T.O.'s hella pimp... and ppl were wondering if he'd fit in w/philly's offense :) go long foo! oh yea, he has a gold mouthguard; had no friggin idea, til he smiled on abc. you could've argued that the vikings should've won that game though; they just made a LOT of key errors. dante should've made a couple of touchdowns, instead, penalties galore prevented him from doing so. the fumble was probably the dagger though.

there goes kobe's image... all you socal ppl can thank whatever snitch decided to drop the tape in the mailbox... and now kobe has to deal with vanessa that he also does the same stuff with this girl called michelle. yeap, looking more and more like mj alright... maybe he'll divorce like him too? (god forbid)

so many nba stars wanting to be traded. kg must be the only nba player to stick it through all the way... for that, i have great respect for kg. he didn't always have a great lineup of teammates, unlike duncan. but he was willing to stay. not like tmac, going all "trade me," or vince now, or jkidd. of course, you could say kg is UP there in terms of the current best nba players. so that might've convinced him he could work with the twolves, even when they're subpar. that's true. i have no really good answer for that. but jkidd and tmac aren't exactly pushovers either.

how in the world did i bowl 127 yesterday? i barely break 90 on average!

once i get a job, i should seriously consider a 2nd electric guitar, amongst other things; i'm been keeping my strat so much in the drop C tuning, that for a while, it was hard trying to keep it in standard E tuning; the pegs just kept loosening up.

finale notepad 2005's really good; i thought 2k4 was pretty good, 2k5 enables you to write guitar tablature while you hear it being played, besides the regular sheet music. making it so much easier to deal with. you can also do so w/an electric bass setup. i need a keypad though.

are they ever gonna move the remaining 3 benches to the back of the church?

hurricane ivan must be god's way of balancing out global warming's effects of an extremely long summer, and short winter. short story is: man can go ahead and do whatever he wants to the environment, because god will always right it :D *end sarcastic voice*

i've been thinking alot about how we use certain instruments, and how we make full use of them. doesn't matter what instrument, just how we gradually learn to make full use of them... guitars, arcade joysticks, keyboard+mouse for fps, gamepads... drums... i think the term that comes to mind is "extension of your hand" or even "extension of your mind/will." once you begin to learn how to use these things, get used to them, and know what you want, these instruments become more or less, an "extension of your mind." i think that's the term used to describe when someone can wield something very well.
i'm not perfect at fighting games; at least, not ALL of the ones i play. but when i begin to truly understand the game engine, what my character is capable of, what the opponent is capable of, and my execution starts to get down and the experience builds up, i can practically just think "COMBO!" and my hands will react. or "RUN!" and i'll immediately do it; my hands just do what they need to do. i don't need to think, "press light punch, then light kick," "move the joystick like this, keep your hand straight," etc... no, it just happens. i may just think "bread and butter, corner on light" and it happens. at the beginning, my hands probably won't react exactly the way i want; i'll probably screw up a few big damage combos, or end up doing some wrong move when i wanted something else. or i might not get the game engine exactly or what my opponent brings to the table. but again, it starts to build up, and then it's practically just a mind's thought of what i need or want to do. i'm practically connected to the joystick.
let's not even deal with something that only i have an interest in mind; let's take for example, driving. or, let's make it a bit more complex. driving stick. at the beginning, you haven't gotten the stuff down; so you stall and crud for a bit. your left foot doesn't exactly match the sync of your right foot and the right hand that operates the shifter. but gradually, you begin to ease into the car. know what it's capable of. know what you need to do to bring out its ability. and you build on the experience. gradually, driving becomes an "extension of your mind." you want to move forward, and the car responds; the body just knows what it needs to do to get there. no need of intermediate thoughts, because there are none; you don't fear stalling. the steering wheel, clutch, gas, brake, etc, are all now "extensions of your mind."
now, i just suddenly have a novel thought on this; isn't that what the body of christ is supposed to be? there's many ways you could see this(god's the brain, and we're the hands/feet, etc), but i'll see it that we're sorta this clunky, huge machine that is capable of doing a LOT... god's just a man just trying to ease into getting to know us(however, unlike an instrument, we also are getting know him, but then again, my hands aren't exactly trying to get to know my brain either), but we're not responding the way he's liking us to. but we're trying to become closer to him, like a hand to a brain, so that he can take charge of us more smoothly. gradually, we become almost an extension of his mind, and then, when he wants something to be done, he doesn't even need to think about what he needs to do to make things occur; we just do it, cause we're so in tune w/him. no intermediate thoughts no more.

thanks a lot for giving up what was essentially a guarenteed win, 49ers! you disappoint me...

thanks for the message this sunday on worship, pastor tim...