Author: Greg

If there is one thing I hate about myself is my inability to talk to people…

I can’t really communicate what going on in my mind, too many times people have said I don’t talk enough… And I don’t know why I can’t, I had numerous excuses… Like it would be so people (parent’s mostly) would leave me alone, I’m a very pensive person and usually I have nothing good or interesting to say. Maybe I hate the sound of my own voice, it’s been mished over time so much that it’s barely my own.

So most people hate my lack of communication, my parents, friends, girlfriends and people I live with… I’m also an inconsiderate bastard from time to time, I make mistakes from time to time, I’m perpetually doing “the wrong thing” and screwing it up for people around me, I’m a magnet for bad news… In other words, I’m as fallible as the next man… The only way I can seemingly communicate is on here, and even that gets me in trouble from time to time.

I always say, “man, I’m gonna change my ways” but never seem to be able to…

Maybe I’m misunderstood, or mistaken, or maybe selfish… Possibly all three at the same time if truth be told. Maybe I put the almighty crusade for personal happiness above things that are much more important, like work…

But I’m happy, happiest I’ve been in a long while…

This is too complicated, but only cause I make it so…

Dammit… Time for musical interlude…

“If there’s anything i’ve learned
All these years on my own
It’s how to find my own way there
And how to find my own way back home”

Name that song.

Anyways, to lighten the mood… Here’s a list of sites that pulled April Fool’s jokes today… Enjoy while they last, which won’t be long I imagine.

Over the last week I’ve been out and about more than I’ve been in the 8 weeks since I got here… How you ask?

Dating…

Saturday evening was my first date in a very long time, and you know what? I enjoyed it, I enjoyed it enough to go out 3 more times since then and have a fabulous time in the company of a really great woman. That’s all you’re getting so don’t even bother asking for more info. This is one side of my life I’m going to keep private this time.

There’s nothing like correct, factual, up-to-the-minute news right?

Ask BBC Sport for their fine reporting of the Arsenal vs. Manchester United game…

Exhibit A:

Spot what’s wrong… 1-1 but Henry scores the winner?

Exhibit B:

That’s more like it… Better late than never I guess.

For Rangers, it was a season that promised so much, and for the first two months it looked like it might be one of those years. Unbeaten, top of their Champions League group… Things never looked so good.

But if there was one moment where you could say it all went pear shaped, it would have to be the 87th minute of the Panathanikos game on October 1st 2003 in Athens when 2 points were thrown away in a game they controlled for 99% of… The month that followed that was absolutely dreadful and things just progressed from bad to worse right up til today when Celtic all but won the championship after a 2-1 win at Ibrox.

I can’t remember a season that promised so much yet delivered so little, well apart from the 1997/98 season, but that’s a whole different matter.

If you like my site, you may these too…

Using the Recommended Reading script over at Dive Into Mark, it threw up a few interesting blogs worth reading…

http://philringnalda.com/
http://kottke.org/
http://evhead.com/

To name a few…

The NCAA March Madness Tournament is nearly over as part of the “Sweet Sixteen” round comes to the Georgia Dome today and tomorrow. Four teams, Duke Blue Devils, Illinois Fighting Illini, Texas Longhorns and Xavier Musketeers, all come in with hopes of making it to the Final Four National Championships in San Antonio.

So to say the city will be full of drunk, cheering college students and basketball fans is an understatement… Who do I think will win this round? Hmmm… I’d probably say Duke, seeing as they have to be one of the favourites to win the National Championship but the Atlanta region is very much up for grabs.

But then again, what do I know about college hoops?

So Celtic stun Barcelona with a typically stubborn defensive performance as they move even closer to Gothenburg and a second succesive UEFA Cup Final…

Never hear the end of it…

Oh yes… Taken from the blog of the most accessable NBA owner in the league, Dallas Mavericks owner and number one fan, Mark Cuban…

How would you like to win a million dollars? Billionaire businessman and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is set to give away a million bucks to a complete stranger. Why? Because he can. How will he decide? However he wants. One million. His rules. YOUR chance! Mark Cuban is “The Benefactor.”

