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Let's Try Blogging Some Hoop!
5/15/08 3:50 AM GMT
I'm still recuperating from my trip to the
San Francisco Convergence of 9/11 Truthers,
and thought it would be a good time to try
blogging during game 5 of the Lakers series
versus the Jazz.
The game just started.
Are the Pistons still in it?
10 - 4 Lakers.
The pace may be too quick to blog, but we'll
see.
I saw a commercial centered on a soccer player
during a game last night.
I've seen John Madden advertising athlete's
foot powder too.
KPFK did a story on record peeking a day or
two ago, I recall.
I did some more time at the beach today.
I took a nice walk in the surf. Not the
warmest day, and the water took a little
getting used to, but it's hard to go wrong
at the beach, especially this time of year.
I need to check out Speed Racer. The
commercials remind me so much of Stun Runner.
I gotta get a console of that game one day.
It was awesome.
Hmmm...
It appears that the Powers&Morrison site
is still on the server, but for how long,
I really don't know.
San Fran was really nice. I took footage of
the demonstrations.
I met a lot of interesting people, and started
getting re-acquainted with a city I once knew
pretty well.
Strange to think that I hadn't been there in
17 years.
The deYoung Museum was simply astounding.
Here's that soccer commercial again.
Lots of photographs, a woofer, a cell phone...
no, it's a personal data manager, or something.
BlackBerry.
WNBA commercial. They start on May 17th.
I've flown Southwest once or twice.
KEARTH 101 has had some interesting commercials.
Kaiser Permanente sounds like its looking for
hi-tech people to work in the medical field.
There's some surgical group using a device
named, da Vinci to perform orthopedic
surgeries.
Was that Hope Medical?
I think I heard something about Cedars-Sinai
too, but on KTLK, I reckon...
I just watched another segment of Simon Schama's
Power of Art. I got introduced to Caravaggio,
a disturbed painter who lived in the seamier parts
of cultured Italian cities.
Pretty intense guy. I want to watch it again soon.
19 - 13 Lakers.
Jazz player just shot a free throw.
19 - 14 Lakers.
Lakers working the ball.
Missed the 3-pointer.
Jazz hit a long two...
Lakers at the top of the key with the ball.
7 left on the clock.
THREE!!!
Nice bucket.
I need to get to know the Laker players...
Jazz miss. Lakers rebound.
ANOTHER THREE!!!
What's that guy's name?
something avitch?
Jazz miss again.
Jazz get the ball back from the lkers.
Jazz hit a long two.
25 - 18 Lakers.
Laker time-out.
Byron Scott used to hit those long balls.
Some people told me back in the late '80s
that I looked like Byron Scott.
More people told me that I resembled Magic
Johnson, though...
I used to reply, "I'd rather have his paycheck."
Heh-heh!
LiveJournal locked up.
I think I lost a lot of text.
Oh well.
Dinner time.
***
I'm kind of annoyed that LiveJournal didn't
save a substantial block of text, but I
don't think there's anything I can do
about it.
It's halftime, and they're showing highlights
of the Celtics game earlier today.
I'm still kind of annoyed...
I need to jog tonight.
Barkley looks kind of comical in glasses.
Hmmm...
Some truck company is doing really interesting
commercials. I think it's Dodge.
I just found out that Obama won Nebraska.
CNN hasn't mentioned it. They want to harp
on Clinton's win in West Virginia...
Let's take a look at the results.
Hillary closed Obama's lead by 12 delegates
in WV.
In Nebraska however,
Obama won 8 more delegates.
Thus, Clinton netted 4 last night.
This is a joke.
CNN is making this look like Clinton's on
the verge of winning.
I haven't paid much attention, because
their coverage is so overblown, and ignores
the war, that I feel pretty blase about it.
What happened to that domestic spending bill
that had war funding included with it?
I called Rep, John Campbell, and told him to
vote against it, on the advice of MoveOn.
I told his staffer, anyway.
Whoa!
Obama won 67% to 32% in Nebraska.
Clinton won 66% to 25% in West Virginia.
Similar margins of victory.
And Obama can't win with working class whites?
CNN's discourse on the matter strikes me
as silly. It sounds like CNN's imagining
reasons that Obama can't win.
