the big 22

yay, another year passed. now i can... ummm... say i'm tayshaun prince's jersey number. yea there's not actually any increased priviledges for hitting 22 are there? by God's grace and will, i shall live to see another year.

funny how it always takes me a year to get used to a new age; i just finally got used to being 21.

btw, the msm girls, plus eugene and david showed up on monday for jerm's bday, which was kinda cool, except our fridge's already loaded with cake all over the place. didn't help that they essentially loaded the cake with frosting; seriously, eating the brown sugar in our cupboard tasted LESS sweet.

interesting tidbit; i share the same birthdate as bo jackson.

more to be thankful for

i've rethought about what i'm thankful for...

often when people think about what they're thankful for, they think of what they possess. what they own, who they're related to.

if you're like me, you may also branch out and think about the genetic, personality, physical/mental aspect of yourself and thank God for that too.

think about your allergic reactions.

that's a big one; never stopped to really think about that, did you?

if you're like me, then you are blessed to have close to no allergic reactions to all types of foods, which means you do not need to go into a restaurant, always wondering if you're going to break out from eating something because it contained wheat or soy.

even if you are, you may STILL be blessed to know that perhaps you don't have a severe case of allergic reaction; ie it is not life-threatening, should you accidently ingest the food.

and then there's animals as well. being allergic to them. and you know how much i love cats, dogs, and other various animals.

so thank God for how he's blessed you.

(speaking of which, even wonder why it seems that as time progresses, that more and more allergic reactions to food seem to be popping outta nowhere? i can't recall people worrying about being allergic to wheat occurring in the 1980s. if that happened in an azn family, it would simply be "junior finish your meal!")

that's the warriors alright

alright, warriors are STILL the better norcal team
(it still rips me up inside to watch kings fans cheer at oakland arena)

ykno, i love the warriors, but it's silly to NOT ignore their weaknesses, seeing how they're essentially the phoenix suns minus amare stoudamire:

-they can't rebound(well, maybe adonal foyle, and if troy gets better)
-they can't defend well as a team or individually(jerm was surprised to find out the final score last night was 106-113; "that high?!?")
-aaand, debatably, no post-offense(though troy's getting there)

so this is pretty much gsw's gameplan; throw up as many 3s as you can, crash the boards, and hope that some of those 3s go in and some of your opponent's shots miss. (what the hell is murphy doing lingering at the 3 pt line? get in close!)

against most good teams, that probably would not fly.

but it works against sac, who pretty much has all of gsw's weaknesses, except worse...

so even though gsw shot poorer than sactown last night; they beat them by the boards; 49-32.

that's why everybody who's bball-savvy knows good teams play defense AND rebound; don't matter how well you contain the shot if you can't collect the loose ball. don't matter how well you collect the loose ball if your opponent's getting uncontested open looks all the time.

indiana's confusing me... shouldn't they be rolling over most teams? at least miami can say shaq isn't back yet.

genetics and revelations

ykno, maybe i've said it before, but i've gotten strange musings(i wouldn't call them visions, no, they're not visions) about how revelations, well, the part about the final antichrist and the whole "mark on forehead and right hand" is going to take place. most people believe that the mark is going to be some type of chip. that mark would enable identification of any person.

most people also know that genetics is more-or-less at the forefront of technology these days; a lotta things in science and health revolve around it.

well, one of the goals in genetics(or should i say, "genomics;" genomics is a subset of genetics; GENOMics deals with the entire GENOME, sorta like how GENEtics deals with the gene) is called the "thousand dollar genome." in this, geneticists hope to someday, be able to figure out a person's genome anytime they go to the doctor for a thousand dollars. run some tests, etc, come back with a fully sequenced genome and know exactly what is wrong, what is right. sound steep for the price? considering what the price is, it's actually pretty cheap. would have a lot of implications medically. basically, where we are right now, is that scientists have been able to completely sequence the human genome. however, we don't know what parts correspond to what. that's the part we're working on.

basically, i have feelings that perhaps when the thousand dollar genome occurs, this will be about the same time the final antichrist comes and the mark is introduced. seeing how the mark's supposed to contain all our info, it's not a stretch. in fact, i'm thinking that chip could be a microarray! (i'm too lazy to explain what a microarray is; try looking at affymetrix's website)