April 3, 2007

  • Musings 2

    So i was drifting aimlessly through the internets, and found a new quiz/meme thingy that looked like it could lead to future timewasting

    So i present to you the Johari and Nohari windows. Basically, i went through a list of adjectives and picked 6 words i felt described my strenghts and weaknesses. The real fun comes however with the audience participation-i want YOU to go to the two below links and pick the 5-6 adjectives that YOU think describe me for both. Don't worry, it's anonymous-think of it as a general constructive criticism of me in general. If you dont know me in real life, feel free to wing it and pick things just based off my writing style-it's a good chance to see where i am doing well in life and where i might be able to improve

    Johari=http://kevan.org/johari?name=rveblade
    Nohari=http://kevan.org/nohari?name=rveblade

    And now for the entertainment portion, I present, the evolution of all sports as we know them

    At
    first a game is simple. Each rule in a sport was made because some guy
    sucked and he wanted to give himself and advantage.Take Tennis for
    example, which I've started playing....on nintendo wii

    Fred says "try to hit the
    ball past me." Bob hits it by Fred and yells "one point for me!" Fred
    says "no, umm... it has to bounce once on my side. Yea, that is it."
    Bob hits it by Fred (letting it bounce once) and says "one point for
    me!" Fred says "No, umm... it has to bounce once on my side, but inside
    this smaller square." And so on.

    And they haven't even gotten in
    to boundaries, Community Chest cards, volleying for serves, serves, the
    net, deuces, scoring matches and set, valid excuses for losing, etc...
    Eventually Bob gets piss off and has a decision to make. This is a
    crucial part in the evolutionary development of the game and either
    decision will have lasting ramifications. Bob can...

    Option 1.) Kill Fred.
    Option 2.) Vow to never play the sport again.

    For all known sports the Bob chose option 2, which meant Fred must
    find someone new to play the game with. The only exception to this is
    Hockey. Bob chose to kill Fred, and Fred liked the effort so much he
    decided to make it part of the game.

    Fred finally finds someone
    new to play the game with - probably a girl (allowing him to hit on her
    while teaching the sport). His first move is to make a crucial
    precedent though - he must start
    by telling Julia "the rules are a little complicated, but this is how Bob and I always played." Now the sport is set in stone.

    Then
    the sport gets a name. Later Nike makes a shoe for it - the sport can
    now become an Olympic event. On top of that, each game caters to the
    breeding of a specific type of weird physical trait. For basketball you
    should be tall, hockey you want to be Canadian, sumo you want to be as
    big as Canada, baseball you want to be easily amused, swimming you want
    to be a dolphin, etc...

    that's it for today...time for sleeping!

    -J