“Remember the Time”

broderic on June 26, 2009

In college, the first one, I had a real good friend whom I ate dinner with. She would usually drop by my dorm room to pick me up, and I would usually be watching MTV. That’s what you did as a college student watch television. And drink heavily, but that is another story.

It always seems she dropped by whenever Michael Jackson’s video would be on. First, it would be that morphing video for “Black or White.” White guys turning into black girls with the asian dude thrown in as an afterthought. Next, it would be “Remember the Time.” She would note that Eddie Murphy hadn’t done anything in a while and that Imam is not as hot as Naomi Campbell. Then she would say that Magic Johnson should not wear those Egyptian clothes at all because his knees look funny. Then we would laugh as Jackson would turn into a million balls. He was always a showman.

And he’s gone. At 50.

RIP Michael Jackson. You moonwalked into music history. Pop music is officially dead. Long live the King of Pop.

5 More

broderic on June 25, 2009

The Academy has gone to 10 Best Picture nominees instead of the usual 5. Isn’t 10 too much to choose from? And will it have even more suckier films to choose?

The Academy should just take a page from the Globes and have different categories for Best Picture. Best Picture for Drama. Best Picture for Comedy. Best Picture for Impenetrable Foreign Film. Best Picture for Will Ferrell Comedies. Best Picture for Lame Action Movies. Best Picture for Non-lame Action Movies. Such and such.

This will make creating the spreadsheet for BrowserMetrics Annual Oscar Pool a little bit more inconvenient.

Is 10 too much? I think 7 would’ve been ideal.

Sport Around the World

broderic on June 25, 2009

US 2 – Spain 0 in a Confederation Cup semi-final. US makes it into a final of an actual tournament. They do it by beating the best team in the world. Woohoo!

Orioles 2 – Marlins 4. WTF! They can sweep the defending national champs, but not a somewhat sorry team.

10 miles of flat

broderic on June 25, 2009


10 miles of flat
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
I haven’t been cycling in a while.

I was supposed to be at 500+ miles. I’m only reaching 350. What happened?

It’s been great weather for the past week, and I decide to take advantage of it by going on a bike ride. If it’s Wednesday, it’s distance day. That means NCR trail. I’ve been twice this year. Each time making it to a different mile marker: 11 then 15. Now I aimed for 17 which will make it about 34 miles. Not the longest I’ve gone out this year, but it has been a while for a ride.

When you go north on the NCR it starts off slightly down hill. It’s nice. About past White Hall, it levels out and around the 13 mile mark, it’s uphill. I hate it, because I slow down. I’m going slower this year by about half an mph. I don’t know why. It could be the 3 lbs I’m carrying or it could be the fact that I’m getting older and out of shape quicker. It’s just so depressing. The slower you go the longer it takes you to get there.

So distance day is always trying to gauge comfort in the saddle. I hate it.

I make it to mile marker 17 and turn around. I’m cruising down the slight decline. The I notice a weird noise. The air is slowly leaking out over a mile. I’m just short of 13 miles. I’m short of Monkton. It plain sucks. No one has a pump. And when I do find some helpful guy, my tube is toast.

I huff it at 11 mph for the last 10 miles. It sucks. I have to get it fixed. The damage: 34 miles in 3 hours. The last hour is nothing but plodding on a flat.

Quote of the Day [6.23.09]

broderic on June 23, 2009

"Why would it drive private insurance out of business? If private
insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care;
if they tell us that they're offering a good deal, then why is it that
the government, which they say can't run anything, suddenly is going to
drive them out of business? That's not logical."President Obama talking about the public option in health care reformPreach it, sir, preach it. If insurance can't compete then they should
get out of the market. That's what capitalism has taught us.

BrowserMetrics 3, Other teams 3

broderic on June 18, 2009


Mets @ Orioles, June 17, 2009
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
We get to the .500 mark. In games watched.

It’s a win.

And Matty Weit Weit hits his first home run. The gentlemen behind us wonder what the fan that caught it can expect from the team for exchange of this memorabilia. I think signed catching glove, ball, bat from Matty Weit Weit may make it all square. Plus lump in some nice tickets at the club level.

Mets fans were out and about. I was sitting next to one. David Wright, he of .360 batting average, gets called strike out king. All hail strike out king. I get heckled for it. ALL HAIL STRIKEOUT KING! 😛

It rains, but it don’t keep the fans away. They come for the Adam Jones bobblehead souvenir. His facsimile does just as much as the real thing who goes 0 for 4 on the day. The Orioles table setters, Roberts and Jones, bat a collective .000, 0 for 9. B-Rob may be going into another slump.

Would be nice to keep winning.