Month: May 2014

Uh… who cares?

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Source: 78 percent of former NFL players are broke.

The sky is also blue, water is also wet, and human beings need air to breathe.

Missing somewhere, is the part about this story where we, the plebeians of the world, are supposed to care.

78 percent of former NFL players may be broke and bankrupt now, but for that one to ten or more years that they’re actively playing professional football, they will have seen more money than a vast majority of the human race will ever see in their lifetimes, quite likely multiplied by many times.  This goes for any professional athlete who plays their sport at the major level.

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Preparing for the demise of Tysons Corner

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Impetus: May 27, 2014 is the estimated date in which the DC Metro Silver Line opens up the route to Tysons Corner.

Knee-jerk reaction: May 27, 2014 is the estimated date in which Tysons Corner begins its new identity as the second coming of Springfield Mall.

In other words, this is, whether people realize it or not, terrible, terrible news for Tysons Corner, and the surrounding McLean area.  A lot of people don’t want to admit it, because it insinuates a hint of racial bias, profiling and other negative connotations, but the demise of Springfield Mall and the commercial death of all surrounding area coincides perfectly with the extension of the blue line and creation of the Springfield-Franconia Metro stop.  Like Cinderella’s glass fucking slipper.

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League of Lobby, volume 2

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I didn’t think it would happen again so soon, but I guess it’s naive of me to have thought that poor behavior over the internet, much less while playing League of Legends, wasn’t bound to happen again at the drop of a hat. Needless to say, it brings great amusement to me, when people are willing to banter a little bit after a hard-fought match, and it’s apparently means for good brog content when things go bad; and since the flaw with the LoL community is that post-match lobbies are not monitored and logged by Riot, it’s the setting in which everyone feels comfortable saying everything they wouldn’t say under the watchful eye of big brother; which basically means horrible, intending-to-hurt and just plain bad things until the cows come home.

Laying down a little bit of groundwork – in matches in which someone begins to feel confident that victory is all but a sure thing, people tend to take to the all-chat function to typically make passive-aggressive remarks that exude arrogant cockiness. I don’t really care much for it, but pretty much everyone does it from time to time. Hypocritical of me to say, I’ve done it numerous times too, it’s just something that happens when nerds are engaged in competition, and the means to communicate with your opponents is present.

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Evil Archie Andrews

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Impetus: Archie comics are going the route of Spider-Man and announcing they’re killing off their titular character, but really they’re doing it in a less-successful spin-off series and not mentioning that part concisely as not to compromise the impulsive demand from would-be buyers.

Killing a titular character is such a cop-out.  It’s basically saying “we’re out of ideas for this character, and don’t want to bother putting any further effort with them.”  I can’t say that I’ve ever really been a fan of Archie comics, but I’m not going to pretend like I’ve never read them before either.  Granted, my exposure to them was literally when I was in the first or second grade, and I took piano lessons from a lady who had all sorts of Archie comics on her coffee table for the kids who showed up early like me would be able to read to kill time with.  A lot of the stuff was over my head back then, and it took me a while to realize that “Ronnie” was a nickname for “Veronica.”

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The next two months are going to suck

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The Starbucks I go to every morning when I go to work has closed down for renovations.  They estimate that they will be back open in July.

This is pretty much the worst news I’ve heard in my entire life and I am legitimately upset over this recent development.

Honestly, I don’t really know what to do moving forward.  I can handle the interruption of my morning ritual, but I can’t handle the denial of a consistent delivery of caffeine.  As much as I may bitch and whine about all the students and corporate stiffs who get there before I do and plug up the lines, I’ve literally gone to this Starbucks almost every single work day, and quite a few weekend days that I’ve happened to be in the neighborhood.  I can probably count on one hand how many work days in which I did not go to Starbucks.

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We’re number two!

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Source: Atlanta drivers are the second-least courteous drivers in the United States. Such assessment based on a survey claiming statistics of “road rage” characteristics.

Although I don’t refute that Atlanta is a city that most certainly fits the bill of being full of discourteous drivers, and its share of bad and/or idiot drivers, I don’t necessarily agree with AutoVantage’s criteria of what is considered road rage. When I hear the term “road rage,” I’m picturing people demonstrating acts of retaliation when they’re cut off, or people getting so angry with one another that they mutually seem to agree to pull off to the side of the road, and get into an actual physical altercation. Some of the things that AutoVantage surveyed people on, well, aggravating or foolish as they may be, not all of them I’d agree are necessarily acts of road rage. Rage-inducing, sure, to some capacity, but definitely not contextually correct.

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I enjoy reading about car restorations

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A long time ago, when I was way into Initial D and import cars in general, I often dreamed about getting a Nissan 240SX, and doing everything necessary to it to essentially turn it into a Nissan Sil-Eighty, a Frankenstein of a drift car that merged the front end of a Nissan Silvia with the body of a Nissan 180SX.

I thought, and still kind of do think, that it’s an awesome car, and that it would be real peachy if I could ever get my hands on one at any point in my lifetime.

Long gone are those boyhood racer dreams for the most part, although I wouldn’t not entertain the idea of still getting an old Nissan 240SX and restoring it to some degree of hotness, but perhaps without the need for an SR20 turbo engine, or any major super-expensive part that needed to be imported internationally.  Regardless, it’s safe to assume that those dreams of becoming a legendary drifter are long in the past.

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