On the Clock - Adam

Time is the ruler of the world.

we live and die by the clock, work for 8 hours, sleep for 8 hours, go to grade school for 12 years, years of eligibility, retirement its all regimented time that we are forced to obey.

I'm driving my car today and I see some people walking as I blow past them I think to myself "what is the point of a car but to save time?" then I start thinking about all the things we do in life and it all seems to be for the purpose of saving time.

I send you an e-mail because it saves time, I get married young and have children early so that I can have time to myself later, I buy microwave kroger pizza's because they take less than 2 minuets to warm up.

I hate time, think about the world if we didn't have time, and there was a stage of this earth where humans did not measure time. it would be so much nicer.

We all know by now that time's the enemy
It controls us, tells us where to be

Time is money and we all know money rules all, but I think its the other way around I think money is time. Anyone can make more money, no one can make more time. Interesting how people say they "buy time"

what is valuable in life and what is scarce are usually one in the same, nothing is more rare than youth, health, and time.

think about it, you look at elderly people and you think I will never be that, then you look at parents and thing way down the road I will be that, then you look at married couples and think someday I will be that, then you take a look at people that are younger than you and you realize that you are getting old everyday and before you know it you will have passed all of those stages of life.

I remember thinking high schoolers are the oldest most mature people the world has to offer now being four years out of high school looking back at them, my opinion is different.

I wish we didn't have to worry about time, I wish the word "late" didn't exist.

there are not enough hours in a day? it doesn't matter how you slice it there no one has said life is too long.

; - Adam

The semi colon... its the wtf punctuation

first off why call it a semicolon? it isn't half of a colon if it was it would look like two half dots or if it was just one dot should not a period be called a semi-colon?

I have a theory on how the semicolon was crafted. I believe that two very smart english scholars were competing by writing and grading each others works. finally one of them made a horrific grammatical mistake the comma splice.

in an fact to save face the scholar placed a period above the comma claiming it to be a... "semicolon" and every great english scholar knows that semi colons work exactly like periods.

quickly the other scholar pretended to konw that obviously well known rule and thus the semicolon was born

seriously what is the point of the damn thing? just put a period... and if you are not done with your thought us a comma there is no need for both. and if you are going to use them why call them semi colons? they don't look anything like half of a colon

Casual Friday - Adam

People always seem to put a lot of stock in what the "what do you do?" question. your job seems to define who you are in America. How much money you make is more impressive than how happy you are.

I live by two sayings (when it comes to jobs):

1. Love your job and you'll never work a day in your life
2. It is called work for a reason

Now there are 168 hours in a week. 40 of them I will spend at work 56 of them I will spend asleep. and the remaining 72 hours in a week I will spend doing whatever the hell I want to do.

why would my job be the most important of those 3 things when it is the one I spend the least amount of time doing? I sleep more in a week than I do work.

But the thing about society that bothers me the most is the more uncomfortable the clothing, the more dressed up you are.

why can't society flip that so that gym shorts and a t-shirt is the fanciest thing you can wear? and that collars and ties are for suckers.

its a cruel thing to do to us forcing us to get all dressed up because someone once said if you wear this then you are apparently more fancy than if you don't.

Darkness MF - Adam

"If I can do it anyone can" it really grinds my gears when I hear that... there are so many variables that could come into play that this guy has no idea about... in any circumstance I just think its a cheap statement. First off you are implying you are the dumbest of the dumb and second off if I fail I am now uncomprehendingly dumb to you. you don't know me

what is with darkness? why does it get dark? people say that if the sun burned out we'd all be fucked. everything when you trace it back goes to the sun...

these scientists are stupid that say this and here is why:

ok so plants need light to grow so we need some kind of light (this thinking is post sun explosion) ok so what lights up other than our electricity or lighting? umm I don't know fire flies how bout?

if the sun burns out we start mating and harvesting fire flies and angle fish. they produce light we stick them above plants, the plants eat up that photosynthesis making some tasty sugars for themselves boom order is restored no one loses everyone wins

light and dark baffle me though, you shine light and dark is gone...where does it go? why does light not go around my shadow? these are things for scientist and mathematicians certainly not for one man doing mere paper work I'll tell you what.

