hmmm, i remember this place. it’s been a while, a damn long while.
not sure if i mentioned being all gimped up (i could easily check if i did, but i will not out of sheer laziness), but i was. turns out climbing a foot high mountain of snow and falling forward while your foot sinks into said mountain is not the best for your ankle or your deltoid tendon, whatever that is.
you’d think i’d of posted more seeing as it was my job for nearly 5 months to sit and do nothing, but i didn’t. sadly if i’m not doing anything my brain doesn’t work. weird but true. the first month of my gimpcation i didn’t have a single original thought. i sat and consumed media and nourishment, but my brain did not try to comprehend it. i was incredibly boring. more so than i’m being right now even.
so here’s some random thoughts:
drop dead diva: i just tweeted this. during the gimpcation i was exposed to commercials for a show called drop dead diva. since it had commercials, i’m guessing it’s on a network of some sort, but i’ll be damned if i could tell you what it is.
the premise according to the commercial is that a model dies (she’s blonde and i imagine is supposed to be attractive, but didn’t do it for me) and is then reincarnated into the body of a fat woman. and she lives happily ever after. i guess.
i guess i’m just sort of wondering why, as a former model who knows how to be in shape, she doesn’t start eating right and exercising? it bothers me that i just know there’s a scene where she pigs out on brownies or ice cream or both and is happy because she never got to do that when she was fuckable.
as a fat person, it bothers me that it’s ok to be fat. aside from being unattractive, it’s unhealthy. there are far too many shows these days that celebrate being fat. sure, a few of them are to encourage folks to lose weight but the show wouldn’t exist if there weren’t giant fat people in the first place.
fat people should be mocked, not coddled.
google +: first off i refuse to call this google plus. it’s g+. three syllables is far too much these days.
next, after playing with it for a while i have to ask, what is it? as far as i can tell it’s facebook + twitter with no character limits. it’s weird to put both people I know and people i don’t into circles. almost stalkerish.
haven’t (and likely won’t ever) play with “hang outs.” it’s a nice idea in theory and i can see it being useful for professionals to have a random webchat meeting, but doesn’t that already exist? i’m just not that into the idea of sitting at my computer being stared at by my friends who are sitting at their computers.
the user interface is nice and the app (for android phones) is functional, but aside from that it’s nothing special at all.
will it catch on? sure. will it do to facebook what facebook did to myspace? no. google’s not even going to try. they just want a social site to search so they can say they have social search and they want ad revenue. pissing off the facebook guys is just a bonus.
besides in the end all these social network sites do is make it easier for the aliens to sorts us when they come to take over after their intergalactic battle. go go google aliens!
lack of fantasy baseball: this is the first year in ages i am playing no forms of fantasy baseball (or any fantasy sport for that matter). oddly it’s also the year i’ve had the most time to watch and analyze baseball. i’d likely be killing my league right now after 4 months of watching the sport non stop from the first day of spring training on.
that said, it’s been really nice to watch a game just to watch it. almost like a vacation. i haven’t had to worry about what pitch pitcher X on team Y threw to batter A on team B. haven’t had to root against my mets because i had the other teams starter going against them. and i don’t need to give a shit about the backup backup catcher on any team because as usual my first 2 catchers went down.
i’m really debating bothering to go back next year.
mcdonald’s: why will mcdonald’s give me more catsup than i’d ever use (if i even liked the stuff) but want to charge me for a cup of delicious sweet and sour sauce? that’s fucked up.
well, that was less interesting than it sounded in my head (at least the redhead was hot). gotta get the rust off. be back sometime.
Good to see you back. Of course, it’s a little late…I’ve always considered your predictions to be the opening of the baseball season. I guess it’s just as well, though. My Cubs aren’t having a stellar year–seriously, a 13-3 loss against the Marlins? At least it gave me a chance to revisit the old Trek the Stars columns. Anyhow, no baseball travels for me this year. Baby #2 is on his way any time now. And in response to your Dorothy question on Twitter, the answer is no. In my experience (and I worked for one during one of the longest summers of my life), they’re all like that.
Giving up fantasy baseball was the best decision i’ve ever made. It was like finally breaking up with some dumb girlfriend who i hated and always nagged me nonstop and made me do stupid things and never gave me bjs. Then i break up with her and realize, “what the f was i doing with her for so long?” Too many players, too many games, too long a season. Stick to Fantasy football, you’ll only be annoyed all weekend instead of every day.