Yay NBA!

It was fun for three quarters. I was shocked really, warriors playing defense?! And they did quite well, for perhaps one half. They looked tired in the second half, and the offense was really quite a mess all night aside from a few flashes. The big positives I took from it was Biedrins and Thompson. Biedrins was a beast when he was on the floor, he played solid D and showed some skills in the post which I wasnt aware he possessed. Thompson looked just completely lost/horrendous in the first quarter but really seemed to settle in finally in the second half. I dont have huge hopes for him, but just seeing him improve through his first game was fun. Monta and Dorrell never looked comfortable, hoping its just rust and not them being poor fits for jacksons style. David Lee, bless the poor guy, tried hard but truly is a miserable defender. But the effort on that end from everyone was something I'm not sure I've ever seen in my time watching the warriors. I dont think this is a playoff team, but I see no reason why we cant best the rockets as 9th "best." an hell, if someone falls apart a la last years jazz who the hell knows what can happen. This is a young team with a complete unknown as the head coach, I expect losses to start, but as it all comes together I don't see why this team can't win more than they lose.

And the Results

And so ends the whole black friday/cyber monday shenanigans. I picked up five games, the wallet is ~$120 lighter. 24 bucks per game isnt so bad i guess. Best pick up was Dark Souls, off amazon, for just 35. Mighty pleased with that. I got Ico/Colossus remakes, full price, figured what the hell, if there is one set of games I actually want to pay full price for its those. Then I got some old ones I never got around to, Bioshock, Heavy Rain, and Assasins Creed 2. Assasins creed just looks like some good mindless fun, the other two just seem like games I need to play through, just cause of their influences on current games. Well bioshock for its influence, heavy rain for its creativity. So yea, I think this was quite successful. I really wanted Skyrim an Skyward sword...but seeing as how those two pretty much are the same price as the five I picked up, I figured might as well go for the sale items an by the time I finish em those games will be on sale/cheapy cheap.

Flip

Haven't updated in a while, forgot I had this blog to be honest. Life, it seems, will always present new challenges. The latest being no NBA season. I kid! Though not really. Post graduation life has been fine. I'm jobless and struggling to keep a long distance relationship afloat, but other than that I can't really complain. I wish I had basketball to distract, bet eh, maybe I'll watch college basketball this year. I've got two adorable baby cats, Lucifer (Luci) and Toasted Marshmallow (Toasty). Luci is black Toasty is classic siamese, they is sisters and really just way too adorable. Don't believe me?BOOM! If you didn't swoon just now you are heartless. And yes they do sleep like that with some frequency~

I've been playing Resonance of Fate and Folklore on my PS3. Both highly entertaining games, games that were pretty much made for me. Creative, beautiful artwork, non-traditional combat, just super enjoyable new eastern RPGs. In other news, games I'd like to have soon in order of wantingness:

Ico/SOTC HD remakes
Zelda Skyward Sword
Dark Souls
Catherine
Skyrim
El Shaddai

That is an expensive list, especially for someone who has no job and is spending their savings on trips to southern California. What can ya do. I think maybe I'll try posting in here more, or maybe make a new log just for kicks. Now that I got all this free time ya know.

Memphis and the Fail that is OKC

OKC has some of the best young talent in the NBA. Scratch that, they have the best young talent in the NBA. There is really no question. I watch Westbrook and Durant and I cant help but marvel at their talents. But more often than that, I marvel at how fucking stupid they are.

I watch games like this and wonder if Kobe was the worst thing to ever happen to the NBA. It seems as if the big question for every team is "who will take the big shot?" when Memphis is showing you right here that it doesn't fucking matter as long as you play your game. Westbrook was playing a beautiful game until the 4th quarter, where he just decided to overdribble and jack up 20 foot jump shots every possession. He finally started getting Durant the ball when it was clear that the idiot PG was on his way to losing the game for his team single handly, and then Durant does nearly the exact same thing by chucking up terrible long range jump shots!

You think maybe they would realize that all the griz did during their huge comeback was pound the ball inside and get to the rim? The thunder have all the talent in the world, but they play themselves out of games. The two fieldgoals they got in overtime were, surprise, buckets off harden getting to the rim. You can't take westbrook out since he does so much in the game besides scoring, but I would rather Harden be running the point (or at least just handling the ball, positions really dont matter), as Westbrook has, time and again, proven he is incapable of running any semblance of an offense when he gets excited.

