Monday Thoughts: Time!

A person’s personality can be determined by how they follow time. You’re always early, right on time, or perpetually late. If you’re the perpetually late person I think that your window of lateness should get a little smaller each time, the person you’re meeting with has the right to leave you at any moment after 11 minutes.

Time is around for a specific reason, and although it’s man made we still run our lives based off of the clock. The simple idea of time needs to be embraced a little more and we need to grasp our limitations in a certain time frame.

I think if you have a job and your workday requires you to work a specific set of hours you should have the option to sleep when you get tired. For Example: If it’s 12pm and you need a nap you can sleep for X amount of time, but that means you need to stay at work X amount of time longer.

If you wake up at 7am and go to sleep at 11pm you have been awake for a total of 16 hours. That’s not too many hours to be alive and awake per day – use the time wisely.

A looooong time ago people would refer to the time as: “12 of the clock” Which has evolved into using the phrase 12 o’ clock.

I’m convinced that in the future Time Travel has not yet been figured out. The moment time travel is figured out we’d be surrounded by Time Travelers, and we ourselves would be time traveling. This of course opens a time travel discussion and also if the future is happening now or if the future has already happened.

There is no way we can get around time; it’s inevitable no matter how you cut it. Until we simplify the Flux Compacitor we have no choice but to respect the framework of time. If you can’t respect time then you float and turn into David taking on a super Goliath.

Driving Happiness.

I'm convinced that you can tell if a person is happy or unhappy by the way they drive their vehicle. I’d say it’s about 70 percent. The other 30 is skill, time, vision, age, and road size.

America's Got Talent... How? Why?


I don’t get it and I don’t care. I constantly watch America’s Got Talent. I sit and watch Nick Cannon try to emulate Ryan Seacrest and I watch these judges talk about absolute nonsense.  I look at Howie Mandell’s weird patch of hair under his lip and wonder about his “signature” sign off where he waves from his forehead.  I’m not really sure what the hell Sharon Osboure is talking about half the time but I listen. Piers, he is supposed to be the Simon Cowell of the group but he just doesn’t have the jackass persona like S.C. but still…he’s a jackass.

I always find myself watching this show, and I manage to turn it somehow at the correct time each week. I’m starting to think it’s meant to be, I think I’m supposed to watch this show.

Does anyone else watch this show? Am I crazy? Maybe it’s because I just loved Starsearch? What has happened to me?

One way or another YOUTUBE week is about finish up. Wild card week is done. Time to figure out who is going to headline Vegas.

The End of The Internet

We’ve seen what happens when big companies regulate themselves. From AIG to BP we’ve trusted that humans will do the right thing. It’s easy to sit back and go with the flow of what’s happening. We adapt to things we don’t like on a regular basis, but some times things have to change. There has to be a unified moment where the people without the pull realize that we actually DO have the pull. When we come together we can change anything we want.

A moment to test this theory is happening as we speak. Google and Verizon have outlined their “pact” and how it’s going to change the Internet… It’s not good. Our website freedom is going to be taken away and THEY will tell you what you can and cannot look at. Corporations force enough in our face on a daily basis and more and more regulation is starting to takes it’s toll. Let’s not let this happen to the Internet.

Here is some info regarding what is happening…

(Thank you Huffington Post)

1. Under their proposal, there would be no Net Neutrality on wireless networks -- meaning anything goes, from blocking websites and applications to pay-for-priority treatment.

2. Their proposed standard for "non-discrimination" on wired networks is so weak that actions like Comcast's widely denounced blocking of BitTorrent would be allowed.

3. The deal would let ISPs like Verizon -- instead of Internet users like you -- decide which applications deserve the best quality of service. That's not the way the Internet has ever worked, and it threatens to close the door on tomorrow's innovative applications. (If RealPlayer had been favored a few years ago, would we ever have gotten YouTube?)

4. The deal would allow ISPs to effectively split the Internet into "two pipes" -- one of which would be reserved for "managed services," a pay-for-play platform for content and applications. This is the proverbial toll road on the information superhighway, a fast lane reserved for the select few, while the rest of us are stuck on the cyber-equivalent of a winding dirt road.

5. The pact proposes to turn the Federal Communications Commission into a toothless watchdog, left fruitlessly chasing consumer complaints but unable to make rules of its own. Instead, it would leave it up to unaccountable (and almost surely industry-controlled) third parties to decide what the rules should be.



Or here to see Google’s thoughts: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/

Oh, last thing. Protest here: https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=470

Damn you, Jonas Brothers.

I wish this wasn't true but unfortunately, it is.

I forgot to bring my ipod with me today so I decided to put on some Kiis FM on my drive home. I was sitting in traffic moving at a snails pace, the clock read something like 5:50pm. I switched the station from Kiis...nothing...switch...nothing...switch... nothing.

For whatever reason I think that if I switch the radio station enough it will make time go faster, it’s kind of like opening the fridge over and over when you know nothing is there.

I made my way back to Kiis FM, otherwise known as Pop radio 101. I hit it just in time for a Jonas Brothers song, the song was called “Burnin’ up.” For whatever reason and I don’t know why my index finger slowly made it’s way away from the dash of my car, which meant Kiis FM, was staying. I immediately found myself listening to a Jonas Brother’s.

Many thoughts started to race through my head, the first one being “Why in the Hell am I listening to this!?” But I ignored that thought like a light breeze. Next thought, “How loud is this? I’m jamming out!” And finally the third thought, “Are my windows up? No they’re down! I need to put them up.” It was just as I was putting my window up when I passed another car and in complete synchronicity I heard a finely tuned Jonas song. That’s right, the car next to me was jamming out too. What the hell? It was some 20 something chick not caring about a thing. After seeing her I felt terrible, I felt confused, I felt like a grown man listening to the Jonas Brothers. But them… It Happened.

