the youth basketball team that i coach had their first game last wednesday. our team is really young compared to the other teams, so we really can't expect to be very competitive. we played this really good team, who had a really good left-handed point guard. he was super quick, big, and skilled
but anyway, i think we were down by 20something points in the 2nd half before the other coach finallyyyy told james harden not to shoot anymore.

it was funny though. we lost the game by 25 points or so. and riiiiight after the game, little 9year old gerald comes up to me and asks  "Did we win?"

um, no. we got smashed by 25 points.
 no. you guys let james-harden-over-there drive to the basket anytime he wanted
 no. you guys didn't box out or secure a rebound to save your lives.
 no. the other team won aaaand they covered the 20-point spread.
 no. what the fuck game were you watching?

I actually just laughed and said 'no, i think we lost. did you think we won?'
and he just shrugged his shoulders and said i don't knoww

i hate the rain. i feel like when people say they like the rain, they are just trying to be different. no one likes the rain.

. i may have even blogged about this already. but...a good umbrella is priceless

when i first moved to SF, i would always buy a cheap umbrella at Walgreens for like $10. i would use it 3-4 times before it would eventually break. they're horrible, very weak, too small, doesn't block enough of the rain. your whole lower body is wet after 5 minutes of walking in medium level rain. (and i haaate those small umbrellas that contract and fit into your backpack)

i finally upgraded about a year a half ago, and now, the rain is OKAY with me. i have a big black golf umbrella, superr sturdy, blocks more than enough of the rain. and even has a carbon fiber handle. sucka

its just funny now when i walk past people near my work. when it's raining, you have those people with big solid umbrellas, and they just look happy as can be
then you have those people with the shitty walgreens umbrellas who are upset because they aren't staying dry, i give them my best 'that-must-suck' look
then you have the people who are just walking as fast as they can because they 100% forgot their umbrella, and they just hate everything in life. or sometimes they try and pull their jacket above their head.
i swear, one time i thought about how nice it would be if i gave my umbrella to someone who looked miserable, but then i remembered that i haaaate rain. now i feel bad, i should give mine away

why isn't there a one hour show called Make-A-Wish on ABC. It should be on Friday nights before Shark Tank. its basically a show about make-a-wish stories (maybe 3or4 per show) like BATKID. people loveddddddd sfbatkid. so yeah, one hour show, that shows 3-4 different make-a-wish stories. i'd watch it

til 6th grade

just needed to store this one away lol. i was talking to guy on gchat on friday. and this happened.

guy@gmail.com: did you listen to the lance armstrong bs report?

guy@gmail.com: interesting right?

gmiz: i haven't listened to it yet

guy@gmail.com: do you even like bill simmons?

gmiz: no good excuse either

gmiz: lol

guy@gmail.com: you know he's like the single most important thing to happen to sports in this decade

gmiz: i know

guy@gmail.com: like

gmiz: he really is

guy@gmail.com: he took casual fans like us

guy@gmail.com: and made us super fans

guy@gmail.com: i wouldn't like basketball as much without him

guy@gmail.com: it just wouldnt be as important to me

guy@gmail.com: its bad to say

gmiz: for sure

gmiz: i'm 10% interested about wrestling now

gmiz: cmpunk? i'm curious

i'm a hype buyer. that's what i do, i buy hype

and the hype surrounding wiggins, jabari, and julius randle is ridiculous. i'm usually not a big college basketball fan, but this year, i'm IN. i know a few things for certain

1. i'm going to reach and draft one, two, or all of these bastards in a fantasy draft next year. i dunnn care

2. i know nothing about them besides youtube videos and part of 1 game each. but if i had to start a franchise...i'm going with jabari, wiggins, then julius randle

3. hypothetical i know. but if i could trade harrison barnes for any one of them. done...

if i could trade harrison aaand klay for any one of them. done...

would i trade steph for any one of them. i really don't know...but if you put a gun to my head...i'd rather have steph, i guess.

