i found rip hamilton's boost mobile commercial to be too funny.
i won't say anything yet, cause i *think* it's fairly new so far...
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Queer Plans For the Straight Man
This must be the japanese version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy... however, it's a LOT funnier...
Har-do Gay Foooooooo!
This must be the japanese version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy... however, it's a LOT funnier...
Har-do Gay Foooooooo!
Friday, May 05, 2006
something i'm paraphrasing out of the book i'm reading, but should give you something to think about...
in order for God to communicate his word to his people, he had to put his word in the common language. now, note that some groups are going to just be excluded because of that, but you would just have to learn the new language. is this unfair to other nations? perhaps... but we should never question God's will; i believe that in the end, the very words that jesus spoke about losing none of those that were given to him from the Father holds true.
so...
old testament - hebrew language is the common language.
new testament - greek language(God didn't even return back to jersualem to use it to further his kingdom; the new center of christianity was in antioch, syria, as established in acts)
combination of the 2 together to form the bible - english language. God did not choose any other european country powerhouses because they were tainted with rome(ie the pope had some influence there), and hence had roman catholic influences. that excluded spain, france, germany, italy. england had a history of being catholic, true, but it also had a long, and permanent history after that of rebellion against rome(look up when rome used spain as a pawn tried to attack them navally and failed), and remained prostant. the us was also established upon christian(specifically protestant) men and women.
that's basically the gist of what i was going to say; i'm not looking at my book as i'm writing this, so i'm sure i'm excluding some words, but this should be good enough for you to mull over for a bit.
btw, the book i'm reading is:
samuel c. gipp - an understandable history of the bible
(one more note: what we consider "old english" and "middle english" is actually a LOT more old than the english in the kjv; if you were to look at actual "old english," there'd be NO WAY you could read it AT ALL. so, the excuse that kjv is old english does not hold up)
in order for God to communicate his word to his people, he had to put his word in the common language. now, note that some groups are going to just be excluded because of that, but you would just have to learn the new language. is this unfair to other nations? perhaps... but we should never question God's will; i believe that in the end, the very words that jesus spoke about losing none of those that were given to him from the Father holds true.
so...
old testament - hebrew language is the common language.
new testament - greek language(God didn't even return back to jersualem to use it to further his kingdom; the new center of christianity was in antioch, syria, as established in acts)
combination of the 2 together to form the bible - english language. God did not choose any other european country powerhouses because they were tainted with rome(ie the pope had some influence there), and hence had roman catholic influences. that excluded spain, france, germany, italy. england had a history of being catholic, true, but it also had a long, and permanent history after that of rebellion against rome(look up when rome used spain as a pawn tried to attack them navally and failed), and remained prostant. the us was also established upon christian(specifically protestant) men and women.
that's basically the gist of what i was going to say; i'm not looking at my book as i'm writing this, so i'm sure i'm excluding some words, but this should be good enough for you to mull over for a bit.
btw, the book i'm reading is:
samuel c. gipp - an understandable history of the bible
(one more note: what we consider "old english" and "middle english" is actually a LOT more old than the english in the kjv; if you were to look at actual "old english," there'd be NO WAY you could read it AT ALL. so, the excuse that kjv is old english does not hold up)
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
"duh" statement of the night regarding bball from me:
if you're having trouble playing defense against somebody, try making them play defense a bit more.
it sounds stupid at first, and kinda obvious, and nba players do say it all the time in press conferences, but the more i thought about it, the more it's meaning has hit upon me.
you see, sometimes you're going up against a good scorer, and it seems that no matter what you do, you can't contain him.
well, assuming he's the one guarding you on the other end, one of the ways you can wear him out is to start trying to score more on him, make him chase you around screens more, etc. that may help wear him out, and make your defense a bit easier; it won't solve the entire puzzle, you still have to play good defense, but it may help you out some.
so even if you are unselfish and don't want to see yourself as the main scorer of your team, just learning some simple effective stuff to throw at your opponent when you're on the offensive end if you're coming up puzzled about how to stop your opponent's offense will help a lot.
it's kinda hit me this late, b/c i don't consider myself the main scorer on any team i play when i'm playing bball. part of that does have to do with my abilities. but if i'm playing against people i don't know, chances are that i might end up guarding someone who is very aggressive and demanding of the ball. in cases like those, it might be good to play a bit more offense on him, in the motive of trying to wear him down more.
