found this on espn.com:

marsy1089 (9/19/2007 at 11:36 PM)
"Coaches like Sloan would always have good records but not win championships because of their unwillingness to adjust to their personnel. Their opinion would always be as long so you work hard then you can adjust to their system, the thing is that's not always true.

AK47, I see a lot of similarities with Manu. You need to let them do their stuff to fully utilize them and that is an adjustment Popovich made because he is a championship type of coach unlike Sloan. So instead of making Manu fit with Duncan and Parker, he made Manu his sixth man so that he can maximize the Duncan-Parker combo and then bamboozle enemies with Manu's wild offense off the bench.

This is actualy something Sloan can easily do. Utilize Boozer and Williams to their max and use AK47 as your spark off the bench. That would make them insanely tough. But nooooooo that can't be! Each and every Jazz must use Sloan's formula! If you can't adjust screw you. That's why the Jazz would never win the championship as long as Sloan is the coach. Consistent playoff, yes. But winning the NBA Finals, doubtful."

AAAAAARRRRRRRRR...

arr, me bay area matees! i hear tis about kirilenko walking the plank with da jazz! come on board, andre! perhaps baron, stephen and andre could journey further in search of nba booty! arrr!

hahahahahaha (read the description)

wonder what all the michael vick haters are going to say when they see this cnn article

a case of loli makes cnn(no, it's not anime-related)

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12 stones came out with a new album in august; i kinda like their song "lie to me". alter bridge is coming out with one in the next month(finally!). but i think i'll wait til i hear more of both albums before buying them. besides i'm thinking about that velvet revolver cd and the daughtry album before i even think of these two. speaking of which, i should really start repicking up the electric guitar soon. those speed drills aren't going to magically jump onto my left fingers.

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107.7 FM the bone recently had a couple of interviews with the 49ers Joe Nedney and Jeff Ulbrich in the morning. check em out here LOL at Joe Nedney's advice to rookie kickers.

fyi, 107.7 FM likes broadcasting short stand-up comedian snippets every 3:10 PM and 4:10 PM every weekday. some of them are pretty funny.

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the truth is not hidden, and yet you have to search for it. interesting.

thought this might be interesting to fobby south bay area people

i love the comments that people on espn.com are making regarding lebron just having lasik surgery... my favorite mustve been this one:

"this just in; carmelo anthony just took a dump"

hmmm, long time since i've done a youtube vids galore type post...

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clint eastwood on the simpsons

otaku fight

darko milicic packing some hot fire

why can't mcdonald's make commercials like this anymore!

you've never seen a vf tournament played like this before

sugar ray - answer the phone

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edit: well, if playing it makes you feel like yours is bigger...

i'll make this post quick because i've only got 5 more minutes on my cpu terminal, and you can't really do anything productive with 5 minutes left. nor can i really spam up this entry with video links either.

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i'm hoping down the road the sf49ers org will be shown to be validated in taking alex smith over waiting a year longer to get matt leinart. though he isn't a scrambling qb, alex can run a little better than matt(although, isn't matt leinart lefty? aren't lefty's more prone to scrambling?), and that ability i think helped sf eek out a win yesterday(plus, it's always fun watching white guys run amok on a football field). overall, good close competitive football game, it was fun for me watching that comeback win. it was not fun FOR MY MOM, but also, for that exact reason, fun for me jabbing her on why she doesn't like it. i must be more sadistic than sarcastic.

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i'm thinking bob may get a kick outta this video

speaking of sci-fi stuff, i think robot chicken also made fun of final fantasy a while back. if you liked that spoof they did with the emperor on the phone, you might like this one. basically, cloud's working at a mcdonald's and sephiroth is his boss. (comedy ensues) but i'm too lazy to link to it at the moment. i still think robot chicken's crowning jewel may be their "kill bunny" spoof on "kill bill," but i've watched it so many times it's not funny anymore. 1st time i watched it i was balling so hard though. "rick shaw" was pretty funny too though.

