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What's Your Edge
I had a very good workout today. I've put on 10 pounds in the last month and I'm definitely seeing progress. I've never seriously worked out before. I'm really liking it so far. It's nice to finally start getting bigger, because I've been so skinny all my life.
It looks like I might not be able to go to vegas anymore. I canceled my tickets today until I know more about my situation. I don't thinK I can get off work early on Friday and I have to be in Atlanta for work on Monday. Also, the tickets are like $500 right now. My mom also just told me today that we have tickets for wicked that weekend. I've been telling her for a month or two that I was going to vegas then, so I don' tknow why she is just telling me that now. I really want to go and meet everyone, so I am gonna do what I can to make it work.
I think I'm just gonna spark one up and watch entourage before hitting the sack.
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Besides that, I really have mixed feelings on this years Contender. All the boxers seem older (more experienced you'd think). I wasn't thrilled how they eliminated 2 boxers right way just through SPARX fitness testing. This was obviously all about the money to get SPARX some air time and Sugar Ray def would not use that shit or approve of it. I'm also surprised to see Sam Solomon on the show. He's been around awhile and fought Winky Wright once as well. With only 10 fighters, 5 per team, I'm not sure how long they can draw out this season. I really have mixed feelings on this season, although I'm sure the action will be great.
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The holidays are fast arriving and my family, who all live out East, have been on us to arrange our tickets to fly out to visit. In previous years, we could never fly out during the holidays because that was my busiest time at the gallery. Now that the gallery is closed, there isn't any excuse. We enjoy seeing everyone, but it's a long journey and wintertime flights always seem to have problems.
Back in April, on a return from a family get together near Phoenix, we got waylaid for 14 hours at the Phoenix airport because of plane and scheduling problems. We thought at the time, no biggie, we'll get free tickets at least. Tonight, I naively tried to use the tickets to fly out east for the holidays. Several months ago, I had made sure to check whick east coast cities they flew to and it included Newark. Fast forward several months and they no longer fly direct there, but code share. Yes, you guessed it, the free tickets are no good on code share airlines. I then asked for other destinations or routes. Surprisingly enough all of December was 'booked'. The phone agent was less than accomodating and I hung up eventually exasperated. I had enough by then and found the one airline that flies direct from Portland to Newark and booked our 4 tickets without hesitation. There goes the Christmas bonus...LOL In addition, we will need to plan another trip to use the tickets within the 12 months. I'll have to pick a destination that has a warm pool and reliable internet, both items that our last family trip didn't include.
On top of the ticketing obstacles, my main computer has been running very slowly which is a major drag when all I do all day is work on the site, dealing with various issues and communications. Apparently it doesn't have viruses, or need to be defragmented, and I've cleared memory and various other steps. I had to switch to my laptop to book the air tickets. My world depends on being active and productive at my two monitors, averaging 8-10 windows opens working on various projects, so it better speed up soon.
I switched on the new Radiohead In Rainbows album to calm my nerves while I write my blog. I've been playing it a lot the last couple days. I really enjoy it as background music to my work activity. I have to agree with Andrew's assessment that its on the short side. I think many of their songs would make for great longer jams and musical explorations, but that doesn't fit the modern music album these days.
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My buddy is buying a bunch of sox tickets for some games this year, but I'm also interested in getting cubs tickets. I'm a sox fan, but I'm moving about a block away from Wrigley Field so I'm looking to go to some games. If anyone has some tickets to sell or just has extras to bring people along, let me know. Thanks.
Especially any tickets to the cubs/sox series. Probably hard to come by, but I figured I'd ask.
Andy
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So yea, my brother Reggie got 4 free tickets plus complementary parking for the Angels vs. A's game from his work. Ship it!! I've been to three angels games before this one but the last one's have been in the boonies.. these tickets were like having courtside seats to a Laker game! Sucks that i'm not much of a baseball fan but whatevs. Here are the ghetto pics from my chocolate phone..
Me and my bro Rex
Vladi warming up
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I'm sitting hear waiting for my tickets. I must be getting more than one ticket. Been sitting here for 20 mins. ouch. I'm writing this from my iphone. Will update Sunday
Edit: Wow 4 tickets thats just so sick. I going to have to fit these tickets. I think the officer was having a bad day and took it out on me. Going threw the red light yes thats on me but the other three. In proper lane change, going to fast and tailgating. Those three I have to fight. He did not even put the speed i was going.
Now I mad and I going to go play poker like a donk.
