November 22, 2007 at 2:51 am (Personal, Traveling)
Tags: Bacteria, Cleanliness, Dirty, Dishes, Hotel, Maids, Service, Traveling, Washing
You know how you watch the news and every few months there is a special about how dirty hotel rooms are…things like sperm on the ceiling and such. Well, here’s another aspect of the clean room that I had never even thought about. Apparently, hotel glassware doesn’t get cleaned. This means who knows what sort of bacteria and diseases you could pick up. It really is quite disgusting if you think about it.
Granted, where I’m living now, there is no dishwasher so I wash everything by hand. That works, but I use hot water and dish soap, not non-consumable glass-cleaner as multiple hotels were shown to be using. With this investigation, I have to assume that this is a standard practice in the hotel industry and that’s a bit scary, especially concerning that I just finished traveling so much.
Next time, I think I’ll be washing my own glass again just to be on the safe side.
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November 21, 2007 at 10:27 pm (Personal, Science)
Tags: Al Gore, Bill Nye, Bill O'Reilly, Carbon, Climate, Controversy, Democrat, Environment, Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Greg Craven, Inconvenient Truth, Physics, Republican, Risk Management, Science, YouTube
In a conversation with my little brother a few weeks back, he mentioned that my old high school physics teacher had been putting up some videos on YouTube with an argument about what should be done concerning the global climate change debate. Now, I feel that this guy Craven is one of, if not the best, teacher that I have ever had and I’ll agree that he has put together a very sound a logical video concerning what should be done in response to scientific global climate change claims and the skeptic’s opinions.
Take a look at the video for yourself.
Recently, he started spamming YouTube by uploading the same video numerous times but under different titles and keywords in order to attract more views. Personally, I think it is a message that others should see and hopefully I’m doing my part by both writing about it and also asking my friends on YouTube to feature and highlight his video.
So please, despite what you think about global climate change, take a look at it, even for the first few minutes and if you like what you hear or think that it is a compelling argument, please pass it on to your family, friends and coworkers so that this message can get out.
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November 21, 2007 at 8:00 pm (Blogging, Personal, Relationships)
Tags: Blogging, Busted, Drama, Europe, Girls, Pick Up Artist, PUA, Relationships
I am new to blogging, and in fact am not sure if it is something that I’m completely comfortable with. I probably should use LiveJournal, because there I can make my posts either public or private depending on the amount of sensitive information that they contain. And I have a good reason for doing so.
A few months back I hooked up with a girl. Very beautiful and nice. But, it was my first week living in Europe and I wasn’t really ready to settle down and look for a relationship. She didn’t like my view on this issue. Anyways, on one of the posts I mentioned about how I attracted her, and a few other posts mentioned my other trips out trying to get girls in Denmark.
Last week I was on a party boat between Copenhagen and Oslo and I got called out. Drunk and in the middle of the dance floor, the girl comes up to me and says the name of my blog and that she has “inside information”. Now, I hadn’t written or looked at the website for over two months, so I didn’t remember what I had posted there. Now having a chance to review it…well let’s just say it wasn’t that bad, but I took the site down regardless. It was pretty uncomfortable and really not that great of an issue to have with this girl, who’s good graces I seem to be in a roller coaster with (either very high or low at any given time).
The next day the girl apologized for being rude to me, and I appreciate that, but I’ll be in honest in that I messed up. It’s unfortunate, and I simply have to move on. It just reinforces the notion that the web is by no means anonymous and you can easily get called out on your actions, so be sure that what you write or post (to YouTube, etc.) is nothing that could become too embarrassing or incriminating, and something you can be proud of.
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November 8, 2007 at 7:11 pm (Nutrition, Personal, Physical Development, Social Development)
Tags: Copenhagen, Danish girls, workout, Social Development, college basketball, Traveling, Nutrition, fitness, soccer,
Looking over my blog posts, it’s kind of sad how much television I’ve been watching. I’m studying in Denmark and only have a little bit of time left to live it up, not to mention I need to drastically catch up in my studies. One aspect of living in Denmark that differs from home is that I’m not living my normal lifestyle. I’ve been going out to bars more often, as it seems that is the culture over here. I’ll be honest, I don’t mind going out and interacting with the gorgeous Danish women. It really puts physical beauty into perspective.
Anyways, while my social life has been good, my physical workouts have been lacking. Yes, I briefly played on the college varsity basketball team, but I had to quit that due to not being able to commit enough weekends to the program. I’ve also played soccer with some Europeans, and lets just say I was happy to be about the 6th best player (out of 10) on the field. Pretty good talent over here. Two summers ago I worked out five days a week and loaded up on Protein (my personal choice is AtLargeNutrition, tastes great) and added somewhere between 10-15 pounds of lean body mass without any noticeable increase in fat. It was great. My clothes fit a little tighter, and my friends noticed the difference. It’s nice to be complimented on you physical features.
But, as I got back to school last Fall, I didn’t keep up with the workout regimen and wasn’t eating a good diet either. As a result, I think that I have lost pretty much all of the muscle mass I gained. It’s depressing, considering the work I did to gain it, but at the same time I know I can get back to that weight (around 195 pounds @ 6′1″ height) if I stay disciplined.
