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Have you ever had a crush on someone you think is a little weird looking. Someone that has odd facial features. I must admit I have developed a slight crush on Orlando Magic's Hedo Turkoglu. At 6 feet 10 inches has sure knows how to play ball. It's his down turned eyes. I call them sad eyes but they work for him.

My friends sister also has a thing for him, but single ladies are out of luck. He is married.

He hails from Turkey and what I find interesting is that he has always listed Kobe Bryant as a favorite player, someone who he looks up to in the sport. Now he is playing against him. 

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The other thing I find interesting is that The City of Orlando has extended last call from it's normal 2am to 3am tonight. Let's hope there is something to celebrate. The boys were soooo close tied going into OT on Sunday against the Lakers and just sort of deflated at the very end.

GO MAGIC!

The internet is a weird place that transforms someone's 15 minutes of fame into an eternity. Hot messes are welcome, sometimes its like an odd perverted carnival freak show. Other times it allows people to pretend to be trendy, "OMG, Look at what my BFF Jill tweeted. She makes me LOLZ for sure."

Somewhere at there is is a landfill or graveyard, or junk yard in which things things are sent to die. It amazes me the longevity things have.  I am guilty myself though, I still LOL at some LOL Cats, and I chuckled at little david's car ride back from the dentist. but somethings that have staying power I will understand.

Lindsay, Paris, Britney - They all jumped the shark after they showed their hoo-has on the interwebz. After that they became 80 percent less interesting. I don't care that Lindsay has shrunken her self down to a coke-size whore, or the llittle boy in the hat she dates who claims she is a girl. I don't care about Paris and her empty shell of a life or Britney's trashtastic ways. Okay maybe a little bit but the least they girls can do is do something interesting for a change, and no Paris I'm not talking about screwing another one of Brenda Walsh's Exs on camera.

Lonely Girl 15- What??? She's still around making youtube videos of her made up life? The gig is up, it has been for a long time.

Shorthand Buzzwords: We need to put a life span on some of them. While LOL and AFK will always be useful things such as FTW. 1337, roxors, suxors, iawtc, Vlog and those likes are just things that good for a small time. Shelf life people, shelf life!

Bacon - Okay don't hate I love bacon but isn't it a little played out. Lets give another meat product a chance to have the spotlight. What about sausage?

Twitter - I have a new business model in mind for them, what about banning anyone with a below average IQ. We don't need to know that you thought your 5 dollar turkey sub from subway was delicious because it was only 5 dollars. We don't need you to describe your bowel movements of the day, or your thoughts on who should have one american Idol. We need real content which anyone with a below average IQ can not give.

and while I'm on the subject, and please don't take this the wrong way. All of my friends are great bloggers and I don't mind that you post your daily tweets, sometimes it brings some good insight into your other post, but just posting your daily tweets and only posting your daily tweets to your blog is not blogging. You do not have a blog if that is all you do, you just have a status information center.

Hot or Not Communities - Live Journal should just ban them all, then all these poor pathetic low self esteem ass clowns, morons and bitches will have to find another place to make themselves feel better by picking on others.

Tucker Max - No, you are not a writing genius, your just a blogger who got really lucky because you shocked a few uptight middle aged men and women in the publishing industry. Your book title was very clever. I liked that but your stories I've already read or heard from my guy friends. What are the resources for your new stuff? It looks like all you did was browse urbandictionary.com

Kevin Smith Fan Writing blogs - Look people, Kevin is good at what he does, and he did it, but trying to imitate his writing style is going to get you know where.

Digg - I hate to say this because Kevin is my favorite college grad boy wonder to hit the big time interwebs to still behave like a college boy but I think he needs to do some clipping and culling here. The stories are less interesting, and the digg fan boy fighting is at an all time high. Yet again the IQ rule needs to be set into play.

Vlogging - Okay here is my beef with 97 percent of the vlogs around, they serve no purpose, unless you feel narrisistic digital masturbation of ones ego is relevent.Who's that Vlogger that used to get on his soap box about Darfur? He was alright, but most of the people that get up in front of the camera are there for look how cute I am reasons. They don't even say anything remotely interesting or important. My advice is WRITE a blog. You get a bunch of things from it. your typing words per minute goes up, you learn better grammar and spelling, and you can write about whatever you like. Put some thought into it and once in a while you can add a video of you into your blog. Oh, and by the way the word vlog sucks, it sounds like a cheap knock off, and the word just doesn't roll of your toungue, it gives me chills like finger nails down a chalk board.