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checked out "davinci code" the book, just to get an idea of what others have been talking about. i'll comment later, something on why christians sometimes counter with "it's a work of fiction," but why we should take it as a serious affront. (if i remember and feel like it)

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i wanted to post up a video of darko going nuts after that international game; saw it, but didn't remember to copy and paste the link; will have to wait. where's that fire in the nba?

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robotech(macross in japan) is gonna be out in theaters really soon. phil was HUGE into robotech. i might just watch it. but i don't know a lot about robotech(at least i watched tranformers:rid when i was in high school). except that the recent dvd movie of it has mark hamill as the main voice actor(he seems to do a lotta roles in american cartoons), and that it garnered a lot of awards.

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checked out "christmas story" at the library. "you'll shoot your eye out!" never really finished it.

though the probability of it is slim, i'd wish the basketball team that usa sends to china next year would be this year's exact lineup, nobody changed. that's how much i liked this exact team.

problem is, they're most likely going to replace 3-5 people. if tayshaun shot better the few times he did, he might've been a lock, but because he didn't, shane battier's probably going to replace him(stupid coach k liking blue devil alumns). chris bosh and dwyane wade are also going to be back, so replace two more people(mike miller has the highest chance of going, and expect maybe one of the backup point guards in chauncey billups/deron williams to go; too bad; liked both). and tyson chandler MIGHT go too.

basically, there were about 5-7 people on this team that i really liked; in no particular order:

tayshaun prince
chauncey billups
dwight howard
tyson chandler
amare stoudamire
michael redd

there's a very good chance about half of those people will not be coming back.

anyways, i'm actually rocking this team's photo on my desktop as my current wallpaper(there were a couple other wallpapers i wanted to try, but this felt like the one i wanted to go with for the moment). you can find it here on fiba 2007 america's official website. notice how only tayshaun and carmelo are the ones not smiling. cause only they be gangsta.

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hmm, it's been a while since i've linked to some youtube videos huh.

not really feeling up to linking to too many. but... recently only the biggest fighting game championship series went down in the us. here's two videos of interest.

this was one of the biggest highlights for the marvel vs capcom 2 finals. (justin wong's a beast)

nki's combo video, showcased
(edit: fixed the broken link)

i'd link to majestro's awesome guile combo video, but it's not on youtube, because it's too large; i'll link to the video if i feel like it some other day.

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those of you who keep tabs on the tennis circuit: keep an eye out for donald young. he's 18, he's lefty, he's black(if you point out that james blake is only half-black, donald young might actually be the 1st black man to ever play tennis professionally recently), and he impressed me last weekend when i watched him play vs lopez in the us open; if he advanced, he would've faced off against roger federer.

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watched this week on dvd:

the gods must be crazy 2
paycheck
shaun of the dead
harold and kumar go to white castle

no, tayshaun got injured! no wonder i didn't see him play yesterday!

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bill walton as a basketball commentator is why you watch the games he's commentating with friends; so you talk more, and drone out his voice. you could also mute, run on a treadmill, or play some musical instrument during the games he's commentating. dude's so biased, and doesn't even hide it. and he talks about crap not even related to basketball.

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anybody else see the picture on the front page of espn.com of the black kid surrounded by the adults holding up "punish dog offenders" signs and stuff like that, and the kid's holding up a sign saying "everybody makes mistakes?" cute and sad all in the same sentence.

