the best for these types of shows. They're usually interesting, and the #1 whatever it is usually makes me mad enough to rant about it for days....I love it. These shows are best watched with at least one other person, so you can get good debate going.

As an example, there was a top 10 most dangerous jobs show on the discovery channel sometime when I was back in Guelph, so my roommate and I grab the prime real estate and get ready. #1 was crab fishman, cause they gotta do it in freezing water and a lot of folks die on the job apparently cause shit gets all icey. Fine whatever I guess thats a pretty dangerous job but tucked somewhere in the middle of the list was airplane test pilot...these are the guys that fly planes so that they can determine the maximum stress the planes can handle...they've gotta fly in situations, and preform maneuvers that should never happen to regular pilots, that was only like the #6 most dangerous job. Somewhere else in the middle was LAND MINE DETONATOR!! according to the list a job more dangerous then both of those was construction worker, because it has the highest accidental death rate of all professions (as opposed to the purposeful on the job deaths) fuck that shit, I'd take construction work over land mine detonation anyday! They're fucking land mines you idiots!! Wow that turned into a much longer rant then I expected.....although it does show my point about how hopelessly hooked on these 'list' shows I am.

So sometime before tuesday night I'm gonna compile my top 10 movie quotes (probably tomorrow...maybe I'll do 20 if I'm feeling hardcore)

Oh and if anyone from the Discovery Channel is reading this I think you should hire me as a consultant for some of your list shows.....I'll try to dial down the profanity if its a job requirement.

"We're gonna need a bigger boat" <----that one was free....and it might crack the top 20
- posted by Mike @ 11:22 PM 5 comments

 
Why Do I Love This Season?
I really shouldn't. The Astros are getting their asses served up to them almost daily. The only teams that lose more then the Astros right now are the 4 fantasy baseball teams I'm managing this season. Pitching intensive drafting seemed like the genius idea of the year at the time, with Prior, Wood, Gagne and Harden all DL'ed for an undetermined amount of time and Zito, Hudson and Mulder not pitching like I predicted maybe I should taken some sluggers on these teams.

Having made 45 'moves' across my four pools, I've thankfully picked up some players to help me out that I either hadn't heard of before the season, had underestimated the returns, or just felt sketchy adding them to my teams. So I'd like to take a second to give a shout out to Brian Roberts, Clint Barmes (damn shame 'bout those groceries), Pat Burrell, Rob Mackowiak and Shea Hillenbrand.

I've uncharacteristically (damn thats a long word) only made two trades so far this entire season, one thats definitly working out well for me (Gave: Prior and Hudson, Got: Manny Ram and A.J. Burnett) and one that I think I'd like to have back (Gave: Sosa and Matt Clement, Got: Travis Hafner)

We're two fifths of the way through the season and the Jays are tied at .500 with the Yankees....hahaha New York you suck as bad as we do....hows that $200 mil payroll workin out for ya??

I had more things to say, but I'll save some thoughts for another day....take er easy folks.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. - Dave Barry
- posted by Mike @ 5:15 PM 2 comments

 
Wow, did I actually learn stuff in school?
I watched 'The Scholar' tonight, its a reality show placing 10 U.S. high school students against each other for a grand prize of a full scholarship to the school of their choice (4 others get $50,000 to put towards school).
Tonight was the second show (I missed the first one) and I think the 10 kids there are supposed to be super smart (at least the ones they focused on were...i dunno if they slipped a couple dummies in there). At the end of the show 3 of the kids are chosen to go head-to-head to win a spot in the final 5 (the big money round), its kinda like the spelling bee format, where one kid gets asked a question, if they're right they stay, if they're wrong its back to the bench to hope for another shot. Then the next kid gets a different question and so on until someone wins (there can be only one!!!). ANYway the whole point to this post was that I thought the questions these kids got asked were kinda easy. The subject for this weeks challenge was biology:

1. How many chambers does the heart have?
2. The spinal cord and brain are parts of what system?
3. What is the longest bone in the human body? (get your minds outta the gutter!)
4. The intestine and stomach are parts of what system?
5. Veins carry blood to the heart, what do arteries do?
6. Ligaments join bone to bone, what connects muscle to bones?***
7. If I were talking about your dermis and epidermis, to what would I be refering?***

And heres the question that won it all

8. What does RNA stand for?

Ok granted I've had 4 years of university science that these kids haven't goten to yet...but don't these questions seem a little easy for 10 of the smartest high schoolers in America??

