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the freeway right in front of ORACLE. woww

broh broh baggins

i'm a gift card fan.

about 3 out of every 5 work days, i go to starbucks for coffee and a breakfast sandwich. the total is something near $5. so what i do is buy starbucks gift cards on ebay for a discount. the last gift card i purchased on ebay had a value for $100, and i bought it for $82. cool. so the seller emails me the the code, i enter it into my starbucks ipone app and boom, $100 credit. nice and easy. so here's my question. there are obviously millions of starbucks gift cards in the world that have some cash value on them. what is stopping me from just entering random numbers and see if i can get lucky? i know it wouldn't be easy to guess correctly, BUT if you do it enough times, you are bound to hit eventually right?

i think i've seen just about every MTV catfish episode. lame i know. my question is, re: the person on the other end who is the mysterious character. why do they agree to meet up facetoface? SPOILER ALERT; so almost all of the mysterious character do not turn out to be who they say they are. most have lied. what i don't understand is why they agree to meet up, especially if they are basically being "caught". aaaaand especially knowing that it will be recorded for a tv series. like what happens if the mysterious person declines to meet up? they stop filming, and that episode is over?

residual

the lakers need to make the playoffs. a spurs/lakers playoff series would be slightly more entertaining than a spurts/jazz playoff series.  a guy i work with said he is happy to see them struggle, and he hopes that they miss the playoffs. nope, wrong.

Besides having your favorite team go deep in the playoffs and contend for a title. the next best scenario ("best scenario" based on interest level) is having the team you hate go deep into the playoffs and lose in the championship. i know i've said this all before, but the most intense basketball games i've ever watched, were those lakers/celtics championship games. of course i don't like the celtics, but they were the only thing between kobe and another ring. at the time, my emotions were equivalent to a boston die-hard (ehh, maybe not, but close). it's all about the sweat. the sweat is valuable. if the celtics played the denver nuggets in those fnials, i would have had to make a decent sized bet to have an equivalent sweat

i think i've said this before too, but it's similar to playing credit card roulette. let's say there are 5 guys, and 1 person is paying (4 winners and 1 loser). and the structure is eliminating one person at a time until there is 1 loser left. the first person eliminated (he's safe, doesn't have to pay), we'll call him manti. so then there are 2 guys left. ronniah and lennay. let's say that ronniah's credit card gets picked which means lennay is the ultimate loser. you'd think that roniah and manti have come out equal in this game. nope, wrong. ronniah gained more value than manti. why? because of the sweat. his sweat was bigger and lasted longer. manti probably had a small sigh of relief. while, roniah fist pumped like a mad man. 

this doesn't make sense. hmmm

if you hate a team, it's more fun to see them lose in the championship, then to not make the playoffs at all.

wouldn't it be fun to bet like 50% of your net worth on the 9ers this weekend??

nashty

so i missed out on Linsanity (ouch). whatever, it happened. but then, in september ish. scottmizuno.com and i bet on obama to win the election. and i mentioned to him that if we win, we should use our winnings to buy an expensive colin kaepernick rookie card (in the $200-300 range). scott said something like no thanks, i'll pass. ummm...now look what happened. the other day, i just haaaad to look on ebay, rookie cards that were selling for $5 are now selling for over $70ish. i can't even bring myself to search for the more expensive rookie cards, my guess is that they are selling in the $1500 range.  boom. ok fine, i missed out. 0 for 2. 

BUT, i'm going to hit one time. i'm thinking orlando johnson, jimmer, tebow or aj jenkins. OJ was a 2nd round pick, ucsb grad, and now plays for the pacers. tebowmania might come back right? jimmer is exciting and has a good story right?  and AJ, first round pick, wide receiver. he'll likely play with kaep for the next 5-10years. harbaugh never misses right? 

over

i'm so over this whole manti te'o story. i mean geez, who really cares anymore? seems like everyone and their mother (my mom loves that line) wants to talk about the manti case? someone please tell me when its over. #KIDDING

oh man, the twists, the juice! the juiceeee. ronniah is from east palmdale? (jayuhhmie)
crazy, i think i've read every piece of news that has come out regarding this story. i'm still slightly embarrassed about how interesting this is to me. unfortunately, i might have even checked tmz for updates the past few days. and unfortunately, i might have watched a 20 second video (tmz) of ronniah making his first public appearance (he might have just been walking to his car covering his face). and in those 20 seconds, i was embarrassingly interested. the whole 20 seconds i was like "ohhhhhhh my gahhdddddd, roniaihhhhhhhh....you bahhhhstard"