(i'm about to vent; half of my statements may have no sound argument; that's how i roll when i'm pissed)

i half-don't even care that much about the results of the michael vick case anymore just thinking of all the animal right activists who have nothing else to do but suddenly bash on michael vick because he's a celebrity, so now their voice can be heard; hey, let's give him the maximum penalty just to set an example, nevermind having the punishment fit the crime! and i think animal rights activists are really skewed in what they do. you know dog and cat killers only get noticed because those animals are kept as pets and considered cute. ever think about how chickens are killed for meat? or what about ants? the ants that kids light up by putting magnifying glasses over during the summers when they have no school? should we ignore these because they're not cute? or significant? they have "rights" too you know. spiders anybody? mouses? squirrels on our roofs? i could go on and on. or what about abortion? you sicken me society with your double standards.

this is why you can't always take wikipedia seriously

SKELETOR!

niners and bears today.

bishop(don't know his first name) had a really sick tackle, or should i say, shoulder ram when the panthers played the packers this week. do NOT run sideways into a zone d, or you will get it, lol. got a couple of OOoOoOooo's outta me. if you saw the replay, you'd probably agree.

i learned today that tayshaun prince was not cut from team usa; kevin durant was though(i imagine that might make the superstar-loving crowds a bit angry).

and need4sheed.com also linked to a youtube video of tayshaun prince being interviewed on team usa.

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stephen pastis is awesome for ripping into rex morgan m.d. and comics similar to that this sunday. i still get a wide grin thinking about that strip.

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i guess it might be a while before all the stuff needed to be done on the rental home is done.

lol...

i think bob should just that comic's main page link on his main blog page, well, just because.

so now, instead of "the lebrons," we should talk about "the bobs."

"...and stop looking at my squishee!"

lol...

kids can say some pretty cute things sometimes.

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i found jedi knight: mysteries of the sith at the cupertino library; always wanted to play/buy the game, but since it was included as a special add-on when jedi knight was officially sold in stores, you could only get it then, not seperately. now, they still sell jedi knight: dark forces 2, and jedi knight 2, but they no longer sell MotS; you need to get it via EBay. so that'll be taking up a bit of my time during late afternoons and early nights these days.

and although i am pretty sure it won't work, i just checked out ea nba live 06 just to see if it could run at all on my laptop; i'm guessing it won't.

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simpsonize me

upload a photo, get it "simpsonized." sounds kinda cool; prob going to try a photo or two of mine later.

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lightning rods wrapped with athletic tape don't slip out of my hands. tried it yesterday. the bad news? the adhesive starts slowly coming off on my hands, making it feel all sticky. i'd still take this over having my hands get so slippery that i don't get a good grip on the sticks at all though.

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that peruvian earthquake sucks...

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i don't feel like doing anything productive today; mom took me to "super buffet" while the car was getting an oil change, and so i don't feel like doing anything productive. i'm at the library as i'm writing this, but i know the minute i go home, if i touch the bed, the itis is prob going to kick in.

my goodness...

i wish i had a 500+ ft water/slip n' slide hybrid in my backyard...

buncha short thoughts:

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i forgot to mention two more musicians last night who are left-handed; both are bassists:

duff mckagan(velvet revolver, guns n roses), paul mccartney(the beatles)

-both are interesting; duff mckagan, though left-handed, plays a right-handed-style bass guitar. paul plays a variety of instruments left-handed.

i actually stumbled upon the fact that duff mckagan was left-handed, but played a right-handed bass guitar yesterday when i was browsing wikipedia on info on the various members of velvet revolver(3/5ths of the members are former guns and roses members; slash, duff, and the drummer, and the lead singer is scott weiland formerly of stp).

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joe satriani was on 107.7 fm last week. that's right; the one and only. dj'd a few sessions too, had people call in for q and a's. he's a great guy.

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don't get why my ring fingernails and sometimes the pinky fingernails as well seem to grow so much faster than my other nails. frustrating; it'll feel like i just cut them too.

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correction: meant "gripmaster," not "fingergrip."

