I decided while I was eating a "Special La Casa" meal my dad brought home for me from El Azul Grande that the word "nifty" might just be my favorite word in the English language. Currently, it's definitely top 5. I mean, it's so versatile! Anything can be nifty - anything.
"I felt quite nifty after finding that $100 bill!"
"Why Caleb, that skunk you've got there sure is nifty!"
"Mrs. Stevenson - you've got a nifty case of herpes!"
A quick Dictionary.com search yielded definitions that backed up my theory that nifty can indeed be utilized in a variety of methods, though describing someone's case of herpes as nifty, while not technically incorrect, might be a tad unethical. Keep in mind that if you ever do a Google search, as I did thinking it would bring up the Dictionary.com page or a Wikipedia article regarding the history behind the word or something along those lines, the top result actually takes you here. Click at your own discretion and for unexpected "lolz".
That game was pretty damn bad. Not surprising though, because every other single game in the series was awful too. I enjoy watching the young Atlanta team - one of my second tier rooting interests, in fact - but that series could only be described as schizophrenic. It went 7 games, but it wasn't 7 games wrought by competitiveness and extreme effort like the Bulls/Celtics series was (a series that for years to come will be mentioned in at least the top 3 of "What's the best NBA playoff series ever" discussions). It was 7 games brought about by a team playing like Olympians one night and like senior citizens the next, each team trading roles after the game was over. It's almost like they got together before the series started and the following conversation took place.
Atlanta: Alright, so, you let us beat you by 20 tonight, and you can do the same a few days from now, and we'll keep that going throughout the series. Let's make it go 7 games with us finally winning the series at home to make up for that beatdown the Celtics put on us last year.
Miami: Sounds good to us. We've got a rookie head coach who constantly has his "deer in the headlights" face on anyway who's coaching a rookie-filled roster - who really expects us to win anyway? But, let Wade gets his 40 point game in that will lead all the analysts into thinking he'll carry us through the playoffs again like he did back in '06 - just to screw with their heads.
Atlanta: Deal.
All kidding aside, it was an ugly series that I'm glad is over. i'm eagerly awaiting to see LeBron and company pummel the Hawks.
So due to lack of truly entertaining basketball, I sat at the computer most of the day, sifting through articles on Yahoo!, sending Myspace messages back and forth to people who matter and people who don't, and stumbling upon a multitude of hilarious videos, 3 of which I'm going to share with you.
So due to lack of truly entertaining basketball, I sat at the computer most of the day, sifting through articles on Yahoo!, sending Myspace messages back and forth to people who matter and people who don't, and stumbling upon a multitude of hilarious videos, 3 of which I'm going to share with you.
1. Bum Reviews - X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Spoilers)
That Guy With The Glasses is a website dedicated to entertainment spoofs. The following video is an example of such spoofiness.
2. "Shadow Hare - Cincinnati's Hero"
The fact that something like this is going on so close to home makes me weep with both joy and sorrow. Mostly joy. Be sure to check out the sequel, too.
3. "Morgan Webb + Elmo + Ice T = WIN"
I admit this is all I've seen of Jimmy Fallon, so I'm not sure how competent of a replacement for Conan's old show he is, but I must admit, the group assembled here made me chuckle hard.
My most intriguing conversation of the day was with Lauren Kirk about the cardinal that keeps bludgering itself into the large glass window that resides above my stairway and is adjacent to where I'm sitting as I type this. There have been birds that have done this occasionally since I've lived in this home, but this cardinal has kept up the task consistently for almost two weeks now. I'm certain it's the same one, too - I refuse to admit there are that many retarded cardinals living near my place of residence.
No, this is a single, determined cardinal. The window is nowhere near clear enough to suggest that it is "wide open", like in that commercial where the birds try to fly into a house just to hit a window that has been cleaned so well it appears to not be there.
I stated to her that perhaps it was intensely attracted to this cardinal image on a giant Sheldon Clark football yard ornament I have sitting in the window sill. She suggested that it might be trying to kill me. Although neither explanation makes too much sense logically, a cardinal beating itself incessently against a window doesn't necessarily qualify as logical either, does it?
And so, I'm off to bed to wonder about whether I have a horny cardinal in my midst or a bird with blood on its mind. Regardless, there'll be a mess to clean up soon, I imagine. A nifty one, at that.
Batman, AWAY!!!
Joshua Aaron Moore
Joshua Aaron Moore
Quote of the Day
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." --- Richard Bach
Nifty.
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