my random thoughts.
-the jeremy schapp interview. i spent a good 40 minutes reading the interview transcript. and that is when i completely turned. i believe te'o was completely duped. i don't think he was involved at all. he's innocent, maybe stupid, but innocent!
-i'm kind of anxiously awaiting the katie couric interview with te'o on thursday.
-why did the girl in the pictures get interviewed by the Today show? there was nothing interesting that she could have said. she pretty much just said yeah, i felt betrayed, he stole my identity, and this was completely unfair and i can never forgive him for that. boringgggg
-the winners in the story are lance armstrong, deadspin, the mtv show catfish. no one cares about his big interview with oprah. i fell in love with deadspin about 4 months ago. i check it about 8 times a day. it has some of the most interesting stories and whatnot. but this was a hugeeee story break for them. the mtv show catfish is embarrassingly interesting, imo
-the only thing i don't like about this story. every damn character has a very hard name to remember/pronounce. no jacks, no johns, no ashleys, no sarahs. it's always ronianiniah, manti te'o, cousin pookah. dad titus lennay kekua, lennay kekua's siblings u'iliana and noa.
-isn't this similar to Homeland? watching the first season of homeland, i went back and forth, is he good or is he bad? in this manti story, i keep changing my mind. at first, it was 'he dun fcuked up.' thenn it was, ohh mah god, he's innocent! i believe him! then wait a second...

the two funniest things i've read in the past week.
1. Seth Meyers ‏@sethmeyers21

These Te'o jokes are all very funny but let's all try and remember that a person who never existed is dead.

2. from bill simmons mailbag column. 

Q: This mind-blowing Manti Te'o revelation deserves to be immortalized at the very least as an Urban Dictionary Entry. What about the phrase "Lennay Kekua'ed" for "simply didn't exist?"
—Jake, Milwaukee

bill simmons: Or, you go with "Lennay Kekua" for any situation when a friend/coworker/family member keeps talking about some significant other that nobody has ever met, and after awhile, you end up whispering to someone, "You getting a whiff of Lennay Kekua here or is it just me

the wapanese

the manti te'o story has grossly taken over my life. it's one of the most interesting sports-related articles i've ever read. you know that feeling, when you're reading something really good. and you can't stop, you just want to read faster and faster, but then you realize that you need to slow down because you don't want it to end. that's what happened yesterday. for me, it's definitely the most interesting sports story since Linsanity (how did i not buy any jeremy lin rookie cards? i mean, i was a hugeeeee fan and they were hellllllla cheap!)

my initial reaction was this guy is such a liar. there's too many holes in the story. he can't be that naive.

over the weekend, i watched a couple episodes of the mtv show catfish (it's grossly entertaining, i need to stop). and i just couldn't believe the people on the show. basically, the people on the show have exclusive online relationships with people they think are real. and it turns out, its all a lie/joke.

then i started to change my mind, maybe he really was duped. or maybe he was initially duped, and then got super embarrassed and felt he had to keep the story going.

but then the AZ cardinals player who says he met the gf?
or teammates saying he likes attention and saw holes in his gf story?

i can't make up my mind. but if u put a gun to my head....ugh i think te'o is a liar. i can't even begin to think of all the lies it took to get to this point.  wow

i hope some video leaks on worldstar of te'o confessing to a friend that this is all a fake. man, i'm a sucker for hyped-up events. lets say espn announces that they will have an exclusive interview with te'o on saturnday night, 6pm. ohhhhhhhhh man

CLASSY

i'm driving. jt riding shotty. flipping thru radio stations, this comes on, and then this happens...

the funny (or not so funny) thing about this, is that it was pouringgggg. like pouringggg. and i was driving kind of fast. kind of dangerous, but i couldn't help it. i can't watch this without laughing

PURCHASE

2012 is over, here's my 3 best purchases of the year.

3. Juicer = pre-juicer days, i would eat an average of 1.5 fruits and vegetables per day. that would consist of 1 banana per day, and every other day i would order brocili beef (or beef and brocilloli). i   love juicing, i'd say i juice about 2-3 times per week. my go-to juice would be carrots, cucumer and kale. it doesn't taste that amazing, but that means it must be healthy, right? if it tastes really bad. i add some regular OJ for taste. it ISSS a hassle to clean and buy fresh fruits/veggies, but i live very close to several chinese grocery stores, so it's nbd.

2. my google Nexus 7. 

amazing, it's so amazing. i always use my laptop and my iphone for anything internet-related. BUT, i don't know exactly how to describe it, but using a tablet is so much more convenient. so much easier to read stuff, so much lighter and quieter than my laptop. and it's so cheap, like 2 hundo or something. my ONLYYY complaint about the nexus, is that the sound isn't loud enough. most of the time, i use headphones, and its fine. but if u just want to watch a movie without headphones, sometimes it's not loud enough. 

3. boxer briefs.

i made the switch from boxers to boxer briefs somewhere around august/september. what a good decision. so much more comfortable, no bunching? and i just feel more like an adult, not like i'm in 6th grade anymore. whichhhhhh reminds me, not sure if i blogged about this or not. but back when i was throwing away my old boxers, i noticed that one of them was from old navy. i have not shopped at old navy since middle school (roughly 2002ish), which means i've had them for about 10 years. crazy. oh, and as i was throwing away my boxers to make room for my briefs, i thought i was just going to throw them away. but then i thought, why throw them away clean? why not wear them one last time, them throw them away dirty? yep

i'm going to blog 2-3 times a week. if i don't, i can't wear a watch for the  next month.