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my lightning rod drumsticks are now wrapped in athletic tape(john tang wrapped all his drumsticks, lightning rods and 7A's in tennis grips). i figured it's a good move; maybe the reason why i got so nervous playing drums past 2 weeks, but not at retreat, was because the rubber grips aren't fun to play with when your palms get sweaty. and atheletic tape doesn't feel like the rubber tennis grips, feels like rough cotton, so i figured it might be a good move(plus, the packaging advises that you can use it to wrap hockey sticks, so why not); we'll see how it pans out this sunday. my only thing is that athletic tape sometimes gets that weird black streaks like with duct tape or masking tape, so it may make the drumsticks look bad if removed.

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started looking up pen spinning again. reason being i found out drumsticks are a lot easier to spin than pens. sounds like cheating, but most pen spinners modify their pens anyhow to be longer. right now i can only do a combination of 2 different moves. i can do maybe 3 different types of moves. i was only able to learn 1 basic move during freshman year in college.

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i half-realized during retreat that i CAN sing while i'm playing drums. but only when i was playing a set where i came in the middle, but was singing up to that point. then suddenly i was like "dude i'm still singing" and then stopped singing on fear of messing up, lol. should've just kept at it and seen if i could continue through the whole song.

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niners looked fairly good yesterday on tv.

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warriors FINALLY get rid of adonal foyle. guess i can't use "golden state of mind's" webpin where "adonal 08 is IN THE GAME" no more. the minute i learn what new team he's going to(hopefully it's either the magic or the celtics), i'm gonna be rocking that new wallpaper on my desktop for giggles(my haruhi suzumiya wallpaper was starting to get a bit old anyhow).

preseason nfl game today: niners against the broncos, 5 pm on cbs. get yo football fix on, yo!

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i suppose most of the people wouldn't really care, but today is international left hander's day. occurs every august 13th. yes, i found out this year. yes, i waited until today to post this. yes, i debated emailing everybody in the mountain view cg, given how there's maybe 5 left-handed people in that group(which is a lot of left-handed people showing up on one night), but declined, thinking it not really christianity-related.

official website

here's some famous people(off the top of my head) who are left-handed:

rock guitarists:
jimi hendrix(jimi hendrix), kurt kobain(nirvana)
-both played left-handed style, but jimi was really unique in that he actually played a right-handed electric guitar, but restrung the strings so that it was EBGDAE(in reverse), and then turned it upside down and picked it with his left hand. oh yeah; jimi hendrix played his guitar with his teeth as an exhibition. both were able to kickstart new life into the rock genre. both died tragic deaths. jimi hendrix's introductory riff to the song "voodoo child" is still amazing to me to this very day, and people almost call "smells like teen spirit" THE anthem to the 90s alternative rock scene.

drummers:
ringo starr(beatles)
-ringo had the unique attribute of being left-handed, but playing on a right-hand oriented drumset. he also started the whole matchstick grip type of holding drumsticks; before him, most people just played with the traditional grip.

bible:
ehud. only dude in the entire bible who was mentioned by name to be left-handed. managed to kill an overweight king by stabbing a small sword into his stomach. one in line of the judges in the book of Judges appointed by the Lord to save the Israelites in a time of turmoil.

nfl football players:
steve young, michael vick
-both are scrambling qb's(yes, white scrambling qbs do exist, although i still can only think of steve young fitting the bill), both phenomenal talent. interestingly enough, michael vick seems to be going the way of the dumps, and of course, we know how steve young went; toyota... i mean rings. look up "catch 2" and niners fans of the early 90s will understand.

nba:
phil jackson
(yes i could've named numerous other people, including two of the greatest centers to play the game, or my favorite player in the nba as of right now; i know that; i decided to settle upon the zenmeister because I didn't know he was left-handed until recently; i'm sure many don't either)
-2nd biggest winner on the grand stage aka nba finals(red is still 1st). people still say he's not as good as he's cracked up to be because he kinda got to choose the talent he wanted to coach(i say this to some degree as well), but hey, coaching isn't always just about x's and o's; sometimes your ability to decide the right play, or get your players to play the way you want to at the right time is key too. known for coaching two phemomenal duos in kobe-shaq, and jordan-pippen. also had some weird-ass rituals in his coaching due to his fondness of 60s counterculture and love of eastern religions.

