danger smells like clean socks

yuhoo7

Had a dream last night that I was in an unnamed urban sprawl at night. I was walking to some unknown destination, having just left a party or a gathering of sorts. It might've been a family function because I kept thinking of my grandmother. The city was totally sketch. It was poorly lit, and lots of shadows lurking everywhere. I felt terribly unsafe, and an uneasiness came over me when I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around quickly and glanced at this homeless man wearing a raggedy trenchcoat. He wore a wool hat much like Tyrone Biggums from the Chapelle Show. Except he wasn't funny. This was dead serious. I knew how it was going to go down, so I turned around and faced him. He had a gun in his hand. He demanded money and anything else I had of value.

I took my wallet out and gave it to him. He demanded I empty my other pockets. I did, and showed him a cell phone. He wanted my cell phone. I refused to give it to him. I told him to just to take my wallet and go. He relentless in his demand, but I wouldn't concede. Eventually I got pissed off and threw my phone way up in the air across the street. He ran to go grab it and I ran after him. He still had the gun, but for some reason, our roles switched, and now I was chasing after him and he was actually running away from me. He got the phone and just ran. I gave chase. The fool was fast, but I was angry, and that anger fueled my haste in pursuit of this thug. I eventually caught up to him outside of a building. I kept yelling at him, give me my fucking cell phone back! You mother fucker! I wasn't even thinking about the fact that just moments earlier this guy had a gun. He must have forgotten as well, because he looked to be scared as hell.

Then I woke up and felt really good.

simonkayar

Indian cricket fans should have one quality, endurance of pain, the pain of being so near, of almost winning. But among the pains of yesterday when India lost, something else was there to cheer about, a man dedicated to cricket. The devotion that this single man has shown in his life to this sport is amazing to say the least. After a wave of questions of retirement who everyone from my neighbour to the cricketing critics has been throwing at him, yesterday he showed why, he is the BEST.

The little master at the age of 36 single handedly carried on an assault against the aussies and almost won it for India, well almost..

P.S: Btw, he crossed 17k runs the first to do so and as a commentator pointed out he has been the first right from 10k runs.. And for those who says that he plays for record, you should have seen him when he stepped to get the man of the match award, the sadness said it all. I will watch again the many matches that he is part of, may be with a broken heart at the end but only to see if the master attempted it again...

linders1025

March 28th is only a few months away... so, I decided in some random moment of overconfidence that on March 28th I'd run 6, swim 1, and bike 26 miles... yes. I'm doing the Lavaman Triathlon. 

Not only do I fear that I will die & not make it past the 1 mile swim, I am pretty sure I will look like a fool doing it as well :) hoorah. 

Regardless, the most important part of this is that I'll be doing it to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. 

My training is nowhere up to par and if I were to attempt this feat right now, I would collapse, no doubt. I'll definitely track my progress towards this tri here as well as my workouts. Also, I'm targeting trying to raise $4.8k for LLS--but I hope to totally exceed that, so I'll keep a running track of my fundraising efforts as well. Any donations are much appreciated :)

Donations can be given through my site: 

http://pages.teamintraining.org/sj/lavatri10/ltong4

Thanks!

LT

yuhoo7

Life is a choice. Stuff happens, and then we get to choose.

Now do I want a spider monkey from South America, or a Yunnan Golden Monkey from China? Looks like the Spider Monkey can slap harder. A sense of security is an important factor when picking the right monkey. I'm going with the Spider.

simonkayar

After a long time I feel being gripped by a video game. I have spent 25 hours on this one and it is going strong - thanks to my wife for being so understanding of my passions. Now this game and this series is very popular among nintendo circles and it landed in shelves as early as 2006. But I had to wait till now since I could not get my hands on this game (living in india). The drought came to an end this year when a colleague of mine helped me purchase these games on his trip to US. I made sure that I collected most of the gems of Wii like Super mario galaxy, mario kart, zack and wiki, pikmin, de blob and a few more along with this, the biggest ever zelda game.

I fondly remember the days when my brother and I sat down and tried to conquer the first zelda game on NES in a day not realizing that it requires much more than that to complete the game. I will update this after I finish the game. Atleast another 25 hours to go is my guess

Narzack

A couple thoughts:

Jim Halpert loves Pam Halpert like no man has ever loved another woman.

I won't apologize for being mega excited about Avatar.

I just bought the greatest item in living human history.

Dwight Schrute is superhuman.

Ocarina of Time is still my favorite videogame ever.

I'm very tempted to pre-order Dragon Age: Origins.

Beyond that, it's nice to be employed again. 

and if, in fact, anybody still reads this thing I shall make an observation:

This American Life is totally, like, one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. That sounds like hyperbole, but it's the god's honest truth. Right down to the typeface of the credits I'm a fan.

(Love the radio show too, but that goes without saying.)

hapy

my car doesn't have a cd player so i've been listening to the radio on my way to/from work.  wow, there are some really bad songs out there these days.  people are welcome to write bad songs but, i just can't believe it's being played on the radio.