Poop - I have a pretty strong stomach, I laughed all the way through 2 girls one cup, Poop did not make Dustin Diamond more interesting, You'd have to be an extremely talented writer, or extremely grotesque porn artist to do something that hasn't already been done. Didn't anyone see John Waters Pink Flamingo's? What would have made 2 girls one cup even better is if they had root beer, then they could have made a poop beer floats and rename it 2 girls many cups. See it just goes to show, poop isn't that intertesting after all.

The Luther Burger - I'd still try a piece of one, if a few people were willing to do the same and pitch in for the cost, but the Luther burger has been out forever, it was even featured in the Adult Swim show, "The Boondocks". The thing that bothers me the most is everyone who has ever posted about it has never tried it. Here is a secret to writing something of quality, research and know what you are writing about. I've never posted the luther burger because I have yet to taste it, and same goes for most anyone who has posted about it. Know what you write and post about it. We've seen that same old tired image a millions times before.

Nipple Slips - Yawn this is boring unless there is something very unusual about it, but there usually isn't

Sexting Articles - this is only a shock to the parents out there that don't pay attention, have you seen the pictures your daughter posts on her myspace? Furthermore 16 year olds have always been sexual, its just now that there is a medium to record all of it. If you want your daughter to stop sexting then you should stop being wound up in all your other activities and parent. This is why Polaroid went out of business, no one needed instant film to take pictures of their naughty bits now that they had digital cameras. 

Oh and By the Way I had a party once, I was not an minor but I wanted a skin texture for a 3d project I was doing, this was when digital cameras were very expensive and being a poor college student I couldn't afford it, What I could afford was some beer and at the party I asked everyone to please scan a body part on my scanner. A buddy scanned his face but before the end of the night we had boobs ass, and god knows what else scanned.

Bands that claim they have a website but don't - It's a myspace page, not a band website, it's disappointing and looks bad on you if you advise it as your bands webpage.

Heroes Fan Boys and Girls - Are there any left after the last season? Oh Burn! Save the series from cancelation, save the world.

Cupcakes - Yeah they are cute, single serving and fun, but can we do something different? You could go old skool with a cookie exchange, or an ice cream social, or you could go wild with a sexy shot party. My vote is for the sexy shot party. With shots such as legspreaders, and redheaded sluts, to blow jobs, or create your own shot here.

Selling your used panties or virginity - Someone needs to tell Miss Thang, you know the one who is selling her virginity to that creepy old man, that it isn't a college science, pyscology major experiement, it's called prostitution and its one of the oldest professions in the world. You aren't do anything new honey, hope that creepy emotional scar is worth the money.

Pirates/ Monkeys/ Ninjas/ Zombies/Robots/Vampires - It's time to let other animals and professions have some limelight. My vote is for Hyenas and Octopi, The Real Scottish Highlanders, Shape shifters, The Navajo Witch, and Amazon women who cut off their tit so they can draw ther bow back better. Lets make some room for something new.

One last thing. Where are the Losties going to go after Lost is over? We need to start the grieving process soon. :(

So I was thinking it would be fun to do my own eat this not that once in a while as I go through restaurant nutritional information. The two things I judge a meal on are Calories, Sodium, and fats. I've been checking out all of the restaurants near work were we might go and believe me there are a lot. I'm focusing on chain restaurants that many people know. So I went with Olive Garden first.

Now if your trying to loose weight you should be consuming about 1500 calories a day if you are very active 2,000. For sodium you should be at about 2,000 - 2,500 mg a day. Keep this all in mind.

So for Olive Garden we have two choices

Ravioli di Portobello Dinner

Ravioli filled with Portobello mushrooms in a creamy cheese sauce and smoked sun dried tomatoes

I've eaten this. It's delicious. I let everyone eat the first round of garlic bread sticks and when they ask us for more when our meal arrives I ask for one so I can dip a bread stick in the sauce.

