Saturday, July 14, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Me and An Idiot!
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Friday April 20th, 2012.
So, Friday started like any other day. I got up ate food, and finished up some last minute school work. It was also the Pot smokers Fake holiday. No one knows WHY they picked that day, but they did and it also happens to be the day Hitler was born. I just attribute people celebrating Hitler's birth by smoking pot! Pot heads hate Jewish folk, thats my correlation.
Anyways, it seemed to be a rather mundane day. Regal was slow during the day, and when I got there we had a fair amount of pre-sales for some of the 7 o'clock round. We had these plumbing guys out, from Atlus Rooter, to look at an issue with one of our toilets not flushing properly in the A-Side Male Restroom Around this time is when shit hit the fan....literally. As they were doing, Whatever it was they did, All the drains in the building stopped being drains and did the opposite and gave us the gift of Sewage water! We had sewage water coming up in the concession stand, and all the Bathrooms. Our first course of action was to put Large Trashcans in front of the Bathroom entrances so people would realize they shouldn't go in there. LOL did not work, west end people love shit, apparently. The toilets, when flushed, would just fill up with water. So, people would come up and try to use the bathroom and we'd tell them its closed because of sewage issues they'd reply with "That's Ridiculous!". I agree, it is! Except for the fact they were upset, at us. I took so many shits that it backed up the Sewer system. You got me, Red handed! Including one dumb-ass old guy who came over to where I was after being told the bathrooms in the whole building were closed, and tried to use our side. I told him it was closed and asked "Well, what am I supposed to do then?" Well, going to another place with a public restroom might be an applicable plan, Captain floppy hat (which he was wearing), but no, I told him places nearby and instead he went out to bitch to the 1st assistant and the GM. They told him the same thing I did. Funny side note: He was later viewed just walking around aimlessly in the lobby. He either went and used a restroom nearby, or pissed himself.
The next thing that occurred is it kept getting worse and movies started getting out. It was at this time our GM was on the phone with our DM trying to figure out the course of action to take. As usual, our DM was being wishy washy and being non-committal. His "Genius" idea was to let people who already bought tickets in and halt the sale of new tickets. He was hoping the issue would be fixed and we could just go ahead and reopen. Of course if we can't that means we got people in the building, with bad plumbing and people outside who we need to help. Guess what happened? Plumbers couldn't figure out the problem and we ended up having to close and give refunds to a ton of people. If only our DM had just made a decision none of us would of had to deal with that awful cluster fuck of a mess. But no, of course not. We spent close to 2 hours trying to get people their refunds as they complained away at us. Because, once again, its our fault. Another thing people liked bitching about was the fact that we'd give them a refund on the ticket, but we couldn't give them the Fandango Service charge. A huge DOLLAR AND 50 CENT per ticket. Its hard to give people a refund on a service charge when we never had any of that money to begin with. People can't seem to get it through their head that we AREN'T fandango. They are a different company. We can't refund money we never have or will have access to. People also have a hard time with the concept of us only being able to put money back on a card if it was bought with a card, sorry no cash can be given to you. We have rules that are put forth by our bosses, we can't just BREAK them for you and risk losing our job.
This brings us to people who want to get a refund on their Concession items. They tried to get refunds on item they had already eaten all of. Like really? You ate your whole hotdog but you want a refund on it? You ate all of it, you dumb-ass. You get no refund. Do you buy a gallon of milk at Food Lion drink all of it then try to get a refund on it? No, you don't. What makes us different than other businesses? We sell a product too, you just consume it right then and there in the form of entertainment. Why do people in the West End try to take advantage of other people's misfortunes? I just don't understand. It puts us under tons of undue stress and yet here you are, trying to take advantage of a situation like this. Pathetic.
The real people at fault for all of this? The people that decided to repave parts of the parking lot. When they did this they messed up some of what they were doing and asphalt got into the sewage line. This caused the blockage.
So, once we finally get this mess taken care of we go to work in trying to sort through the mess. It ended up taking us close to an extra hour trying to sort through this mess and we ended up with close to 6,000 dollars combined among our voided and refunded tickets.
Days like these make you really consider just putting in your two weeks and calling it a good run.