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I got a call from my girlfriend yesterday and she had found out that Richard Dawkins was coming in town to give a lecture to UW students and the community. We found out about it on the day of the lecture and tickets were already out (tickets are free though). Some guy was selling his tickets and I offered $25 for the two, but he wanted $30 and I said no. We got a pretty good spot in the cancellation line so I decided to chance it that 20 people wouldn't show up and use their tickets. We eventually got in and the guy never sold his tickets lol. Richard Dawkins gave a pretty cool lecture on atheism while promoting his The God Delusion book (which is great, btw). It was really cool to see him speak in person. Overall, I was very pleased with the lecture "Religions run in families, Dawkins said. If we had been brought up in ancient Greece, we would all be worshiping Zeus and Apollo. If we had been born Viking, we would be worshipping Thor", he said. Then he showed a map of religions in the world and they were all fairly segragated by georaphic location. He played this video which bashes religious extremists and is pretty funny. Then my girlfriend asked him a question about how to find purpose without God and he gave a pretty solid response. He said humans tend to assign purpose to things that aren't there because purpose is so embedded in people's mind that they just assign it to everything. He also talked a little bit how purpose is evolutionary and good for survival because it really gets things done through motivation. He also somewhat implied or let the doors open for purpose being up to the individual to assign purpose and find meaning in their own lives and (obviously) just rejects that you need to believe. I wish I hadn't read the God Delusion and watched youtube stuff because I had heard about 75% of the lectgre already. If this was the first time I heard any of this, it would have been pretty mind blowing. I recommend trying to hear a lecture of his though.
Mar 14, 08 09:22:32
seriously, the world wouldnt be a worse place if people who think like your kind vanished.
Mar 14, 08 09:31:01
You might try Francis Collins' [I]The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief[/I] for an alternative point of view. Collins ran the human genome project. It gives an evidence based case for the existence of god and also shows that not everyone on the other side of this argument is an extremist.
Mar 14, 08 09:47:41
zeebo, overall I think even you should agree that organized religion is a good thing. Not nessecarily because you believe in it; rather, that many people stay sane and do good deeds because they feel they are being watched by God and don't wanna go to hell. the world might turn into a zoo if nobody believed in spiritual figures.
Mar 14, 08 15:42:28
So help me understand this...
Many of these non-christian religions worship actual people. Take Buddhism for example. Buddhist just worship some fat due.
With Christianity, I think it is different. The miracles that Jesus performed were documented facts. After he died on the cross, it is a documented fact that he was walking around on earth again.
In my mind, that gives me enough proof that Jesus is the real deal. Try nailing Buddha to a piece of wood and let me know if you see him tooling around earth a few days after he was buried.
Mar 14, 08 15:53:29
coopdaddy, but the thing is.... you are judging this by simply trusting 'heresay' and documents that have been translated thousands of times.
Mar 14, 08 16:53:16
Buddhism is not about worshiping some fat dude. Its about becoming enlightened. Its about yourself and not making some god happy.
Christ was not crucified. he was a great teacher but he did not die for your sins.
Mar 14, 08 17:29:26
So, politics and religion in blog entries. . . well, I guess you didn't get the memo, captZEEbo. I'm totally on the Dawkins' side in terms of belief, though despite this, I see the need to find a way to make "everyone get along", in the pluralistic sense. Religion isn't going anywhere, and there's always someone somewhere that wants to convince someone else that their perspective is the right one.
As jtphila suggested, there are other points of view, and not all extreme (though the extremists get the most press, unfortunately). By the faithful, naturally Dawkins represents the anti-thesis of their cause.
As for Buddhism (which I've studied somewhat heavily), it's not really about worship in the same sense that Western (read: Judeo-Christian) religions worship God or people.
Finally, CoopDaddy1, "documented fact" is an illogical phrase in the context of history. It is a fact that an event was documented. Its accuracy [and thus, "factitude" ;) ] is not provable. There are doubtless MANY MANY things that are historically inaccurate about all sorts of events in the past thousands of years. After all, history is has been recorded by humans, who not infallible by any means.
Mar 14, 08 17:30:43
captZEEbo, I meant to say "j/k" on the "memo" part at the top of that post. I'm just teasing since these topics create flame-wars, esp. on the internet, like no other :)
Mar 16, 08 00:28:42
Regarding documented history...
How else do you think historical events get documented? By humans!
How do we know George Washington crossed the Delaware River? How can you PROVE it's a fact? Because people documented it.
It's much the same w/ Jesus' miracles. There are dozens and dozens of documented miracles. Sure - you could say some wackos "documented" them, but there is just too much that was documented over 30+ years to make me think otherwise.