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fyi, i really thought(and hoped) chicago should've won game 5. no real excuses they shouldn't have. but dwyane wade's will to win should in all due respects be commended. fought through an incredibly painful injury knowing the offense on the heat depended upon him. and it seemed that when the heat saw him come back, their confidence and will to win came back. they went on a defensive rout(although, knowing chicago's not that great offensively, i want to say it's more that chicago struggled rather than heat locked them down.) it's just a shame that this will probably hurt them down the road; even if they beat the bulls and move on, you could say this puts the nail in the hopes that the heat will make it to the finals yet again. i don't think you even need detroit to knock the heat out of the eastern race. the nets can do it. i want to say indiana could do it as well, but that's stretching it. however, i do think indiana can take this weakened heat team to 7 games.
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you said it, ron, now make your promise. (just looking to see if "infinite intensity" 93 is going to step up and fulfill his promise of the kings getting into the 2nd round, or were those just empty threats to the league.)
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this world is so full of people making the most stupidest comments out of ignorance. they just say whatever they want without any thought to it. that's probably what boils me so much. i'm all for free speech and it's great to live in a country that supports it; you should never be afraid of saying something because you know someone's not going to like what you said. but i am also for saying SOUND SPEECH, because free speech is IMO not a ticket to saying ANYTHING, but more like a ticket to saying WHAT IS RIGHT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER PEOPLE AGREE WITH YOU OR NOT. in other countries, you can get arrested, tortured, even killed for saying stuff, even if it is right. here you cannot. i do not believe the founding fathers of this nation allowed free speech so idiots can say the stupidest things. they allowed it so that the balance of power in speech would never be tipped into the hands of the person with the most military and monetary resources. think about that for more than a few seconds before you start saying something really stupid on impulse the next time.
in like vein of the same subject, sometimes i argue with myself regarding christianity like this:
+: it's simply not right for me to hate upon another person just because they have the most ignorant thoughts. that does not make myself any better. that's wrong.
-: i conceed with that, and know it. but does that make what they thought ok? am i supposed to just tolerate what they said? it's still wrong regardless.
...
so then, how am i supposed to loathe their thoughts, but not them? especially when it seems like the way they act and think DEFINES them?
+: but do you think your hating on them will ever change their actions and their thinking?
-: maybe... without a clear sense of what is right and wrong and why, i don't think i would ever get to a point where i disliked something about them in the first place. but you are right that if i never confront them directly in love, they have a much lower chance of changing the way they think.
THAT is probably why it is so tough to "hate the sin, not the sinner." because we can only define a person based upon their looks, their method of thinking, and the way they act. we keep saying love unconditionally, but in order to overlook all those things and simply love them(remember that unconditional love would mean we also don't necessarily love them just for the things that we see good in them), would be no different, then say, trying to love any living organism unconditionally.
although, i think in the end values and personality both help. values, will define how much you think what they're doing is not ok. personality, will determine angry or understanding you'll be. although, we do know what is impossible with men is possible with God.
if you're having trouble playing defense against somebody, try making them play defense a bit more.
it sounds stupid at first, and kinda obvious, and nba players do say it all the time in press conferences, but the more i thought about it, the more it's meaning has hit upon me.
you see, sometimes you're going up against a good scorer, and it seems that no matter what you do, you can't contain him.
well, assuming he's the one guarding you on the other end, one of the ways you can wear him out is to start trying to score more on him, make him chase you around screens more, etc. that may help wear him out, and make your defense a bit easier; it won't solve the entire puzzle, you still have to play good defense, but it may help you out some.
so even if you are unselfish and don't want to see yourself as the main scorer of your team, just learning some simple effective stuff to throw at your opponent when you're on the offensive end if you're coming up puzzled about how to stop your opponent's offense will help a lot.
it's kinda hit me this late, b/c i don't consider myself the main scorer on any team i play when i'm playing bball. part of that does have to do with my abilities. but if i'm playing against people i don't know, chances are that i might end up guarding someone who is very aggressive and demanding of the ball. in cases like those, it might be good to play a bit more offense on him, in the motive of trying to wear him down more.