Later the Greater - Adam

I'm pretty overwhelmed with numerous emotions right now. I'm at a huge intersection in my life along with a lot of other stuff in the Emotion Ocean.

Tomorrow is my final final. But I won't be done with college until end of August.

I'm about to move off campus and into a real place

I'm about to join the 9-5 corporate grind and become a full time employee for the first time in my life with no determined end.

Recently I've began suffering from TTWS syndrome. If you know anything about it you know it isn't fun and (for me) this isn't the first time.

thus is life but I'm glad I'm living in the now and not the back then...

Think about it there was a time in the past when stores closed really early and even more so they were closed EVERY Sunday. can you imagine that kind of world?

what if I'm out of something and really need some late at night like toilet paper or food, in the past you would have to slowly starve to death and deal with your poor planing. but in the now every fast food joint is open late so you can eat great even late. and alot of stores are open 24 hours a day and thanks for that because you never know when you need something from a wal-mart and thankfully they are always there for you.

we are almost to the point where retail stores are open every day no matter the holiday, time, or weather and once we get to that point we will look back at this current time and say "how did we ever survive?"

alright now that I'm done doing paper work I guess I should study for the last exam I will ever have to take in my life

MLSuck - Brian

So while I was at Adam's house over the weekend, we were scanning channels to find something good on TV when we came across an MLS game. We briefly stopped on it to check it out because it was on ESPN, so we gave it a shot. It was awful.

Just because soccer was invigorated momentarily during the World Cup in the US does not mean that we are ready to embrace MLS. I am fully committing myself to becoming a soccer fan, but of the Premier League in Europe, not MLS.

MLS is the abused step child of worldwide soccer. All but 3 of the US World Cup team members played for European club teams. The best soccer leagues in the world reside in Europe. Premier League soccer is considered by most to be better games than the World Cup. That means it is more exciting, more competitive, and more spectacular.

And the MLS? It was like watching high school soccer all over again. I watched some of Hiram College's soccer games since I have been there, and the play looked better than what I was seeing on ESPN that day. After that, I just don't think I can get into MLS like I do other sports, and therefore I have to stick to European soccer which is a shame.

Basically, ESPN needs to stop trying to shove new sports down our throats like they have been with MLS and lacrosse. The only way to make the MLS work is to have it be on par with European leagues and wait until the US does incredibly well in the World Cup, when US interest will have peaked.

Creepin - Adam

I'm not sure exactly when or how it happened, maybe it's always been this way I'm just now experiencing it...

Creepin...

Creepin can be anytime a male human interacts with a female human under any circumstances for any reason.

I know what you are thinking "Adam that isn't fair" trust me dude I know. I'm walking down the street I have a question about what time a store closes I ask the nearest person to me (happens to be a woman)... I'm creepin

I'm in a bar something funny happens near me I lean over to the nearest person to me so I can make a comment... if its a woman you are BIG TIME creepin

Creepin does have degrees although atmosphere usually determines it, It is not fair because of the creeper label when I am walking down a side walk I have to keep my face pointed at the ground no eye contact with women, no smiles, no "nice day out" nothing you keep your face down and get out of her way. any variation from that and she has the opportunity to consider you a creep...BUT don't go to fast or you risk suspiciously walking past her which is another form of creepin.

Why can't dudes have some of the power here? Girl smiles at me in a library I'm suppose to be ok with it but if a dude smiles at a girl same scenario its creepin

double standard I don't like it and I certainly don't appreciate it. Get over yourself how bout

Prediction VI - Adam

I'm at some 50's style McDonald's with Brian and they are only playing old music so I start thinking music in the 50's was pretty slow and if you look at the course music has taken over the years its getting faster and faster so...

In the future music will be so fast that the songs will only be 30 seconds long and the lyrics will be difficult to even understand

Think about it, if Lady Gaga's music came out in the 50's no one would be able to keep up or understand it.

