...think it's time for a change?

So, it's about to be January 1 and that means my Charlie Brown holiday background that stays on my computer from Oct 31-Dec 31 must be replaced. I'd love it if people offered suggestions for what should take its place on my background. Past backgrounds have included: Katie Holmes, Danica something-or-other, and...I don't remember others.

Possibilities: I'm thinking Jennifer Garner would be fun. OR perhaps a dashing picture of Breighan. I suppose it doesn't need to be a hot girl. Well, hopefully someone will have a good idea.

PS, there's a new post around Dec 19 about my plane ride but since I started it a while ago, it didn't get listed as new so go back and read that!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

...come to a realization?

I did, at 3:48 am while finishing up a thesis chapter. I prefer brunettes. That's my realization. Not black hair really. But some nice shade of brown. I never thought of myself as having a preference. Of course, redheads have always intrigued me. But, yeah, brown hair does it for me it seems. Know who helped me realize this? Kristin Davis of Sex and the City fame. And then it all makes sense....Katie Holmes, Jennifer Garner....brown hair. Don't worry girls, I've happily dated blondes. I'm not about to rule anyone out. But brown hair...I never knew. So, the perfect girl has a new criterion. PS, the last addition involved eating red meat. Of course, the last two girls I've had more than 2 dates with have been either vegetarian or blonde in reverse chronological order. So much for criteria.

...write a message to your future girlfriend?

[based on actual events experienced at Borders on 347 in Lake Grove, NY]

Dear future girlfriend,

I understand that despite my good looks, sense of humor, endless patience, decent cooking, good looks, and perfect memory and editing skills (see, sense of humor), you may at one time or another be upset at me. I accept this. I am a boy and as such am prone to be dumb on occasion. I mean, I won't have cheated on you or anything like that. But I may have forgotten your sister's birthday or that you hate Eddie Murphy movies, but I rented one anyway. Perhaps it was even more serious than that. I can assume that I didn't mean to hurt you, but alas, I did. In one of these more serious scenarios, I understand that it might cause you to reconsider our relationship. You may decide that it would be best if we didn't date anymore. Sometimes the easiest way is to pick a small fight. Sometimes the pressure builds up so much that a fight happens naturally. It might even start as you making a small jab or offhand remark. I understand this. It happens. Completely reasonable. But please, future girlfriend, for goodness sake, whatever you do, DONT START TO BREAK UP WITH ME ON THE FUCKING CELL PHONE AT BORDERS!!! IT'S EMBARRASSING. MAKES ME SAY THINGS LIKE "ARE YOU BREAKING UP WITH ME? IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE WITH ME, JUST FUCKING SAY SO. ARE YOU SAYING IF IT WASN'T CHRISTMAS, YOU'D JUST BREAK UP WITH ME? (and) I KNOW YOU'RE PARENTS THINK I'M A RETARD" RIGHT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE IN THE DVD SECTION WHO ARE LOOKING AT FRIEND'S DVD BOX SETS AND CHECKING OUT THE HOT GIRL THAT JUST WALKED IN.

I appologize for yelling. But, seriously, please don't do that. Wait until I get home or something. Oh, and I'm pretty sure you never even told me your sister's birthday. And you said that you loved Coming to America!

Warmest Regards,
Brian

PS. Don't do it while I'm on the bus either. That might even be worse. Or Best Buy. I like Best Buy and I don't want to have bad associations with it. Circuit City is ok. I always feel like I'm cheating on Best Buy with its less attractive friend.

...make a confession?

Ok, so, I've been holding onto this until after I flew back home, but I think it's time I told everyone. Jess might say, "that's totally something Brian would do." Well, I did it. So, you know how once the airplace doors are closed you're supposed to shut your cell off? Andf you know how at a certain point, all electronic equipment should be shut off? And you know how sometimes I have my cell in my pocket and am positive I've shut it off but in reality I left it on the entire plane ride? Yeah...that.

