Some library in Fairfield, NJ

So, I out of curiosity I looked up to see where the local library was in the area and I go to their website http://www.ffpl.org/html/contact.htm and, the first thing I notice in the left hand corner is “FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY”. Hm,  I wasn’t aware that some libraries charge you to borrow books, I thought it was always a free public resource. (Unless, they make you pay a 50 cents toll before letting you enter the library, which I wouldn’t be surprised knowing how things are runned around here…) . Or, maybe people here are just not interested in reading, a lot of times I pass by a Barnes & Noble here and there would be only a few cars in the lot, and I’m guessing most are the employees working there. So I’m thinking that by the library “advertising” itself as a free public library, they’re targeting the frugal sort that don’t even know books can be borrowed without hidden charges… and most likely because they’re illiterate to begin with.  Oh, and don’t get me started on the “Adult Crafts” (learn how to make home-made blow up dolls or erotic cakes…just kidding, actually I don’t know) and ”Turn off the TV” (WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO DO, BESIDES WATCH TV???) events. Man, they’re fishing BIG time.    

Spider-man 3, Rockets, Golden Boy, all suck…

1.) Saw Spider-man 3, the whole time I felt like I was watching the wrong movie…going in I knew it wasn’t going to be that good but I walked out feeling if I had stayed home and watched AVP and X-Men: The Last Stand back to back I would’ve felt the same but without having to drive to the movie theater or pay $1o. And whoever said there was ton of action, you must mean ”talking and crying” because that was basically 3/4 of the movie while the rest of the movie was Spider-man or a villain being thrown into brick or steel walls or getting hit with metal pipes. I honestly tried to shut my brain down but there must be something like “negative stupidity” because I felt like I lost a few IQ points after walking out of the theater. 

 2.) Rockets lose their 1st round series with the Jazz. The team with the deeper bench outlasted the team  with the more talented starting five. And this series just proves how T-Mac just isn’t a trancending type of player or a ”closer” type like Kobe or Dirk…oh wait…

 3.)Oscar De LaHoya lost to Mayweather. Nothing much to say but I was just rooting for Golden Boy because Mayweather came across as being an arrogant, cocky prick. I don’t root for pricks.

What the Heelys This?

 

Just recently looked up info on this shoe/roller-skate hybrid called the Heely out of curiosity (and I wanted to know what the kid that almost ran me over in Target was wearing) and I was surprised how long they’ve been actually around. Created in 2001 by Roger Adams (native of Tacoma, WA by the way) his first prototype was actually a pair of Nikes, and using a hot butter knife he cut the heels out of them, cranked a rod through ‘em and used skateboard bearings for rollers. Amazing! Sorry if I sound like I just walked out of a cave.

Then I thought about the positives and negatives about these things and how much of an impact they would have in our society:

Pros:
-Convenience. Don’t have to switch between shoes and skates/roller-blades. Now every household closet will have an extra space or two to put more useful things like more shoes.
-Instead of running away from somebody you can roll away as fast as you can… that is unless your pursuer has heelys too then you’re screwed.
-Motivates kids to do something outside instead of sitting around indoors doing useless things like playing video games and studying .
-Accessible to everyone, there are no weight restrictions (oddly) whatsoever.
-They look like ordinary street shoes…it’s not like moon-shoes where people can see how much of a total freak you are.
-It’s a fad. People like them.

Cons:
-It’s  a pair of Vans with wheels in them. The novelty probably wears thin after 10 minutes of gliding in circles after realizing every mall, store, school, and every other public place has banned the use of them.
-Heelys will cause a generation of  children to eventually lose their ability to use their legs.
-Walking to rolling involves just shifting your weight. I don’t know exactly how that works but what I picture is a kid accidentally rolling off an edge of a cliff while leaning or bending over. Can that happen?
-Yes! Actually no, but there’s a story of 12 year-old boy who got hit by a car while rolling in a pair of these in London. He now has permanent brain damage. Yikes.
-Heelys for Adults. I have never seen and I don’t think I ever will see a grown adult wear a pair. And when I say adult I mean over 16 years-old. 
-Roller skates, Roller Blades, and Skate Rinks will become obsolete. Oh wait, they already are.
 
Hm, to sum it up Heely is something that you’d think “Hey, I could’ve thought of something like that” but at the same time it’s so mundane almost to the “wth” point. Or perhaps I’m jealous of this multi-million dollar idea…

Dicephalus Baby

 I heard about the “Dicephalus Baby” that was born in Indonesia a little while ago and this story blew me out of the water! This baby is technically a siamese twin, however instead of developing seperate bodies and being attached, in this case only one body with one set of internal organs developed, but she does have two spines.

Indonesian doctors are still mulling on whether or not to perform surgery to remove the second head, a life threatening procedure. The thing that is totally crazy is whether or not the baby is like an actual siamese twin where the twins are different individuals or if somehow the baby’s two minds are actually one with one conscience.

