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. 

thirstyyy

I felt like a super genius for the first time in a long time. I was out at lunch with 2 of my co-workers at a Mexican restaurant. We ordered our food and starting eating blah blah. Then, a young couple sits down beside us and orders food and shows the waitress a piece of paper. I assume it was a daily deal, so I whipped out my phone, opened up the groupon app, found an $8 for $15 deal for the place we were currently at. I instantly bought it and showed our waitress, bam. It felt really really good, like really good. I just created $7 of value. I just stole $7 from someone, if that’s not gangsterrr…

 

kid at 1:10 mark- that sort of crying is obnoxious, come on. 

homie at 1:50 - why does homie have muscles? if he came charging at me swinging, i feel like i'd have to swing back in self-defense

girls at 3:07 - girls are crazy

girls at 3:55 - um, girls are crazy. she looks 13

4:17- she killed me, like deaddd

i know i blogged about this last year, but whatever. this is the new halloween kimmel prank.

like i said last time, i cannot wait to do this. it's something like +350 that my kid has a "good reaction" and -400 that my kid has  "bad reaction"

when i first saw the video, i sent it to everyone i was talking to on gchat. and then i was asked "are you going to do this to your kid every year?"

i typed "lol yes" but then it hit me. delete delete delete...

ok, so the first time i do this, of course the kid will fall for it and blah blah blah. but! if i do it the next year, and the kid falls for it again. wouldn't that be a concern? i mean, i'd be legit sad if i prank my kid the exact same way 2 years in a row. but now that i think of it, i HAAAAVE to do it twice now just to see what happens.  HOPEFULLY my kid is gangster and tells me i'm lame for doing it the 2nd time

the boom

for the past several months, i wanted to start coaching youth basketball. i applied at the Tenderloin boys and girls club in san francisco. about a month ago, i got a call saying a position was open if i wanted it. i was really excited, it's boys basketball, ages 6-8. i was really excited until i thought about how and what i would do in practice. i thought about when i was younger and played in my first organized basketball team. one of the first things i remember learning, left handed lay-ups!

when i was like 7 or 8 years old, i learned how to do one because our coach made us. then i just sorta stopped, since i was about 12 til now, i only do right-handed lay-ups, even in a pregame lay up drill. i do this awkward right handed lay up (coming from the left side). i was legitimately concerned, i knew i had to teach them a left-handed lay up, but i also knew that i cannot do a left handed lay-up at 75% game speed

just thinking about it. if i showed up to the first practice unprepared, and some punkass kid says "i bet you can't even do a left-handed lay up, go ahead, show us a left handed lay up at 80% game speed." i would have been effed. i would have lost the team right there.

well, i did go to the gym before the first practice, just to get some reps (left hand lay-ups) in. cool story