Anyways, it seemed to be a rather mundane day. Regal was slow during the day, and when I got there we had a fair amount of pre-sales for some of the 7 o'clock round. We had these plumbing guys out, from Atlus Rooter, to look at an issue with one of our toilets not flushing properly in the A-Side Male Restroom Around this time is when shit hit the fan....literally. As they were doing, Whatever it was they did, All the drains in the building stopped being drains and did the opposite and gave us the gift of Sewage water! We had sewage water coming up in the concession stand, and all the Bathrooms. Our first course of action was to put Large Trashcans in front of the Bathroom entrances so people would realize they shouldn't go in there. LOL did not work, west end people love shit, apparently. The toilets, when flushed, would just fill up with water. So, people would come up and try to use the bathroom and we'd tell them its closed because of sewage issues they'd reply with "That's Ridiculous!". I agree, it is! Except for the fact they were upset, at us. I took so many shits that it backed up the Sewer system. You got me, Red handed! Including one dumb-ass old guy who came over to where I was after being told the bathrooms in the whole building were closed, and tried to use our side. I told him it was closed and asked "Well, what am I supposed to do then?" Well, going to another place with a public restroom might be an applicable plan, Captain floppy hat (which he was wearing), but no, I told him places nearby and instead he went out to bitch to the 1st assistant and the GM. They told him the same thing I did. Funny side note: He was later viewed just walking around aimlessly in the lobby. He either went and used a restroom nearby, or pissed himself.
The next thing that occurred is it kept getting worse and movies started getting out. It was at this time our GM was on the phone with our DM trying to figure out the course of action to take. As usual, our DM was being wishy washy and being non-committal. His "Genius" idea was to let people who already bought tickets in and halt the sale of new tickets. He was hoping the issue would be fixed and we could just go ahead and reopen. Of course if we can't that means we got people in the building, with bad plumbing and people outside who we need to help. Guess what happened? Plumbers couldn't figure out the problem and we ended up having to close and give refunds to a ton of people. If only our DM had just made a decision none of us would of had to deal with that awful cluster fuck of a mess. But no, of course not. We spent close to 2 hours trying to get people their refunds as they complained away at us. Because, once again, its our fault. Another thing people liked bitching about was the fact that we'd give them a refund on the ticket, but we couldn't give them the Fandango Service charge. A huge DOLLAR AND 50 CENT per ticket. Its hard to give people a refund on a service charge when we never had any of that money to begin with. People can't seem to get it through their head that we AREN'T fandango. They are a different company. We can't refund money we never have or will have access to. People also have a hard time with the concept of us only being able to put money back on a card if it was bought with a card, sorry no cash can be given to you. We have rules that are put forth by our bosses, we can't just BREAK them for you and risk losing our job.
This brings us to people who want to get a refund on their Concession items. They tried to get refunds on item they had already eaten all of. Like really? You ate your whole hotdog but you want a refund on it? You ate all of it, you dumb-ass. You get no refund. Do you buy a gallon of milk at Food Lion drink all of it then try to get a refund on it? No, you don't. What makes us different than other businesses? We sell a product too, you just consume it right then and there in the form of entertainment. Why do people in the West End try to take advantage of other people's misfortunes? I just don't understand. It puts us under tons of undue stress and yet here you are, trying to take advantage of a situation like this. Pathetic.
The real people at fault for all of this? The people that decided to repave parts of the parking lot. When they did this they messed up some of what they were doing and asphalt got into the sewage line. This caused the blockage.
So, once we finally get this mess taken care of we go to work in trying to sort through the mess. It ended up taking us close to an extra hour trying to sort through this mess and we ended up with close to 6,000 dollars combined among our voided and refunded tickets.
Days like these make you really consider just putting in your two weeks and calling it a good run.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The Miami Marlins jerseys....
They look like something you'd see at a circus. I mean, look at these amazing things!
The circus is here
I mean seriously, these are ugly. I could imagine such a design if they were the "Las Vegas Spear Fish" but not the "Miami Marlins". These new jerseys reek.
- D
I mean seriously, these are ugly. I could imagine such a design if they were the "Las Vegas Spear Fish" but not the "Miami Marlins". These new jerseys reek.
- D
Monday, April 2, 2012
I have too many games to play
I am currently playing about 6 games all at once. I need like a month off FROM THE WORLD. That way I can finish them all. Too bad that'll never happen. Damn you, Earth and your turning ways~!
That squiggly line in front of my exclamation point looks really gay.
So, there you have it, an absolutely random as hell post. Yes, Yes indeed.
Peace fellow earthlings!
