Friday, April 28, 2006

More Blog surfing talk
I've looked through many random blogs now and have noticed a prevalence of anti-Bush sentiment out there. Now I'm not pro-Bush by any means, but I do stand up against thoughtlessness and banality. It appears that Bush has become a default subject for people to write about when they can't think of anything to put on their blogs. I know it's easy pickings as there seems to be a new dumb comment, scandal, or oppressive statement form him every day. Actually there are often multiple occurrences in a single day, but it's too easy. I'd like all Bush bloggers to take a step back look around and find something else in the world to talk about. For those of you that are American citizens try taking your vote a little more seriously next time. What did you think would happen?
I do like the artsy blogs, and the ones where people bring good ideas to the forefront. I even like the ones where people have updates about their families with lots of pictures. I don't know any of these people or half of what they're talking about, but it's much more interesting to see something that I don't know than something that I already know.
I'll try not to talk any more about Bush as I find the subject almost painstaking.
Have a kick ass summer.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

The Greatest Ancient Civilization
Being a man, I find myself besotted with hypothetical questions that take on seeming importance to me. Currently, I have been pondering what the greatest ancient civilization in human history was. I am leaning towards the ancient Egyptians at the moment, but am still unsure. You have to admit that style-wise they are way ahead of most of the cultures in the world. They had kick ass sandals, cool ruins, papyrus, lots of stuff pimped out in gold, most everybody liked them, and wicked awesome eye make-up. Even now we can still name off some of the kings and queens from that time and their style is still being copied today thousands of years later. I don't know what has happened to the Egyptians since then. They looked like such a promising culture. Some how they took a sharp turn from their fashionable ways. I mean, have you seen the way they dress now??? Oh well, maybe all the cool Egyptians moved to L.A. or something.
At the request of a friend I now post the link for the Four Variable Buffy the Vampire Slayer Personality Quiz
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=17325897279428986557
If you enjoy Buffy or Personality quizzes then by all means check it out.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Blog Surfing
As some may know, my new time waste at work while wait to be laid off has become BLOG surfing. I use the "next blog" button at the top of the page and see where it takes me. Undoubtedly a few of the people that find this blog did the same thing. I enjoy seeing what unknown individuals have felt neccessary to communicate to the world. Some of it is well written, some is unbelievably trite, and some falls into the category of What the fuck? Here in the House of Dagromm we strive to incorporate all these elements of succesful bloggery. Please enjoy the following that I found today and decide for yourself which category it belongs in:


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I am a person who want to look for business opportunity to change my life to be better. When I learn much from many advertisment, I want to summarize information here. Welcome people who would like to give me the idea. My rule is everybody need to love others like yourself, give information about legal business and the truth if you like to post or give the idea. Good luck to everybody.Ben


Special thanks to Ben for this great piece of work and good luck to you too!

Friday, April 21, 2006



Yes, it looks like the boys of summer are back!! It's baseball season and even in the wintery reaches up north folks are catching baseball fever and heading outdoors to swing the bat and knock the dust off the old mitt!! I personally get a mad jones for America's pastime come February every year which isn't satiated until well into summer. I haven't been out to the ballpark yet to catch a game, but I can't wait to get out there and have that first hotdog of the season. We're a few weeks into the season and where as a few teams have shown that they won't likely be competing in the World Series most of the teams are still very much in it. So take a lesson from this guy and partake in baseball!!!

