Ponderings 3/25/12

1. I always like to believe nothing is impossible, but there are some things I haven't been able to learn after countless hours of trying:
A. Spinning a basketball on my fingers
B. Getting my fingers to to hit each other when waving my hand. (The Ali G "respect" move)
C. Correctly spinning a pen like all those cool kids in school.
D. The 2 finger whistle. (Aka. The Coach whistle)

2. There is a natural competition to be the first person to share something on Facebook or Twitter. Someone needs to create a game around this to make it an official competition. This would be the perfect app/game to get folks even more addicted to being online and being the first person to post news and would allow you to keep score.

3. Golf has been trying and trying to find a new athlete to showcase but they couldn't. The good news: Tiger Woods wins and golf is back!

4. I hate emails about airplane sales. Each one gives me false hope to search for cheap flights. But when I look for flights on the dates I want , I realize it is the exact same thing as going to the website.

5. Why don't Thai food restaurants have chopsticks?

6. My twitter experimenting is going strong and so far I love following these 5 accounts:
A. Sportscenter - Don't need to follow anyone else in sports since they retweet everything.
B. Aziz Anzari - Super active and super funny.
C. Shaq - The athlete everybody has to follow.
D. TechCrunch - Following them is better than going to their website.
E.  Nasa Astronauts - Just cool to see what they do.

Ponderings 3/18/12

1. Get a competitive person who knows nothing about college basketball to fill out a bracket and you can instantly watch the addictive effects of March Madness.
2. Facebook and Twitter need a feature to be able to flag posts to view them later. (I know there are some 3rd party tools that can kind of do this but it should be native)
3. ESPN has slowly been putting more and more content under ESPN Insider. I may have to start looking for alternatives.
4. Every club should only allow river dancing on St. Patty's day.
5. Someone should create a taxi meter app. The app keeps track of the time, miles driven, and uses the City's rate your are in. Not only would this be useful to make sure you don't get ripped off by cabs but it also would show you the approximate gas cost of the drive. Finally this would be great if you wanted to start a cab business on the side or start charging your friends for all those rides.

Ponderings 3/11/12

1.  Oreos are the best cookies to have with milk. To celebrate their 100th birthday, I decided to splurge on a big pack of Oreos. The best part about Oreos is figuring out your own personal dipping style. I do the "half dip" to get half the cookie soggy with the other half being crunchy.

2. I wish we could bring the idea of a conference championship with a guaranteed bid into professional sports. I would love to see teams have to play in a tournament just to get into the playoffs. This would allow for teams to always care about becoming better because there is always a small chance they can make it.
NBA & NHL - Top 6 seeds in each conference determined by record. Bottom 2 spots determine in a single elimination tournament.

3. I used to think having a fat wallet was a good thing until I realized it is full of junk and no money.

4. How did we decide on the style that shirts primarily use buttons and jackets primarily use zippers?

5. I wish there were more 24 hour indoor or well lit outdoor basketball courts. What I am supposed to do when I want to shoot around late at night?

6 . I don't know why Taco Bell introduced the Dorito taco before Dorito Nachos. Regardless they had me at Dorito. Go try the taco now!

Favorite Links from the week: (New section, each week I will showcase a couple of my favorite links)
-http://www.kanyezone.com/
-http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1096388-march-madness-by-the-numbers

Ponderings 3/4/12

1. We should all complain about having to work an extra day during a leap year.
1B. Every TV sitcom has a character whose birthday is on February 29th. I guess if your show has not been around for 4 years you should take advantage of the free plot line.

2. It would be awesome if cell phones had an app for when you are lost. From the app, you could click a button to get help from a friend. Your selected friend would be able to see what your camera is seeing as well as your GPS location to help you out. Even with map and GPS apps there are many times where this is needed.
2B. This would also make it easier to find your "slow" friends on a night out.

3. I am waiting for 100% iron/wrinkle free formal clothing. (This needs to be discovered before I get a job that requires me to wear formal clothing.)

4. More Djs/Clubs need to hook into a system where people can text song requests to the DJ.

5. Taking a cloth bag to a grocery store is a great way too limit how many things you buy.
Note: If you miscalculate then you lose all of your credibility as an environmentalist.

6. I have decided to try to embrace the hash tag culture and try out Twitter actively for a month. #getyopopcornready, #marchmadness, #playbyplay, #notsurewhenwestartedcallingthisahashtag, #farewellnumbersign.