My Brother and the 783 MP BN Coming Home
My brother is finally returning home from Afghanistan. His unit, the 783 MP BN out of Inkster, MI, is set to return tomorrow, Thursday, July 2. They are currently stateside making their way back as fast as the Army is willing to move them.
It was a great relief getting word from David about his trip back. Mom and I will be going to pick him up. The families got word about their return before some of the soldiers did. That means we have to travel into Michigan which, as proud Ohioans (Go Buckeyes!), we don’t do unless absolutely necessary.
And there will be plenty of time to say it tomorrow, but I can’t help to say it now. To every one of the soldiers belonging to the 783rd, thank-you for everything, and welcome home.
Cleveland Cavaliers 2008-2009 [End]; LeBron James
As I watch the final moments of the Cleveland Cavs’ NBA season in the Eastern Conference Finals, I’m reminded of a past when I still enjoyed the game of basketball. Since my high school years, I’ve been disappointed with the game in general. Living in Cleveland didn’t make it any easier as it stands that our professional sports teams can never fully grasp the brass ring.
Then came LeBron James.
Since LeBron graduated from St. Vincent-St. Mary’s, I’ve given him every opportunity to disappoint me. With his talent and the subsequent media hype, I was fully prepared to endure another NBA primadonna who felt the world owed him everything. Worst, he’d do it while playing for the home team. For six years, I waited and in the end my expectations fell short.
While I have to live with another year with another home town sports team coming only within sight of the brass ring, I am thankful that the young man they named the league’s MVP this year brought my heart back to the game. My friends and I agree. LeBron James is pound for pound the best all-around player the NBA has ever seen.
His attitude both on and off the court is second to none. St. Vincent-St. Mary’s made a very educated, articulate, responsible, and respectful young man out of him. If the NBA were ever in need of an ambassador of the sport, they should look no further.
To LeBron James, Žydrunas Ilgauskas, Mo Williams, Delonte West, Anderson Varejão, Daniel Gibson, Sasha Pavlovic, Joe Smith, Wally Szczerbiak, Ben Wallace, Mike Brown, and everyone else from the Cavs….
Thanks for a great season. We’ll be counting the days until the start of the next.
Google: Pet Marriage Tales Of Pirates
I don’t even want to know, but there’s over 3,000,000 results for it.
Social Networking: Last Round
I mentioned a short time ago that I was planning to utilize social networking sites more. It began with Last.fm through the enjoyment of the music I listen to periodically. I had some misgivings about the other major sites due to privacy and security concerns, but there was too much intrigue to pass them up completely.
Fiction: Firey Advice
“Investigators at the scene describe it as a pile of ash mixed with pajamas and a laptop computer. Only after countless hours in a forensics lab were they able to piece together what was left of the burnt laptop’s hard drive. On it they found what they describe as the victim’s last interaction with humanity. It was an email sent from a person calling themselves, simply, ‘Blaze’. Only the last fragment was intact. It read as follows:
‘…too funny! Make sure you get outside to…’
T-Shirt Woot: Navy Seals
I didn’t check early enough to buy this at the introductory $10 price, but even at the subsequent price of $15, the design is too fantastic to pass up.
MyBrute.com: Settle Up Your Differences In The Arena
I’m not much a fan of online games. This of course is a small lie as I’ve been engrossed with Mob Wars and Street Racing at Facebook for the last month. But in the most part, online games don’t attract my attention, which is normally in short supply.
MyBrute sets you up with your own personal warrior to go at it head-to-head ala Thunderdome style (”Two men enter. One man leaves.”) You type in a name to generate your warrior. You can change its appearance and coloring to suit your own taste. Then the battles begin.
It’s as easy as it’s entertaining. You pick your opponents, then sit back and watch as they take turns punching, kicking, stabbing, hitting until one of them is critically injured. As you gain experience from the matches, you gain extra strength, agility, and speed. You also obtain weaponry and special skills.
You also get your very own unique mybrute.com address in order to access your warrior and gain recruits which help you build stats.
Classic David Letterman Clip
I went hunting for video clips on Youtube tonight. It started with watching clips of LeBron James making basketball look like child’s play and ended up with some of David Letterman’s Top Ten Lists. On a whim, I clicked on the link for the following video. It’s been a while since I laughed so hard at the suble humor involved.
Social Networking – Part 2: The Expansion
Despite my reservations about Facebook and Twitter, I’ve decided to venture out more into the social networking ecosphere with accounts at both.
Facebook came with the surprise of finding other family members there. Making friends with the family made it easier to explore what Facebook has to offer. When you boil it all down, it’s really nothing more than an advertisement server. They entertain the Internet public while getting the opportunity to serve that public ads that make them money. This isn’t much different than the strategy television networks have been subscribed: free entertainment as long as we can pitch some products to you in the meantime. “Here’s a word from our sponsors.”
Twitter is going to take some time to get used to. I’m still not sure how I’d want to use it. Besides announcing a random thought once in a while, I don’t have much need for it. I do like the ability of following others’ feeds so that they all collect on your Twitter home page. I follow Senator John McCain from Arizona, Tim Buckley of Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and Ryan Sohmer of Least I Could Do. It’s entertaining and with this market you couldn’t ask for more.
I still can’t bring myself to go back to MySpace, though. It doesn’t appeal to me anymore. So, I’ll play around with these and see what I can make out of it all. If you’re at all interested, the links are located to the right and at the bottom of every page.
Social Networking – Last.FM
I’ve been looking at some of the numerous social networking sites out there trying to decide what, if any, I think I should join up with. I normally refrain as they’re frequented by lonely souls who are in desperate need for contact with others.
Not that I’m belittling the need for social interaction, we all need it, but my need wouldn’t even register on a collective measure of most social networking sites’ users. Over the years, I’ve accepted the fact that I’m unique and don’t require the presence of similar individuals to feel better about myself. That marks me as a loner and an introvert, and while others may be saddened by that, I’m perfectly fine with it. But I have recently found myself wanting to share with people and decided it was time to join the online community a bit more than I have been.
The most prominent evidence of that is the blog, but it only occupies a minute corner of the Net. I had a MySpace account but never used it for more than looking at band’s pictures. Facebook attracts too much attention, and along with Twitter, has shown a reluctance for improving privacy security. I have a Twitter account and was going to make an attempt at using it more until the report of an administrator using a simple plain text password along with the login process being prone to dictionary attacks.
For now, I’ve gone with last.fm which deals with tracking people’s music listening. As you listen to music on your computer, a client updates your last.fm profile with your listening choices. That data is gathered and shared with others. You get information about favorite artists and shown similar music you may be interested in. You can also keep track of other’s lists, or group’s lists, and listen to them as well.
It’ll serve me well during my foray into the social networking scene. Maybe I’ll see you there.