- D
That squiggly line in front of my exclamation point looks really gay.
So, there you have it, an absolutely random as hell post. Yes, Yes indeed.
Peace fellow earthlings!
- D
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Whats more fun than Franchise...?
Sports video games are a regular occurrence in the Video Game landscape. They come out around the same time every year. Many people love taking their favorite team, or in some cases the worst team, and taking them through the years either rebuilding the team or winning 12 straight championships (see Madden 2006 on my xbox).
For me Franchise is ok. I'll start and finish like one year (madden) or about a week (mlb). For me its all about CAREER MODES. I love taking a player from scratch and trying to become a hall of famer. I have career modes currently going in: MLB 2k10, 2k11, 2k12. NBA 2k12. NCAA Football 12, MLB 10: The Show and NHL 12.
The 2k Baseball games are fun in the sense its easy for me to put up absolutely insane stats, such as over 100 Homeruns in a season. The Show takes more effort and is a much harder, yet more rewarding experience.
Since I get lazy and have trouble writing posts I shall start tracking some of my stuff on here. Its fine if you don't want to read it, but hey, it gives me post material!
Huzzah!
For me Franchise is ok. I'll start and finish like one year (madden) or about a week (mlb). For me its all about CAREER MODES. I love taking a player from scratch and trying to become a hall of famer. I have career modes currently going in: MLB 2k10, 2k11, 2k12. NBA 2k12. NCAA Football 12, MLB 10: The Show and NHL 12.
The 2k Baseball games are fun in the sense its easy for me to put up absolutely insane stats, such as over 100 Homeruns in a season. The Show takes more effort and is a much harder, yet more rewarding experience.
Since I get lazy and have trouble writing posts I shall start tracking some of my stuff on here. Its fine if you don't want to read it, but hey, it gives me post material!
Huzzah!
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Post number 40, COMIN' RIGHT AT-CHA.
Have you ever had one of those times where you are driven to buy something for purely nostalgic reasons? The "Oh man I love and remember those things" type of experience?
I had one of those the other day while on Amazon. I bought some Japanese Pokemon cards. I actually miss collecting them, in all honesty. I loved all the Cards, Japanese and American. So, I went ahead and ordered some packs off of Amazon. It was fun and I enjoyed opening them again. Its been almost 10 or more years since I had that rush of opening a pack of cards and seeing what you got.
I had one of those the other day while on Amazon. I bought some Japanese Pokemon cards. I actually miss collecting them, in all honesty. I loved all the Cards, Japanese and American. So, I went ahead and ordered some packs off of Amazon. It was fun and I enjoyed opening them again. Its been almost 10 or more years since I had that rush of opening a pack of cards and seeing what you got.
These were the three I got. One gym leader, and Two Team Rocket packs.
I always loved the Team Rocket packs a lot. Mostly because of the dark pokemon and the like. Another Reason I liked the Japanese packs was for the Holographic each and every pack (which in a way is happening in the American packs now). This brought back a lot of memories though.
The opened packs!
I was very excited to get the Dark Charizard (featured on the right) out of my Team Rocket pack. I didn't have that card and it was cool to get him, plus he just looks like a badass on the artwork! This has sort of refueled my desire to collect something once again. I felt something had been missing and this just might be it. Bring on the Cards!
Till next time Chaps!
Monday, February 6, 2012
Whats it like?
As I watched today's Superbowl and continued to watch as the Giants were presented with the Lombardy Trophy it got me thinking......
Whats it like to actually see your team win a SuperBowl?
I have no idea what the feeling is like. The Redskins have won 3 Superbowl championships and made 5 trips to the Superbowl. They won the Superbowl in 82', 87', and 91'. Of course my age for each Superbowl was - 82': -5, 87': 7 months old, 91': 4 years old give or take.
So, as you can see, I've been alive during some of their winning, but I wasn't old enough for any of it to matter and don't remember anything from 1991. All I've endured my whole football watching life is ridicule because of how bad the Redskins have been. I've seen only 2 trips to the playoffs in 2005, and 2007. I didn't start really paying attention to football until 2001, I believe. So, all I've had is garbage awful teams year in, year out. With everyone ragging on my team with annoying as F#%k nicknames. All I've gotten for my loyalty is 2 playoff trips, 1-2 record in those 2 playoff trips, a favorite player dead (Sean Taylor #21), and lots of grief from people just proclaiming they suck.