[…]

Mark has these words of wisdom for the applicants: “Everyone has dreamed of getting rich, and I want to help one lucky person get there. This isn’t a traditional contest. You don’t need special talents. I’m not looking to find out who is the grossest, funniest, prettiest, smartest or able to go without food or water the longest. The right person is going to get on my good side at the right time and, whoever that is, is going to walk away with a check for one million dollars.” “From the millions of applicants we expect, I will then invite approximately 15 finalists to visit with me and begin the journey to win the money. And I can promise you it will be a journey… with some of the rules made up along the way. So if you are ready to take a voyage to a one million dollar check, go to abc.com keyword: casting.”

More info can be found here on abc.com

Some three years, three months and twenty four days after it died, sixdegrees.com says it’s relaunching. Probably trying to build on the popularity of Friendster, it looks like the sixdegrees.com domain name is now owned by Justin Champion of Synergy6, the same guy who was sued for spamming by Microsoft and New York State Attorny General Elliot Spitzer.

Incase you didn’t know, sixdegrees was the original networking site, they (by they I mean original owners sixdegrees, inc. and later YouthStream Media Networks) own US patent #6,175,831 or the “six degrees patent” that Tribe and LinkedIn paid $700,000 to use.

Now, a LOT of people disliked sixdegrees because of their own “spamming techniques” but not me, between May 1998 and December 2000 I was completely immersed in the world of sixdegrees. I met a huge group of people whom I’m still in contact with to this very day… In fact, my trip to Portland was to visit someone I met off sixdegrees as part of the bman’s pub group. So as you can imagine, I’ll have nothing ill said about sixdegrees, hell, I’ve sat in their head office drinking free beer out a fish tank cooler because of them.

Last year I caught wind of a beta test going on with the “new” sixdegrees which was then owned by worldshine.com and to say I was hugely disappointed was an understatment… It lacked everything that made sixdegrees a fun place to hang out and to learn that the sixdegrees name and domain has fallen into the hands of spammers, well it saddens me no end.

Dear FutureMe,

I’m surprised you still use this email address… Happy 35th Birthday, this will probably be the only email you receive so don’t cry too much.

I know this is kinda corny, and I doubt you’ll (I’ll) even remember writing this, but it’s Monday March 22nd 2004… Yesterday was Melody’s 26th birthday, how’s things going with her? She’s really a great person if you’ll let her be, you shouldn’t lose sight of what happened between the two of you in the past as you never knows what the future holds, I sort of wish this was a reverse e-mail, like sent FROM the future. I bet you could do with a “Back to the Future Part II” type scenario with the results of major sporting events, but that would rip open a hole in the space/time continuum and cause all kinds of merry hell for many people, so deal with it.

So what’s going on? Did you have the balls to do it? Are you happy with yourself now? Looking back, where did you picture yourself in 10 or so years? Did you get that 1st house, and the 2nd one too? How about your health? You should have taken care of yourself a little bit better, but you probably already know that.

Anyways, I’ve been babbling way too long to myself, I guess it kinda makes my schizophrenic? But one important thing, wherever you are in your life now, if you’re receiving this, you are alive… Remember that, you fat fuck!

*hugs*

PastYou

Damn you Apple!

You just keep making it harder and harder to resist…

Now you’ve gone and done it…

A 4th Generation iPod with a colour screen! At least now I know what to do when my iPod battery dies in 15 months.

Picture it, a sunny day… Absolutely gorgeous, so we have a day off from work and take things easy. Erika, Adam and me decide to take a walk in the woods behind the house, and low and behold, there’s a cool little creek there! I’ve been here for 7 weeeks and I never knew it was there, Erika and Adam have been here for nearly 5 months and they never knew a creek was there.

Or as Erika says, “a crick”.

So we’re wandering along the path by the creek, over old wooden bridges and such like when we find a football (soccer) pitch, complete with proper goals and floodlights, but it looked like it hadn’t been used un a long time. It’s giving me and Adam idea’s though…

So before long Erika is in the creek, then Adam falls in trying to swing from a bridge, crazy kids.

Just a nice lazy Sunday exploring the local flora and fauna.