69 - 69. The first tie of the game.
Jazz with the ball.
The announcer said that there hasn't been a lead
change in this series.
Lakers missed, and a Jazz player was unable
to convert.
Lakers miss.
Jazz driving.
3-pointer missed.
Bryant.
Lays it in.
Odom scored.
73 - 68 Lakers.
Jazz scored a short two.
Kobe missed a dunk.
Oh.
His name is "Radmanovic."
Kobe missed two free throws.
The pace has slowed some...
Jazz stole a pass.
75 - 73 Lakers.
**
End of 3rd Quarter.
81 - 81.
Ought to be a great finish.
It's been tied up three times.
6:19 AM GMT
Game's nearing the end.
Fast quarter.
101 - 97 Lakers.
We just got a technical foul.
Jazz hit a 3-pointer as the shot clock
ran out.
101 - 100 Lakers.
Jazz have never led.
Lakers...
Odom slams one home.
Take it LA.
Take it.
Jazz get two, rebounding a 3-pointer that missed.
Kobe. No shots this quarter.
Two for LA.
Now it's exciting...
Jazz miss a 3-pointer.
Under a minute to go.
Lakers with the ball and the lead.
105 - `102.
Lakers just slammed home the victory.
107 - 102 20 seconde to go.
Dan-what-ovich?
That's basically it.
Jazz inbounding.
Missed a 3-pointer.
Lakers rebound.
Foul.
Lakers shooting...
Missed first shot.
Made the second one.
I need to upload a lot of video...
Jazz inbounding.
Two.
11 seconds left.
Boozer fouls Kobe.
I need to sign-up for the MLS video,
so I can catch the Gals.
How are they doing, by the way?
They've been kicking butt up and down
the league lately.
It ought to be a great season.
Lakers rebound a Jazz shot.
Kobe fouled again.
110 - 105 Lakers.
Made the first shot.
I love the buzzers in basketball.
I don't know why they sound off half the time.
Second shot - missed.
Final buzzer.
111 - 104 final.
Feeling tired.
Should I link this one up?
2:44 PM GMT
Had a pretty nice night of sleep.
I don't want to close it right now.
I think linking it will be fun, but
I'll have to get to it later.
I'm still revving up here.
Back later.
EKU
5/17/08 4:43 PM GMT
(Still recovering from the trip,
you might say.)
The first installment of Cranford
is starting up.
Looks interesting.
The resolution could be better for full screen,
but it's on par with other things you view
on-line.
Hmmm...
It's looking better than it did initially.
I need to look in on Iraq Veterans Against
the War, to get feedback on their interlude
with Congress.
It's unfortunate that Congress voted to continue
funding the war through summer of next year,
and I'm sure that the group is upset at the
myopia and continued failure of our employees.
The transitions between clips are somewhat
abrupt.
It's making me wonder about the medical
profession like I once did.
I held surgery in very high regard once.
It's still interesting, but I'm not too
endeared to the environment.
The FA Cup's on, but I'll catch a rebroadcast.
I would've watched it live, but I'm in
the mood for theater at present.
What a cute little kitty! :)
I beginning to get the feel of the film.
I perceive it as a series of vignettes
of life in the town.
I think I'll go through the second episode.
Something about it is very inviting.
I want to make sure I catch the final installment
on the telly.
Bessie Dearest! LOL
(You have to watch the show to know what
I'm talking about.)
Yeah.
I do want to watch the second episode.
I'm not on top of everything, but I sense
that things are just warming up...
Interesting.
I'm looking forward to the conclusion,
but it doesn't seem like there's enough
time to finish off the story.
I think it's a trilogy. This presentation
probably just covers the first book (or
part of it).
Let's see...
Wrong.
I'm not sure how I got the impression that
Cranford was a triolgy.
Literature of Victorian England is all
very fresh material for me.
My siblings read things like this while
growing up, but it wasn't in my curriculum
at all.
I had no idea why anybody would be interested
in it, to be honest.
Lemeethink...
Did I read ANY literature of this nature?
I can rattle off titles, and am sure I've
flipped through works of that stature, but
nothing that affected me deeply comes to
mind.
