The Adventures of Brad and Jordan

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This is a funny question. I know here in South Dakota they let you put down your own information, and I’ve never been disputed by giving incorrect heights or weights, so why would they dispute hair color? If you’re a bald man (maybe Pops can help me out on this one, j/k! ;)) I assume you put down whatever hair color you would have if your head didn’t refuse to grow it. Or in the other case thaty you shaved it bald you would probably fill in your original hair color before you cut it off.  

What if though I were to go bald (hahaha never happening thank you Grandpa!)…  I would totally throw down orange, turquoise, or some odd color. Or maybe I could be like that rainbow fan guy (pictured below) and like him, I assume, put down Rainbow for hair color. If they tried to refute that I’d probably sue them for discrimination and take all the states money and buy more rainbow wigs.

Now I know why the dipping sauce is so addicting…

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I’m not even sure why the grading system started with the top of the alphabet. Maybe it was just easier back in the day. I’m sure they skipped to F because its easy to associate F with Failure/Fuck-Up/Fucktard, and in the grading scale you get 4 strikes before you’re a failure anyway, so a 5th was not so necessary. I do remember in grade school and middle school getting Effort grades, but those were not on any type of E scale. First three E words after that that come to mind are Excellence/Elephant/Egg, and since A already took E’s excellence away from him in an assumed battle royale of letter grading, E had little left to stand for in that system. So maybe E had its letter removed because of the Embarrasment of losing the title of Excellence. Or maybe the other letters are discriminatings against E and started an Embargo against the letter E not letting E play in their letter grading games, much like Rudolph faced while missing out in the reindeer games. So maybe E will soon visit the island of missfit letters and come back and lead all the other letters, kick A’s ass and resume its spot on top of Excellence!

Being the fan of the push and most Underdog’s, I’m rooting for E to come back.

One of my favorite bloggers is up for blog post of the year, and the winner recieves a $10,000 scholarship.  This guy writes for ussmariner.com and fangraphs.com.  He is very intelligent and the blog he was nominated for was featured in the Wall Street Journal because he wrote a post dissecting Felix Hernandez’s (22 year old pitcher for the Seattle Mariners) throwing pattern and basically showed why he could never fail if he mixed things up differently.  The Mariners pitching coach found that blog and showed it to Felix himself, and it made a Seattle Times news story. Felix being 22 still wanted to throw fastballs by everyone, but he did get better. Either way David is in 2nd place and the voting ends tonight, I ask you to vote for David Cameron.

Last Friday my father (pops) gathered Brad, my brother Austen, and I together to film our first short film. The idea sprung when at a the Phoenix lounge in Harrisburg pops told Brad he should be using his wit to write scripts. And after that what shortly followed was Brad’s first script, which was funny to pops and myself. We took that script and rearranged my apartment this last Friday and began filming. This was Brad’s, Austen’s, and my own debut into the acting industry and while it shows, I feel we still did a great job. It was our first short film and I welcome you to watch and enjoy it:

Don’t Bet On Kelly

I really enjoyed making it, and you better bet we will be making more of them. The script ideas are floating around, soon they’ll materialize, and then we’ll be putting them into production.  We had lots of fun, and I hope you find them entertaining!

Wit always has a place in the world. Some people have more than others, specifically my sister Beth has more than me.

As we were walking into the West Central football game last night I saw two full length buses and one short bus from the opposing school.

Brad: Oooo… they brought two and half buses. I wonder who got stuck on the short one?

Beth: It must have been the special teams.

Game, set, match goes to Beth; who outwitted me on a football joke.

Today is election day, you should really consider voting if your eligible, and if you need reasons why read this blog.  If you choose not to, that is your right as an American. Good luck!

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This one is tough, if knees were backward, first of all, we’d be goofy looking beings. I’m not sure that would give us any biomechanical advantage at all.  So thank goodness God got it right by making our knees work like they do. However I’m getting off topic. If our knees bent the other way I would have to say with a guess that we’d sit in some sort of kneeling position.  In fact after thousands of years of human evolution, I’m pretty sure our knees would be much bigger, and stronger, to hold the extra weight of just sitting.  I also think our butts would be smaller cause they were not have to be the cushion for the seats anymore. I wonder if big booty guys would check out big knee girls then?

Okay, maybe not quite Billy Madison style, because Graduate school is a bit different than grade school. And I don’t think my dad feels that I’m a fool. But I started my orientation class today and took my “READI” assessment. I’m happy to report that I am above average in all the categories, and for some reason in the top 1% in technical categories.  I was docked for having a Macintosh based OS vs. Windows.  They’re goofy.

Anyway under the Locus of Control portion of personality they had this to say about me:

Locus of Control is a measure of the degree to which you feel that you are in control of what happens to you. A person with high (internal) locus of control believes that their experiences are controlled by their own skill or efforts. Your score indicates a moderate degree of locus of control. This may leave you having feelings that regardless of your efforts, your grade will mostly be determined by how much the teacher likes you or just fate. You are encouraged to periodically discuss your performance in the course with your faculty member.

Dead on. I would love to believe that my efforts would put me where I should be. But if they did, I wouldn’t have ever graduated college, so I am glad that they do not. I found it interesting that after answering 150 questions that this was the conclusion.

I also scored as a likely procrastinator, and someone who could lack a persistent style.  Both true since I’m like to wait until the last minute to finish things, and I’m a one shot and done type of person. Although I have gotten slightly better at going back and reviewing and fixing my work, I still have room for improvement.

Anyway the online class format is a change of pace, the presentations are amazing, but I wish there was a fast forward button. I know there’s people who don’t know how to use a message board, but I haven’t had issues with that since 1994.  And the only issues then was that our 14.4K modem could only handle AOL, getting the internet was impossible. I like the style of discussion, I think its obviously less intimidating that being in a classroom (which was rarely a problem for me, I had no problem showing up hungover, raising my hand, giving my completely uneducated (unless for some reason I reviewed notes for that class or read the readings for that class*) opinion, and raising discussion between the 2 prepared kids, the professor, and myself. This way everyone can throw in their opinion, and it will also challenge me to read and learn, because I feel less confident bullshitting while writing, its way easier in verbal discussion.

Anyway back to my busy off day and finishing my orientation! BYE!

*assuming I even owned the book for that class.

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This question is a toughy…. Its really funny how ground beef stole the “ham” out of hamburger. Maybe it should be a beefburger or a cowburger.. However the cows obviously won the battle and the pigs probably lost a bet or something.  Anyway if pigs decided that they were going to produce a burger of their own they’d have to call it a Mahburger.  Yes a Mahburger. Ham spelled backwards. I would probably never eat mahburger, but what would you eat ontop of a mahburger? Cheese? Eh…  Yeah well it would be a mahburger, with pigburger coming in as a close second.