Truck drivers make how much?

October 14, 2015July 17, 2020 ~ dannyhong ~ Leave a comment

Apparently, America has a shortage of truck drivers. To such a degree that at least for private fleets, the average trucker salaryis $73,000. I’m not going to specify what exactly I make a year, but it’s not $73,000, and I have to imagine driving long distances is vastly less prone to dealing with office bullshit than my job is.

The amazing thing is the allegation that the reasoning for such a shortage is simply the fact that there aren’t enough people qualified to be truck drivers actually applying for these jobs. I’m not going to assume it’s as simple as driving a Honda Civic for 12 hours straight, because I know that at least there’s the double clutch to consider and the sheer knowledge of physics that comes into play when traversing varying elevations. But it still boils down to the fact that when all the training and preparation is done, it’s basically sitting in a gigantic car, driving things from point A to point B.

Just how much qualifications are required to be truck drivers? They certainly can’t be that much, if the people driving all these trucks are the same people I see getting lost on the country backroads in the areas surrounding my home, or the litany of dumbasses who are crashing their cargo of food stuffs all over Metro Atlanta highways.

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It’s about time Kane got an interesting story

October 13, 2015July 17, 2020 ~ dannyhong ~ Leave a comment

Over the last few weeks, I realized that I was actually stopping the fast forwarding of RAW whenever Kane showed up on screen. Since his return from injury at Night of Champions, and the start of his current split-personality storyline, I’ve found Kane to be entertaining and fun to watch.

When the inevitable commercial break faded to black, I said to myself “this is the best Kane storyline since . . . since . . .”

And I couldn’t think of a single other Kane storyline that wasn’t just disturbing, wasn’t cliched, or wasn’t completely fucking bad.

Since Kane debuted in like 1998, he’s pretty much put into bad storyline after bad storyline when he wasn’t simply jobbing to the stars (usually while simultaneously portraying a bad storyline). Whether it’s one of the several times he’s stalked “his brother” the Undertaker, knocking up Lita and then having her miscarry when feuding with foot-fetishist Gene Snitzky, and of course one of the worst wrestling storylines in the history of the industry, the necrophiliac storyline involving Triple H unearthing Kane’s past, and his dead girlfriend, Katie Vick.

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The fallacy of casual League of Legends

October 10, 2015July 17, 2020 ~ dannyhong ~ Leave a comment

Typically, whenever I play League of Legends, I play ARAM, because they’re quicker, not taken nearly as seriously as Summoner’s Rift matches, and as odd as it is to say, considering the occasional anxiety and unhappiness of randomly getting a champion you don’t like, there’s something inherently relaxing about ARAM, because there’s an accountability that is taken off the table, by everyone having their players randomly chosen. I take a lot of flack about my enjoyment of ARAM from some of my friends, but I don’t really care, because I like ARAM, and I think it’s a mode where it kind of helps players actually dare to think outside of the box, instead of falling into “the metas” that people only on the highest level of play dictate, and everyone believes they can emulate.

However lately, I’ve been playing Summoner’s Rift again, because I’ve again been entertaining the thought of taking the plunge into ranked play, to see where I could end up on the gargantuan player pool of League. Last season, I placed into Silver II, and I made little effort to try and climb out, because it was very late in the season, and secondly I just didn’t care that much. Ultimately, I was hoping that I could squeak my way into Gold-tier, so that I could get the Victorious Morgana skin, whom only Gold or higher players received, but alas, it was just not in the stars for me to get there.

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lol MARTA #226

October 9, 2015July 17, 2020 ~ dannyhong ~ Leave a comment

Long story short: dumbass who works for MARTA sends personal information of 785 employees to incorrect recipients, such as dates of births and social security numbers.

I love how the article cites terms such as “data breach,” “mechanical malfunction” and “equipment malfunction” to describe what’s basically some idiot not being mindful of the recipient field in what was probably just email.

Furthermore, I’m more surprised that MARTA actually has 785 employees. Based on the perpetual tardiness of trains, buses, and the sheer lack of visible security, maintenance and workers throughout the entire company, I’d have guessed MARTA had more like, 85 employees in total. Then again, the other 700 are probably the sock puppet names on payroll to cash checks and leech the city of money to line their pockets, but I digress.

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Maybe not such a great idea, Steph

October 8, 2015July 17, 2020 ~ dannyhong ~ Leave a comment

TL:DR – Professional basketball player Stephon Marbury calls Michael Jordan “greedy,” referencing the high cost of Air Jordan sneakers, in an attempt to promote the resurrection of his low-cost alternative Starbury shoes.

Uh Steph, I know you feel all safe, confident and empowered over in Beijing, China, while Michael Jordan is literally half a planet away in America, but have you forgotten who you’re mouthing off to and publicly criticizing?

Sure, I agree with the facts Marbury presents in his arguments, but I have to say that subsequently criticizing Michael Jordan probably isn’t the smartest idea he’s ever had. Yes, Air Jordans are exorbitantly priced. Yes, people have literally died over Air Jordans over the last three decades. Yes, Michael Jordan himself is a gozillionaire because of Air Jordans.

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Shocker

October 7, 2015July 17, 2020 ~ dannyhong ~ Leave a comment

In short: Atlanta Braves draw lowest attendance since 1990, at barely over 2,000,000 “paying” fans. This is 13th in the National League, and 24th overall in Major League Baseball.

Who would have thunk that publicly giving up on the team, giving up on the city, and giving up on the ballpark would have such adverse effects on attendance? Man, there’s no way anyone could have seen this coming. Totally blindsiding.

Being Atlanta Business Chronicle, this article itself will inevitably end up behind the paywall, but there’s really not much that needs summarizing. The Braves sucked in 2015, and it’s abundantly reflected in the overall attendance at Turner Field. Granted, the Braves in general are always typically middle-of-the-pack when it comes to attendance, placing 8-9 in the National League on average throughout the last decade or so, but to drop to nearly last is still saying something about alienating even the most fickle of bandwagon Atlanta sports fans.

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