My sister gave me Lord of the Flies
for a birthday, many years ago, but I never
read all of it.
It just didn't grab me.
It's from the 20th Century, but borrowed
heavily from a book written in 1857.
That tells you just how deeply I got into it. :)
There must have been something...
I remember hearing book reports by classmates
on books like Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre.
My older sister liked, Little Women.
Oops!
Wrong country.
I thought maybe Little Women was set in the U.S...
Let's see if I can get an overview of the
genre.
This looks helpful.
TA DA!!
Hmmm...
I don't know why I find this so compelling...
I think it's the fact that the subject matter
is so unfamiliar to me.
It makes me wonder what I've missed.
Every expression has something of value
to offer, even if it doesn't speak directly
to one's own experiences...
This attitude can indeed, make picking music,
museums, reading material, and other things,
difficult to perform!
Okay, Victorian Lit...let's take a gander.
My Older brother liked Dickens, particularly
David Copperfield.
Funny.
I was just about to ask myself, "Who wrote Oliver
Twist?", when I saw it in the list of notable
works.
I linked it about a year ago, or so. I didn't read
the entry then, but I must have noticed something
about the author...
Back on topic.
Victorian Literature.
I must've known that at some time in my life...
Dickens' Wikipedia entry claims that nothing
he has written has ever gone out of print.
I find that amazing.
No, shocking.
Back to VicLit...
Okay,
I'm saved.
I've actually read some of the classics.
Thanks, Lew.
I read Alice in Wonderland in my
high school AP English class.
Good book.
Does Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
count?
Nope.
It was written in the mid-20th Century.
Oompa, Loompa...
Interesting commentary on the original
Oompa Loompas...
Back to the 19th Century...
Hmmm...
I remember seeing the TV presentation
Disraeli many, many years ago.
I didn't know he was an author.
That link wasn't the film I saw.
I think the Disraeli I recall
was a miniseries on PBS.
I think he dressed flamboyantly, and
one major scene in the film was the
time he finally decided to dress in
black, like everybody else.
It raised eyebrows among some of his
colleagues.
Maybe I ought to donate to KCET. I'm
beginning to sense that there is going
to be a lot of very relevant programming
coming up, especially considering the
times we are living in.
Or maybe, KOCE.
Off-topic again.
Victorian Lit...
Lots of interesting bits of information to
gnaw on here...
Back to the style of the Victorian novel...
Idealized world...fundamental values win out.
What the British wanted to believe about
themselves?
What we would all want to believe, I suppose,
not only about ourselves, but of the world
in general...
I get the impression that the literature became
more cynical as the period ended.
Adam Bede sounds completely out of
character for that kind of novel to me.
It makes me think of Jack the Ripper.
Aside from the death of Dickens, what might
have brought this on?
Boredom?
Disillusionment with the culture?
Accelerating change?
Hmmm...
I don't expect to become an expert from a
few Wikipedia readings...I need to ponder
the topic. It's clearly quite vast, and
commentary pertaining to it is far more
so, I'm certain.
I want to take a quick peek at the history
of Western Literature...
It's quite a can of worms.
Since this is supposed to be a blog
that promotes global consciousness,
let's take a look at literature from
other parts of the world too.
Hmmm...
I think it's a little late in life to
try to become an expert in global
literature.
Then again...who knows what technology
will pop up?
Instant learning may be just around the
corner. :)
10:09 PM GMT
Well, I've got a lot planned for this
weekend in cyberspace, and I want to
get outside for a while first.
I saw Speed Racer last night.
If you liked the show, you'll enjoy the
movie.
I came out of the theater kind of giggly.
I feel like I ought to see it again.
There'll definitely be a sequel.
I thought they changed the buttons around...
I need a break. I'll discuss it more later.
I can hear the theme song now.
It's funny.
I don't know why, it just is...
There was simply too much to look at.
It was overwhelming in its visual imagery.
I found I wasn't that interested in the
plot, though there definitely was one.
I think that's why I felt like I needed to
see it again. So I can find out what actually
happened...
[giggle]
I need to do some skating. I feel this
strange urge to enter a race.
Back in a while.
