UConn, it's amazing (Price is Right style)

Usually while flipping through the television channels you expect to see things that qualify as entertaining. Today, however, I found something, (well, not I, but I'll get to that) so utterly entertaining that it had to be mentioned in blog form. As we all know, one of the most amazing shows of all time is "The Price is Right" hosted by the ageless/immortal Bob Barker. Needless to say, I was playing video games at the time of it's airing, but, numerous phone calls (thanks to Ray and Sleepy) I was informed of an amazing feat. Adam Reynolds (think tall kid) from the floor above the infamous KFS floor was on the program. Not only was he on, he got his name called to contestant row, he got off of contestant row and moved onto a normal game, the outcome of this game is unknown, and the actual game is unknown as I only flipped in time to see the final showcase. This means UConn alum, Adam made it to spin the wheel and he was closest to a dollar without going over! He made it to the final showcase. Now Adam, wearing proudly his orange UConn intramural t-shirt was bidding on a showcase. It was called the living room/spa showcase. Needless to say, it had a living room set and a spa (hot tub). Now, you can imagine how shocked I was to see someone from UConn, no less, a friend bidding on a showcase. This caused much UConn excitement, Jon and EJ were flooded with instant messages at work, Aris was informed of his presence on the show when returning from lunch break, and Dave Mont was told and in shock a few hours later. The gravity of this appearance is groundbreaking. Adam is a hero among UConners (or just lucky). As, Nick (Sleepy) said to me on the phone, of all the F'n people to be on this show, Adam F'n Reynolds. Now this sentiment was shared by many. It was more of a surprise that he was actually in California (where the show is taped) than he was on the show. Now you can imagine that a big deal was made of whether or not Adam was victorious in the show, unfortunately, he lost, in a closely battled showcase showdown. He bid $13,785 on his showcase and his opponent, a young woman from Fordam University bid $26,500 on hers. Adams price was revealed first, he missed by just over $2,000, he was looking good on his bid, his spirits were high. Now, onto his opponent. She seemed certain she was going to lose, she thought she over-estimated her bid, she was sure she was over, but, no no no, Bob Barker informed her that her showcase was worth $28,000 and she edged Adam with a closer bid, but just mere hundreds of dollars. Adam seemed heartbroken (as anyone should) and the camera moved to the young girl who danced and jumped with her friends among their newly won showcase. But Adam, I speak for many UConn Huskies when I say, hold your head up high, millions of AARP members watched you on national TV, and that's more than most people can say for themselves.

And please remember, have your pets spayed or neutered.

Internet Poker

Now that I am graduated, and well on my way to considerable length unemployment, I need to find a logical way to make money, so I obviously turned to internet poker, the most noble of all internet gambling sites. I of course, like so many others are shocked by the coincidence that I started playing poker shortly after it became so popular on television. The television influence obviously had no bearing on my poker playing, but isn't it odd that they coincided? Anyhow, poker is a great way to make money with no risk of losing any money, if you lose even one hand of poker, you must be an idiot. This poker thing is definitely the most fool-proof business venture of this or any millennia. (please disregard the previous two sentences). Anyway, I don't make much money online poker style. But I do make some. I have signed up for just over a week (on this, my second stint) and I have made about 20 dollars so far. Twenty dollars a week! This is a very consistent income I can certainly live off. The best part about internet poker shadows what is so great about the regular internet, a sense of anonymity. That is a great thing, you can play with a different style each time you play, and people won't generally recognize you because you are only identified by a screen name. This way, when I play I can insult people mercilessly one game, and the next, I can remain silent. I can bluff a ton of times in one game and the next play as tight as (insert off-color unlikely here). It is great, it is fun, and most importantly, you don't have to make any face to face human contact. Hell, I can play naked and no one will even know, unless I leave the door open and Aris walks by, but, that's his gain anyway. In conclusion, I encourage everyone to gamble excessively, especially with off-shore poker sites where your money is nothing but secure. I love it, and I can probably beat you. The end.

Listen to ME!

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Works cited woes

Per request of my ex-roommate Dave (weird saying that) I am writing on behalf of the let down of typing up a worked cited page.

As presumably everyone who is reading this knows, writing a long, term-paper is not a fun task, but at times you can get into a flow of writing and it can take off. On these rare occasions one can bang out a paper in just a few hours it is truly a kick in the pants when you finish and you have the great feeling of relief until you realize you need a works cited page. You are done with a huge burden and ready to hand in this paper. If most people are like myself, and I'd like to think most are, the paper doesn't get completed until about 8 hours before it is due. In these situations you are so happy to be finished with the paper you refuse to proof read and you are ready to print it out and hand it in. However, there is always one giant problem that looms large, the dreaded work cited page. Now of course there are many problems with the works cited page.