I'm not qualified to "preach" on this subject, but at least wanted to give my thoughts in a respectful manner.
This is a good discussion...
Mar 17, 08 18:18:47
CaptZeebos post becomes a forum :)
One unfortunate thing about documenting events of even only a few hundred years ago is that documentation methods (read: technology) are nothing like what we have today, or even 100 years ago. Bibles were written by hand until Gutenburg invented the printing press, and many versions/translations of the bible exist. If you want to talk about history, there's more to be said about the Bible than what's in the mainstream (i.e. commonly accepted versions of the bible). There are lots of texts discussing discrepancies, as well as TV documentaries (see "Banned From the Bible" on The History Channel and such).
Outside of that, just because something is documented, it offers nothing to offer proof - because one event can be documented in different ways by different people. People also had a very different understanding of the world many years ago (i.e. didn't believe that the Earth went around the sun, i.e. Heliocentrism, until after the 16th century - there was much debate), and something perceived to be a miracle at the time could be more rationally explained in modern terms.
Now, I am not asking anyone to question their faith in God and Jesus' miracles - if one truly believes, this documentation is irrelevant, because faith need not come from these specifics (according to what I was always taught in Catholic school as a child). However, to those who do not have this faith (and those who grow up in other cultures, with other religions, obviously wouldn't have a connection to Christian doctrine) should not be expected to take the documented accounts at face value.
Other religions have their own scriptures. Are they just as valid as Christian scriptures, especially if they describe contradictory statements (most specifically: non-mono-theism)?
Obviously they cannot all be correct, which seems to be part of Dawkins' rationalist argument against organized religion.
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Thanks to everyone who has donated so far...I really appreciate it!!!
So...last night I was pretty bored. Just hanging out in my apartment watching the NCAA tourney. I decided to hop on AIM, which I usually don't get on unless I'm working and need to talk to Trevor about a CR issue I don't know how to respond to. But I'm glad I got online last night because a friend of mine from college started talking to me and somehow we got on the topic of us sharing an affinity for the New York Yankees. Yes I like A-Rod, Jeter, Mussina, the pinstripes, the empire...I like the Yankees.
He went on to tell me that he would get me tickets to the Red Sox/Yankees games this summer if I wanted them. Of course I want tickets to see Red Sox vs.Yankees. He told me he could get me tickets in the Green Monster in late July or 4th row tickets in Yankee Stadium right behind the Yankees dugout for July 4-6.
Thats a tough choice for a few reasons....This is the last year for Yankee Stadium baseball. 4th row leaves high probability of being feet away from some of the best baseball players alive right now. July 4th weekend could be crazy in New York.
Buuut...how sweet would it be to sit in the Green Monster in my Yankees jersey? I mean...aside from perhaps some mean fans that may pour beer on my jersey or throw garbage at my head...AND they sing Sweet Caroline late game.
So if you had 4 free tickets to watch one of the best games in baseball...which would you pick?
Mar 28, 08 15:14:30
NYC, because correct me if im wrong this is the last year the yankees are playing in Yankee stadium before the new one is open??
by the way, TORONTO BLUE JAYS FTW
Mar 28, 08 20:50:40
Yankees use steriods...but I would still get tickets at Yankee Stadium since it is the last year
Mar 28, 08 20:53:11
Yankee Stadium, you can always do Fenway another year. I'm goin to a Yanks/Sox game April 16 in NY can't wait! 4th row is so sick tho I got good seats but not that good, and they weren't cheap...
Mar 31, 08 17:15:56
Yankee Stadium because people will really really hate you for sitting on the green monster with a Yankee jersey
Apr 2, 08 02:46:02
for even considering going to the Sawx game in a yankees jersey u r definately underestimating how die hard this series is and what they would do to u for showing up in the darthvader/yankee uni... yankee stadium is a dump but 4th row is always good no matter what dump ur sitting in... love the mattk20 "free" comment
Apr 4, 08 03:42:30
Don't bother with Boston....avoid it at all costs. They haven't redone the roads since the days of Paul Revere. The land of one way dead end streets. Seriously, I got into a cab and he didn't know where he was going. How often do you have to pull over in a cab and ask for directions to a hotel downtown?!? New York, while congested as all hell still has more to do and the baseball fans there don't have this "I'm a Red Sox fan, therefore I am a huge badass and will talk shit to any non-Red Sox fan I see." Give it up fellas, and act like adults. BTW, go Brewers.
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