A photoblog and other things

I’m completely cracking myself up at the moment. I just found a really cool synth sound that reminded me of Van Halen’s “Jump”, and I played along with the song for at least 1/2 hour. Cool.

What’s cracking me up even more is the South Park episode that’s on TV at the moment. Paris Hilton has opened a whore store in South Park, and the writers are taking the piss out of Paris really well. It is one of the funniest episodes I’ve ever seen. One really bad/sad thing I noticed during one of the breaks in South Park though – an advert for an electric jar opener. What are us guys going to do now? Our job is to open jars. Men are slowly being replaced by machines. I feel lost.

I’ve mentioned “the player” on this site before, and through discussions I’ve had with him recently we may as well be from different universes. First a background profile on “the player”. He got divorced about a year ago after a 7 year marriage. He has 2 kids, aged 5 and 7 years old. He’s in his early 30s.

“The player” for the past year has constantly dated women. He has a problem with being alone (as in, not dating) for more than 2 weeks at a time. He has no problem with dating more than one woman at a time, but he will will be honest with his date and tell them he is dating another woman if they ask (and if that is the case). His thoughts on dating are that it’s ok to date more than one girl at once, so long as you are honest with them. Furthermore, he says his time is mostly spent on thinking about dating women, and he is completely and utterly absorbed in experimenting with chatting up women and finding that recipe of words that will make them his. He seems pretty confident that he’s nailed most of that, and seems certain that for any given night he will pick some girl up. He also has no fear of being rejected, which would obviously help.

I know for certain I’m not that sort of person, but heck I’m going to try and find out what makes the mind of a person like “the player” tick. And I have other questions, the girls who date guys like this – why do they do it? Do they suffer from the same fear of being alone as “the player” does? Do they care/know that they in for a quick and dirty releationship that probably (and evidence has shown) won’t last for more than a few weeks? Does it help prop up their self esteem that some guy is cracking onto them?

it’s about 23C outside, nice and sunny but I also happened to notice the smog hanging about, and then the number of SUVs around with only one person driving. Which bothers me a little. I used to car pool a lot when working back in Adelaide. So if it’s one thing I’ve noticed while I’ve been over here, it’s how incredibly wasteful American society is. It’s just downright amazing. The number of SUVs is just the tip of the iceberg. The fact that I’m not even given the option of recycling paper and cardboard at my apartment is another ice crystal in that massive iceberg.

Anyway, enough of that. I’m currently planning my Christmas/New Year’s trip to the west coast. So far a visit to San Francisco, LA, Yosemite National Park and Lake Tahoe is on the cards. I’m travelling with a couple of crew from that side of the US and I think this trip shall be nothing short of an absolute blast!

On Tuesday night I got to see another Miami Heat game. They lost again, and I’m beginning to think I’m some sort of jinx or something because at every sports game I’ve attended, the team I’ve been barracking for has lost. Heat went down to the Raptors 92-94. That was a pretty damn close game and the whole stadium was electric. Everybody was standing up and making a huge noise, and Heat nearly did win the game – a shot from the three point line in the last second hit the basketball rim.

Oh, the college football pics have been uploaded. You can find them here after the NBA pictures. I seem to have more shots of cheerleaders than those of the game though. Hmmm…