Month: November 2013

A different kind of dick move

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I was at breakfast, and while waiting to pay my bill, I noticed a family walk in the door; it looked pretty clear that it was a couple coming in to have breakfast with their dad.  Watching them walk in, dad looked like your typical crotchety old white male, with a scowl on his face, and generally looking miserable with his life.  As for the couple, the wife appeared to be late-thirties, possibly early-forties, but still attractive, but as far as the husband was concerned, I couldn’t look beyond the massive beer belly that was protruding bulbously from his torso.

The next thought that ran through my head was simply, “how much does it suck to be her, that her husband turned into such a fat guy?”

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Virginia Tech, Miami and the mass exodus

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Whenever one of my teams wins, the rest of the day is pretty much a good one.  Every game watched afterward becomes a little bit more tolerable, and it’s easier to enjoy and appreciate the little things about a game, whether it’s watching an offensive line setting a nice screen, when a pitcher nips the outside corner with an unhittable curveball, or when a basketball player actually makes two consecutive free throws.  It doesn’t matter the sport, whenever a team I favor gets a W, everything else is just a little bit better.

Earlier, Virginia Tech slaughtered Miami, in Miami.  Once #14 now unranked VT marches into what I used to refer to as “SunLiphinSharkRobbiePlayer Stadium,” based on how many times the venue had changed corporate sponsorship but is currently the home to the NFL Dolphins and University of Miami, and slaughters the #11 ranked Hurricanes on their home field.  Whether or not this puts Tech back into the Top-25 is irrelevant, since it’s obvious they’re really not supposed to be anything more than a team in transition, but it’s always a pleasure to see them actually get a win.

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Stop and say whoa

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Sometimes as I peruse through eloHell looking through memes and general LoL-related fandom, there are occasional cosplay photographs that pop up from time to time. I like Caitlyn a lot, since my preferred role in the game is that of being an ADC, but she’s still not my go-to champion. That being said, I came across this picture, and I LITRALLY stopped everything, and it was one of those whoa moments.

I don’t know who this girl is, I don’t know what the rest of her costume looks like; whether the gun is good or crap if she has one at all, if her hair is a wig or not, or anything else outside of what I can see in this one photo, but I frankly think she’s absolutely beautiful. I am a sucker for women with large doe eyes, and this Caitlyn here definitely fits the bill.

I think it’s an absolutely lovely photograph of a pretty girl, and you know I’m scraping for things to write about when I’m making posts about randomly found cosplay pictures, but it still says something if a simple photograph is inspiring me to put words down in the first place.

Technological irony-slash-fail

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Long story short: Despite being in prison, prisoners are somehow procuring cell phones, and using them to orchestrate crimes via other criminals not in jail, despite being behind bars themselves.

Never mind the fact that the State of Georgia claims to have the signal blocking/intercepting umbrella technology that would help prevent such things.  As far as I’m concerned what seems ironic to me is that Georgia prisons are more capable of sending and receiving data, than my gym.  Prisoners are able to send text messages and make phone calls, orchestrating elaborate crimes such as robberies and fraud while in prison, while I’m struggling to check Facebook or send/receive a text message at the gym.

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Dying K-Marts and nostalgia

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So I was reading this article about how K-Mart is dying, that’s also overflowing with a bunch of depressing pictures of an unfortunate store, and I can’t help but feel a little bit sad for the once prominent giant in the world of commerce.

Given the general popularity of Target, it’s no surprise that K-Marts are getting destroyed by them, but what really has to suck for the K is that they’re also getting dominated by Wal-Mart, which basically has the reputation of like, herpes or something not necessarily fatal, but kind of an embarrassment and a thing that people don’t really want to talk about.  A lot of people really, really dislike Wal-Mart, and personally I don’t really hate them or anything, I just don’t like the fact that a trip to Wal-Mart guarantees you to be there for at least 30 minutes, if for any reason at all, is that there’s never anyone working the cash registers and the one open line is six customers deep, all of whom are buying 50 items.  Wal-Mart is a place synonymous with wasting time, and I do not like to waste time if possible.