The first problem is of course the pain and burden of having to type yet one more page of virtual rubbish after just completing an entire 5 plus page paper full of B.S.

The next problem is trying to recall the "sources" that you "used". Who actually uses sources while writing a paper. Typing up a paper usually involves following exactly the syllabus and just using a few key words that you've heard in class or int he text book. There is not much actual research taking place for the majority of college students.

Another problem with the works cited page is the formatting. There is the MLA format and the APA style format. Now, it's frankly amazing that I remember the two names of the formats, much less what each format entails, because I can not do that. All I know is that somethings have to be in alaphabetical order, and some use authors name, or title of the book or article, frankly, I'm ashamed I know this much, works cited pages are bologna.

One more problem that one comes across is that if you do put in a work cited page in, is that for some reason you go back and edit your paper, your work cited page get's all screwy. You put in two more lines into your paper and all of a sudden your works cited page is all off kilter. It's not fun and frankly it pisses me and many others off.

In conclusion, work cited pages are the bane of the paper writing students existance. It is just a way for professors to be lazy and say they checked your work when in all reality they did not. They just look at the citations and presume you are honest, so, great, it's an easy way out of work, but it give us (the student) more work.

the end


WORKS CITED:

Montemerelo, David M. "Why I hate works cited pages".
New York Press. 2005. pages 1-6.

Allow me to reintroduce myself

My name is Hov, H to the O V, wait, someone somewhere said that before. Anyway, I have not been posting in my blog for quite some time, I have a perfectly logical explanination for this.

Moving onward, I just graduated college, and I am now in the awkward stage between college graduation and wanting to start to look for a job.

I give you all a look into the life of an unemployed college graduate.

10:30 AM
Wake up, don't see any reason that I am up except that I went to bed around 1 or 2 the night before and I read somewhere that over 9 hours of sleep can give you diabiates or something like that, so I'm awake now.

10:32 AM
TV is now firmly on Sports Center. Eventhough I watched the episode last night at 1, and I don't think any of the scores from the day will have changed.

10:35 AM
I am hungry, but the delivery places around here don't open until 11, so I drink a Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper (sidebar: Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper is amazing, but the curious part about it is, that it tastes nothing like Dr. Pepper and it is just freeloading off the brand name of the Doctor, and also, this is a kind of a paradox in that this soda is the first in my recollection that went straight and only to diet, there is no "regular cherry vanilla dr. pepper" if anyone knows why this has happened, let me know, but until now, I will drink away, and enjoy the wonderful flavor that Dr. Pepper has provided me)

10:37 AM
**BURP**

11:00 AM
Now that I have watched sports center top ten plays, I decide to create many plays of my own, i pop on my XBOX and play MVP baseball 2005. I am in the midsts of a season with the Boston Red Sox and in first place, I am approaching the all-star break and things couldnt be better.

11:36 AM
I won my MVP game, and now I call Tin Tsin II, the chineese resturant on campus, I don't have any motivation to go and pick up my order, so I am forced to purchase over $10 worth of greasy food. I get the boneless spare ribs/beef tereaki combo plate, and on the side a small order of sweet and sour pork. (they call it sweet and sour, and I have come to accept that, but there is no sour in it, it is all sweet, someone should investigate and crack down on this empty claim of sourness)

11:45 Am
Starting to get antsy, food has not arrived as of yet, and they havent even called to say they are on their way. I scream because I'm aggrivated and hungry, Aris gets here, on lunch break from his job, I tell him of my day to that point, he is happy.

12:03 PM
I test my phone to make sure it is working incase the Asians have called unsuccessfully already, and my food gone to waste. I was also safeguarding against the possibility that I gave the wrong number to my apartment, I've been known to do that from time to time.

12:05 PM
Phone rings, its my food (well, the person delivering my food, but i can only imagine if my food could use a phone :-D)

12:10 PM
Food arrives, it is delicious and greasy, two things that I look for in a food. I demolish it all, and wash it down with a diet mountain dew.

12:25 PM
Food is all gone, so I decide to take a break and watch some ESPN 2, luckily they have on a show called "cheap seats" its a great show, I have watched it a few times before, and loved it, but I am unable to watch it for the most part because it is on ESPN Classic, and I do not get that channel.

1:00 PM
"cheap seats" is still on, it has surpassed the hour of television that I had assumed it would take up, now into its second hour, there is no telling when this esctasy might end.