The Grid - Adam

Something that has always made me upset is the fact that the states of America are not perfectly cut squares. Ok before satellites and stuff they didn't really know what the world looked like but now that we have that kind of technology I think it would be so much easier if we took the US and turned it into a grid, evenly divided up the land into 48 blocks.

Also the road system is completely messed up and should be 100% redone. every mile on the mile put a road. So in each square state there are square counties and in those counties there are roads every mile like longitude and latitude lines. The roads that run north and south will be even numbered the roads that run east and west will be odd numbered.

Fulton County basically has this system and it is incredible. so I could say I'm at 13 and 24 in Franklin County and everyone in the country would know how to get there it is so simple.

if you wanted to name roads after people and stuff you could do that but it would also have its number to go with it. then for cities we would simply cut up the land between the mile roads and turn that land into city blocks and those blocks would be called 1st street and 2nd street so its still easy to get around.

also with this system you would know exactly how far you have to travel no matter where you are going.

this needs to happen lets get the ball rolling

Feared Beard - Adam

For starters I don't know if you guys know this but I switched up my Blogger Profile Pic and I think it looks pretty B.A.

I had to switch it up because my old picture won't make sense with that is coming. But you'll just have to wait to see what I'm talking about

Why can guys grow beards and not most women?

we can sit here all day and talk about chemicals this and chemicals that but when you get right down too it I don't care how much chemicals someone has what could possibly make my body think hmmm hair needs to grow around his cheeks but not too high, no forehead beard,

in nature is the beard a sought after item that only the most dangerous game can attain? and why not women? trust me I' very thankful they don't grow beards, in fact I wouldn't lose sleep at night if their legs and pits couldn't grow hair either.

and why hair? why not something else like finger nails only they would be called cheek nails

or why doesn't the beard hair grow to the length of head hair or at least at the same rate?

either way at the end of the day I think I look more B.A. sporting the beard then not so its whateve

Grown up - Adam

Wow the China Kitchen in Wauseon, although they have good food I am definitely doing some Hiroshima Paper Work immediately after the fact. (I know Hiroshima is in Japan not China)

Adulthood: I'm about a month and a half away from full force adulthood, working full time, health insurance, all the boring old people stuff that kids hope they die before having to deal with.

I've been thinking more and more about the dream neighborhood. is it possible? where could it happen? when and how?

Here are my plans thus far (you can make fun of me for them down the road when I completely fold and don't do any of this) first off graduate in August then live with Dain in Powell for a year or so after that if I have at least one friend willing I'm thinking of moving some place warm, some place where it isn't pitch black outside around 5:00pm for half the year, some place where the heating bill is never an issue. do that for some of my 20's while I have no expenses and responsibilities.

then once I'm down with that stage in my life either move back to Wauseon or I'm thinking Marysville settle into one of those locations rise the crop of kids and hopefully have the dream neighborhood in full swing by 2020

just been thinking about about these sorts of things, but I'm done with Paper Work and I need to get on the road and head back to Columbus before bed time.

The Heat is on! - Adam

As you all know I am officially a Miami Heat fan. and as of Thursday the Trio has been birthed.

Now as you may know in the past I have referred to LeBron James as LeYawn Lames, LBlowJ, Queen James, The Chodesen One and Chokey McChockerson of Choketown, seeing as how certain things have occurred since then i.e. James joining the team I like I am here to officially apologize to the man and defend him much like my second cousin has done.

LeBron, I'm sorry I called you all those names you have gained my respect.

First off Dan Gilbert and the Village of Cleveland in general, back off of my boy LBJ how can you be mad at him for leaving? oh wait that's right now I remember I forgot that LeBron decided to play for the Cavs on his own free will. First off the kid couldn't pick where he grew up so Akron it was, then it wasn't his fault the Cavs where shitty enough to get the number one pick overall.

Remember when James wore the Yankee hat to an Indians game? again he didn't pick where he played he made the best of the situation, did his time and left. was it his idea to hang the giant poster? was it his fault Cleveland fell in love with him?

