Doorbell Ringing

I did not realize...

that some people ring a door bell with their thumb. Hang in there for a second, let me try and explain. I was in the car with my friend (who shall remain nameless for his own sake) the other day who reenacted ringing a doorbell with his thumb. Now, I'm not sure about most people, but I don't think I have never ever seen anyone ring a doorbell with their thumb. The go-to stance is fist clenched, index finger pointing at your target. Am I crazy here or does ringing with your thumb just seem bizarre?? It's almost as weird as left clicking on a mouse with your thumb. It gets the job done, but it's weird. The thumb out version is solely reserved for thumb print scanning or at least thats what all my favorite movies have taught me. Or maybe I am unaware of a sub-cultural of proponents for thumb doorbell ringing only. Great I can see it now, "Man Sued by Those for the Advancement of Doorbell Thumb Ringers." Bottom line, you thumb doorbell ringers creep me out!

Lost & Tracking

I did not realize...

that tracking people was so easy! I'm a huge fan of the TV show Lost but the fact that everyone seemingly has gained the ability to track people is a bit drastic. While some of the survivors of Oceanic flight 815 had experience with picking up the paths of people, I seriously doubt the huge mess Hurley or pansy-ass Charlie could find anyone (maybe both could with a promise of food or heroin, respectively). The jungle these people are traveling through is massive and I'm to believe they can notice a single footprint? If you do in fact find 1 footprint, seems it should take forever to continuously find the next footprint, therefore allowing the people you are tracking to only get further away. But not on this island, no sir. I'm going to have a small scale experiment by walking in the woods behind my house and then go back and see if I can track myself. I will essentially walk around in a circle. I guarantee I will get lost (hah, I'm punny! I think that counts as another one). I can see the next days spent attempting to hunt squirrels with poorly sharpened twigs and drinking out of the polluted creek. Hey, that sounds like a great idea for a TV show. People, people getting lost... Hollywood here I come!

Drexel University Basketball

I did not realize...

that the Drexel University basketball team plays in a gymnasium (notice how I used instead of arena or athletic center). While watching my George Mason Patriots having to slum it with those "Dragons" (do they know that dragons are fictitious?) from Philadelphia, I decided this is truly ridiculous. I knew we were in trouble when I saw that the basket was hung from the ceiling. When ESPNU took nice crowd shots you could see about 8 other baskets cranked up to the rafters in an attempt to look like a legitimate facility. I'm surprised they don't have blue pads behind the hoops so no one gets hurt. Yikes! Good thing the game I was watching started at 7 because the badminton team has practice at 9:30 on courts 6 & 7 and a big game of intramural knockout is starting at 10 on court 12. This a university with over 12,000 students not some liberal arts college, Drexel step it up!

Curt Menefee

I did not realize...

that FOX NFL Sunday host Curt Menefee had such a horrible lisp. Normally I try to avoid this hour plus of blabber with resident idiots Terry Bradshaw, Howie and JJ. But on Super Sunday I was forced to listen to his unmistakable speech impediment. I have no problem with the guy but if talking is your job, don't you think you'd need to be good at it or at least sound pleasant? How did FOX botch this one? I think they found the best James Brown look alike and threw him in there hoping no one would notice. Well guess what FOX? I did! Especially after I almost complained to my cable provider for all the static sound occurring when Curt was previewing the one on one sit down with Giants defensive end Michael Strahan. Nice try Mr. Murdoch, nice try.