In this age of terror level orange, we are on constant lookout for shoe bombs, fart lighters (if you haven't heard that news story, look it up!), and Heismann trophies (Troy Smith was forced to ship it after TSA wouldn't let it on the plane). However, I often figured the easiest thing to do would be to bring a bunch of radios and turn them on or something. WEll, having run my own unintentional mythbusters experiment, having a cell on will not destroy the plane.

[Well, I waited to post this until after I flew home]

...put your **** in a box?

Well, I see that my sudden spurt of content has spurred an increase in readership. Or, maybe Emily's just checking a little more often than normal. IN either case, I'd like to bring something funny SNL actually came up with. Warning,somewhat explicit lyrics. PS, don't give up on it, the ending where they break it down might just be the best part! Happy Holidays!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmVU08zVpA

...hit a landmark

It seems appropriate that with my anniversary post, I've had 3000 hits to my blog.
In order to put such a feat in perspective, I thought I'd look up some others who have surpassed the coveted 3000 mark.

Pete Rose, Ty Cobb, and Hank Aaron top the list of baseball players who have acheived over 3000 hits. (Aka the "3000 hit club")

Brett Farve, Dan Marino, and Peyton Manning threw for 3000 yards in more consecutive seasons than anyone before them or since.

Peyton Manning makes the list again for being the quickest quarterback to acheive 3000 completions in his career.

Wilt Chamberlain and Micharl Jordan both posted 3000 point seasons.

The Mang Gorn Luang restaraunt in Bangkok can serve 3000 customers an hour due to wait-staff on roller-skates.

And finally, the world's largest pumpkin pie was able to serve over 3000 slices.

To sum up, take a look at the pictures below. That will give you a sense of the relative enormity of my acheivement. Thanks for reading.

...find a funny card?

So, to continue tribute month, this post is dedicated to Jason.

...wonder about Larry Keech's BCS voting?

Me either, until I saw it. Here is Larry's final top 5:

No. 1: Ohio State
No. 2: Boise State
No. 3: Michigan
No. 4: Wisconsin
No. 5: Florida

To explain this ranking system, he said:
"I try to minimize the subjectivity as much as possible therefore I went with teams that lost zero games at the top and then those that lost one game. And then I rank those that lost one higher if they lost to a team that was ranked higher at the time."

That's fine to have a system, but once you realize your system produces Wisconsin over FL and Boise State over Michigan, don't you change the system? Or maybe you pull a Stravinsky and slightly alter the results when they don't sound good. On the other hand, at least he got the relative position of Michigan and Florida correct...ok, we'll keep him around. But seriously, if we're going to allow College Football's national championship to be decided by a vote (this in not the NBA all-star game), we have to recognize that some voters will be uninformed. (read: crazy).

...reflect?

So, the one year anniversary of my blog has come and gone. I think I've done some good things with it...blog your own adventure, Breighan's suggestions, thought of the day, girl on girl action...the works! As i look into the future of this blog, I think I will attempt to give the public at large (meaning Emily, Brian, and that cute redhead that used to post) more of what they tell me they enjoy. My odd thoughts on life's silly events. For example: pie? I mean, seriously! What's up with that? Freakin' pie... Thinks it's all big with it's fruity filling and flaky crust. You know, I don't feel like writing anymore. Pie's ruined it for everyone. I hope it's happy. Pie...

Except pumpkin. 'Kin and I are cool.

...finally do something?

This blog entry is dedicated to brian Mosely.

I finally brought my chairs back. The ones I've had to tell everyone to be careful with all year. Guess what? Managy McAsserson wouldn't take them back. So, I had to leave leave in multiple precarious places in Jenny's apartment while I flew to NY. I then emailed customer service a bitchy message about taking care of their merchendise. Later that day I got an email saying they'd come pick them up, no charge, credit my account, and send new ones if I wanted. So, with one email, my chair problem is almost solved. Anyone want to tell me why I didn't send that email last March? Oh well.