I honestly have no idea how I'd react if they won a Superbowl in my lifetime. I really don't. Those so much pent up feeling of losing and something will go bad as the norm it almost doesn't even seem possible.
I honestly just want to be able to share a Superbowl win with my Dad during both of our lifetimes, Together.
I also wouldn't be surprised if I cried.
Whats it like to actually see your team win a SuperBowl?
I have no idea what the feeling is like. The Redskins have won 3 Superbowl championships and made 5 trips to the Superbowl. They won the Superbowl in 82', 87', and 91'. Of course my age for each Superbowl was - 82': -5, 87': 7 months old, 91': 4 years old give or take.
So, as you can see, I've been alive during some of their winning, but I wasn't old enough for any of it to matter and don't remember anything from 1991. All I've endured my whole football watching life is ridicule because of how bad the Redskins have been. I've seen only 2 trips to the playoffs in 2005, and 2007. I didn't start really paying attention to football until 2001, I believe. So, all I've had is garbage awful teams year in, year out. With everyone ragging on my team with annoying as F#%k nicknames. All I've gotten for my loyalty is 2 playoff trips, 1-2 record in those 2 playoff trips, a favorite player dead (Sean Taylor #21), and lots of grief from people just proclaiming they suck.
I honestly have no idea how I'd react if they won a Superbowl in my lifetime. I really don't. Those so much pent up feeling of losing and something will go bad as the norm it almost doesn't even seem possible.
I honestly just want to be able to share a Superbowl win with my Dad during both of our lifetimes, Together.
I also wouldn't be surprised if I cried.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
So, I've been screwing around with photoshop(sort of)....
I'm kind of teaching myself how to use a free photoshop knock off....I'm gonna post things I think look cool and my random experiments. Heres one that makes me laugh way more than it should....
Before
After!
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Work in progress or Back-up in case of computer mess up?
Indentured servants faced a tough road to get to the new land. Mittelberger wrote a telling account of the whole process that occurs on the trip to the new world. He told of the horrors and tragedy that befalls all members from crew to passengers and the rules that applied to paying for passage. The process once they make it to Philadelphia is quite similar to how Slaves were treated when brought over to America.
Mittelberger wrote about the very process of transporting indentured servants from Rotterdam and Amsterdam and how things were on the ships. From reading this account of the travel conditions it seemed to me that, at first, he was never on one of these ships and was just getting an account from a person who did travel. On second glance though where he describes the passage of “Children from 1 to 7 years rarely survive the voyage. I witnessed…” I decided that he did acquire this knowledge first hand and it is indeed his own personal account of the voyage. I do not take issue with anything he wrote and believe all of it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he did put some things in here to sensationalize certain parts of the voyage. One such instance in which I am referencing is when he discusses throwing children that had died into the sea he described them as being “devoured by the monsters of the sea”. I know what he meant by this statement it just makes it seem more extreme and invokes images of giants squids and sea monsters as opposed to ordinary things such as sharks and the like.
While reading through this piece written by Mr. Mittelberger I couldn’t help but imagine myself on that boat and how I would react to all the situations. First off I know for certain I would not be able to stand being that close to so many people for that long. I have recently discovered I am somewhat claustrophobic and the small space you have to sleep in would be too small for me to handle, more than likely. I also do not think it would invoke a positive reaction in me to see all those sick and dying children. That would more than likely consume all my thoughts and dreams and that along with the being stuck in one place feeling would tend to cause a man to go mad. If you manage to get through this with your mind intact you have to hope you can keep healthy once you get close to land. If I made it all the way the Philadelphia docks, healthy, then I had a high probability of being bought and working to pay off my passage. Before I read this account from Mittelberger I always viewed indentured servants as a sort of contract based people that just worked for free essentially and were not treated too bad. However, after taking a look in the book titled “Give me Liberty: An American History” by Eric Foner I have a sort of different view on the matter. According to Foner in his book Give Me Liberty “Elizabeth Sprigs, an indentured servant in Maryland who described being forced to work “day and night…then tied up and whipped” and “Given the high death rate, many servants did not live to the end of their terms”(Foner Pg. 52). This sort of changed my view on it. I always knew it was rough getting the America, but didn’t know it was that bad once they got there also. Thinking of this from my own perspective in the time period I don’t know if I could of handled that. If I had come over around the age of 10-15 and had to work until I was 21? That’s pretty brutal, especially given the person that purchased me. They could be nice or just plain vicious. It would all be up to luck and chance really. I saw mention in the book that one owner mention something about indentured servants that were lazy or ran away. I could see me being one of the ones that ran away. Especially since it also was said that the “Freedom Dues” sometimes weren’t even enough money to buy land and get started. If I had the feeling that that was the case I would definitely consider abandoning the place and running as far away as I could. Anything would be better than risking dying while working without having enough to gain to buy my own land, in my opinion.
