Random thoughts that are pointless and too dumb to say anywhere else thread: 2013

[craigharmann]

 

As a church musician, I can kind of understand it. Many churches today don't use the organ. Agreed or not, the guitar is the instrument of choice, acoustic or not. Most hymns were arranged with a chord per note. That's a lot for guitarists. Using more modern chord progressions, slowing the progressions down a bit, sometimes makes it work. But, it's the great part about music. Everyone has their own opinion. One is not better than another.

 

That seems understandable to me. The instrument is going to require you to make modifications to the way the song is played.

 

There is also stylistic interpretations as well. One of the current "trends" in worship music today is taking old hymns and writing new parts to it. Chris Tomlin does this repeatedly. Some are good, some are OK, some are.....not that OK. It makes them newer, accessible and in the eyes of some, better. I wouldn't say better, I'd say different. Gives a different track to think about in relation to the lyrics.

[greeg35]

"I miss hoth"

 

...things no one in the history of the universe has ever said

[fondybrewfan]

There is nothing worse than an organist at church that feels the need to make the intro to a song longer than an entire verse. Drives my crazy; church isn't the place to be showing off your mad skills.

[Thurston Fluff]

How can the IOC eliminate wrestling as an Olympic sport? It was a main event at the original Olympics in ancient Greece for heaven's sake. Other similarly "good" ideas would be eliminating outfielders in baseball, hockey in Canada or the forward pass in football. Idiots.

[logan82]

How can the IOC eliminate wrestling as an Olympic sport? It was a main event at the original Olympics in ancient Greece for heaven's sake. Other similarly "good" ideas would be eliminating outfielders in baseball, hockey in Canada or the forward pass in football. Idiots.

Well at least they kept the modern pentathlon.

 

It decided to cut wrestling and keep modern pentathlon -- a sport that combines fencing, horse riding, swimming, running and shooting -- and was considered to be the most likely to be dropped.

 

This is very shocking to say the least.

[hawing]

The UW wrestling coach was our next door neighbor for a while in the 90s. He is an Olympic medalist and is probably reeling tonight.

Eliminating wrestling from the Olympics is just baffling to me.

[RobDeer 45]

Hawing, ya this just seems crazy to me. I mean it's been around since the begening. I'm not a wrestling fan by any means but this seems like an idea that looks good on paper but really should be looked at more.

[jerichoholicninja]

They probably need to make room for more ribbon twirling and extreme sports.

[Patrick425]

My guess is that this decision, like many decisions in this world, was financially based (TV ratings, crowd sizes, etc).

 

With the increasing lack of attention span of the general public (especially in the U.S.), I have all sorts of fears about the future of the Olympic games. Over the past 10 or 20 years the games seem to have become more about human interest stories than about the athletic competition itself.

[Thurston Fluff]

My guess is that this decision, like many decisions in this world, was financially based (TV ratings, crowd sizes, etc).

That might be so but if the NCAA is any indication not likely. Wrestling is the only sport other than basketball and football that consistently makes a profit in college athletics. It traditionally has a strong following in the eastern European countries as well as Asia and the Pacific rim. In the US it is not huge but not small by any means. The typical wrestling fan is very dedicated to the sport.

Not to mention it has very little cost associated with it so poorer countries can stay competitive. A mat, singlet and a pair of shoes is about all it takes equipment wise.

 

And Yes Hawing I'm sure Barry is livid. As is pretty much everyone who ever stepped foot on the mat.

[logan82]

They sited ratings as one of the problems with wrestling in the Olympics. I hard a very very hard time even finding wrestling on tv.

[pretendastronaut]

Tomorrow is my 35th birthday. It is also the first day in 5 years, 5 months, and 14 days of self-employment that I won't have a billable project to work on. It's bittersweet.

[bani1717]

What do you do? And does your "first day" exclude weekends/holidays? Just curious... I could not imagine myself working every single day for 5+ years straight...

[pretendastronaut]

I do mostly web design and development. And yes, I've taken days off, but I factor those in as paid days off. It was the first day that was meant to be a working day that I didn't have any client work to do, thus, no money to be made for the day.

 

I spent the day working on a new website for myself instead, so it was still worthwhile.

[hawing]

My birthday is Monday and the S.O. hasn't asked what I might like to do or like as a gift. Based on past years, this means there's about a 1% chance he's already got something ready and a 99% chance he hasn't and will suddenly start thinking about it sometime this weekend. Yet he always seems concerned that I have some gift to open on my birthday. So if I were deeply into both materialism and strategy, I could wait for him to get around to asking about it, name some big-ticket item and probably get it (as long as it was in stock by Monday).

 

It's not bad. He's just not a think-ahead guy for things like this.

[Baldkin]

Since I won't be around on Monday, Happy 23rd birthday, Hawing!

[hawing]

Since I won't be around on Monday, Happy 23rd birthday, Hawing!

Thank you, and well played.

[Thurston Fluff]

Another two years and you can rent a car.

[trwi7]

Does anyone else have the problem of JSOnline not updating? I usually keep it up all day for blogs and what not and when I hit refresh everything except the blogs will be updated. It's quite annoying.

[bjkrautk]

These new iPad commercials (with the series of words, and people chanting ever ~5th one) are just flat-out terrible.

[Patrick425]

This didn't dawn on me until today, but the guy who did the iconic "Warriors come out to play" scene in "The Warriors" and was also "weasly" bad guy in "48 Hrs" had the same character name in both films...Luther. I'm guessing there was some purpose to that and that maybe you were supposed to believe that it was the same character in both films. Those were two great and very similar roles.

[TURBO]

2 of my favorite movies of all time. The Warriors is my favorite period! I can watch that movie anytime and still love it!

 

I noticed that a long time ago, but didn't really think that the 48 hours character was a later version of the Warriors character, just chalked it up as coincidence.

 

It's possible, but doubtful.

[Raw Biz]

2 of my favorite movies of all time. The Warriors is my favorite period! I can watch that movie anytime and still love it!

 

I noticed that a long time ago, but didn't really think that the 48 hours character was a later version of the Warriors character, just chalked it up as coincidence.

 

It's possible, but doubtful.

 

Maybe it's like that thing where Tony Danza can only play characters named Tony. He was also one of the bad dudes in Commando but his name wasn't Luther.

[Patrick425]

Also, this from "The Warriors" Wikipedia page:

 

President Ronald Reagan was a fan of the film, even calling the film's lead actor, Michael Beck, to tell him he had screened it at Camp David and enjoyed it.

 

Reagan, a fan of "The Warriors"? Really? Who knew?

[craigharmann]

Also, this from "The Warriors" Wikipedia page:

 

President Ronald Reagan was a fan of the film, even calling the film's lead actor, Michael Beck, to tell him he had screened it at Camp David and enjoyed it.

 

Reagan, a fan of "The Warriors"? Really? Who knew?

 

 

Mr. Gobechev, come out and plaaaaaay!