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Dallas Cup Final Thoughts
The Dallas Cup Final was on Sunday with the Dallas Texans playing against Santos Laguna. The game started off furiously with both teams scoring in the first few minutes. Santos went up 2-1 before the Texans finally took over and won the game 4-2. I couldn't help feeling bad for Santos, because although the refereeing was ok in this game they still had to suffer the effect of the calls in the last game. Their back up goalie was clearly not as good as their starter (who was red carded in the last match) and they suffered from the loss of one of their other starting defensemen (also previously red carded). The Texans played a good game and clearly have some talent, but their route to winning the finals left something to be desired. The Santos fans stayed after the game to cheer for their team who had played a hard game, but I felt that the tournament ended on a relatively disappointing note.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Dallas Cup Update II
For all those uncounted millions that want to know how the Dallas Cup resolved, all I can say is, "Not according to plan". In game one of the semi-finals we saw the Dallas Texans play CF Monterrrey. The Texans played a very defensive minded game, held multiple defenders back and seemed determined not to let Monterrey's speed beat them. At half time the game was 0-0 and I commented that Monterrey would probably really push to score before the end of regulation as they had dominated the first half. The refs had called a pretty poor game up to that point and seemed slanted towards helping out the local team, but the calls got inexorably worse in the second half. The Texans were allowed a lot more leeway and Monterrey was called for ticky tack stuff. The game remained 1-0 until late in the second half when the referees award the Texans a PK after their star player took a brilliant dive. I'm not even sure if the defender made contact before the player went sprawling, but at that point it was too late. The Texans buried the PK and burned out the rest of the clock.
In the second semi-final the penalty calls went from bad to worse. Manchester United was given every advantage, but still Santos Laguna prevailed. Santos had gone up 2-1 in the second half when their goalie got hurt (apparently a blow to the face). It appeared to be somewhat serious as several people were huddled around him for a few minutes. A few minutes after the restart the Santos goalie took another hard fall to protect the goal and upon getting up was obviously hurtting. He was in so much discomfort that he threw the ball straight out of bounds and collapsed to get the ref to stop the game for a minute. The ref glanced at him once and then signaled for Man U to throw in while the goalie was still on the ground at the edge of the goal box. The Santos supporters roared in outrage as Man. U. was allowed to resume it's attack while the goalie was prone. The Santos defenders did a good job holding off the shots until they could deflect the ball in the air and their goalie could make it to his feet and grab the ball. At this point he was outraged and might have been jostled more by a Man U player and he kicked out at one that was passing by. The ref quickly blew his whistle and gave the goalie a red card and awarded Manchester a PK. While he booked the goalie he also took displeasure to the remarks one of the other Santos players was making and red carded him as well. Manchester tied the game on the PK and Santos had to play the rest of the match down two players and with their second string goalie. From there on it was a test of survival for Santos. They somehow managed wave after wave of Manchester attck until regulation ended and they went into OT. In OT it looked like more of the same. Man U making attack after attack and it looked like we were just waiting for the inevitable. It looked like all Santos could do was try to hang on and win it with PK's at the end. Finally with less than two minutes left in OT. Santos connected with a long pass to their left striker. He looked weary as he made feint after feint and moved steadily closer down the field. I don't know if the Manchester defender was caught off balance or whether he thought that they wouldn't really take a shot as they had been content just to clear the ball and run at the clock, but he never displaced the ball. Finally the attacker took a shot from the left wing and sailed past the goalies diving and outstreched arms. The crowd erupted and Santos won. The Santos fans immediately started blowing their horns and beating their drums. They celebrated in the stadium into the parking lot and out onto the street. Easily the best sporting event I've ever attended. Loads of fun. The next day I went out and bought a Santos jersey so that I could support them in their finals match. I'll update you all on the finals later. I've got to get to work now.

Friday, April 14, 2006


Furthering our decline into a world run by machines a Japanese company has developed a robot secretary in the shape of Hello Kitty. The robo-kitty can recognize faces, keep track of appointment schedules, and respond to verbal questions from bewildered office visitors. The fact that a cyber-secretary would be developed isn't half as bewildering as why it would be shaped like Hello Kitty. I think the general expectation was more along the lines of Darryl Hannah.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Dallas Cup Update
For the millions of fans of youth soccer out there I thought I would update everyone on the results of the Dallas Cup tournament that is currently going on. In the under 19 Super Group, which is the only one people really care about anyway the following teams have been eliminated: Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany), Blackburn Rovers FC (England), FC Groningen (Netherlands), Tigres (Mexico), Real Madrid CF (Spain), Consadole Sapporo (Japan), Deportiva Saprissa (Costa Rica), FC Delco Crunch (USA).
The semi-finals set for Friday are:
Dallas Texans Red (USA) v. CF Monterrey (Mexico)
Manchester United (England) v. Santos Laguna (Mexico)
I can't wait for the games on Friday, because I think they will both be very physical and the Mexican teams get a lot of suport here in Dallas. Man. U will also get a lot of fans so there should be some fun interaction. It's a shame, but probably the local team will have the fewest supporters. From the games I've watched so far the finals will most likely be Man U and Monterrey. Both are very talented with Man U having probably the best single player in the tournament and Monterrey having the most speed.
I have to shed a tear for Real Madrid as that was who I was cheering for, but in the two games I watched I felt they played soft and had defensive lapses that led to easy goals for the opposition.
Updated my profile.
Anybody that wants to learn a little more about me can feel free to check out my profile. This is clearly going to take some work as I've looked at a few more peoples blogs and now feel that mine looks woefully inadequate. Hopefully I can publish a little prettier product in the near future.
So this is what the world has come to. We've moved from a society that speaks to each other to one that writes messages to each other and has them delivered; to one that calls one another on the phone, then e-mail, and now just post virtual messages to whomever wants to read it. Our need to communicate has moved to such a state of impersonality that we now don't even have a specific audience. Or you can look at it in the opposite vein. That we've moved to a point where we can now communicate and open up more than ever. We've removed the restrictions of society about what we say and now have the ability to speak freely and openly with no regard for consequences because there really isn't any. We can use a mask of anonymity to keep us in our daily lives from the reaction of the messages that we post. Truly our technology has allowed cowards to be heard as if they were brave men.
I don't expect this blog to be a continuous soapbox about the ways that life has changed, but when I sat to write my first message I was struck by the enormity of what I was doing. I don't mean the prior comments as an attack on any individual, for I think it applies to myself as much as any individual. I truly think that everyone would like the opportunity to be heard. That everyone thinks they've got insight or messages that they would like to share with the world. Unfortunately, every school only has one validectorian and the vast majority of us never get to make their coming out speech to the world.
If anybody ever finds this blog or finds any of what I say interesting then I hope you leave a response.