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RNC 2

Just a thought here... With the Republicans in town, it seems that one of the most sensitive issues is the Iraq War. But if Kerry becomes President, it's not a given that we would be out of Iraq. While I suppose for many, that's better than the alternative, I wonder what happens if Kerry wins it and we still have soldiers in Iraq a few years from now.

RNC (First of many RNC Posts)

Yay! The RNC is coming to New York City! Just two days away from starting. Looks like they've already begun to round up the riff-raff.

This is going to be a disaster. Hopefully writing the dissenting portion of this post in small text will prevent John Ashcroft and the Justice Department from arresting me.

Blog Shares

Hmm. My blog is worth $0.20 per share and I don't own any of the shares. I don't understand finance. Now I have to try and figure out the fictional blog stock market? The strange thing is, a second link says the kitchen fresh blog is worth $19 per share. Exactly when do I see a piece of the action? That's all I want to know.

The View from the New Place

The 'net is up and running. Let the good times roll!!!

Neglect

My new place doesn't have internet yet. So the blog is neglected. Go figure. I'm guessing next Monday at the earliest for the next true update...

FSN

Hey Fox Sports Net! Are you kidding me? Why are you ripping off so many ESPN shows? First, you steal Max Kellerman from ESPN and then put him on a show that is identical to ESPN's Around the Horn. Now, you have Summer Sanders hosting "The Sports List" which appears to be identical to ESPN's Top 25 Shows. And to boot, it's a LIST show! Aren't there enough of those already??

Give me a break!

100

Well, the Kitchen Fresh Blog has served up one hundred posts.

For anyone keeping score, it's dropped down to 7th on a google search. Will it drop faster than google's stock?

Moving

Got to move again
Packing is a total pain
I have so much crap

Good, Bad, Ugly

Good: The Nike "you're faster than you think" commercials.

Bad: The Benefactor. This looks awful. I sort of like Mark Cuban too.

Ugly: My performances in Madden recently. First half - 19 yds passing, 2 INTs.

Madden vs. Blog

It appears that the more and more I play Madden NFL 2005 for PS2, the less and less I write posts for this blog.

Hmm.

Olympics

I won't be watching much of the Olympics, but of course, I'll be rooting for the good ol' USA. The other day, I realized that rooting for the USA is like rooting for the Yankees. Do the Yankees have more resources than the other baseball teams? Do they win often because they can spend more? You bet. So does the United States!

Therefore, since rooting for the Yankees in baseball is like rooting for USA in the Olympics, then it is actually unamerican to not root for the Yankees (especially if you're for the Reds or Red Sox!!)

So root for the Yankees. Otherwise you're rooting against America.

Stupid hippies.

GMail 2

A brief conversation with a link to a Bill Simmons ESPN Page 2 article and a reference to studying produced the following links on GMail:

Gospel Light
God's Word for a Kid's World! Tools for Sunday School Teachers
www.gospellight.com

ChildrensMinistry.com
Tons of free tips, ideas, and resources for Children's Ministry.
www.childrensministry.com


Exploring Easter
The story, message and meaning of Easter, then and now
www.explorefaith.org

I guess that's why it's still Beta.

YANKEES!!!

NFL

Nothing like the first NFL "game" of the season (tonight's exhibition Hall of Fame game) and the impending release of Madden 2005 (Aug 12) to start all the football talk this week.

Too bad NFL coverage boils down to the world's worst hype machine. The NFL is really similar to politics. Too many pundits/experts/analysts and too much time before the main events. Too much exaggeration. Too much of people using yelling as a method of trying to get their point across.

The season doesn't start for a month. Let's calm down a little bit. At least let's wait for the preseason injuries to happen before Sportscenter declares things like, "the NFC East will be the most competitive division in football" (clearly wrong, it's either the NFC South or the AFC North, depending on your definition of competitive).

Context-Based ads

I noticed that the top of the blog has context based ads, sort of like google or gmail.

Because of some recent haiku about the Yankees/Sox games a few weeks back and a posting about the Sox, it seems that this blog generates blogspot ads at the top including a link to "Red Sox Blogs."

Now, I need to clear this up. There's already a link to the Yankees' website on the sidebar but that doesn't seem to do it. As far as I know, the only way to do this is by making a post that clearly states that I LIKE THE YANKEES. THE NEW YORK YANKEES. THIS BLOG IS BEING WRITTEN BY A YANKEES FAN. BIGGEST PAYROLL IN BASEBALL AND PROUD OF IT. 26 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. IT IS HIGH, IT IS FAR, IT IS GONE. THEEEEEEEE YANKEES WIN! THEEEEEEEE YANKEES WIN!

Let's see how this works...

Swollen

The worst thing about having a swollen mouth is all these darn commercials for food. I could really go for some nachos or pizza right about now, but I can't chew.

Teeth

Wisdom teeth out soon
I hope it does not hurt much
I do not like pain

8

is the most White Castle burgers I can eat in one sitting. That's 8 too many.

Somehow in the last two nights I've rode Metro North for free. They just didn't check any tickets.

One More

One more post to complete a set of three for the morning.

At the seventh inning stretch of every Yankee game they play "God Bless America" in honor of troops serving in the military.

As the music is played, the lyrics are posted on the jumbo screen.

"Thru the night with a light from above"

We can't write out the word as "through"? I felt like I was reading a teenager's IM conversation. What scares me is the implication that the fans would more likely sing the correct word if it's "thru" instead of "through" (th-ruff?).

Blogman: gtg. cya l8r.

Gmail

Gmail is google's email service and it places ads based on the context of your messages. So, for example, if you get an email about an ipod gadget (I know, it seems like a stretch) then the ads on the right might say "Cheap iPods" or "Free iTunes."

Every once in a while, the ads are way off. Case in point.

My recent emails subject "at least he's not a knick" referring to the probable Antoine Walker trade to Atlanta and also another article from the NY Times where I complain about Jamal Crawford going to the Knicks. In the end, the conversation spanned 3 emails and about 4 sentences.

Here are the links I got:
Afraid of the truth
Noam Chomsky meet-up day
Noam Chomsky

At least we see why gmail is still in "beta." I think someone ought to check the code on the ad-bot.

2 Shows

I just recently saw two shows on television that really perplex me.

Cold Pizza on ESPN2 has to be the strangest show ever. Who's watching this thing? It's some weird hybrid of all different types of morning shows and the E! channel. But it seems to me that anyone wanting a "typical" morning show would watch Today, anyone who wants sports would watch Sportscenter and anyone who wants wisecracking disc jockeys would listen to the radio. Then there's also the "real" news and business crowds. Is this supposed to target women? Aside from WNBA fans, I don't think any women can even find ESPN2 on the dial (just like I can't find Lifetime or Oxygen).

Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (Comedy Central) is also bizarre. Hmm. Let's watch comedians discuss politics! Oh, did I mention that the comedians are not funny and relatively uninformed? It's like Bill Maher light (and he's a dope too). Colin Quinn was good in Jerry Seinfeld's movie Comedian but I think his career peaked out as salty characters on SNL.

Random

If you have a half-brother, is his wife your half-sister-in-law? Also if your father has a half-brother is that man's son your half-cousin? Same question for step siblings.

I was at the Yankee game today (sadly, they got creamed) and they wouldn't let men with small bags enter, but women with huge purses had no problem. Why can't a guy with a little bag call it a purse? I'm not advocating guys to be carrying purses, but why can't a guy have a purse? It's a guy's purse. What's the problem? (I'm certain that if a big enough guy tried to bring his "purse" into the stadium there would be no problem)

Data and Blogman Went to White Castle

No doubt less amusing than when Harold and Kumar went.