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When it comes to sports, I love tradition. I want every sport to be the way it was when I was a kid and learning about baseball, football, etc. I don’t want a wildcard in baseball, I want divisions in hockey named after people that are dead, and I want college football to play as many games as possible on January first.
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This is going to be a new feature on the site giving a plug to the current book that I am reading. I will tag them all “What I’m reading” so you’ll be able to find the archives easily. The first book came highly recommended by my friends back on the East coast. It is my first experience with the author, Thomas Pynchon, and I have to say I haven’t been let down so far. I don’t like to give too much away about books, but it’s a detective novel.
It even has a youtube trailer, which is the first time I’ve seen that for a book.
If you are looking for a quality piece of fiction. Something to take your mind off of the day to day worries of the world that reads very quickly and is highly entertaining(no pun intended), this one is recommended.
When people mention World of Warcraft(WOW) to friends, family, co-workers, or whomever, the responses are usually extreme in the direction of love and hate. There are millions of active players right now, I think the most recent number posted was 11 million to be exact. It’s a global game with separate servers in Europe, North America, and Asia to support the massive amount of players that are living in this world around the clock. I originally started playing WOW shortly after it was launched in November 2004. I didn’t really have much of an understanding for the game, but there isn’t a very steep learning curve either. I played on a server with a real life friend, and enjoyed it as any other game. Just something fun to pass the time. I was about to give it up after just a few months because I wasn’t really getting much out of the game and I was usually playing alone anyways. The social aspect of the game was completely avoiding me.
I just happened to mention it to another friend at the time and he was describing what sounded like a completely different game and experience to me. Vast collaboration with 39 other players at the same time, voice chat via a program called “vent”, and incredibly challenging boss encounters. It sounded more like a marketing campaign, but in the next breath he mentioned that he was about to level a new character, along with another friend, and offered for me to join up with them on his server and with his guild. I joined up with him that night and what I consider my real WOW “career” began. Within a few weeks I had a much deeper understanding of the game, was leveling like lightning, and learning more about my class, a Mage at the time. The social aspect of the game was also really hitting me now too Continue Reading
I just want to listen to Howard Stern. I still remember my first experience with Howard. I was 13 years old and I was out in a glorified row boat with 2 cousins fishing for Stripers in Long Island sound, when one of them said we had to go in and watch some TV show. I just wanted to fish, but he was talking about how the show has girls with huge breasts advertising Snapple iced tea. Now my head was spinning. I just didn’t understand how these women had anything to do with Snapple, or this guy, but I didn’t have much say in the matter since my cousins were older than me and we were already heading home. That night I watched my first episode of what most Stern fans refer to as “The Channel 9 show,” and I still remember the exact episode. It was the bowling alley episode where grandpa Munster was up against Young MC.
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