---
fyi, i really thought(and hoped) chicago should've won game 5. no real excuses they shouldn't have. but dwyane wade's will to win should in all due respects be commended. fought through an incredibly painful injury knowing the offense on the heat depended upon him. and it seemed that when the heat saw him come back, their confidence and will to win came back. they went on a defensive rout(although, knowing chicago's not that great offensively, i want to say it's more that chicago struggled rather than heat locked them down.) it's just a shame that this will probably hurt them down the road; even if they beat the bulls and move on, you could say this puts the nail in the hopes that the heat will make it to the finals yet again. i don't think you even need detroit to knock the heat out of the eastern race. the nets can do it. i want to say indiana could do it as well, but that's stretching it. however, i do think indiana can take this weakened heat team to 7 games.
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you said it, ron, now make your promise. (just looking to see if "infinite intensity" 93 is going to step up and fulfill his promise of the kings getting into the 2nd round, or were those just empty threats to the league.)
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this world is so full of people making the most stupidest comments out of ignorance. they just say whatever they want without any thought to it. that's probably what boils me so much. i'm all for free speech and it's great to live in a country that supports it; you should never be afraid of saying something because you know someone's not going to like what you said. but i am also for saying SOUND SPEECH, because free speech is IMO not a ticket to saying ANYTHING, but more like a ticket to saying WHAT IS RIGHT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER PEOPLE AGREE WITH YOU OR NOT. in other countries, you can get arrested, tortured, even killed for saying stuff, even if it is right. here you cannot. i do not believe the founding fathers of this nation allowed free speech so idiots can say the stupidest things. they allowed it so that the balance of power in speech would never be tipped into the hands of the person with the most military and monetary resources. think about that for more than a few seconds before you start saying something really stupid on impulse the next time.
in like vein of the same subject, sometimes i argue with myself regarding christianity like this:
+: it's simply not right for me to hate upon another person just because they have the most ignorant thoughts. that does not make myself any better. that's wrong.
-: i conceed with that, and know it. but does that make what they thought ok? am i supposed to just tolerate what they said? it's still wrong regardless.
...
so then, how am i supposed to loathe their thoughts, but not them? especially when it seems like the way they act and think DEFINES them?
+: but do you think your hating on them will ever change their actions and their thinking?
-: maybe... without a clear sense of what is right and wrong and why, i don't think i would ever get to a point where i disliked something about them in the first place. but you are right that if i never confront them directly in love, they have a much lower chance of changing the way they think.
THAT is probably why it is so tough to "hate the sin, not the sinner." because we can only define a person based upon their looks, their method of thinking, and the way they act. we keep saying love unconditionally, but in order to overlook all those things and simply love them(remember that unconditional love would mean we also don't necessarily love them just for the things that we see good in them), would be no different, then say, trying to love any living organism unconditionally.
although, i think in the end values and personality both help. values, will define how much you think what they're doing is not ok. personality, will determine angry or understanding you'll be. although, we do know what is impossible with men is possible with God.
if the kings announcers weren't so stupid, i might actually like the kings a lot more...
bonzi and artest are players that contribute power to the kings on both ends... something the kings have never really been in the past.
i wonder how much of what bob said is true though; duncan really does not look like the low post monster of the past year. when he bangs, then spins and puts up a low floater, he's never right up on the basket as of late. without him light on his feet on both offense and defense, you turn spurs into a guard-oriented team(they always were, but in the past, when they got into trouble, they could always throw the ball inside to duncan and instantly solve the problem). and artest HAS been containing ginobili. so now from the spurs' perspective, the bulk of your shot-creation comes from parker, who is trying to become great in the postseason, something he hasn't really gotten down yet.
granted, he has an injury in his leg, but i think ppl forget the same year the pistons won the championship, rip played through a broken nose and rasheed played through an injured foot(game 4 brilliance vs lakers anybody?).
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other nba playoff thoughts...
i still love chicago... they have a great chance to upset miami. they're like a poor man's detroit; nothing fancy, just hard defense and efficient offense(and no, i don't consider that boring; you know that already). i really believe chicago is just 1 good post player away from becoming one of the top 3 teams in the east(so either get a good draft pick, or tyson gets JUST A FRIKKIN JUMPSHOT and continues to develop his good d). and they have the #1 draft pick thanks to ny. if they pick up tyrus thomas, and he turns into something, the rest of the eastern conference better seriously watch out.
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indiana... refuses... to... die...
kinda like chicago...
just incredible...
i continue to like indiana despite reggie miller gone, unlike most of the other non-native indiana fans i know. j.o. was sick in game 3. 80%?
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funny how la is on the verge of having both their teams face each other... but la's always been about flashiness... no doubt most of them will root for the lakers... i hope elton brand and chris kaman do david suh a nice favor and kick the lakers' asses.