You can get this in the lunch or dinner portion but for today we are using the info from the dinner portion for the information.

Garlic-Herb Chicken con Broccoli Dinner

rosemary-seasoned chicken breasts sauteed with fresh broccoli in a garlic cream sauce over orecchiette pasta.

I've also had this. My opinon is that I like the mushroom ravioli better, but don't get me wrong this is a good dish with broccoli and cheese and chicken, what could be better.

So which one do you think is better for you the mushroom ravioli in a cheesy sauce or the rosenary seasoned chicken with fresh broccoli in a garlic cream sauce over pasta?

The Mushroom Ravioli has 670 calories, 270 of those are from fat and a whopping  1,400 mg of sodium. Restaurant food is loaded in sodium you'd be surprised at how much sodium are in your favorite restaurant meals, up to twice as much of your daily allowance in just one meal. It's insane.

So how did the Garlic Herb Chicken with Broccoli do?

Well The garlic chicken dish has 960 calories, 369 calories from fat and a whopping 2,180 mg of sodium. I was suprised on this one because if I had to pick what I thought was better for you based on the menu description  I would have picked this dish. The words, Rosemary, Herb chicken, and Fresh Broccoli. seem to stand out as healthy.

1. Things that make you itch. - fleas, scabies, lice, mosquito bites, etc.  because once you enter this conversation you will start scratching yourself.

2. Saliva - anything relating to every day swallowing (get your head out of the gutter), seriously during that conversation you become well aware of your saliva and swallowing, so much that it alters it. I guess same could be said about how many times a minute you blink

Hah I love this tat it's so badass I could see someone like masumi max sporting it.

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I don't have any tattoos myself. I doubt I could find something I'd like to have permanently that I would get sick of but this gun and garterbelt is pretty cute for a check who is bad ass enough to pull it off. Angelina Jolie, Masumi Max, or Michelle Rodriguez could pull it off but its not something for everyone.

I missed posting this on Tuesday but maybe continue to post a Tat on Tuesdays there are just so many weird, obnoxious, bad, well done, silly, beautiful tattoos out there.

1. Prank Phone Call

2. Pull an All Nighter

3. Get High on Candy

4. Work the morning sunday shift at my old Sub Shop sorta minium wage job

5. Play Hookey and have a Ferris Bueller day off

6. Eat nothing but college type food for a day – Ramen Noodles, mac and cheese, Pizza, hot dogs, etc.

7. Make out, have sex in a car

8. Chug a Beer

9. Skinny Dip

10. Midnight Bowling

We  went for Sushi for lunch. Seito Sushi (Orlando - Sand Lake). I'm not sure what my problem is. I have a very difficult time finding anything that matches my regular sushi place (Mikado - Hunter's Creek). It wasn't that it was horrible, although there was a great deal of dissapointment in some things. It was that the place was overly trendy.

I don't want my sushi to be trendy. It just needs to be fresh and plated well. It needs to be more traditional and less fusion. There needs to be a good staple of traditional foods on the menu as well as specialty or original style foods. The fish needs to be top quality and fresh, the staff needs to be knowledgable.

I'm not saying that there needs to be a staff and chef of japenese people, they just need to be skilled and trained well in the cuisine they are creating and serving. My regular place is owned and operated by a young chinese man and his brothers, all of which were classically trained in traditional japanese cuisine. They are masters at their craft with good solid tradition as their base, who can turn out something simple and fresh, or something creative and or intracate.

They delight in the fact that I am willing to try anything once and I have acted as a food tester for them in the past. They have given me some interesting things to try, several of them saying "most americans don't really care of the texture of this, or the taste of that". They giggled when I told them Natto smelled like stinky feet.

Their quite funny at times and will on occasion make fun of the trendsters, openly to their face. Once there was a college girl sitting up at the bar with her snooty friend, raving about how delicious sushi is. It was almost annoying. I was sitting next to her and was curious what they were about to eat. They got a salad with ginger dressing and a couple of california rolls. I asked if they were having anything else and they said no and as I smiled the sushi chef read my mind and said alloud, "They really don't like sushi much".

