Telepathy Check

My blogging activity follows a graph that depicts the law of diminishing returns. I'm a highly visual person so I like to look at things in terms of graphs, charts, and boobs. Even things that are probably better explained in plain text such as what I did yesterday or what I thought of the last 3 movies I watched are visualized in my head as a series of line graphs, bar charts, and nipples. I was never really a big fan of math back in school and it wasn't until well after I graduated did I realize just how powerful math is. In Final Fantasy speak, math has as much HP as Ruby and Emerald Weapon combined. But there's a big learning curve in understanding all that power. What does this curve look like, graphically? I have no idea.

What did you guys think of the new American Gladiators? I know, I won't hear you answer that question unless one of us has telepathy, but I'm just throwing it out there in case any of you do. Well I thought the new version failed big time. In fact, I thought it was done so poorly that I started to enjoy it. Like Koya's epic collapse on the travelator. The camera work and editing sucks, there's too much talking going on, not enough action, and the play-by-play guy is probably the boom goes the dynamite guy. Hopefully they fixed things up in the second season. They need to treat this like a sporting event, not a reality show.

Yeah, I haven't really kept my motto of blog or die. You know, every time I hear the word "motto" it reminds me of AZ's verse on Life's a Bitch:

"I switched my motto -- instead of sayin fuck tommorrow
That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto"

Something I always mention to Belle is how the music we listen to has no correlation whatsoever to our own lives. Back in high school, "Juicy" by Biggy was one of my favorite songs. WTF? I wasn't black. I had no idea what it was like growing up in Bed Stuy. Same thing with the Chronic album, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang, Tribe Called Quest, etc. It had no relation to my suburban life whatsoever, even if I try to force the issue by saying that the message in Bring the Noise hits me personally cuz it's like when teachers (the white man) make do all that homework when all I want to do is let myself be heard and bang on my Casio keyboard (hip-hop).

But then what else were we going to listen to? That's why I can't make fun of the kids today who listen to all that junk on the radio. That was me! Even today I'll be bumping Mobb Deep on my way to the grocery store. Living your life ashamed of your pleasures is not living life at all. Do what makes you feel awesome. Yeah I'm listening to NWA. Until a group of black guys pull up next to me. Then it's time to lower the volume a bit.

Speaking of music, there's this new group I like called Black Kids. No joke. Listen to their EP.

You ever realize how much your career affects your personality? As a programmer analyst, we make a living taking something that does not have a well-defined set of rules (like engineering does) and try to make it into a product with a well-defined set of rules. That means when communicating with someone you have to try and be as mathematical as possible or your project will fail. When Belle says something like "that dude over there," my analyst side will kick in and ask her to be more descriptive, even though I already know exactly who she's talking about. So I tend to ask a lot of questions that are unnecessary in real life but is required behavior in order to succeed at my career. Stupid work.

I wrote about this before but hey, don't I do that with every post? I do the same thing to Belle in real life too - I'll tell her about some observation I just made then a few days later state the same observation as if I just observed it right now. I guess you can say that consistency is one of my finer traits. If I was a running back and you needed 1 yard, I'll get you 3. If you need 5 yards, I'll get you 3. Well, the thing I wrote before is how pointless I think censoring one letter of a bad word is. For example, F_ck. Oh no, what vowel could possibly fit there? Unless you suck at Wheel of Fortune, you're not censoring anything. A 2 year old knows what word you're implying, so if you want to be polite just use something like "doggone it." Then again, the word "Fock" makes me laugh. Hahaha...what a funny word. Also the word "wat." Oh language, you slay me.

Okay, let's try something different this time. This time, I'm gonna try NOT to blog. See you next week.

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