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Kenny Chesney - Live Those Songs
Album: No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
“If I could be somewhere else, I’d tell you where I’d be”
Personal Flaw #31080
I wish I had more patience for my dad. We’re completely different people with different experiences growing up - and on top of that (without trying to be condescending), half the time, I cannot fathom what he’s thinking that the things he says makes sense to him. But I could stand to be more perceptive and less easily frustrated. Sometimes, he says things I should probably pay attention to but I’ve let previous experiences/”conversations” prejudice my reaction. We will never be close and that doesn’t bother me at all, but our relationship could be more civil and mutually beneficial than it currently is.
“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about. And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.”— President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
I’m weeping. Seriously. Thank you, President Obama. For getting it and for acknowledging this struggle.
hahaha, the bolded just kills me. Props though, Obama.
Why the Bobcats Can’t Talk Shit
“Biyombo told me, ‘This is my house,’ I told him, ‘You have 7 wins. It’s everybody’s house.’”
—Memphis’ Rudy Gay, regarding some words with Charlotte’s Bismack Byyombo during the two team’s contest last Friday night. Memphis won, mostly because Charlotte is historically bad.
Thanks to NBC’s ProBasketballTalk for this gem.
haha, beautiful.
On one hand, I feel bad for Harden and the Thunder. On the other, this really helps both the Spurs and the Suns. I’m a bad person, yup.
The hit definitely seems intentional. Seems like he got too amped and threw an elbow when Harden got in his way and bumped him, more than strictly a malicious hit. That doesn’t excuse it at all though and I’d be surprised if he doesn’t get suspended for at least the first round of the playoffs. Not expecting 25+ games or a whole season like a lot of people are calling for though. Nothing more to be said that hasn’t already been said, so yeah.
depression in the Facebook generation
… This over saturation of media, in my opinion, is often depressing. This is mainly because it splits our focus into many disjoint pieces. I contemplate my situation, but also try to imagine the entire world.
One feels happy when one feels autonomy—-when decisions can be made. When we try to pay attention to everything that’s happening in the world—-from Africa to our middle school acquaintance’s Friday night excursions—-we’re getting emotionally involved in things that we have no control over.
This stuff doesn’t usually bother me. But I think it’s important for us to focus on personal relationships and goals. We mustn’t get duped into somebody else’s significance. The whole world wants you to join THEIR cause, but not every fight is yours. It’s simply impossible to do everything. It will inevitably end in feelings of powerlessness and existential anxiety.
yaaa, buddy. Good win over the Clippers tonight, although I couldn’t watch it.
Denver, Utah, San Antonio. A win against either Denver or San Antonio and a win in Utah means playoffs for the Suns.
… On a completely unrelated note, if Nash can hit fourteen straight free throws in the last three games of the season, he’ll have the fifth 50/40/90 season of his career. To put that in context, Larry Bird (with two) is the only other player in NBA history with more than one. That’s ridiculous.
Suns in the playoffs?!
Gawd, how are the Suns sitting eighth in the West with five games to go in the season, especially after losing Hill? They’re only eighth by virtue of holding a tiebreaker over Houston (not even head-to-head record, but the second tiebreaker), so it’s still very tentative. Hollinger has the Suns at basically a coinflip to make the playoffs, but still. I don’t know if I want to watch the Suns get walloped in five or six games in the playoffs though.
I think I want the Spurs to make the finals (blasphemy for a Nash/Suns fan, I know) and they’re in a virtual tie for the #1 seed. Hollinger has them holding onto that 76.2% of the time. I think if the Spurs hold onto the #1 seed, I want the Suns to make it; if the Thunder regain the #1 seed, I want the Rockets to slip back into eighth. Interestingly, Hollinger also has the Spurs as the favourites, with almost 3:1 odds of taking it all.
Ultimately, I’m rooting for the Heat to win it all - and I’m pretty sure going up against the Spurs instead of the Thunder only makes that more difficult. The Heat give up an above-average percentage on an above-average number of attempts from deep. And the Spurs are notorious for hitting the corner three, especially this season.
In the Miami-OKC game I watched in March, the Thunder players (especially Durant) won with ease, finding the big man open under the basket again and again after the pick-and-roll and Ibaka and Perkins combined to shoot 16-21 for 35 points. Fortunately, in a rematch ten days later, Miami seemed to fix this problem, baiting Durant into nine turnovers and the Thunder’s 4/5 combo into six points on nine shots.
… But I digress. I guess what I’m saying is I have no idea what I want to see happen, but it’s amazing the Suns are even in the playoff picture at this point in time. Go Spurs. Go Heat. And that’s basically it.