There is quite an interesting similarity in Slavery and Indentured Servitude and some things that are of course different.
Mittelberger wrote about the very process of transporting indentured servants from Rotterdam and Amsterdam and how things were on the ships. From reading this account of the travel conditions it seemed to me that, at first, he was never on one of these ships and was just getting an account from a person who did travel. On second glance though where he describes the passage of “Children from 1 to 7 years rarely survive the voyage. I witnessed…” I decided that he did acquire this knowledge first hand and it is indeed his own personal account of the voyage. I do not take issue with anything he wrote and believe all of it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he did put some things in here to sensationalize certain parts of the voyage. One such instance in which I am referencing is when he discusses throwing children that had died into the sea he described them as being “devoured by the monsters of the sea”. I know what he meant by this statement it just makes it seem more extreme and invokes images of giants squids and sea monsters as opposed to ordinary things such as sharks and the like.
While reading through this piece written by Mr. Mittelberger I couldn’t help but imagine myself on that boat and how I would react to all the situations. First off I know for certain I would not be able to stand being that close to so many people for that long. I have recently discovered I am somewhat claustrophobic and the small space you have to sleep in would be too small for me to handle, more than likely. I also do not think it would invoke a positive reaction in me to see all those sick and dying children. That would more than likely consume all my thoughts and dreams and that along with the being stuck in one place feeling would tend to cause a man to go mad. If you manage to get through this with your mind intact you have to hope you can keep healthy once you get close to land. If I made it all the way the Philadelphia docks, healthy, then I had a high probability of being bought and working to pay off my passage. Before I read this account from Mittelberger I always viewed indentured servants as a sort of contract based people that just worked for free essentially and were not treated too bad. However, after taking a look in the book titled “Give me Liberty: An American History” by Eric Foner I have a sort of different view on the matter. According to Foner in his book Give Me Liberty “Elizabeth Sprigs, an indentured servant in Maryland who described being forced to work “day and night…then tied up and whipped” and “Given the high death rate, many servants did not live to the end of their terms”(Foner Pg. 52). This sort of changed my view on it. I always knew it was rough getting the America, but didn’t know it was that bad once they got there also. Thinking of this from my own perspective in the time period I don’t know if I could of handled that. If I had come over around the age of 10-15 and had to work until I was 21? That’s pretty brutal, especially given the person that purchased me. They could be nice or just plain vicious. It would all be up to luck and chance really. I saw mention in the book that one owner mention something about indentured servants that were lazy or ran away. I could see me being one of the ones that ran away. Especially since it also was said that the “Freedom Dues” sometimes weren’t even enough money to buy land and get started. If I had the feeling that that was the case I would definitely consider abandoning the place and running as far away as I could. Anything would be better than risking dying while working without having enough to gain to buy my own land, in my opinion.
There is quite an interesting similarity in Slavery and Indentured Servitude and some things that are of course different.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Movie Night in America! Tin-Tin-two-twenty
I saw Tin Tin last night, and I'm still not entirely sure of what to make of this movie. The visuals were really cool and the 3D wasn't half bad in this movie. It was full of lots of action and some funny moments. So why do I still not know how I feel about it? I'm really not sure.
The visuals and 3D were easily the best parts about the movie. It looked really good and some of the characters almost looked like real actors at some points.
The action was almost the whole movie, but it was very all over the place and at some points too insane. Like one scene where they literally destroyed a whole city in a desert area just to try to make sure they acquired 3 pieces of paper. Not to mention a random tank in the middle of a hotel? There were also two bumbling idiots cops to provide moments of humor.
Overall though I didn't really like or dislike this movie. I'm sort of "eh" about the whole thing. Rather neutral, it seems. Best part of the movie? The trailers especially The Hobbit. That looks awesome.
The visuals and 3D were easily the best parts about the movie. It looked really good and some of the characters almost looked like real actors at some points.
