Drunken Rant: 12/16/10

  Written between the hours of 2:45am & 3:10am in a hotel room.

                                                "Relax & take notes!"
  That line has nothing to do with what I want to say...FYI.  I thought to myself, I haven't posted in a minute....I haven't ranted drunkenly in a minute...I haven't been in a fight in a minute...Figured I'd knock 2 of those 3 out.  By the way, I will be cursing...Enjoy

**Love is your parents fucking.  So it's only natural to feel uncomfortable when you think about it**
  That line has little to do with what I want to say...but I like how it sounds.  Love is something that everybody wants, looks for, lies about having, and then goes crazy because of. Maybe we shouldn't worry so much about claiming/identifying/forcing it, and just let that messy mother fucker come on it's own.  Speaking of cumming...love is a lot like it...Sometimes you want to make it happen so badly, that you end up ruining a decent scenario. If you just relax, go with the flow, and pay attention to the situation...it will come naturally (Words of a single person...take with salt, tequila, & lime).

The Social Media Filter pt. 2: My Stance

**House Keeping**
  My goal for creating the debate topic posts has been to present you all with a situation or observation and (hopefully) spark some conversation about it.  I try to state my opinion of it simply, and leave it up to the readers to discuss without me directing it too much.  In this case, I've been asked to elaborate on my opinion (*Waves to Hazel & Domo*), so this is that.

  I feel like we are losing sight of the power of social media.  I create a profile, upload a profile pic, enter some basic info, Google indexes it, then anybody that searches something similar can get access to that information.  That visibility is too often over-looked by this generation.  I know a lot of things that I shouldn't about people I don't know, barely know, or have never met.  People get tunnel vision when using social media, thinking that it's just them & their online friends in the circle of trust...when really, some 60 year old guy in his tighty-whities is reading your tweets about how you are about to finger-bang your night away (FTR, I wear boxers).

The Social Media Filter

  Social media connects people in ways that previously weren't possible or weren't preferred.  My friend in Canada can go to my Facebook page and see my latest activity, but so can that creepy chick that I just accepted as a friend out of sympathy.  Also, a company that I'm applying for can search my profile to see what I do in my personal life before they hire me (That's the reason I take down the pics of me smiling at the camera while drunkenly mounting a chick bent over my coffee table before I interview). Now, with some properly applied privacy settings, the people that you aren't close to can only get a limited portion of your online shenanigans.  However, what about those you are close with?

Extra Thought: Mood Muzik 4 Edition

  Joe Budden & Gnarls Barkley (Cee-Lo) are the best at putting out cleverly put, introspective, honest songs (my opinion...but it's a fact. Look it up on Yahoo Answers, I'll wait).  Mood Muzik 4 is more of the same from Joey, and if you listen to lyrics you will catch some jewels.

  One of which is this line from 1000 faces:

"...what hurts more: the act of being cut off or realizing that your two cents wasn't worth more?"

  I've been through this many times.  Whether it be a significant other, a close friend or family member, you become accustomed to being involved in that person's life.  You might just be a shoulder to cry on, a person to vent to, or looked to for advice but the bond that you form with that person in the process is deeper and more profound.  The fact that somebody trusts you enough to share the not so pleasant parts of their life with you and (at times) values your assessment of it is a...validating experience.  Not so much as an ego boost, but more so as a confirmation that you can be allowed into someone's life & provide support for them.

Smoking isn't cool, but check out the album here

Drunken Rant: 10/16/2010

***The following rant was composed roughly between the hours of 3am & 4am.  Not sure what sparked this, but I made some points worth salvaging from the bowels of Twitter.  If it seems fragmented, it's because they were in tweet form.  As always, take what I saw with a grain of salt, followed by a shot of tequila...a lime chaser is suggested, but not required.***

I ate this McGangBang before I started drinking...Obviously, I was re-evaluating my life afterward

   "Listen...Life is full of double standards, oxymorons, and ingenious idiots...u just have to find your grove and stop worrying about the rest.  Actions speak louder than words. But when you're my close friend & I don't hit you up...it just be's like that. I'm still down for you.   Sometimes you can get by off of a feeling or an intent. But meaning to do something & doing something are 2 completely different things.  
 