A third car, a third suspect was listening to the Jonas Brothers, I heard it coming from my right. I suspected it was another girl or possibly a mother convincing her kids Disney is good. But as I turned I noticed it wasn’t a mother at all, it was a 20 something guy…like me. I could tell he was a little reluctant to listen to the Jonai but he was. I haven’t experienced a 3 car similar station tune-in, like that in a long time but the Jonas Brothers brought us together. Who knows who else was jamming at that time?

How did this happen? Why did this happen? Is there something in their music that forces people not to switch? Is it a good song?

These questions are still sitting in my head. I think the Jonas are brainwashing us.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScXLHgPcZuc

Short Story Sunday: He Said, She Said - The Plan


The Plan and some history: My Buddy – MAN is going out on a date with a female friend’s, friend - WOMAN (Hang in with me on the names). They have been out a few times and my Man friend has assured me they will be sleeping together tonight. I have convinced my female friend to compare notes of what her friend says about the date.

What does the opposite sex say? What do they think? What do they talk about in their spare time? It’s a thought that has run through my mind for longer than I would like to admit. My friends and I have conjured up ideas but who knows if I’m right. I hear that the woman’s mind works just like the man’s, which I actually believe. 

The wheels have been turning in my head for a while with a plan to actually see the difference for myself. How could this be done? How can I see how a woman thinks and how a man thinks given the same exact scenario?

One day, one fateful day, it happened. The stars aligned and God looked down at me and said:  “This is your moment.” The proper mixtures of people and moments have made what George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg would call The Perfect Storm.

Now, let me refer to the top and reference “The Plan.” What will he say? What will she say? Thanks to my female friend for allowing this to go through, after all, I think we’re all curious.

Disclaimer: I will not be telling Man nor Woman we’re doing this and understanding this is completely wrong is part of the appeal, but it’s in the name of Science.

The Morning After…

Question: Well, How’d it go?

Man: Dude, it was awesome. I took her to the pizza place that serves the pizza with every beer during happy hour. I started off with a Blue Moon, and she was drinking too, so you know…

Woman: It was okay. He took me to that place ----- he kept talking about. It was actually kind of disgusting because they served these little pieces of pizza with every beer you ordered. It’s a good idea, but bad execution on the restaurants part.

Were you drinking a lot?

Man: I was trying. Uh, you know, I ah, was definitely trying to plant the seed and keep her drinking you know. It’s all about seed germination.

Woman: I had to, the pizza tasted like shit.

Were you into him/her?

Man: When?

Woman: Ugh, he was getting annoying. He’s hot but annoying.

What did you talk about?

Man: I don’t even remember half the shit I said. I did the small talk you know, I made jokes about dogs and self deprecating humor jokes, so she can think I’m cute… That kind of talk, then midway through I just let her talk for a bit… to feel important. 

Woman: I have no idea what he was talking about. He went on a rant about “E.T.” for about 35 minutes, and why he was a dork. He may have been nervous? He was asking me about movies, he’s never seen “Never Ending Story” so he asked me to tell him about it. Like, literally… tell him the whole thing from beginning to end, it was Godawful.

And you guys kept drinking?

Man: Yes, she was DOWN.

Woman: Unfortunately, I passed the threshold and just kept going. I had to, I didn’t want to listen to him much longer and I wanted to vomit the disgusting dinner.

Did you guys go home together?

Woman: Uh, Yes.

Man: Dude, I told you I was going to bang her.

How was it?

Man: Like Peanut Butter and Jelly.

(??)

Man cont: It didn’t take long but yeah we were going at it.

Woman: His house is gross, it smells like a t-shirt… or feet… or something thick you know? Which is surprising because he doesn’t really smell. But, I went into his bathroom and found his grooming supplies. I knew he plucked his eyebrows. But, yeah we slept together.

Wow, How was it?

Man: Awesome.

Woman: I don’t remember, and it’s not because I was drunk.

Did she/you spend the night?

Man: No, I told her she could but she didn’t. We laid there for a bit but she eventually took off. Perfect.

Woman: God no, I made something up to get out. But first I had to wake him because he was trying to cuddle with me.

Are you going to call him/her again?

Man: I’ll text her, in a few days.

Woman: I’m not calling. I don’t care if he calls me. Maybe I’ll call him sometime down the road… you know, late night.

Okay so are you happy I set you up or what? Final thoughts?

Man: Dude she’s hot. I don’t know what more I can say. I definitely kind of like her, I think? I don’t know. I try to stay away from likes and dislikes when it comes to this kind of thing. I don’t want to give the wrong impression you know? Girls are like, clingy. I don’t need clingy.

Woman: We’ll he’s totally confused. He’s a typical guy. Of course, you have to give into it on some level. It’s like a stroke of their confidence, no pun intended. You know the alpha who thinks that they know more than anyone else? That’s him. I feel like he has a dating plan. Or he may be a jealous clinger kind of guy. Who knows? But yeah, thanks for setting me up.


And so it is, the always-evolving man and woman. But what doesn’t change is the primal need for company. I don’t know if women are as sensitive as we make them out to be. Actually, I’m sure they’re not. I think the “games” aspect of dating is completely necessary even though both sexes knows it’s happening. I’m not too sure if dating has come a long way simply because of lack of experience. I’m just happy to have a girlfriend right now because I don’t want a random chick looking through my bathroom.


Final Note: Thanks to YOU, who participated and didn’t know it.