The action was almost the whole movie, but it was very all over the place and at some points too insane. Like one scene where they literally destroyed a whole city in a desert area just to try to make sure they acquired 3 pieces of paper. Not to mention a random tank in the middle of a hotel? There were also two bumbling idiots cops to provide moments of humor.
Overall though I didn't really like or dislike this movie. I'm sort of "eh" about the whole thing. Rather neutral, it seems. Best part of the movie? The trailers especially The Hobbit. That looks awesome.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Magical Regal Adventures Part 1: The Devil Inside
Being a manager at a regal theater is so awesome. Why? People bitch about stupid things to us. Why? Because we obviously have this company has upper management that totally listens to managers at its various locations. This could have a post all its own, but I digress, back to the topic at hand.
So, I was getting concession ready for the final round of the night (Stupid hour regulations from HR allows us to only have 3 people trying to struggle through helping all the people) and I needed to get them a few sleeves of medium cups. That probably had no need for them but I just wanted us to be prepared since The Devil Inside has been doing a TON of business for such a crap movie. Anyways, I make my way over to theater 7 which is showing Devil Inside and also is the store room for some of our stock, specifically the cups. Of course right when I get there it starts letting out and I'm chillin' up against the wall listening to various people commenting about how crap the ending was (common amongst movie goers, I understand). So, I see a lull in people coming out so I make my movie and jump around the corner only to have more people. So I sort of jump into the area to the side of the door and wait there.
As I stand there what do I hear? Some lady commented very audibly for me to obviously hear "You guys should be ashamed for charging people for that movie". My reply was to her very loudly "OK". Then I walked in and got my cups. What was I thinking and wanted to say to her? It goes a little bit like this...
How this Should Have Gone:
Fat Bitch: You Guys should be ashamed for charging people for that movie.
Me: No, you fat whore, YOU should be ashamed for PAYING and COMING to SEE this movie. Ever heard of the INTERNET? Its this magical word of computers where you can find out if a movie is GOOD OR BAD. You made the conscious effort to avoid this magical device...so no we should NOT be ashamed. Good Day, Ugly bitch.
Only down side to that? Probably would of lost my job....but it would of been an amazing way to go out.....
So, I was getting concession ready for the final round of the night (Stupid hour regulations from HR allows us to only have 3 people trying to struggle through helping all the people) and I needed to get them a few sleeves of medium cups. That probably had no need for them but I just wanted us to be prepared since The Devil Inside has been doing a TON of business for such a crap movie. Anyways, I make my way over to theater 7 which is showing Devil Inside and also is the store room for some of our stock, specifically the cups. Of course right when I get there it starts letting out and I'm chillin' up against the wall listening to various people commenting about how crap the ending was (common amongst movie goers, I understand). So, I see a lull in people coming out so I make my movie and jump around the corner only to have more people. So I sort of jump into the area to the side of the door and wait there.
As I stand there what do I hear? Some lady commented very audibly for me to obviously hear "You guys should be ashamed for charging people for that movie". My reply was to her very loudly "OK". Then I walked in and got my cups. What was I thinking and wanted to say to her? It goes a little bit like this...
How this Should Have Gone:
Fat Bitch: You Guys should be ashamed for charging people for that movie.
Me: No, you fat whore, YOU should be ashamed for PAYING and COMING to SEE this movie. Ever heard of the INTERNET? Its this magical word of computers where you can find out if a movie is GOOD OR BAD. You made the conscious effort to avoid this magical device...so no we should NOT be ashamed. Good Day, Ugly bitch.
Only down side to that? Probably would of lost my job....but it would of been an amazing way to go out.....
Saturday, January 7, 2012
My NFL wildcard Weekend picks!
Cincinnati Bengals at Houston Texans
I'll take the Bengals in this one. Texans are down to what seems like their 80th string QB and are starting Jake Delhomme. Woooooooo, all the confidence in them Texans!
Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints
I'm picking the Saints because they absolutely embarrassed the Lions when they played earlier this year.
Atlanta Falcons at New York Giants
This one I don't know about....I'll take Atlanta though. Giants Secondary is still pretty awful.
Pittsburgh Steelers at Denver Broncos
Steelers. Denver can't put up enough points to beat a quality opponent.
I'll take the Bengals in this one. Texans are down to what seems like their 80th string QB and are starting Jake Delhomme. Woooooooo, all the confidence in them Texans!
Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints
I'm picking the Saints because they absolutely embarrassed the Lions when they played earlier this year.
Atlanta Falcons at New York Giants
This one I don't know about....I'll take Atlanta though. Giants Secondary is still pretty awful.
Pittsburgh Steelers at Denver Broncos
Steelers. Denver can't put up enough points to beat a quality opponent.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Movie night in America! Yeah!
In this installment in MOVIE NIGHT IN AMERICA we bring you.....The Darkest Hour.
Which was quite dark and by dark I mean terrible. They should of called it "The Worst-most-expensive-3D-waste-of-a-movie-ever Hour". I'd pay to see a movie with that title. This movie was essentially about two dudes in Moscow, for some reason doing some thing with some phone app that some douche stole. Yet you don't really know how any of them are connected nor do you give a shit. They meet two other Americans in Moscow, for some other unknown reason....but hey, does it really matter in a movie such as this? THEN ALL THE LIGHTS GOT OUT IN DA CLUB. Oh, and the light aliens show up and start eating people or whatever they were doing to them. Some crazy psycho dude came up with the idea that a gun of electricity might be able to hurt them. It ends up being able to knock their electro-shields down so they can be shot...WITH GUNS. And once they are shot? THEY EXPLODE. Seriously, Explode? Did a 5 year old write this? The flying squid monsters explode into hardened pieces of rock. Wow. Genius. The only character I felt bad for at any point in this movie was the crazy guy (sort of), but I mostly felt bad for his cat.
I mean, this mofo had these sweet clubhouse that the electric squid orb fags couldn't see. He could just chill here and have a good time. However, he let the american bros in and they immediately had their females FUCK THINGS UP. Ugh. They should of followed the random russian chick's advice instead of leading the monster squid back to the clubhouse. This lead to the crazy guy biting it and having the cat, forced to wear christmas lights, run out of the apartment. You never hear what happens to the cat. The cat is the one I felt most bad for. He had it good. Living in a safe house, plenty of food, and a dude that sang to him/her. Miller High Life, thats for sure. Thats what THAT cat was livin'.
Terrible.
Hey, at least it was better than Skyline.
I give it 1.2 out of 12 Hamburgers. The 1.2 was because it had a cat in it and I like cats.
Which was quite dark and by dark I mean terrible. They should of called it "The Worst-most-expensive-3D-waste-of-a-movie-ever Hour". I'd pay to see a movie with that title. This movie was essentially about two dudes in Moscow, for some reason doing some thing with some phone app that some douche stole. Yet you don't really know how any of them are connected nor do you give a shit. They meet two other Americans in Moscow, for some other unknown reason....but hey, does it really matter in a movie such as this? THEN ALL THE LIGHTS GOT OUT IN DA CLUB. Oh, and the light aliens show up and start eating people or whatever they were doing to them. Some crazy psycho dude came up with the idea that a gun of electricity might be able to hurt them. It ends up being able to knock their electro-shields down so they can be shot...WITH GUNS. And once they are shot? THEY EXPLODE. Seriously, Explode? Did a 5 year old write this? The flying squid monsters explode into hardened pieces of rock. Wow. Genius. The only character I felt bad for at any point in this movie was the crazy guy (sort of), but I mostly felt bad for his cat.
I mean, this mofo had these sweet clubhouse that the electric squid orb fags couldn't see. He could just chill here and have a good time. However, he let the american bros in and they immediately had their females FUCK THINGS UP. Ugh. They should of followed the random russian chick's advice instead of leading the monster squid back to the clubhouse. This lead to the crazy guy biting it and having the cat, forced to wear christmas lights, run out of the apartment. You never hear what happens to the cat. The cat is the one I felt most bad for. He had it good. Living in a safe house, plenty of food, and a dude that sang to him/her. Miller High Life, thats for sure. Thats what THAT cat was livin'.
Terrible.
Hey, at least it was better than Skyline.
I give it 1.2 out of 12 Hamburgers. The 1.2 was because it had a cat in it and I like cats.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
My gaming goals in 2012
- Replay Fable 3 as an evil person
- Play and beat Dead Space 2
- Getting the "Make the Hall of Fame" achievement in MLB 2k10 and 2k11
- Beat Halo Wars
- Finish Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
- Finish Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
A new Redskins QB wrinkle....