Debate: I Don't Have To Like You...Right?

  We all have friends (or think we do), and a part of life is meeting your friend's significant other.  However, like with other people we meet, it's up in the air whether or not we will like them...and I don't see a problem with that.  This could be a big problem or a small side note depending on how often you are forced to be in the same place, but it will come up at some point.

"Stupid Bitch" (Pic from Big Bang Theory courtesy of ausiellofiles.ew.com)

Anti-Social Networking

  Social networking has been around forever...literally.  The locations & list of approved electronic devices has grown, but it's nothing new.  I remember some of the other sites I would frequent to see what was new with my friends & flirt with girls:

Hold up, let me update my status real quick

  -The Playground
 This was the first sight I can remember craving.  All the users were my demographic, so it was easy to connect with them.  It had the best built in games that weren't obnoxious.  If I wanted to know how well Rico was doing on the monkey bars, I just had to walk over and find out.  If I wanted some multi-player games, I could play tag or get on the merry-go-round.  Site security was an issue sometimes though, as I had to get parental permission to access it, I had to watch out for pedo's offering candy, & I could easily pick up a virus from the hardware.  Not sure when...but I just outgrew it.

Extra Thought: Substantial

  I often think about life and how I want to move forward in it.  Every now and then, a certain word will stand out to me as a motivator/battle cry/attitude.  It humors me that a normal, every day word can randomly stand out and have a more profound meaning when you think about its definition. 

  The word that has stood out to me as of late is 'Substantial'.  There are a lot of things in life that we give our attention to, some more important than others.  My focus needs to be on those substantial things that will affect me the greatest.  I want everything that I'm associated with to be substantial. 

It Never Rains in Southern California...*Confirmed*

  I spent the last 7 days in California: 4 in the High Desert & 3 in So Cal.  I'm not going to lie, I had a good time.  I prepared for this trip by warning the handful of people I know in the area that I would be there, and asking my boy Andrew what places I should check out via text message...That's it.  No itinerary, no scheduled events...shoot, I didn't even book my hotel room until the day before.  I just went out there to be out there and see what it was about.

Godzilla could really catch them slipping right now

3 Factors Why People Oppose The "Ground Zero Mosque"

**Please note, I want to hear your opinions on this topic. Whether it be in agreement or objection to my comments, or just your thoughts on this matter in general, please post your comments.  You don't have to be a member of this site to comment, you can either sign in using your Google account, or you can just leave your name with your comment.**

  There is a lot of debate right now about whether or not a mosque (also reported as a Muslim community center, but in the grand scheme of things, it matters not) should be allowed to be built at ground zero of the September 11th terror attacks.  The pro side is trying to hold true to the 1st amendment to the constitution that promotes religious freedom in this country. The opposing side views this as a slap in the face of the 9/11 victims' families & survivors as the idea of an Islamic center on the site of a terror attack carried out by people of the Islamic faith is like saying the terrorists won (Background articles: Fox News & CNN).  Each side has been very passionate about their stance. Passion, however can also be used to cover ignorance.

  I feel like the opposing side's argument (in some cases, not every) can be boiled down into 3 factors which are as follows:

The LeBron of Softball

  Today I filled in on a coed softball team with a few co-workers.  I was a little reluctant to do it at first, because it was about a 30 minute drive from my place.  So as I was walking to the field, I see my friend Jamal walking to his car.  Turns out, the team I was filling in on was playing against a team of my friends that I decided not to play with (because of the distance, not because I don't like them...really...I'm serious...why would you even consider that?).  So needless to say, they felt a little betrayed by my appearance...I got shouted at by a chick I didn't even know.  Well, that wasn't going to stop me form fulfilling my agreement & helping the other team achieve victory.

  Side Note: I wonder if it will be this awkward when LeBron rolls into NY and stomps the Knicks.  They did so much to lure him there and they will still remember the heartbreak when they play the Heat. Probably not, LeBron doesn't have any friends on the Knicks...that I know of anyway...he may have some new ones, but as of last month when he was dog-sitting for me, he said he didn't (Yeah, that's right, I pay LeBron James $20/day to dog-sit...He doesn't need the money, he just uses it as an excuse to name drop me in conversation.)