I was talking about it to one of my co-workers and I was wondering if one head blinks or eats, if the other head does the same action. It seemed to me that they share the same internal functions so maybe the impulses that go through the baby reach both brains. There are cases about two headed snakes that share the same actions between the two heads but it’s probably different in humans. It’s really freaky…but interesting.

Live forever! Become gorgeous! See the future! Alex Chiu has all the answers!!!

I thought it wasn’t possible but while browsing through a Cantonese website I found out all the answers to all of the world’s problems in one single webpage created by probably the most influential mind in the history of the entire world Alex Chiu! Be amazed as he explains how magnetism and polar forces actually can help ward off aging and ALL illnesses by wearing his patented rings! Want to look better without surgery or make-up? Take his GORGEOUS PILL and sleep well knowing that the next morning you will look better than the day before….EVERYDAY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!!! He has even come up with a theory for a unified world government in order to put an end to all conflicts and wars around the globe!!! It’s too good to be true you say? Check out Alex’s page for a truly life altering experience!

Hottest wives of the NBA

Check out the page HERE

Found this site browsing for news about the new $14.98 “Starbury” shoe that he’s releasing in mid-August. Which, by the way, is an upstanding act by a guy I always thought was a bastard both on and off the court but I found out he’s actually a pretty generous guy and doing things for charity and the public. So, I guess I’ll give him kudos for that…but I still think his game is as cheap as his new kicks.

BTW- I’m not surprised that NBA stars have hot wives but geezus, Peja’s wife is smoking. Did he find her in some hidden corner of Yugoslavia? He must be a lucky man when he’s not raining 3s.

Google me!

Check this out! It seems like I am a man both hot and mysterious….who am i???

 

The American Way @ Work

Usually at around 6:30 in the morning there’s not much going around, most of the time it’s a few pounding away at their little keyboards but for the most part quiet like a ghost town. But this morning I was able to pick up on a convo that pretty much sums up a lot about how much we as Americans differ from everyone else in the world sometimes…

Guy:…I wasn’t really paying attention to the war in Lebanon but now I hear in the news that hundreds of rockets are being fired into Israel everyday, why is this happening? Israel GAVE their land to Lebanon (He must be referring to 1982, when they withdrew from Southern Lebanon in according to the U.N. resolution presented at the time….I think) and I think Israel has the right to defend themselves. Hizbolla is a danger to their country and if it mean’s innocent civilians must die I’m sorry, but at least it is for the right cause. They’re not dying for nothing…

Girl: Hey, did you know Carlos Guillian hit for the cycle last night?!?

Guy: Oh really! Wow!!! If only he was still with the M’s….

The Evolution of Video Games

As a kid, I owned NES, Genesis, and SNES during the “Golden Age” of video games, and classics like Contra, Battle Toads, and NBA Live 96′ will be etched in my memory forever, Then, I remember the first time I played Tekken 1 on the original Playstation and was like “Wow, the graphics are 3D… THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!” Now kids today, if they saw Tekken 1 in action they’d be like “When did LEGO come out with a Tekken game…DID NAMCO AND LEGO MERGE…OMG WHY DOES JULIE’S CHEST HAVE ONLY FOUR POLYGONS!?!?!” If you think about how video games have evolved, it’s pretty mind boggling considering just 4-7 years ago I was playing the original PS and I thought that was state of the art. And now the XBOX 360 and the PS3 is about to blow away the PS2! How life-like can video games get before there’s a ceiling? Nintendo’s next generation system probably holds the truth more so than its competitors….the ability to interact with the real environment but still be playing a video game (No, I don’t think that glove nintendo came out for the NES counts or the Virtual Boy horror). But seriously, pretty soon maybe companies will come out with compact, small virtual reality projectors or something, because there’s only so much you can fit on a console and display on a TV screen. Imagine…a day when the XBOX 360 is considered as prehistoric as Atari, it’s something you can only imagine.        

“File Lodge: Return of the Uploads”

Someone please tell me if this message makes any iota of sense because the first time I read this my eyeballs literally popped out of my eye sockets and my brain went into extreme backburner mode…I just opened a File Lodge account (where i can store some files and images), so I’m not too sure how much faith I have in them “maintaining” my completely empty and useless upload folder if they can’t come up with a half decent error message or at least one a normal person can understand without getting a coronary:

User folder for htan21 is currently offline. July 26th 06:30 EST – Essential maintenance is currently being carried out on the storage device looking after your files. This work is likely going to take all day until the evening of 6th July. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Honestly, I really tried to understand this message, really I did, but the more I tried to grasp around the concept of having my account back up and fixed before the problem actually occurring and then trying to comprehend how the technicians could be working on it now except in the future that is July 26th, completely blew me mind away. So, yea, as of right now I still don’t know when I can get my stuff uploaded and I’m too lazy to find another place to store my files…