The Stand-off has Ended. The Winner (or whiner) is YOU!

With the recent (relatively) changes to Rockhampalace.com, I have been in a standstill trying to figure out what to post there and what to post here (basically posting nothing). So, I have come to the conclusion that cool links, and non opinionated posts will go to RP, and everything I feel like ranting, or stating my opinion about will go here. The content of this blog has been dry because I either my life is boring, I do the same sh*t every day of every week, or my life contains things that I am not publishing on the web. You can be the judge. I could give you the “woke up, took a shit, checked my email” campaign, but I will leave that to Kevin Smith. Anyways, for those of you that are not College Football fans, and or do not like USC football, I will warn you ahead of time. USC will consume these pages and comprise the majority of the content. However, the occasional, “last weekend was my birthday. I took 15 shots at dinner and fell in fountain” stories will be posted sporadically. It did occur and I’m an idiot and will not argue otherwise.

A certain radio show was recent heard stating the Freddie Mitchell is the worst 1st round drafted WR in the last 10 years. Yes, the 5th year veteran from Ucla has not lived up to his 25th overall selection in 2001. I would argue that he wasn’t even the worst first rounder in that draft. Chicago taking David Terrell at #8 and Seattle taking Koren “this is my break-out year unless I show up drunk to a DUI trial” Robinson #9 were worse, in my opinion. Statically speaking however, both Terrell and Robinson have out performed Mitchell. So, as much as it hurts me to admit it, one must look no further than Jacksonville’s 2000 drafting of my boy R.Jay Soward to find a worse first round WR pick. Ouch. I’m not sure if it was Kareem Kelly or R.Jay that have disappointed me more as USC Alumnus (Don’t even think about bringing up The Juice).

As mentioned on RP (by me), yesterday marked the first day of full-pads practice for The Back to Back National Champion USC Trojans. September 3rd cannot come soon enough for me as well as the rest of the USC alumni. I have slated Fresno State and UCLA as the two games I will attempt to come back for (And yes, the Associates Party is in my plans). However, there is no doubt that November 12th at Strawberry Fields, or whatever they call it up there in hippie land, is in great anticipation as well. A little redemption blow-out for that game at home last year, where I aged about 10 years, and the-game-we-do-not-speak-of, would be great.

I’m just about finished with Gladwell’s “Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, which came highly recommended by Dell. To which I should continue the honors, and recommend it to you. The part about how expressions can actually influence your emotion, rather then emotion only influencing your face is incredible. That’s all I will say. This book entirely reminds me of William McClure’s BISC 230 class I took at USC, Brain, Mind and Machines: Topics in Neuroscience. The class was hard as hell, dendrites and axions, blah blah blah. But the really cool stuff was about all these experiments and strange brain phenomenon that occurred. For instance there is a special part of our brain that is responsible for facial recognition. However, one man had a trauma to this portion, so he could not recognize anyone, even his own wife. Imagine waking up, and not knowing anyone by their face. Yeah, you knew their voice, but if you saw them on the street you wouldn’t know them. So his wife had to wear the same hat everyday, so he would know who she was.

This week I have started to actually try and read Chinese. I have about 20 characters I can recognize so far, things like; you, me, he/she, them, us, tired, coming, busy, good bye, hello, good, health, Dad, Mom, Older Brother, Younger Brother, Older Sister, Younger Sister. I will not say that it is easy at all.