The 2011 season starts new. After seeing Wisconsin lose to TCU last year, I paid attention to the Wisconsin game on Thursday night. They absolutely pounded a defenseless UNLV football team into the pavement with the score of 51-17. TCU would have to respond in kind, I thought. Wisconsin sent a message that they were BCS bound. Was TCU?
I guess by now we all know that TCU isn’t bound for any bowl games. One could only hope Gary Patterson’s days are numbered for TCU. The man can’t coach strategy. He can only coach to players strengths. Down 8 points in last nights game with nearly a full quarter to go, Baylor clearly can’t score the ball, your team is cramping up like crazy, what’s the first thing you do? You lob bombs??? Are you nuts? That’s a coach filled with desperation, not strategy! TCU should have established their ground game once things were to their liking in the fourth quarter. They should had played ball position. They should have pinned Baylor deep into their own territory. That did not happen. On Baylor’s monumental three minute drive in the fourth, Baylor wasn’t firing on all cylinders to get to the end zone. Baylor practiced sound clock management. They ran the ball. They made little short dump off passes. Baylor knew that if TCU would beat them, it would be through the air. Why give TCU a chance to do that?
Baylor’s epic three minute drive in the fourth quarter should be proof to any team out there that if you exploit the coach more so the team, you can do anything. Gary Patterson was the reason why TCU lost, because of his inability to the play the clock down in the fourth just as he did last year with SMU, except SMU practically imploded in 2010’s fourth quarter.
If you are a tablet manufactuerer and you think you can compete head to head with Apple, forget about it. Companies like Google, Sony,HP, etc, need to acknowledge that they will always be second to the creator of the marketplace. What makes Apple great is its hardware AND software ecosystem.
Verizon employees on strike, stock market on the verge of collapse, and Britain in all out chaos, one would find it hard to find a silver lining, if any. But the truth to the matter is that it will all get worse, before it will be better. I, for one, do not condone violence. I believe that this world is beyond the violent days of our ancestors. We must simply take what system we have now and make it better! Our youth MUST participate in its government. That is the only way.
I’m listening to this CD and it brings up this whole notion that I should accept other people’s world view on things. I just couldn’t help but laugh at the absurdity of such a statement. Yea, I guess Thomas Paine should have accepted the British mindset that people from India were low class citizens who deserved to be fired out of canons. Or I guess all the klan members might have a point when it comes to their prejudice and misgivings of the black man. Better yet, Christians believe that everyone other than themselves are going to hell, but the kicker is that one has to sin in order to be forgiven, and through forgiveness can one only be saved. There’s a circular worldview to believe in.
Fact of the matter is that you should not accept people’s worldview. You should refine and be responsible of your own. Humanity has a long way to go before they can preach about the subject of world peace and equilibrium. Accepting people as who they are today fails to acknowledge who they can be tomorrow. If it were not for those who wished to assert their worldview upon others, I would not be blogging right now.
Humans must learn from one another, and only through conflict can this be achieved. Nobody wouldn’t even know who Jesus was had he not stood up against the Romans. Martin King preached equality to those who could care less. What man or woman can even say that King should have kept his mouth shut and accepted the whit man for what they believed themselves to be — superior.
I believe in psychology. I know it’s a valid science. But I begin to lose respect for those who decide to use their degree in attempt to promote their own agenda. Stop and think about it. If you never tried to get that job promotion, or joined a union in order to re wow better pay, would you have ever? Because we have what we do now is no reason to be complacent and accept things for what are. We should always fight for what we want and that sometimes requires others to show us what we do not have.
I love it when plans begin to come together. The emptiness of a piece of paper,canvas, or monitor screen does not intimidate me as I believe it does to most. When I was in college, the professor would grill me on my technique. “What are you doing starting in the middle of the bristol board,” she began to argue. “That is not how the exercise works…” But I know better. Brilliance is not the approach, as nobody remembers that. Brilliance is always what you, the artist, can create.
I have not really blogged as I use to. There is a reason for this. My marriage has been in question, life has been so chaotic, and stress, although I would love to blame my job but that is hardly the case, has been impossible to manage. I have been left for dead in the digital world which has helped raise me for the past fifteen years or so of my existence. Its ok to let go. And its ok to question. But to question ones own happiness when he is truly happy is absolutely ridiculous.
Fact is, lately, I have felt completely alive. I understand now why I seek solace in the void that separates my mind from paper. Am I comfortable with it? No. But I guess if I were comfortable with everything that makes me, me, would just be outright denial. My wife sees this and that is exactly why I married her.
My life as of late has consisted of a imbalance of coding. Born and bred as an artist, this can sometimes be a daunting task, especially when you spend a majority of your professional career becoming one. The code thing I had always thought revolved around my need to find balance in the world. But as I have found out, only love can balance hate. Coding is just that. On the other hand, what if the code begins to speak to you? Suddenly, functions become the gesture lines on paper and variable declarations become the ink. Next thing you know, what turned out to be an escape is actually a work of art.
I do not know what will become of my beloved project. I will, however, see this one through. There is just something about this great masterpiece that I dare not question. I must move forward and if you have read this far, maybe you can too.
Not really my idea of what the Google Plus experience should be all about, but come to think about it, I believe the service could greatly benefit drug dealers world wide. Hmmm. I feel a breaking bad scenario coming on.
Ever since I have been off Facebook I have found that I could careless about news or local events. It’s not because politics is “so divisive,” as some would say, but rather that I find my life that much more interesting. I just read today that Google plans to drop blogger. The times where Huffington Post and Drudge Report, I presume is dead. People don’t want to read, they don’t want to think, they would rather guess what you are trying to say in less than three hundred characters, and respond accordingly. Well, I am here to say that my life is more complicated than Facebook and Twitter. I like to blog. I like to formulate opinions based on hundreds of words consistent of mindless chatter. That way, I feel as if I truly am having a genuine conversation with you.
See. Facebook, Twitter, AOL — these fads will all die. The Internet might have killed the message, but these other services will kill the headlines. And then what are you to do? The generation of tomorrow will realize that they are not unique. Their witty banter and prophetic counter remarks will not be remembered, and all those years you could have spent creating your own company, curing cancer, or simply making the world a better place, will have been lost..
I was walking through Best Buy today and noticed a box containing a shiny gold ring inside. Sure enough, Best Buy is accepting preorders for Lord of the Rings Extended Edition. In return for ten dollars, you get the lovely plastic ring warn by Froto himself!
