(This might interest) Maybe Just Me…

PostSecret
very interesting. people send in these cards with “confessions” or secrets or whatever and they get posted. worth a look most definitely.

some of these are just nuts. but a super interesting idea. i’m going to check it out regularly. who knows, maybe one day i’ll send one in.

C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights - New York Times

ha, the cia has airline services. shell companies, paper employees only. sounds so spy novel.

Common Errors in English

everyone should have to read over this, even though i’m sure i make many mistakes too.

Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lists

hmm, of course that would be assuming my lists are funny, which i don’t really think they are. regardless, i read two of the MANY lists on this page and found some of them to be kind of funny, thought i’d share. damnit, now i need to add some sort of humor/comedy/funny category.. ah well, for now it will be “random”

The Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers Contest | home

hmm, i know many twentysomethings with something to say, yet few of them possess the ability to actually put it into words and onto paper in any discernable organization. i wonder how many entrants will do some sort of cheesy “twenty things” essays (or twenty whatever their age is)?

Super Duper Doppler

it’s been everywhere this link (it’s a vid, work safe), but i had to link it. just nuts.

Graphic: How Class Works - New York Times

let this wonderful nytimes interactive let you know where you rank.

it looks like nash’s left foot is off the ground here. i thought so when i saw it live. and if that’s the case, nasty nash’s amazing falling down assist to amare should’ve been called traveling.

HoustonChronicle.com - Scientists find love can make you a little crazy

and yet love is the same as being crazy, kind of, well at least according to this research… and my own personal experience! ha. i kid. well not really. ha.

One man’s quest: 1,000 bars in a year - U.S. News - MSNBC.com

frankly, i might be more impressed if gramps could have a drink in every bar in all of nyc (all 5 boroughs) in one year. including any that open and close within that year.

okay, that’s not an entirely true statement because i know i think this. and as i’m starting to write, i know “things i think i think” is a list post title, and i don’t have a second item yet, but maybe i’ll think of one as i write.

1. one thing i KNOW i think: i DO NOT understand some people. well that completely obvious. but i catch every now and again the mtv show “i want a famous face.” okay beyond the obvious of some of these people aren’t willing to put in the hard work necessary to get the bodies they want, here’s what i don’t understand about some people. WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE THINKING?!?!?!? i mean seriously, these people don’t even look remotely similar to the celebs they are trying to look like. you would think if you are going to get plastic surgery to look like someone else, you’d at least pick someone you REMOTELY resemble! but no, these people are absolutely oblivious to reality! i don’t understand.

2. i just thought of one. everyone knows it, everyone says it, but i guess it’s not a real thing to them. celebs look like they do because (a) they have the good genetic makeup. (b) they have the financial ability to hire people to make them look that way (trainer, chefs, stylists, etc). (c) they can work out 4-5-6 hours a day if they want, they don’t have a 9-5 job for a majority of the year like most people. everyone knows it, everyone thinks it, but then people think just get the plastic surgery. or how about those people who get the lipo or whatever to get rid of a little bit of fat around X area? they say they work out all the time and diet etc, but to get rid of the last of the fat to look celeb-ish, it takes a little more than the average diet. it takes things like cutting all sugars for two weeks and crap like that. but you watch these shows about people who claim to do all this work but can’t lose the last bit as they eat a hamburger and drink a slurpee.

3. okay, i got nothing. not really a well thought out post/list. many apologies to my single digit readership.

okay, so the suns avoided the sweep tonight. i’ve watched all four games, and i really don’t have a dog in the fight as i’m not that big a fan of either team (though if pressed, i’d pick the spurs). but since game 2, seriously, i think the games have been called in favor of the suns by the refs. i’m not going all JVG, but seriously, there are a lot of plays where you would think a foul SHOULD be called on the suns, but it isn’t. there aren’t a lot of questionable calls (a few, but not a lot), but definitely a lot of questionable non-calls. i’m all for extending the series because it’s entertaining, and the nba certainly wouldn’t want the suns swept out, but i only agree with extending the series on merit. and frankly i don’t think the suns are in it. though definitely they played hard and made the plays tonight, and the spurs shot weren’t really falling, but there were a lot of questionable noncalls in favor of the suns…

State-by-state scores on driving test - May. 27, 2005

bad bad bad drivers. they are all over the place, but apparently more in the northeast/mid-atlantic

New Scientist 11 steps to a better brain - Features

too bad i lack the focus/desire to read the article.. (=

With Popcorn, DVD’s and TiVo, Moviegoers Are Staying Home - New York Times

She plays a video game for 30 minutes each night before bed. Two weeks ago, five friends joined her at her San Francisco condo to drink wine and play “Karaoke Revolutions” on her Sony PlayStation, where the would-be American Idols had a competition, belting out everything from Top 40 hits to show tunes.

“Party games are great for dates,” she said. “A few years ago I would have been at a bar or at a movie.”

okay, above quote is from that nytimes article again about movies and staying home, etc. but i HAVE to ask, who is taking dates home for party games (video/electronic or otherwise)? does this happen early in relationships? i wouldn’t know as i’m socially inept (thank god for my ipod to create a blanket of social isolation, i find maintaining small talk a bore and completely mind-numbing)