Zonked,
Ed Ussery ("ArchMind")
5/15/08 3:50 AM GMT
I'm still recuperating from my trip to the
San Francisco Convergence of 9/11 Truthers,
and thought it would be a good time to try
blogging during game 5 of the Lakers series
versus the Jazz.
The game just started.
Are the Pistons still in it?
10 - 4 Lakers.
The pace may be too quick to blog, but we'll
see.
I saw a commercial centered on a soccer player
during a game last night.
I've seen John Madden advertising athlete's
foot powder too.
KPFK did a story on record peeking a day or
two ago, I recall.
I did some more time at the beach today.
I took a nice walk in the surf. Not the
warmest day, and the water took a little
getting used to, but it's hard to go wrong
at the beach, especially this time of year.
I need to check out Speed Racer. The
commercials remind me so much of Stun Runner.
I gotta get a console of that game one day.
It was awesome.
Hmmm...
It appears that the Powers&Morrison site
is still on the server, but for how long,
I really don't know.
San Fran was really nice. I took footage of
the demonstrations.
I met a lot of interesting people, and started
getting re-acquainted with a city I once knew
pretty well.
Strange to think that I hadn't been there in
17 years.
The deYoung Museum was simply astounding.
Here's that soccer commercial again.
Lots of photographs, a woofer, a cell phone...
no, it's a personal data manager, or something.
BlackBerry.
WNBA commercial. They start on May 17th.
I've flown Southwest once or twice.
KEARTH 101 has had some interesting commercials.
Kaiser Permanente sounds like its looking for
hi-tech people to work in the medical field.
There's some surgical group using a device
named, da Vinci to perform orthopedic
surgeries.
Was that Hope Medical?
I think I heard something about Cedars-Sinai
too, but on KTLK, I reckon...
I just watched another segment of Simon Schama's
Power of Art. I got introduced to Caravaggio,
a disturbed painter who lived in the seamier parts
of cultured Italian cities.
Pretty intense guy. I want to watch it again soon.
19 - 13 Lakers.
Jazz player just shot a free throw.
19 - 14 Lakers.
Lakers working the ball.
Missed the 3-pointer.
Jazz hit a long two...
Lakers at the top of the key with the ball.
7 left on the clock.
THREE!!!
Nice bucket.
I need to get to know the Laker players...
Jazz miss. Lakers rebound.
ANOTHER THREE!!!
What's that guy's name?
something avitch?
Jazz miss again.
Jazz get the ball back from the lkers.
Jazz hit a long two.
25 - 18 Lakers.
Laker time-out.
Byron Scott used to hit those long balls.
Some people told me back in the late '80s
that I looked like Byron Scott.
More people told me that I resembled Magic
Johnson, though...
I used to reply, "I'd rather have his paycheck."
Heh-heh!
LiveJournal locked up.
I think I lost a lot of text.
Oh well.
Dinner time.
***
I'm kind of annoyed that LiveJournal didn't
save a substantial block of text, but I
don't think there's anything I can do
about it.
It's halftime, and they're showing highlights
of the Celtics game earlier today.
I'm still kind of annoyed...
I need to jog tonight.
Barkley looks kind of comical in glasses.
Hmmm...
Some truck company is doing really interesting
commercials. I think it's Dodge.
I just found out that Obama won Nebraska.
CNN hasn't mentioned it. They want to harp
on Clinton's win in West Virginia...
Let's take a look at the results.
Hillary closed Obama's lead by 12 delegates
in WV.
In Nebraska however,
Obama won 8 more delegates.
Thus, Clinton netted 4 last night.
This is a joke.
CNN is making this look like Clinton's on
the verge of winning.
I haven't paid much attention, because
their coverage is so overblown, and ignores
the war, that I feel pretty blase about it.
What happened to that domestic spending bill
that had war funding included with it?
I called Rep, John Campbell, and told him to
vote against it, on the advice of MoveOn.
I told his staffer, anyway.
Whoa!
Obama won 67% to 32% in Nebraska.
Clinton won 66% to 25% in West Virginia.
Similar margins of victory.
And Obama can't win with working class whites?
CNN's discourse on the matter strikes me
as silly. It sounds like CNN's imagining
reasons that Obama can't win.
69 - 69. The first tie of the game.