former world leaders:
napoleon, joan of arc
-frenchies would be proud.

if you're still interested in more left-handed people

3 more of note:

matt groening is left-handed; according to the website, so is bart simpson.

it's kinda hard in cartoons and anime for you to tell if somebody's left-handed unless if they just say it. with that, here's one more:
if you watch japanese anime, tsukasa and kagami of "lucky star" are both left-handed. i know this, just cause, well, they actually say it.

oh great, got another letter implying that i've been selected for jury duty.

and this time, i'm not in college. i don't think having a job would've made a difference though. you have to go for jury duty regardless of having a job or not.

time restraints aside, i'm actually kinda looking forward to this. i'm just hoping the case doesn't take too long.

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i wanted to post this up, but never got around to; in the hoop magazine of july/august 2007, here's a hilarious quote from stephen jackson:

"it's probably full. here's who's in it: mcdonald's, dominos, burger king, it was subway-but he pushed them out for cinnabon-and krispy kreme. ... maybe if dwyane wade opens a restaurant, he may have a chance."
-stephen jackson, explaining why dwyane wade can't get into charles barkley's fave five

i feel like crap everytime i come home in the evening, despite the fact that i don't ever really do anything in the daytime. maybe that's why it's been a while since i've posted anything long. i guess i should really think about them biotech temp agencies real soon.

i just wanted to point out one trivial thing i noticed during retreat:

some car cracked me up, because it was a license plate that said "native texan." which was all good... except it was on a yellow SCION.

there was some other trivial thing i wanted to say, but it was kinda lost on me as i was writing. no worries.

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so retreat was good, i wanted to elaborate more, but the cold hard truth is this:

so hard to "take and apply" and do it every single moment, every single day. but if you don't, the message is lost, the salt, its flavor. the pearls? cast unto the swine.

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"fingergrip" is awesome. i just recently picked it up again and toyed with it last night as i was watching some cartoons(not a bad idea at all; should try doing this more often). i'm thinking about getting the light tension version(blue; phil gave me the red one). i'm not practicing on the lead guitar just yet, but this is still very good for exercising those fingers. and building those calluses.

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i'll post about them electric guitars(fender vg, etc) sometime up coming.

fyi, something else i thought about regarding kg being traded:

turns out paul pierce out of all the franchise players on crappy teams in the nba remained loyal to his team the longest(something that i always liked, since i've always wanted paul pierce to remain a celtic).

i guess you can argue kg endured the longest. but still, when you consider ai going to denver last season, and then kg moving in the offseason...

and i think at the moment, kobe doesn't really count. he's only endured 3 years of badness recently, and you already hear him wavering, according to rumors.

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so at the moment, i would LOVE to see all my favorite eastern conference teams in the semifinals next season: let's say, chicago against detroit(team play vs team play) and boston vs orlando(big ticket/allen vs MU-FA-SAH/lewis). and then the winner of each matches up to rep the east. (cavs and heat can go to hell)

oh big yay, kevin garnett's in boston now! (i bet tim ang's pretty happy himself) i'll most def be looking forward to that pierce-garnett combo. plus, you add the fact that both players have gone through much; expect them to make some noise next season, just because they know the clock's ticking. oh yea; forgot; it was an allen-pierce-garnett trio. this is going to be interesting.

(and i esp bet most boston natives are ridiculously happy that basketball is suddenly relevant again)

that now means i have one more eastern conference team that i used to like, but now will like a lot more.

edit:

i bet there's a lotta ppl in lakerland real disappointed by the news. not do they not get garnett, but he's going to their formal rivals. and that could mean that kobe might want to get out of la even more, IF he's thinking about it. bet you gonna see lakers go after j'o real hard now?

oh yea; guess that kills the point of this site.