1:15 PM
Bathroom break, afterall, chineese food is only rented

1:20 PM
Out of spray in my bathroom, bad news for Aris, luckily he lives on the opposite side of the apartment

1:32 PM
Cheap Seats still on, but I feel the urge to check my email (which I happen to do compulsively, eventhough now that I'm done with college, I dont get any emails anymore)

1:33 PM
Lost my fantasy baseball matchup, now fall out of first place overall for the first time all season, not happy about this, but now that my college is over, i can devote more time to being a fantasy baseball General manager

2:00 PM
"Cheap seats" still on!! Very excited time in my life, at this point it is safe to say it's a marathon, there is no end in site!

2:04 PM
Because cheap seats is a marathon, I decide it is ok to play some video games to take a rest from all this television watching.

2:31 PM
Won another MVP game, now it is the all-star break, I have 6 guys make the team, wow, team morale couldnt be any higher, what a great video game franchiese I have going

2:56 PM
Lost the all-star game, probably because there were a lot of yankee players on the team and i purposely sucked with them during the game. (sidebar: I intentionally beaned barry bonds likeness in the all star game, injuring him, and now in the video game he is unable to play for 40 games, see kids, that's what sterioids will do to you)

3:04 PM
Aris gets back from work, thusfar the highlight of my day, I go say hello to him, then return to video games, updating him on all my video game happenings of the day

3:05 PM
Now I am watching Cheap Seats again, but this time I play my video game at the commercials, this way I can feel like my day has been productive.

4:00 PM
My block of evening TV starts, Yes, Dear for an hour on TBS, great show, very underrated, Mike O'Mally from agrocrag fame is in it. However, today there is a dilemma, watch Yes, Dear and stay in my swing of TV watching, or switch for the day knowing Cheap Seats will not be on again for a long time. Needless to say, I cried for about 8 minutes

4:08 PM
I am out of tissues

4:09 PM
Fliping back from Yes, dear and cheap seats, it is a solution I can live with, and I don't have to feel like I cheated on either show.

4:30 PM
I love television (mind you, I have not yet stepped foot outside my apartment, also, still in my gym shorts that I wear to bed everynight)

5:00 PM
Simpsons is on, I enjoy watching the yellow family have antics, I grab my box of honey nut cheerios and snack away on those, they are good, except i always seem to drop them, and they are hard to find because they are such tiny "o's"

5:30 PM
The first spot of television all day that has let me down, only malcom in the middle and home improvement are on, neither is one of the better shows in syndication

5:31 PM
YESSSSSSSSSSSS, cheap seats is still on ESPN2, what a great marathon, if only every day could be mondy, May 16, 2005.

6:00 PM
Shower time, Aris has convinced me that I need to go to Wal-Mart for food, I tend to agree.

6:12 PM
Now that I am clean, I notice my tub has not drained, luckily we are going to Wal-mart and I can buy draino

6:30 PM
Aris and I can not decide what we are going to get for dinner. It's between Wendy's and a place called "goodfellas" we flip coins, yes, 4 coins, 3 heads, 1 tails, that means Wendy's

6:47 PM
I got a spicy chicken combo with a diet coke and also an order of chicken nuggets

7:12 PM
All done eating, now on the the wonderful aisles of Wal-mart

7:58 PM
Back to UConn, unload my groceries, I mostly bought frozen pre-cooked stuff, just to keep the cooking to a minimum, you can see how busy I am, no time to cook.

8:36 PM
West comes over, he's a good kid, he is slightly upset at the re-arrangment that Aris and I did of our apartment, but he gets over it.

9:00 PM
Last new episode of Everybody loves raymond, watch it merely for nostaligic value.

9:30 PM
Episode was ok, now we are all off to the bar (teds) for Becky's birthday

10:03 PM
Have one beer at Teds, there is a really really creepy guy taking pictures of everyone. I asked him why he was doing this, he claimed he was a journalist, I dont believe him.

10:15 PM
Red Sox have started, they are playing Oakland, bronson arroyo is pitching, he is good, i like his haircut http://espn.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/arroyo_hotstove.jpg

10:45 PM
West and I decide Ted's has run its course, we head on to the Bidwell Tavern in coventry.

11:00 PM
Now at bidwell, red sox are leading 2-0 thanks to mark bellhorn

11:16 PM
West and I order the bidwell's famous wings, i get spicy garlic, west gets honey bbq, both delicious flavors

11:36 PM
After many of my wings have been consumed I need to use the bathroom, men's room is closed, so this marks the first time I have used the ladies room at a bar (intentionally)

12:15 AM
Leave the bidwell, red sox are now tied 4-4 with oakland

12:25 AM
Return home check my email, talk to the ladie friend online

12:45 AM
away message up claiming I'm in bed, watch the last few outs of the red sox game (mike meyers blew it) we lost

1 AMish

Fast asleep