if you sometimes dl songs separately like on napster, you should try this song; i'm really hooked on this one:
dragonforce - my spirit will go on
don't worry, it's not THAT hard of rock. i really love this song.
Friday, February 10, 2006
some short musings
yay... all star game is west all-stars vs the pistons :D
(i wonder if tayshaun feels left out; heck, the coach and everyone of the starting 5 is there except for him! i also wonder if the pistons there will get booed by the houston crowd. well, from me, here's to tayshaun making the all-star reserves next year)
i really like the bulls. i feel badly that they're struggling so much this year compared to last year. you'd think they'd do fine w/o curry, but apparently he gave this team confidence. i loved wednesday night when they took the nuggets to school. and i thought about something scott skiles their coach says. tim legler sorta referred to this: all the guys on this team are so young, that skiles just sticks to basics, and never really goes in depth with plays. but i remember something he said last season, "these guys are so great, i needed to show them which way to go." one of the greatest things that stuck with me last season was their defense; 1st in fg%. i think that's one thing coaches love; when you're young, but are just so open, listen and do as they say. you see that in young role players who play defense extremely well; guys who could care less what their point percentage or points scored is. that's partially why i love guys like chicago's tyson chandler and detroit's tayshaun prince. and i know larry brown loves channing frye on new york.
ykno how defense and rebounding wins championships in the nba? here's what i think is the best way to measure a team's defensive strength. take the number of possessions the opposing team has had in a game. count the number of turnovers forced or defensive rebounds that your team in question has gotten. now divide the 2nd by the 1st. fg% alone will not measure how good a team's defense is(surprise! i learned this sometime a bit back), because if your fg% is 50%, but you a committing a lot of turnovers, then you're not taking care of the ball right. like in the game of detroit vs philly, detroit shot horridly, and philly shot great. so why was motown leading by so much? offensive rebounds and turnovers forced. philly did not take care of the glass, and motown often knocked the ball loose before philly could hoist a shot. points allowed is obviously not the best way to determine defensive strength b/c we can just slow the game down and play half-court. but by counting the number of turnovers created and defensive rebounds and dividing this number by # of possessions your opponent had, you determine the % of defensive stops your team made vs the number of shots that the opponent made or times they crashed the glass better than your team.
finally: the body of christ isn't about us picking and choosing which church or fellowship we want to stay at. i think a lotta christians approach church like that. "this place's worship doesn't fit me," "i don't like how these people behave here," etc. my bible study group actually got into a little discussion about why they actually decided to stay at msm. while ultimately we have to pick one fellowship we want to stay at most of the time, we shouldn't shun certain churches because the people or culture there is different. you think something's different, and don't like it, then make a change, don't shun it. there's a reason why the body of christ is made of all types of body parts, not all legs, or all arms, or all eyes. i'd say more, but i think you get the idea. if msm is filled with guys who are mouths in the body of christ, then i see myself as one of the few eyes in the church. quiet, but always musing, always observing and thinking.
(come to think about it, there is no one church i can honestly say where i completely fit in; maybe that's cause of my shy demeanor, but i believe this wholeheartedly. but like i've come to tell myself, it should never be about me, it should be about us, and how God can use me to edify the body of Christ)
(me and eugene are both the silent type. wanna see something funny? watch us when it's only us sitting together at msm fellowship; like ninjas sitting together; no talk at all)
yay... all star game is west all-stars vs the pistons :D
(i wonder if tayshaun feels left out; heck, the coach and everyone of the starting 5 is there except for him! i also wonder if the pistons there will get booed by the houston crowd. well, from me, here's to tayshaun making the all-star reserves next year)
i really like the bulls. i feel badly that they're struggling so much this year compared to last year. you'd think they'd do fine w/o curry, but apparently he gave this team confidence. i loved wednesday night when they took the nuggets to school. and i thought about something scott skiles their coach says. tim legler sorta referred to this: all the guys on this team are so young, that skiles just sticks to basics, and never really goes in depth with plays. but i remember something he said last season, "these guys are so great, i needed to show them which way to go." one of the greatest things that stuck with me last season was their defense; 1st in fg%. i think that's one thing coaches love; when you're young, but are just so open, listen and do as they say. you see that in young role players who play defense extremely well; guys who could care less what their point percentage or points scored is. that's partially why i love guys like chicago's tyson chandler and detroit's tayshaun prince. and i know larry brown loves channing frye on new york.