Now along with playing for the team I like, he also changed his jersey number which I hated that I had to respect him for that because that is just one hell of a classy thing to do (if that is really why he changed his number)

LeBron decideds to take less money for a chance to win a title can anyone blame him? he's been in the league for six years now, straight out of high school all he has done is NBA basketball when that is your life and your only getting older don't you think panic starts to set in, you start thinking about Dan Marion and how everyone says "if only he had a ring" and that is when you need to do whatever will help you sleep at night. you need to do whatever it takes so that once you retire you won't ever have to say "if only things would have been different."

So now Miami Thrice is born and everyone is starting to feel the pressure, have you seen what Otis Smith is saying about LBJ now? he is watching his window for a championship quickly slam shut. and I know what you are thinking... can these three play together? can James walk into Wade's turf and try to dethrone or even step back and take the side kick roll? First off D Wade is a 100% class act if it wasn't for him this would not have been possible, and secondly they can absolutely play together... for one shining moment

Classy - Brian

I never thought that I would defend LeBron James, but I suppose I'm about to.

After the release of Dan Gilbert's letter to Cavs fans where he bashes LeBron's decision, it has come to make me realize the the Cavs organization is classless. Gilbert sits behind his desk and calls LeBron a coward, stating that he betrayed the city and his fans.

He also goes on to state that James quit during the playoffs and gave up on his team and his city. Really? Is that why LeBron averaged 29 points, 9.3 rebounds, and 7.6 assists during the playoffs? Because he gave up?

Why isn't Gilbert blaming himself for surrounding James with a poor supporting cast? Mo Williams and all his greatness averaged 14 point on 39% shooting for the playoffs. Why isn't Gilbert chastising him? Gilbert had a chance to get Amar'e Stoudemire at the deadline, but chose Antwan Jamison instead. His reasoning at the time? He didn't want to give up JJ Hickson in the deal. Well if Hickson was so important, why did he average 8 minutes in the playoffs, with only a combined 9 minutes in their last 3 playoff games?

LeBron chose the path to winning, and everyone knew that wasn't going to happen in Cleveland. Sports is about winning and I don't blame him for leaving to greener pastures. Do Cleveland fans have a right to be upset? Absolutely they do. But steer most of your anger towards the ownership, not LeBron. He did everything he could for the Cavs and got left out to dry by Dan Gilbert.

Makes a little more sense that he disliked the Cavs organization after that stunt by Gilbert. I stand by LeBron's decision, wish him the best of luck, and hope the Cavs continue to fail as long as they still have the only coward they ever had - Dan Gilbert.

Phonetic - Adam

So I'm loosely following the SOCCER world cup and as I am watching Germany beat the crap out of Argentina I start thinking to myself "why don't we call Germany Deutschland?"

my name is Adam, if I go to a different country my name is still Adam, no matter where I am or what I am doing my name is pronounced and still is...Adam.

If the people of Deutschland call it Deutschland...why do we call it Germany? its not ours to name their country their name.

now I know what you are going to say: "Deutschland is german for Germany" do you know who ridiculous that sounds? if anything Germany should be english for Deutschland.

Bottom line is I think we should call every country what the native people call it because it is their country. "Adam we don't have the chinese characters to spell China" that is fine we should pronounce it the same and spell it phonetically the best we can.

doesn't that make more sense?

"Hello my name is Adam"
"hmmm not here it isn't your name is Jim"
"...no I don't think my name changed because I'm standing somewhere else..."
"yeah it did that's how this works"

see that doesn't make sense to me nawmeen?

Three Agency - Brian

As some of you know, we are now in full swing of the greatest free agent class in NBA history. Three super stars have still yet to commit - LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh. All three hold the fate of the Eastern Conference in their decisions, since they are choosing between Chicago, Miami, New York, New Jersey, and Cleveland.

They also hold the fate of their own careers in hand. It is the consensus that two of the three will sign together, with a small chance that all three could land in Miami. For what it's worth, my prediction is that Wade and Bosh join up in Chicago and LeBron returns to Cleveland or commits to New Jersey and tries to bring along David Lee or Carlos Boozer.