Jazz with the ball.
The announcer said that there hasn't been a lead
change in this series.
Lakers missed, and a Jazz player was unable
to convert.
Lakers miss.
Jazz driving.
3-pointer missed.
Bryant.
Lays it in.
Odom scored.
73 - 68 Lakers.
Jazz scored a short two.
Kobe missed a dunk.
Oh.
His name is "Radmanovic."
Kobe missed two free throws.
The pace has slowed some...
Jazz stole a pass.
75 - 73 Lakers.
**
End of 3rd Quarter.
81 - 81.
Ought to be a great finish.
It's been tied up three times.
6:19 AM GMT
Game's nearing the end.
Fast quarter.
101 - 97 Lakers.
We just got a technical foul.
Jazz hit a 3-pointer as the shot clock
ran out.
101 - 100 Lakers.
Jazz have never led.
Lakers...
Odom slams one home.
Take it LA.
Take it.
Jazz get two, rebounding a 3-pointer that missed.
Kobe. No shots this quarter.
Two for LA.
Now it's exciting...
Jazz miss a 3-pointer.
Under a minute to go.
Lakers with the ball and the lead.
105 - `102.
Lakers just slammed home the victory.
107 - 102 20 seconde to go.
Dan-what-ovich?
That's basically it.
Jazz inbounding.
Missed a 3-pointer.
Lakers rebound.
Foul.
Lakers shooting...
Missed first shot.
Made the second one.
I need to upload a lot of video...
Jazz inbounding.
Two.
11 seconds left.
Boozer fouls Kobe.
I need to sign-up for the MLS video,
so I can catch the Gals.
How are they doing, by the way?
They've been kicking butt up and down
the league lately.
It ought to be a great season.
Lakers rebound a Jazz shot.
Kobe fouled again.
110 - 105 Lakers.
Made the first shot.
I love the buzzers in basketball.
I don't know why they sound off half the time.
Second shot - missed.
Final buzzer.
111 - 104 final.
Feeling tired.
Should I link this one up?
2:44 PM GMT
Had a pretty nice night of sleep.
I don't want to close it right now.
I think linking it will be fun, but
I'll have to get to it later.
I'm still revving up here.
Back later.
EKU
5/17/08 4:43 PM GMT
Well, a little later.
(Still recovering from the trip,
you might say.)
A Trip to old Angleterre.
The first installment of Cranford
is starting up.
Looks interesting.
The resolution could be better for full screen,
but it's on par with other things you view
on-line.
Hmmm...
It's looking better than it did initially.
Politics
I need to look in on Iraq Veterans Against
the War, to get feedback on their interlude
with Congress.
It's unfortunate that Congress voted to continue
funding the war through summer of next year,
and I'm sure that the group is upset at the
myopia and continued failure of our employees.
Arts & Entertainment
The transitions between clips are somewhat
abrupt.
It's making me wonder about the medical
profession like I once did.
I held surgery in very high regard once.
It's still interesting, but I'm not too
endeared to the environment.
The FA Cup's on, but I'll catch a rebroadcast.
I would've watched it live, but I'm in
the mood for theater at present.
What a cute little kitty! :)
I beginning to get the feel of the film.
I perceive it as a series of vignettes
of life in the town.
I think I'll go through the second episode.
Something about it is very inviting.
I want to make sure I catch the final installment
on the telly.
Bessie Dearest! LOL
(You have to watch the show to know what
I'm talking about.)
Yeah.
I do want to watch the second episode.
I'm not on top of everything, but I sense
that things are just warming up...
Interesting.
I'm looking forward to the conclusion,
but it doesn't seem like there's enough
time to finish off the story.
I think it's a trilogy. This presentation
probably just covers the first book (or
part of it).
Let's see...
Wrong.
I'm not sure how I got the impression that
Cranford was a triolgy.
Literature of Victorian England is all
very fresh material for me.
My siblings read things like this while
growing up, but it wasn't in my curriculum
at all.
I had no idea why anybody would be interested
in it, to be honest.
Lemeethink...
Did I read ANY literature of this nature?
I can rattle off titles, and am sure I've
flipped through works of that stature, but
nothing that affected me deeply comes to
mind.