This makes me wonder. Do most americans who enjoy sushi really know what good sushi is? I find it hard to believe that while everyone else is going crazy and loving the trendy place we went to lunch I found it to be on the low side of medocrity. Here are my main gripes about Seito Sushi.

1. The Menu - I knew I was going to have an issue when I saw Key Lime Pie in the dessert section and chocolate martinis in the drink section. Neither of those things belong on the menu.

2. The decore and over all mood was too trendy to new age hipster. It lacked any type of culture. It was cold in mood and looked more like a modern dance club than a sushi restaurant.

3. The sashmi was good but not the freshest I've ever had. It was the best thing I ate there for lunch along with the gyoza.

4. The roll I had was not put together well, it fell apart before I could even pick it up but even worse than that the rice was over salted and way to sticky.

5. I spent 17 bucks plus tip for very unsatisfying medocre food.

6. Wait Staff were not too friendly and hug out with each other a lot over by the bar area.

I was annoyed that this place was so reccommended by my coworkers. I need to take them to the place I go. It's really not all that far and it makes the place we just ate at look like a soggy trendy mess
 

The Casey Anthony Case

I'm not sure how many of you are following this. It's been in the national news but is a story out of Orlando about a little girl, Caylee, who's mother Casey failed to report her missing even after a month since she was last seen.

The mother Casey showed no emotion and her friends and family have all said she is a pathological liar.  I'm thinking she is actually a sociopath. I also think that Casey's mother Cindy, grandma to Caylee,  knows what happen. I'm not sure when Casey told her some of the details but Cindy does know something.

It's appearant if you lisen to this crazy woman. Cindy usually was very calculated and used the prentence of her granddaughter. Saying Caylee is, but once I heard her slip saying Caylee was. She knew she was no longer alive before the reports but yet insists that they need to be looking for her because she is alive. Same thing with the pizza incident. Casey's car was impounded or left and her first reaction was that the car smelled like there was a dead body in it, but then she later retracted that story to say, "Oh it was just a rotting pizza".

Dear Cindy,  we all know the difference between spoiled pizza and the smell of a dead body. Then when the results came back that there was a decomposing body in the car, C indy later said, "oh well who is to say that someone didn't place a body in the car after casey abandoned it".

Seriously? Seriously? You are going to go on national news and say that? Now we know were Casey gets her lying from. 

Not mention all of the craziness and lies. No one is even sure about Caylees real father. Casey said the man who fathered her child had died right before Caylee was born. How convient for Casey right?. Plus the mans family said Casey was never around, even friends agree she is a pathological liar.

Add in to the mix the bounty hunter, and when cops wanted to put her back in jail all they had to do was find something else to stick her in jail for. Like writing bad checks, which isn't related but that was their way of getting her back in Jail.

DNA results now show that Caylee's deseased body was in the back of her car/trunk and she still isn't singing.

Casey you are up against science, and science will win, your mother can't protect you, and once the find poor little caylee's body they won't need your help and you will be convicted.

I'm pretty sure the whole thing was an accident, but I think she was afraid of neglect charges but she has made it a billion times worse.

I'm making a care package for my little cousin "Lil Betsy". She is currently over in Iraq. Yeah she's tall, blonde and thin, and can put together and shoot an AK47 quicker than you can blink an eye.

I really don't like her being over there. The statistics say that US Women Soldiers are more likely to get raped by their own than to get killed. While I'm glad its the lesser of two evils, it's still really bad.

I'm asking Family if they wanted to add anything in. I'm paying for the box and shipping and its cheaper just to add everyones stuff in. Since the soldiers usually share what they get I included some things for her personally and then some things to share, like hard candy, a deck of cards, dominoes, Uno, and other assorted snacks.

I got her some burt's bee's stuff especially the lifeguard chapstick since she is out in the sun so much.   A shower gel, scrubby and lotion set, and some new hair ties.

I know they like things that remind them of home even the silly stuff. I'm still looking for suggestions, or ideas, or even stories of people who have sent care packages over there.