Check the answers in the comments section to see how well you did(the "***" indicate the two questions that were answered incorrectly)
- posted by Mike @ 12:30 AM 4 comments

 
Think Happy Thoughts
I was gonna write a post about my rediculous day installing a ceiling fan in my room, but that would have resulted in record setting amounts of vulgarity and anger. So I'm just gonna letyou know that the fan is in place, but it still has a bit of a wobble when it gets going at high speed.....curse my slanted ceiling!

So in place of ceiling fan anger, heres one of those internet question/answer thingies on books.

What is the last book you bought?
The Teeth of the Tiger - Tom Clancy

Name five books you really like.
1. Debt of Honour - Tom Clancy (maddness! pure maddness!)
2. The Bourne Trilogy - Robert Ludlum
3. Of Ice and Men - Bruce Dowbiggin
4. Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy
5. The McNally Series - Lawrence Saunders

How many books do you own?
41 (that I've bought and read in the last couple years)
53 (still kickin around from childhood, hardy boys, nancy drew, etc.)
18 (university text books)
Grand Total: 112 books...not too shabby

Name the last book you read.
Yzerman: The Making of a Champion - Douglas Hunter
- posted by Mike @ 10:49 AM 1 comments

 
Stupidness...
ok i just briefly saw the news and they had a story about an 8 year old boy that was lost overnight when he never came home from his friends house who lived a couple blocks away. the parents called the police and apparently they had a search and even used helicopters to search for this kid. they found him today. he had slept over at the friends house. HOW THE FUCK DON'T YOU CALL THE FRIENDS HOUSE WHEN THE KID DOESN'T COME HOME????? don't have the kids number? then lets call the cops and freak out. i dunno maybe i missed some of the story and its not that simple, i really hope that i missed something, cuz i hope people this stupid don't have kids.
- posted by steve @ 11:37 PM 5 comments

 
Top 10 All-Time Best Movie Characters
The criteria for the characters on my list are that 1) they can't be based on a real person (so eliot ness, butch cassidy, capt. virgil hilts, etc. are excluded) and 2) the character can't be taken from a book (excluding james bond, ebenezer scrooge, the joker, jason bourne, etc.). So in no particular order heres the list:

Yoda (Frank Oz - Star Wars I, II, III, V, VI)
Quint (Robert Shaw - Jaws)
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford - Raiders of the Lost Ark / The Temple of Doom / The Last Crusade)
The Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood - A Fistful of Dollars / For a Few Dollars More / The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)
Col. Nathan R. Jessep (Jack Nicholson - A Few Good Men)
Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner - Tin Cup)
John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery - The Rock)
Cruela De Vil (Betty Lou Gerson - 101 Dalmations)
Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd - Back to the Future I, II, III)
Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton - Beetlejuice)

I'm sure I missed some big obvious ones, so hit up the comments section and set me straight.
- posted by Mike @ 12:11 PM 1 comments

 
Sports Roundup
- Jays @ Astros series starts tonight...all games on rogers sportsnet (whadya mean i'm the only one who cares??)
- Tom is currently serving me my ass 8-2 (here come the big weekend comeback!)
- Apparently the NHL season might actually start on time....yeah i've heard that before too
- Yahoo NFL pools opened their doors today! This will be the first time I've ever done a football draft before the season started...yea for the internet
- Chris Burke hit his first career home run, and broke up Pedro Martinez's no-hit shutout (it woulda been a first in Mets history). Burke plays for the Astros for those of you without a score card.
- Did I tell you yet about the NFL pools?! gimme a shout if you want in

ok thats all i've got for now.....take er easy folks
- posted by Mike @ 2:16 PM 0 comments

 
OK ... my list
mine is alittle bit of childhood and highschool mixed in....

1. my cottage - haven't been there for a long time. i miss going up every weekend and swimming, fishing and exploring all around. even just lying in the sun and listening to all the natural noises, as well as all the trips in the boat and stuff like that.

2. rugby - i miss playing rugby. i miss the feeling of being scared shitless before a game, looking at how huge the other team is, and then starting the game and then tackling one of the biggest fuckers out there and getting the adrenaline rush and feeling like i can take any of them on.

3. time - just the feeling that a year used to take FOREVER.... it always seemed like such a long time. 2 months off in the summer seemed like a long time too, although never long enough. years are starting to just fly by now and it seems like i never have time to enjoy things anymore

4. friends - all of my good friends that i have were all made in elementary and high school. i've had a few in university and a couple at work but not like the friends i made back then. of course the drawback is that i don't get to see all of them like we used to see them everyday back then.