My sister gave me Lord of the Flies
for a birthday, many years ago, but I never
read all of it.
It just didn't grab me.
It's from the 20th Century, but borrowed
heavily from a book written in 1857.
That tells you just how deeply I got into it. :)
There must have been something...
I remember hearing book reports by classmates
on books like Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre.
My older sister liked, Little Women.
Oops!
Wrong country.
I thought maybe Little Women was set in the U.S...
Let's see if I can get an overview of the
genre.
This looks helpful.
TA DA!!
Hmmm...
I don't know why I find this so compelling...
I think it's the fact that the subject matter
is so unfamiliar to me.
It makes me wonder what I've missed.
Every expression has something of value
to offer, even if it doesn't speak directly
to one's own experiences...
This attitude can indeed, make picking music,
museums, reading material, and other things,
difficult to perform!
Okay, Victorian Lit...let's take a gander.
My Older brother liked Dickens, particularly
David Copperfield.
Funny.
I was just about to ask myself, "Who wrote Oliver
Twist?", when I saw it in the list of notable
works.
I linked it about a year ago, or so. I didn't read
the entry then, but I must have noticed something
about the author...
Back on topic.
Victorian Literature.
I must've known that at some time in my life...
Dickens' Wikipedia entry claims that nothing
he has written has ever gone out of print.
I find that amazing.
No, shocking.
Back to VicLit...
Okay,
I'm saved.
I've actually read some of the classics.
Thanks, Lew.
I read Alice in Wonderland in my
high school AP English class.
Good book.
Does Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
count?
Nope.
It was written in the mid-20th Century.
Oompa, Loompa...
Interesting commentary on the original
Oompa Loompas...
Back to the 19th Century...
Hmmm...
I remember seeing the TV presentation
Disraeli many, many years ago.
I didn't know he was an author.
That link wasn't the film I saw.
I think the Disraeli I recall
was a miniseries on PBS.
I think he dressed flamboyantly, and
one major scene in the film was the
time he finally decided to dress in
black, like everybody else.
It raised eyebrows among some of his
colleagues.
Maybe I ought to donate to KCET. I'm
beginning to sense that there is going
to be a lot of very relevant programming
coming up, especially considering the
times we are living in.
Or maybe, KOCE.
Off-topic again.
Victorian Lit...
Lots of interesting bits of information to
gnaw on here...
Back to the style of the Victorian novel...
Idealized world...fundamental values win out.
What the British wanted to believe about
themselves?
What we would all want to believe, I suppose,
not only about ourselves, but of the world
in general...
I get the impression that the literature became
more cynical as the period ended.
Adam Bede sounds completely out of
character for that kind of novel to me.
It makes me think of Jack the Ripper.
Aside from the death of Dickens, what might
have brought this on?
Boredom?
Disillusionment with the culture?
Accelerating change?
Hmmm...
I don't expect to become an expert from a
few Wikipedia readings...I need to ponder
the topic. It's clearly quite vast, and
commentary pertaining to it is far more
so, I'm certain.
I want to take a quick peek at the history
of Western Literature...
It's quite a can of worms.
Since this is supposed to be a blog
that promotes global consciousness,
let's take a look at literature from
other parts of the world too.
Hmmm...
I think it's a little late in life to
try to become an expert in global
literature.
Then again...who knows what technology
will pop up?
Instant learning may be just around the
corner. :)
Winding Down, Sort of
10:09 PM GMT
Well, I've got a lot planned for this
weekend in cyberspace, and I want to
get outside for a while first.
I saw Speed Racer last night.
If you liked the show, you'll enjoy the
movie.
I came out of the theater kind of giggly.
I feel like I ought to see it again.
There'll definitely be a sequel.
I thought they changed the buttons around...
I need a break. I'll discuss it more later.
I can hear the theme song now.
It's funny.
I don't know why, it just is...
There was simply too much to look at.
It was overwhelming in its visual imagery.
I found I wasn't that interested in the
plot, though there definitely was one.
I think that's why I felt like I needed to
see it again. So I can find out what actually
happened...
[giggle]
I need to do some skating. I feel this
strange urge to enter a race.
Back in a while.
Zonked,
Ed Ussery ("ArchMind")