I got to thinking today. Instead of the Skins drafting a QB what if they try to sign the Packer's back-up QB Matt Flynn? Then they could continue to stockpile picks and draft more tools to help the team and not focus on drafting a QB in the first round. The two studs of the draft will more than likely be off the board unless they attempt to trade up in the draft. They have NO shot at getting Andrew Luck now, Colts are taking him 1 overall its a lock, they would have to trade up for RG3.
If they sign Flynn they wouldn't have to trade up at all. They could take some more weapons on offense and some more blocking for the QB. I still think they will try to trade up and take Robert Griffin the 3rd. Just wondering about the possibilities that exist out there.....
If they sign Flynn they wouldn't have to trade up at all. They could take some more weapons on offense and some more blocking for the QB. I still think they will try to trade up and take Robert Griffin the 3rd. Just wondering about the possibilities that exist out there.....
Monday, January 2, 2012
Nice Job Jags.....
Well, the Jacksonville Jaguars managed to beat the Colts today. Whats the significance of two awful teams playing each other to end the season? Well, thanks to the Jags the Colts now get the number 1 pick in the draft and plan to take Andrew Luck. Luck is essentially the second coming of Manning. Great job Jags. You've seen your division get dominated by Manning for the last decade or more. All the Jags had to do was tank this one game...not for their own future but for the future of the whole division. Now the Colts are going to have another QB to lead them into the next decade. The Jags owe an apology to the rest of the AFC South.
All you had to do was tank this one game...and hope the Rams found a way to lose (which isn't a done deal). Well, have fun getting your secondary decimated for the next decade or more Jags fans.
You guys Earned it.
All you had to do was tank this one game...and hope the Rams found a way to lose (which isn't a done deal). Well, have fun getting your secondary decimated for the next decade or more Jags fans.
You guys Earned it.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Top 10 Sports moments: Francisco Liriano No-Hitter
It was May 3rd, 2011. I was at Regal. Working. As usual. I was following the baseball game on my phone, as I usually do. I remember Jason Kubel hit a homerun early in the game and the Twins not doing anything else for a while. Then all of a sudden I got a message alert from ESPN saying Liriano had a no-hitter through 7. I was like...what. I then figured he'd give up a hit sooner or later. By the time it came around the 8th with no hits I was feeling he might pull it off. At this point I managed to bail out of regal, on the clock, and head over to B-Dubs. I actually sat down at a table close to the T.V. showing the game and had a waitress come over and tried to take my order. I told her I was only there to see the end of the game. It was pretty boss. They weren't busy so I didn't feel guilty for taking a table for any period of time.
I got there for the whole bottom of the 9th inning. Mostly all I remember of it was Liriano giving up a walk and then Adam Dunn coming to the plate. I kept thinking in the back of my head he was going to hit a Homerun right in this spot. Not only would it break up the No-Hitter but it would also win the game for the White Sox. Oh how I despise the White Sox. I remember him hitting a line drive (not sure to who. either shortstop or third base) and thinking "oh man, here goes the No-Hitter. I wasted my time coming over here and jinxed it by being here". However, the ball was caught and he had done it! I was excited. I felt happy and proud to be a Twins fan and see something as awesome as that happen to one of the Teams I rooted for. It was one of the very few highlights from an abysmal, lost season.
Best part about it? It came against the White Sox. : )
I later got my Liriano Signed baseball in the mail a few days later. Epic.
I got there for the whole bottom of the 9th inning. Mostly all I remember of it was Liriano giving up a walk and then Adam Dunn coming to the plate. I kept thinking in the back of my head he was going to hit a Homerun right in this spot. Not only would it break up the No-Hitter but it would also win the game for the White Sox. Oh how I despise the White Sox. I remember him hitting a line drive (not sure to who. either shortstop or third base) and thinking "oh man, here goes the No-Hitter. I wasted my time coming over here and jinxed it by being here". However, the ball was caught and he had done it! I was excited. I felt happy and proud to be a Twins fan and see something as awesome as that happen to one of the Teams I rooted for. It was one of the very few highlights from an abysmal, lost season.
Best part about it? It came against the White Sox. : )
I later got my Liriano Signed baseball in the mail a few days later. Epic.
It is here!
Happy New Year everyone! I'm currently ringing in the new year at the movie theater again! Sucks....but what can ya do. At least I'm off tomorrow on the 1st! Only thing that is worry-some is driving home on new years eve...STAY AWAY FROM MY SEXY CAR YOU DRUNKS.
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