  Afterward, I went out for some food with the friends I just helped hand an L to.  Turns out the team is pretty cool.  We ended up joking around and taking pictures (too many) in this little pizza spot for the rest of the night.
     
  Side Note: The service was stupid. Chick that waited on us looked like Kima from The Wire, so she had that going for her...but she didn't do anything for us.  We had to rearrange tables to fit, we had to clean them, we got 1 round of water refills, and we had to wait forever to get the bill with the gratuity included...But I digress.

The chick that shouted at me...shouting

  More pictures below & no, I don't know how to make the pics go in a straight line:

3 Reasons Why I Dislike Twitter

  I Hate dislike Twitter. I use it, but I feel like I'm forced to because a lot of my friends use it.  Whenever I check my time line, I'm always assaulted with the same issues that reinforce my distaste for the social networking soup de jour.  Here are some of my main annoyances:

1. Good Concept, Poor Execution
  The idea of Twitter makes sense, a free flowing sea of information generated by the users for the users.  But in action, this simplistic goal is bogged down and diluted by it's own technical shortcomings.  Any website that can only be tolerated by using a third party application has a major design flaw.  Nobody...well, nobody that knows how to set the timer on their microwave tweets via Twitter.  Whether it be Peep, Echofon, Tweetdeck, Twitdroid, Spaz, or whatever the hell you use...A home-grown solution is needed to make the site more bearable. Using one of these is like knowing how to swim before you jump in the ocean...if not, you bound to drizzown.

  My biggest problem is the fact that debates & conversations are very difficult to follow (no pun intended).  If you aren't following everybody that's involved in the discussion, you instantly missed everything they've added unless you go "Dog the bounty hunter" style and start checking the replies. If that person has protected tweets, then it's just a lost cause.  The other way around this is by re-tweeting what you are responding to. This method leaves you in a maze of @So&So, #'s, & RTs that will make it unclear who said what...all while trying to get a full thought across withing the 140 character cap.

  Speaking of the 140 character cap: it seems like the creators and the users have two different opinions of what should be tweeted.  The creators seemed to have intended for a quick, succinct statement of what you are doing or what you are thinking.  The users, however, use it differently. This often happens, where the designer will give people a tool and expect it to be used one way, but then the users take that tool to a new, higher level by making it more functional than planned.  This, however, is a gift and a curse.

I'm on a boat!!! I must tweet this!  (http://www.innyvinny.com/2010/08/10/oh-slate/)

I'm Taking My Talents to Blogger!!!

   If you haven't been fully introduced to me yet, you don't know that I'm a very multifaceted person...translation for the simple folks: I do a lot of different things and use big words. One of which is write poetry.

Bonus points to anybody that gets this (Pic courtesy of www.durfree.net)

  Like most men, my topics are usually centered around females.  From the highs of passion, the lows of heart broken devastation, and the mids of reluctant acceptance.  Some of which is taken from an exact situation, to the point where I can give you a real life example to match every metaphor. Others are complete conjecture made to be identifiable to someone other than myself.

  Sometimes I like to revisit things I've written in the past to reflect on where I was...sometimes I get surprised when I realize I feel the same way about a new situation as I did the years earlier when I wrote that piece.  If the piece was positive, I feel satisfied that I'm back in that hot tub of romance with a new young lady.  If the piece was not so positive, I try to figure out why females drive me to insanity...but more often than not, I relate to the past heartbreak and realize that I've already jumped this hurdle before and that I can do it again...and land in another hot tub.

So you blog now???

As of this post, yes.

 Over the past decade social media & instant communication has exploded. From chat rooms, to MySpace, to texting, to Facebook, to Blogging, to Tweeting...each medium opened up a whole new level of interactivity between friends and strangers.  When blogging first got popular, everybody had an "internet journal" of some sort, sharing their favorite recipes, masturbatory strategies, and what have you. When Twitter came along and introduced "Micro-Blogging", it captured the hearts and short attention spans of the casual bloggers.  Now free from the thought and effort that is considered to go into creating a meaningful, thought-provoking or self serving blog post: these users were free to tell the world about what was happening in their life at this exact moment...no matter how mundane or trivial...in 140 characters or less.