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that's about all i can think of.
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ok, some other stuff coming to my mind...
i need another cd case to house my cds... i've been a dl-and-burn freak ever since i got 2 512 mb usb's and realized the cpu labs at uc davis have cd-rw hard drives. i'd say about 60 cds... but it's slowing down... i'm mainly trying to get rid of all the stuff on my desktop. and stuff i wanted to put on a cd, like emulators, roms, mods to games i have, videos of various fighting games... once i've put everything on a cd, i can defragment my laptop, and then it can run a lot faster.
i like having stuff on cd's for data as opposed to buying another hard drive(usb's aside), b/c then i still HAVE the stuff, but if i want to use it, i'll have to go through the trouble of looking through the cds until i pick out what i want. in that way, i can keep myself from being too much of a slacker, b/c i'll have to put some effort into finding what i want.
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still reading gipp's book concerning the bible. it's really great. i doubt i'll finish it by end of spring quarter, but i'm still going to buy a couple more books concerning the bible before i'm done; i'd like to have 6 b4 i graduate.
oh, and maybe sun tzu's "art of war." always wanted to own that book.
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i should brush up on my lead guitar skills sometime on wednesday... i'm planning on actually going over to zane and moises' apt on thursday, since i've always said i would, but never would.
bonzi and artest are players that contribute power to the kings on both ends... something the kings have never really been in the past.
i wonder how much of what bob said is true though; duncan really does not look like the low post monster of the past year. when he bangs, then spins and puts up a low floater, he's never right up on the basket as of late. without him light on his feet on both offense and defense, you turn spurs into a guard-oriented team(they always were, but in the past, when they got into trouble, they could always throw the ball inside to duncan and instantly solve the problem). and artest HAS been containing ginobili. so now from the spurs' perspective, the bulk of your shot-creation comes from parker, who is trying to become great in the postseason, something he hasn't really gotten down yet.
granted, he has an injury in his leg, but i think ppl forget the same year the pistons won the championship, rip played through a broken nose and rasheed played through an injured foot(game 4 brilliance vs lakers anybody?).
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other nba playoff thoughts...
i still love chicago... they have a great chance to upset miami. they're like a poor man's detroit; nothing fancy, just hard defense and efficient offense(and no, i don't consider that boring; you know that already). i really believe chicago is just 1 good post player away from becoming one of the top 3 teams in the east(so either get a good draft pick, or tyson gets JUST A FRIKKIN JUMPSHOT and continues to develop his good d). and they have the #1 draft pick thanks to ny. if they pick up tyrus thomas, and he turns into something, the rest of the eastern conference better seriously watch out.
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indiana... refuses... to... die...
kinda like chicago...
just incredible...
i continue to like indiana despite reggie miller gone, unlike most of the other non-native indiana fans i know. j.o. was sick in game 3. 80%?
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funny how la is on the verge of having both their teams face each other... but la's always been about flashiness... no doubt most of them will root for the lakers... i hope elton brand and chris kaman do david suh a nice favor and kick the lakers' asses.
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that's about all i can think of.
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ok, some other stuff coming to my mind...
i need another cd case to house my cds... i've been a dl-and-burn freak ever since i got 2 512 mb usb's and realized the cpu labs at uc davis have cd-rw hard drives. i'd say about 60 cds... but it's slowing down... i'm mainly trying to get rid of all the stuff on my desktop. and stuff i wanted to put on a cd, like emulators, roms, mods to games i have, videos of various fighting games... once i've put everything on a cd, i can defragment my laptop, and then it can run a lot faster.
i like having stuff on cd's for data as opposed to buying another hard drive(usb's aside), b/c then i still HAVE the stuff, but if i want to use it, i'll have to go through the trouble of looking through the cds until i pick out what i want. in that way, i can keep myself from being too much of a slacker, b/c i'll have to put some effort into finding what i want.
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still reading gipp's book concerning the bible. it's really great. i doubt i'll finish it by end of spring quarter, but i'm still going to buy a couple more books concerning the bible before i'm done; i'd like to have 6 b4 i graduate.
oh, and maybe sun tzu's "art of war." always wanted to own that book.
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i should brush up on my lead guitar skills sometime on wednesday... i'm planning on actually going over to zane and moises' apt on thursday, since i've always said i would, but never would.
Monday, May 01, 2006
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