5. hmmm i'm drawing a blank right now.... i'll think of something and post it later
- posted by steve @ 4:32 PM 1 comments

 
Top 5....kinda
I'm hijacking this one from a couple of sites I saw this on earlier...check them out, they're good reads: hey freak and qwmaine. Not only two great blogs, but quite possibly the two best taglines in the history of the internet: "less bugaloo, more freak!" and "The Quest for Free, Unlimited Bacon"

So here are the top 5 things I miss from childhood:

1. My sports heros were unbreakable.
Now that I'm older, and they are too careers are ending...and it saddens me.
Steve Yzerman: ok granted he had a mangled knee most of his career, but he was definitly more hobbled by it the last few years. Tack on to that the eye injury in his last game and who knows if he'll plat in the NHL again (assuming there is an NHL to comeback to).
Jeff Bagwell: On the long-term DL with a wrecked shoulder that hes been fighting the last few years, if hes lucky he might make it back to play a couple games at the end of the season, or it might be retirement time.
Drew Bledsoe: Oh how the mighty have fallen...but I guess setting league records for total sacs will do that to a guy.

2. The ice cream truck.
You hear that music comming from blocks away, kids scrambling for change, trying to locate the source as quickly as possible. Then getting mad brain freeze because you had to eat those damn things sooo quick or risk losing it to a serious melting accident. Now its just an annoyance....turn the damn music off, they're arn't any kids in this neighborhood anymore.

3. Naps.
Okay I didn't like them as a kid because it cut into my cartoon watching time, but man do I appreciate them now. I'm not saying I don't take the occasional nap now, except when I do it these days I feel guilty about it, like its irresponsible or something

4. Magic.
When I was a kid and someone did a magic trick I actually thought there was something magical going on. Now I'm focused on figuring out where the trick is.

5. Board Games.
I used to play board games all the time as a kid. Now that I'm older I still want to play them all the time, but now no one else does....thats right motherfuckers I'm talking to you! This summer we're bringing back the board game! Trivial Pursuit, Clue, Risk, Monopoly, all the classics.....game on!
- posted by Mike @ 5:22 PM 4 comments

 
The Name Game
okay this isn't really a game but I found this to be kinda interesting
check out this site to see where your name ranks over the course of time.

Heres the top names (male - female) since the 1900s

1900s: John - Mary
1910s: John - Mary
1920s: Robert - Mary
1930s: Robert - Mary
1940s: James - Mary
1950s: Michael - Mary
1960s: Michael - Lisa
1970s: Michael - Jennifer
1980s: Michael - Jessica
1990s: Michael - Ashley
2003: Jacob - Emily

and how do the authors of this site rank over time you may be asking (but probably not)

Mike: 167th, 135th, 184th, 202nd, 82nd, 82nd, 49th, 216th, 473rd, 583rd, 623rd
Steve: 151st, 118th, 155th, 182nd, 85th, 59th, 54th, 162nd, 223rd, 329th, 448th
Tom: 115th, 145th, 139th, 121st, 97th, 138th, 121st, 367th, 614th, 853rd, not in top 1000

alright, granted none of those are our birth names (if i'd gone that way i woulda dominated). so what have we learned here today? my parents: not the most original namers on the block....oh well i coulda been Moxie CrimeFighter
- posted by Mike @ 7:59 PM 4 comments

 
A Different Movie Game


I got 203/250 with a lot of luck....giver a shot when you've got some time to kill
- posted by Mike @ 8:06 PM 0 comments

 
Movie Game: The Sequel
same idea as last time

1. Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Walberg, Natalie Portman, Yoda
2. Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana, Seth Green
3. Charlize Theron, Jessica Alba, Britney Murphy, Bruce Willis
4. DMX, Edward Norton, Steven Seagal, Jill Hennessey
5. Toby McGuire, Willam Dafoe, Jason Statham, Kristen Dunst
6. Famke Janssen, Donald Sutherland, Judi Dench, Pierce Brosnan
7. Xzibit, Samuel L. Jackson, Ice Cube, Mos Def
- posted by Mike @ 11:34 PM 6 comments

 
couple days late but ....
here are the pics from lee's bday



edit: go here: lee's bday for the rest of them.
- posted by steve @ 8:25 PM 1 comments