4. i CANNOT even imagine what it must be like if i were a student at Duke, Michigan State, or Kansas this year. i mean, UCSB had orlando johnson (2nd round pick last year), and when i saw him walking around i would stare about 10 seconds too long. i saw OJ around campus (if i had to guess) about 10 or so times. and it was never like 'Oh, there's orlando johnson.' it was 'ohhh shit, that's orlando johnson, let's follow him for a second just to see...'

5. dude. if i was a student at duke and saw jabari parker, i would 100% follow him. like, walk right behind him. maybe take a few pictures. instagram that shit with the hefe. #ohshit #beast #2013 #lovelife

orlando johnson, the pride of UCSB

i was curious so i googled his name, hit "news" and this is the first result. awesome

woke up to a fire in the apartment yesterday (our apt is the white building on the right in the top picture). it started in the building next to our apartment (the bottom picture, which is completely gone). such a weird, long, almost unbelievable day. everyone one was ok, and my stuff only has smoke and water damage. one of my roommates lost almost everything. i'll finish this tmro. at least no one got hurt 

interesting companies that i like to follow:

GOOG- i love all google products including the chromebooks, tablets, chromecast aaaand youtube, just disgusting. they aren't going anywhere. GOOG is up $300, or 44% year-to date. ridiculous

NFLX- netflix is amazing. investor carl icahn bought shares back in 2012 and recently sold most of his position and made over 800 million dollars. low of $50ish to currently over $340. nflx is awesome. i saw that they just added FLIGHT, Olympus has Fallen, and a new Russell Peters comedy special...too good

ZNGA- if online poker comes back to the US, watch out for znga. online poker in new jersey starts this month. i think

FB- facebook will always be interesting to watch. 52-week range of $18-$54. yummy

BAC- bank of america, my baby

AAPL-  google > apple. if i cared about technology and phones, i'd leave the iphone

V- visa just goes up, and up, and up, and up. which i guess makes sense. young people don't use cash and never will

YELP- i use yelp, but i don't like yelp

TWTR-  twitter starts trading on thursday. STS, sell that shit. who knows? i don't know

MCD- mcdonald's is the best right? and now they have the cafe stuff which is basically starbucks, they have smoothies which is basically jamba juice, now they have buffalo wings. 

SFXE- SFX entertainment which is a company that produces live electronic music events. serious STS. it's a bubble

KORS- michael kors..something that bothered me a smidge. they make very nice women's watches. and let's be real, of all the girls that you know, ages 15-25, how many of them own a michael kors watch. 40-50%?? or, of all girls 15-25 who own a watch, what % of those have a KORS watch? like 75%??

those were so damn popular (they're nice, i'm not hating). i don't know, there's other stuff to it. but still. KORS is up $28 or 55% in 2013. 

a simple plan. every 7 months or so i watch A SIMPLE PLAN. with billy bob thornton and bill paxton

basically its about 3 guys who go hunting in the woods and come across a crashed plane with a dead body and a couple million dollars inside. they decide to keep it, and it spirals from there. some people die, and it turns out to that it was traced drug money. they learn that 1 in 10 of the bills was marked by the FBI. so the lone survivor decides to burn all the money



1. i love thinking about hypothetical situations
2. if i'm ever in the woods and find a couple million dollars. i'm keeeeeeeping all of it with a capital K.
3. if i needed to start a cover business to launder money, its either going to be a shoe repair store, a bookstore, or a sushi place.
4. let's say the millions of dollars is hidden in your house and the FBI says that 1 of every 10 bills is marked and its only a matter of time before they start to surface. do not burn the money, don't overreact like bill paxton. the thought of trying to get rid of the money sounds like fun. just live your normal day to day life, and make it a goal to spend 2 or 3 of the hundred dollar bills per week.  maybe one day go to chinatown and buy $40 worth of crap, boom. one day you go to the casino and dust off $300 (using 1 of the dirty bills and 2 clean bills from the bank). just casually spend a couple hundred each week= FUN

i would never keep it