If LeBron chooses to go back to Cleveland and Bosh and Wade go to Chicago, it is pretty easy to see that the Bulls will be the top dogs in the East. Chicago gave Cleveland a run for their money last year without Wade and Bosh. Add those two, with Cleveland staying relatively the same (due to no cap flexibility) and how is LeBron ever going to get his title? I just can't see the Cavs beating that Bulls team in a 7 game series.

But again, this is all speculation. We won't know until later this week. Either way, James needs to leave Cleveland if he wants to win some titles. I've been saying it for years, and now is the time for his decision.

Swingers - Adam

So Brian Alan and Pence just left my place, today the Brew Crew just bottled our first batch into 4 two liters and 1 one liter. Then we Brewed our Second batch we are letting that ferment until the 16th. We'll see if lightening can strike twice.

So this summer quarter is my last quarter of school ever. I've had my last first day of class ever. Tomorrow is my last midterm ever. I've done a lot of walking to and from classes in my day and alot of recreational walking in general. One thing I have noticed for certain is that when women walk they have one arm holstered around their purse and the other one heaving back and forth.

It seems to only be with women although not all women do it. They get about a 90° rotation on that opposite arm and I'm not sure why...does it give you more of a power stride? maybe it throws their momentum ahead of them increasing their speed and velocity. whatever the reason just look for it in public and tell me what you think of it and why it happens.

Restauwrong - Adam

First off Happy 234th Birthday to America, U.S.A. #1

Why I have mixed feelings on Restaurants:
I love the idea of restaurants. I go to someone elses place all I do is sit there. They bring me what I want. They wash the dishes. I don't have to do any work if I don't like it send it back and for a small fee at the end of the meal that can be avoided with a simple "let me use the bathroom" then out the door maneuver.

But allow me to help make restaurants one of the greatest things in the world:
First off some places have glass ketchup bottles...those have to go. they suck its impossible to get anything out of them then when you somehow manage to get some out its an enormous amount ruining your meal. Squeeze bottle was invented for a reason I don't care how fancy you think glass is it doesn't work. Next, can all the waitresses please stop starring at me and trying to sneak their phone numbers on to my table through numerous schemes and plans of trickery? I just want to enjoy the meal. Also, as soon as my food gets to my table as I am trying to eat I am bombarded with five different people asking if everything is alright...can I just eat this thing please? then they never come around when you need a refill so here is my idea: Flight attendant button at the table. If I need you I'll turn it on, if not stay away I'm trying to talk to my company and fill my stomach. Lastly, restaurant subscription: this is an awesome idea. I play my favorite place a monthly fee for unlimited access to their stuff. Like a phone, gas, electric, cable, internet, gym membership, just let me enjoy the meal and not have to pay at the end what if I don't want to bring my wallet or anything? Its a genius idea I know and I don't know why it isn't happening.

Stuff - Adam

alot of stuff has been thought up and invented since Adam and Eve so the question is which ones are the best of the best? Which 10 creations could you not live without? I give you my top ten inventions on earth:

10) finger nail clippers - what would you do without them?

9) electricity - although I don't think its actually an invention its just something that exists in nature we just learned to control it I know if I leave it out all of you will say that I left it out

8) deodorant - not sure how they survived without it

7) the automobile - now I could go into planes and trains and semis being the backbone of society but I'm just going to say cars because I can only have 10

6) the furnace - I probably should have put this higher on my list winters would suck without this fabulous creation

5) The cell phone - I'm not even talking about the ones that can surf the web and do everything I'm just talking about being able to reach someone when both of you can be anywhere at any moment.

4) The television - it is a window into the world, although it is small it can show you things of any size and time, it helps us learn and enjoy

3) the fridge - prior to this bad boy meat was like a ticking time bomb, not even sure how milk was stored for longer than a day

2) Indoor Plumbing - I think we don't realize how handy it is to be able to turn a knob and water comes out instantly, same goes for doing paperwork inside and being able to shower everyday

1) The Internet - of course I had to say it, The internet is still basically brand new and we have no idea its potential, so far it has managed to kill the newspaper, the encyclopedia, movie rental stores, and its just getting warmed up, this creation is limitless and will and is be essential to life.

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