Not to take anything from the Grizzlies. They really are a joy to watch, they play tough and they play as a team. Their bigs really control the game and the smaller guards are able to feed off the opportunities presented because of it. They force a ton of turnovers, they all play as a complete team, and they have a couple of absolute beasts down low. I think the griz are legit, and if they do manage to beat OKC I sure will be rooting for them.

This IS the year

I say it every goddamn year. But really, every fucking year all I can think about is how the winners just have everything break right for them. and how everthing, and I mean EVERYTHING, goes bad for us. But guess what?! This year everything is going right! Our injuries are minor! Our youngsters are delivering on their promise like no sane person expected! And we hit the random scrap heap lottery with Brandon Mccarthy! Im telling you, it just feels different. Even if the record doesnt reflect it yet, this team is fucking good, and so far at least, we seem to have been lucky as well. I cant describe how jealous of the Giants and their fans I was this last fall, this has got to be our year.

My Kitty

Got runned over. I really Really loved that cat.

Well that was a Fail

The last post was supposed to be a motivator. Didn't work. New quarter, got a test on thursday, havent studied still. I dunno what Im doing. I dunno what im going to do. What I do know is that I need to be done with school. Which I am afraid of, i dont wanna leave here. its a weird situation, a large part of my life is down here now, and with every passing day im realizing im going to have to leave it behind. i dont want to, i try to devise crazy plans that will get me to stay down here, but what it just isnt realistic.

when i graduated high school i was depressed, more or less. thankfully, im not anymore, but im starting to get a similar feeling. im happy, yet theres this weight on my mind that keeps dragging me down. i think its just nerves. it might just be that i dont give a fuck anymore. well not entirely true, i give a semi-fuck. i know! its uncertainty about the future. back then i wanted to get to know myself better and improve myself as a person. on that front i think i actually did ok. but the point is i didnt want to think of the future because i had no idea what it looked like, i was afraid. SAME NOW. afeared! wtf am i going to do! its just this time there is no plan. i had college before, now i have nothing. my whole fucking life starts now. and i really dont feel like im ready for it. i basically failed at life. i was too lazy, i squandered my talents, i never took any initiative. im 21 and i have no real future. im nothing, and am set up for nothing. really wish i had a reset button.

Ambition

I've never been an ambitious person. I had one dream growing up, I wanted to go to UC Berkeley. That, as it turns out, was a fail. Sometime in the near future I will be applying to schools again, this time as a Graduate student looking to further my studies in linguistics. No doubt, Berkeley will be one of the schools I apply to, even if my chances for getting in are slim. I won't fool myself this time, my grades aren't great and my connections are even worse. I'm completely unimpressive.

But I love this shit. Ling is something I don't really tire of. For some reason I have this strange desire to know what language really is. A great deal of people, all vastly more clever than me, have made a great deal of progress explaining this, but their theories, all of them, contain numerous holes. And it's exciting to me, knowing there is so much out there I can still learn about, so much that I could potentially explain to the rest of the community.

I want to go to grad school, I want to get published in a linguistic journal, I want to produce works (PLURAL) that will make people think or look at things in a new way. And I want that goddamn phd. I used to dream about these things, wondering what it would be like. Not anymore, I want to do them. I can't really see myself doing anything else at this point, I've been trained to do nothing of any value in college, I mean I look at vast lists of words and note interesting things about them...how the fuck is that going to get me a job.

So I'm writing this to convince myself, finally, that my future is in academics. It is in research, and more school, and there really isn't any way around it. I won't ever be part of the elite, I won't ever be very distinguished even in my field, but if I can get paid to keep looking at words and noting interesting patterns it will be worth it. If I can get the things I enjoy published it will be worth it. I love this shit. And if I love it there must be someone out there who will enjoy my work too. If I can contribute in a small way like that, hell, that will be more than enough.

Chavy...

It was hard enough with Swisher being in pinstripes...you can't not root for Eric Chavez but...shit if he's making it tough.