ykno how defense and rebounding wins championships in the nba? here's what i think is the best way to measure a team's defensive strength. take the number of possessions the opposing team has had in a game. count the number of turnovers forced or defensive rebounds that your team in question has gotten. now divide the 2nd by the 1st. fg% alone will not measure how good a team's defense is(surprise! i learned this sometime a bit back), because if your fg% is 50%, but you a committing a lot of turnovers, then you're not taking care of the ball right. like in the game of detroit vs philly, detroit shot horridly, and philly shot great. so why was motown leading by so much? offensive rebounds and turnovers forced. philly did not take care of the glass, and motown often knocked the ball loose before philly could hoist a shot. points allowed is obviously not the best way to determine defensive strength b/c we can just slow the game down and play half-court. but by counting the number of turnovers created and defensive rebounds and dividing this number by # of possessions your opponent had, you determine the % of defensive stops your team made vs the number of shots that the opponent made or times they crashed the glass better than your team.
finally: the body of christ isn't about us picking and choosing which church or fellowship we want to stay at. i think a lotta christians approach church like that. "this place's worship doesn't fit me," "i don't like how these people behave here," etc. my bible study group actually got into a little discussion about why they actually decided to stay at msm. while ultimately we have to pick one fellowship we want to stay at most of the time, we shouldn't shun certain churches because the people or culture there is different. you think something's different, and don't like it, then make a change, don't shun it. there's a reason why the body of christ is made of all types of body parts, not all legs, or all arms, or all eyes. i'd say more, but i think you get the idea. if msm is filled with guys who are mouths in the body of christ, then i see myself as one of the few eyes in the church. quiet, but always musing, always observing and thinking.
(come to think about it, there is no one church i can honestly say where i completely fit in; maybe that's cause of my shy demeanor, but i believe this wholeheartedly. but like i've come to tell myself, it should never be about me, it should be about us, and how God can use me to edify the body of Christ)
(me and eugene are both the silent type. wanna see something funny? watch us when it's only us sitting together at msm fellowship; like ninjas sitting together; no talk at all)
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
bruce really might be bryan's best partner in ttt.
since bryan relies so much on tag-buffering his b+1 so that he remains at advantage, but since it has a really low launch height for his team, only with the ability to pick them up and juggle them massively will this be used to the best ability.
with bruce coming in, he can do df+3, b+4,3,4 for 61 pts of damage; the same amount if you did not tag-buffer and finished with d+2, f+4,3,4
(if i figure out whether jin can come in and 1+4,2 and follow b,f+2,1,2, then i might change my opinion, but as of right now, looks like these two are chained together)
since bryan relies so much on tag-buffering his b+1 so that he remains at advantage, but since it has a really low launch height for his team, only with the ability to pick them up and juggle them massively will this be used to the best ability.
with bruce coming in, he can do df+3, b+4,3,4 for 61 pts of damage; the same amount if you did not tag-buffer and finished with d+2, f+4,3,4
(if i figure out whether jin can come in and 1+4,2 and follow b,f+2,1,2, then i might change my opinion, but as of right now, looks like these two are chained together)
Monday, February 06, 2006
the show "robot chicken" on adult swim(cartoon network) never fails to make me laugh
this is probably the clip from the show which made me laugh the hardest
*prepare to die from laughter*
this is probably the clip from the show which made me laugh the hardest
*prepare to die from laughter*
Sunday, February 05, 2006
near the beginning of the season, hines ward demanded a pay increase much like t.o. however, when push came to shove, he ultimately came back, had a long phone conversation with the steeler's head coach, and basically said all the things that basically boiled down to "i want to be a steeler; if you give me a pay increase, i'm ok with it, if not, i'm ok too; things will work themselves out." like a team player.
contrast that with how t.o. behaved. (to make a long story short, he considered himself above his team)
and look where things have gotten ourselves.
hines ward is not only a member of the 2006 nfl champion pittsberg steelers, but he is the mvp of the game(and rightly so i must say, after watching him nearly carry the steelers' offense on his back and saving an average performance by big ben and an average performance by the steelers' defense).
he deserves that mvp trophy as much as anybody i can think of for this super bowl off the top of my head.
contrast that with how t.o. behaved. (to make a long story short, he considered himself above his team)
and look where things have gotten ourselves.
hines ward is not only a member of the 2006 nfl champion pittsberg steelers, but he is the mvp of the game(and rightly so i must say, after watching him nearly carry the steelers' offense on his back and saving an average performance by big ben and an average performance by the steelers' defense).
he deserves that mvp trophy as much as anybody i can think of for this super bowl off the top of my head.
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