I'll Take Stupid Answers for... No, wait...

So I was really tanking Jeopardy yesterday. No, seriously. I must have gotten like 8 of the first 15 questions wrong. The sad thing? Almost every wrong answer was because of a second guess. I also caught myself saying something I haven't said in a very long time. In response to a friend's Facebook post (because that's the only way people communicate nowadays), I said, "My life's pretty damn good right now." Correlation? Well, I only can say that about my life because I finally made a decision that was 3-4 years in the making. It would have been made earlier, but I kept considering other possibilities. Hindsight may be 20/20, and Barbara Walters...

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Ship it!

At some point I truly begin to question my sanity (i know none of you question my insanity). The point of the matter is that I have started to feel poker withdrawal. And not the fun kind of withdrawal you make at a bank. We're talking about the blood-chilling, 48 hours without heroin, baby crawling on the ceiling type of withdrawal (Go see Trainspotting). It's been almost 4 months since "Black Friday", i.e. the day that poker died, hit the US. Since then I have barely played a lick of poker. Thus, I'm rusty. Some of you may know that I am currently working the poker beat. I'm lucky enough to be a part of the team that is putting together the...

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Hard 8? Try Hard 17!

I am about to be tested. I have often said that Las Vegas is my favorite city in the world and that I could live there no problem. Some other people scoff at that idea saying they could never be in such an "active" city for more than a weekI will gloss over the full meaning of "Active" in order to protect the PG-13 readers of this blog.Starting tomorrow, July 4th, I will be spending upwards of 17 straight days in Vegas. In fact, I will likely be in Vegas more than I will be in LA for the month of July.For those of you thinking that this would be a great opportunity to steal my stuff, I remind you that I have a roommate who I just gave a "licence...

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Thnks fr th mmrs

> At Sliders awaiting friends... Rubber match, yanks-sox... Blogging and beer.>> The image? Fall Out Boy obsession aside (don't hate), I want to thank everyone for my time in CT over the past 6.5 years.>> It's been fun and sad and crazy and sexy and cool and fetch. I could run on and on until the break of dawn, but as I prepare to move to California, I can't help but think Of super Mario Bros. 3. (yes, a "The Wizard" reference)>> In that game, Mario learns to fly with a raccoon tail. WTF? some Japanese programmer was clearly smoking crack when the came up with that one. Nonetheless, no matter how many times Mario is told...

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Just Plain Wrong: Disney Edition

I present to you, Mickey's Talkin' Bobbin' Characters (Poor Pluto...) Apologies for all the ad balloons in the video. Then again, it's not my video. Deal with ...

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The Reverse Jigsaw

I consider myself an excellent puzzle solver. I rock the @wheeloffortune Twitter toss-ups (need to get back to playing those), whiz my way through crosswords (erase your dirty thoughts) and even complete the occasional (read: rare) jigsaw.We're trained from a young age to be able to solve puzzles, but who is supposed to teach us how to take them apart?In the philosophical waxing that my friends have become accustomed to, it seems stupid that we are taught to take risks, and that it's ok to make mistakes, but we are never really taught to fix them.So instead of a world filled with accurately solved puzzles, we live in a world literally littered...

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FrAILty

So, in 2 days I'll be a cripple. Ok, not quite. But after surgery (can't wait tosee how many people cuss me out for not mentioning this earlier...) I'll bebanned from physical activity for six weeks.So to all of you bastards who enjoy poking fun at my physique, enjoy the flab.And for those who encourage me, please contribute to my slim-fast fund.There is a revelation here though beyond the usual, "why is my body betrayingme, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs, WTF!" line of thought.I never realized how serious/important fitness was/is to me. Now having itripped from me, honestly feels like a kick to the groin. Seriously, this is likea top 5, maybe...

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Wile E. Coyote vs. James Franco

Many of you hold The Oscars up on a pedestal. This is fitting considering the award technically does stand on a pedestal.So when an inebriated, incapacitated James Franco decided to unceremoniously defecate on your annual ceremony of popular people, some of you took it hard.Yet some people still defended James because while his performance on the Oscar broadcast wasn't top notch, his performance in 127 hours was moving and awe-inspiring.Well, I'd like to refute that point with Exhibit A. I present Wile. E. Coyote in 127 Hours. Enj...

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Attention Nittany Lions: SILENCE!

I have never been a loudmouth. I let results speak for themselves. Again PSU fans, our men's basketball team is doing the unthinkable. A dose of reality will remind you that beating Ohio State now will be much easier, than plowing through a 68 team field. In the 1% chance that we can raise some hell please don't jinx us by taunting those heathen buckeyes. Save calling them the red headed step children of the big ten until after the game. Just because they go to an inferior school is not a reason to belittle them prior to the fall. Their tears will only taste sweet after they drink the Gatorade.Fear the lion. That is a...

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OMG! More Angry Birds!

NEW ANGRY BIRDS UPDATE! Very few things will make me revert to squealing teenage girl mode. Angry Birds is on the list. Seriously fun. Seriously one of the best values in gaming. DOWNLOAD N...

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Mobile blogging, huh?

Was watching Kitchen Nightmares. Forgot to GotGlue it. Damn. A food critic mobile blogged from the restaurant. She probably forgot to check in on FourSquare. Yelp! Realized I should do more "on the road" (not talking to you Jack Kerouac). Oh, btw Notre Dame just lost to the flying Pitinos. Sprecious. And yes, this is me testing mobile blogging from my iPhone. Please, no comments as to the inferiority of it being a 3...

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Just Plain Wrong Pt 2: The Translation

In part one (check the previous post) you were introduced to the "Top Charming Breast Stimulator"Now I understand not all of you speak Japanese, so here's a translation courtesy of Topanga...I mean Danielle Fishel and The Dish(props to The Dish for many hah...

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New Feature: Just Plain Wrong!

Fair Warning, there will be a more hilarious follow up to this soon. For now though, I present to you..."The Top Charming Breast Stimulator"Enj...

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Living In The Present

I promise to bring some irreverence back to this blog in the near future, but for the moment he I go being all serious again.I'm not repeating where i heard this (for fear of protecting my man card), but while surfing through the TV channels I came across an interesting interview in which the topic of Michael Jackson came up.No, I was not watching "To Catch a Predator". The key information was such:Michael Jackson spent his entire life trying to re-create Thriller. even when he created Bad and sold 20 million copies, he wasn't satisfied, because he didn't match his initial phenomenon.Kind of disturbing when you really think about it. Kind of...

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