But yeah, K-Mart is losing to them too.  Typically I often accuse articles like the aforementioned one of utilizing a bit too much hyperbole in their objective, but it’s hard to argue the points being made in this one, that are backed up in both statistical and photographic evidence.  K-Mart really is dying before our very eyes, and it kind of makes me sad.  It’s not so much the unfortunate demise of a gigantic, long-standing, well-known brand, or the countless people that will undoubtedly be losing their jobs if/when they go under.  No, I’m far too self-centered to really concern myself about that kind of collateral damage, although it would no doubt suck for all of them too.  But it’s the fact that K-Mart is kind of a symbol of nostalgia for me, and to see it crumble and collapse is somewhat a metaphor of the demise of a facet of my childhood.

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I love goodbyes

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Now despite the fact that I like a good weekend every now and then where I literally do nothing but stay at home and play League, watch college football, sleep in until the dog starts barking his need to go pee and living off of whatever’s left over in the refrigerator and pantry, there’s no doubt that it can sometimes be pretty lonely doing such. Not necessarily in the “oh noes, Danny is making another ‘I wish I had a girlfriend’ post” kind of way, but really just being around other people in a fun social engagement in general kind of way, because when the day is over, I’d rather be in good company, chilling out in a relaxed setting.

Such does not occur as often as I’d admittedly like it to occur, but most of that falls on me. I live out in the sticks that are often as surprised as I am to be considered part of the Metro Atlanta area, and it’s a pain to get to anywhere without having to think about niggling details like traffic, time, and fuel consumption in the back of your head sometimes. Also, it’s not that I’m a raging alcoholic by any means necessary, but I do like to drink in social settings, and I’m always paranoid that there’ll be another sobriety checkpoint near my house again, but it’ll fall on a date where I’ve had one or two beers and no designated driver; my dad got a DUI a few years ago, and he’s living proof that no number of decades of safe, immaculate driving record is impervious to the damages a DUI can do, which scares the shit out of me sometimes.

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A few things I’d like

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At first notion, this might seem like kind of a fluff post, but the thing is if anyone ever asks me “what would you like?” often times, I don’t necessarily have an answer for them.

It’s not that things I want are all exorbitantly expensive, although most are, like more championship belts, a larger home in a better neighborhood, camera equipment, but when it comes to little things that are more like trinkets, or along the caliber of birthday or holiday gifts, I typically don’t have the slightest clue to what to ask for.  Typically, I’m a fairly anti-clutter kind of person, and I have to imagine that if I lived by myself completely, my entire residence would be considered “minimalist” bordering along the lines of appearing like a somewhat abandoned home.

The point is, I’m not someone with a lot of materialistic wants.  Lately, I’ve been thinking about things I’d want, and missing the point, the following are (mostly) things that aren’t necessarily in the “gift” class either, but whatever, I want them anyway.

  • A nice coat.  I haven’t had a particularly nice coat in quite some time.  Throughout the years, I’ve worn big, oversized coats of my past, or hooded sweatshirts that aren’t necessarily bad garments for warmth in cooler weather, but as my aesthetic preferences have gradually changed throughout the years, I’m finding that I wouldn’t mind something that looked a little nicer and more fitted. Something versatile too, like something that I could wear to the typical family dinner, or when simply going out to a somewhat fancy occasion.  Maybe I need more than one coat, but the bottom line is that I wouldn’t mind having some nicer outerwear, especially as the fall is beginning to settle in and the temperatures are dropping again.
  • A necklace with intrinsic or personal value.  Yeah, it might sound kind of lame or sissy-ish to some, but I like jewelry.  But the thing is that I don’t really want something that I can go to the mall and pick up at a wagon kiosk, as I said, I’d like to have something to wear around my neck that has meaning to me.  Obviously, this isn’t something that can easily be acquired, but from an aesthetic perspective, I’d like to have something to wear around my neck.
  • Another tattoo.  Not everyone might know it, but I’ve got five tattoos.  Four of them are dorkily anime-related, and all gotten before I was even legal, and they’re there til the end of time, regardless of how I may feel about them today.  But it doesn’t matter, lately, I’ve been thinking about the possibility of getting another one.  What and where it would go, I don’t have the really have much clue, but hopefully I’ll make a decision on something that I’ll be happy with.

And there you have it, things I want.  Obviously, these aren’t things that are going to be of any help if there are people out there that are into gift giving, but I needed something to write about, and this felt like something as good as any to do such with.