Please stop hiring profressional food photographers to set up and photograph the contents of what is inside your sad little black plastic bowls. It's not that we are confused, or disillusioned, we are actually anything but. We know that the picture of the juicy succulent large shrimp  in the zesty saucy noodles that are cook to perfection is not what we will be eating. We know the sauce will dissapoint, the shrimp will be shriveled and 1/4th the size shown and the noodles will be made out of what taste like cardboard. We understand we must sacrifice taste for low calorie count, price and convience. 

In fact most of the time your buyers don't buy your meals for the  taste or look of the food. I stash a few of these in the freezer at work, for when I don't have time to make my lunch, so that I still have low calorie alternative instead of snacking on salty things, or dreaming of philly cheese steak sandwiches or pizza. 

The thing is that if you just took one of your meals opened it up, slapped it in the microwave, sloppily taking it out and snapping a quick pic for the cover, you would not only save your money but it would also stop us from dreaming of delicious food while eating your crap.

Anthony Bourdain's last blog on his site is about Top Chef , where he talks about when Dale was sent packing. Yes Dale was a great cook, he had lots of talent, but his tactics in the game lead to his demise. Tony let us in on a key factor when they judge. They don't judge based on prior performances. They try and figure out who had the worst dish that day and while I think that is admiral I think it is also flawed.

The reason is because as an artist, chef, musician, or dancer some of the greatest have bad days but it is their body of work that make them great. I also stand by the quote "If you have one success after another, you are not living up to your full potential." 

Yes its a competition and no room for error, but the problem with Top Chef is that by only judging the task at hand you are letting those who do the bare minium slide though. While someone who either experiements, had a bad day, or really just ended up in the weeds gets sent home. 

In the beginning of Top Chef it isn't an issue but when it comes down to the last 6 or so it does. I think it comes fown to the last 8 or 6 or so, where you need to pay attention to what they have done during the duration of the show. 

Dale was a hothead, assumed to much responsiblity and got let go because of his dish. Meanwhile the slithery snakey spike and the sometimes good sometimes bad Lisa landed in the bottom two a lot but were never elimated.

Andrew being sent home was purely a technicallity which was a shame because  I thought he brought a  lot of fun and dynamic to the show. Plus who could ever forget about him talking about a "Culinary Boner". So Lisa got to stay do to a technicality and her home is always on the bottom two. 

Antonia had showed she can run out of the pack, she's shown you can do something. She's one quickfires and challenges and was obviously a very strong contender. 

So with only 4 left again Lisa was in the Bottom 2 along side one of the 2 of this seasons strongest women chefs. Instead of looking at their body of work and judging they sent Antonia packing. Wrong move. I do think Lisa is a great cook, and she has done well, but Antonio was stronger the whole competion. 

The problem I have with judging is that if you aren't going to judge based on how they have done the whole competion they might as well make Top Chef a single show, based on 2 -4 hours of cooking competion, best chef prevails. If only the task at hand counts then maybe this is the best fit. Instead of letting go people that have enormous talent and potiential to keep people that still need to that little something. 

It is now down to 3 but it really is between Blaise and Stephanie and I actually love both of them equaly, as Blaise represents chemistry, gastronomy, sceince and math, where Stephanie is more a creative, abstract, and newly inspired.

So last monday I woke up, my finger was swollen I took my ring off, and took a shower, then put my ring back on. Then my finger swelled up so much that my ring was cutting off my circulation. I tried butter, baby oil, dish liquid. I tried taking allergy medicine, and icing my fingure but it just got worse. I had a choice, go to the ER were they will probably cut my ring off in exchange for money, or just have Nick cut it off at home. I chose the latter.  It was pretty emotional even though we've been engaged for a while and still never married.  ( more on that later) I saw two small bites on my finger one at the base where my ring was and another a little above my nuckle. I was bit by something.

Fastforward to Thursday afternoon and I get  call from my brother. My mom who is a manager of a city pool, fell while trying to do somehting, stuck her hands out and front and broke her pinky on her left hand and her wrist on her right hand. she is pretty much handless, except for what she calls "her claw". on her left hand. But the swelling from her pinky and left ring finger may cause them to cut her wedding band and ring off. She hasn't taken it off in 30 years. 

I'm on call to take her to the doc. My dad has been good about getting out of work early as well. I know its killing her not having much use of her hands except for a small claw on her left hand. Any ideas to help her out within the next few weeks let me know.