Right now I’m in Denmark, and between traveling, not having access to a gym, and not eating very healthy (what can I say, I am by no means the cook of the family), I can’t do much to get started. I guess the physical improvement will have to be part of my New Years resolution.
But while I can’t get off my ass to workout, I still can be social. So that’s what I’m off to do. As soon as I publish this, I’m going to go and get my dry laundry and get ready to go out to the bar at my university – yes, they turn the hallways of the university into a bar/club on the weekends. It’s probably something I wouldn’t have done a year ago, but then again I think my social development is probably what I’ve developed most in the last year of my life. Wish me luck in meeting some cute Danish girls 
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November 8, 2007 at 6:27 pm (Personal, Sports)
Tags: Advice, Basketball, Crash The Boards, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Sports, FantasyBasketBlog
Hey everyone, so my first-ever fantasy basketball advice column is up at the Fantasy Basketblog website, and it’s entitled “Tweaking With Trades”. FBB is a site that I’ve followed for the last couple of years, and have contributed comments on consistently. They asked if I would like to do a weekly column, and I accepted as I figured it would be a good way to break into blogging and fantasy advice without being responsible for running out own site and being entirely responsible for the content. Maybe I’ll eventually move onto a bigger site and, heck, maybe even make money as a blogger. I’m mirroring my posts over at my own fantasy basketball blog, Crash The Boards.
Anyways, if you’re into fantasy basketball, check out the sites. I’ve only played for a couple of years, but it comes very naturally to me, as it works with my natural comfort to numbers and statistics. Every league that I’ve played in, I have been able to win, so I hope that I can provide some insight and advice to help you do the same.
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November 8, 2007 at 1:16 am (Personal)
Tags: Adsense, Blogging, Interests, Money, Strategy
You know, one of the things that made me resist starting a blog was that I figured that if I took the time to write, I might as well get some money for it. I know that there are people out there who are professional bloggers. The website ProBlogger is even dedicated to those professionals. Some of the advice they say is to “keep your blog specific”. So I guess that if I want to make money I should have a single blog for sports, television, my personal posts, etc. But if I do that, then I don’t know how much I would really update it. Being the Blogging newbie that I am, I suppose that if I find this blog to get completely random, perhaps I will have to modify it and spread it out over several blogs. As it is, I have spun off my fantasy basketball advice into another blog, as it is highly irrelevant from my other interests in life.
It should really matter right now anyways, as I don’t have Adsense setup and I’m not making any money right now regardless. Hopefully people will find what I have to say about life, comedy, psychology, sports, entertainment, and the pursuit of beautiful women to be compelling enough to come to my blog for what they’re interested in, and stay because they like the rest too.
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November 7, 2007 at 6:38 pm (Personal, Psychology)
One thing I found rather interesting is that people are more scared of public speaking than death…and there is a sound explanation. As it turns out, when we are rejected (say for a job, by a girl, picked last on the team, etc.) the same part of our brain gets activated as when we are struck with physical pain. Rejection and physical pain affect the brain in similar ways. Thus, if you go out in front of a large audience to speak and are rejected, then it’s like being hit by every single one of them.
One thing that helped me get over some fears were that in college I had a Club PR position where I would go to classrooms to inform students of events happening on campus. It was kind of boring and always a very simple, similar message, but it got me comfortable talking in front of a large classroom, making eye-contact, and talking to “public”. In addition, I decided to take the mental approach that the audience wants to hear me, as I am providing them value.
Granted, I don’t do tons of public speaking. In the future I wouldn’t mind doing a little stand-up comedy if I can come up with some good routines. However, when it comes down to it, the number one rule is have fun. If you have fun, then the audience will too, and then you can feed off their energy to keep on going.
Oh, as for the motivation for this post today, I had a 5-minute speech with two other American’s in my course on outsourcing, and it probably ended up being closer to 10 minutes. I probably went a little bit long, but the other two guys took way too much time, with “um’s” and talking about unnecessary information. They’re both smart and well educated guys, but not nearly as smooth in front of a group as in private. All the more reason to improve my social skills now while I’m young.
Time to get some work done…or watch the Simpsons Movie!
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November 6, 2007 at 10:35 pm (Personal)
Tags: Facebook, Social Value
So today I noticed something kind of sad. The number of friends I have on Facebook went down. How could this happen?
Usually I wouldn’t notice something like this, but just the other day I noted that I had 595 friends at my home university/network, and now I only have 594. That means that someone must have decided to not be my friend, or at least that is my main hypothesis. The other option is that someone could have closed their Facebook account, resulting in the same outcome.
This isn’t something that really bothers me, as I have Facebook “friends” that I have either never met in real life or only barely know…you know, like I met through a friend one time at a party. But still, it’s always sad to see that little number, which helps to indicate my social value, decrease instead of going in the opposite direction. In the end, it doesn’t really matter to me, but it did put a slight frown on my face for about two seconds today.
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November 6, 2007 at 1:52 am (Personal)
Hello everyone,
For some time now I’ve been meaning to create a keep a blog, for my own personal journaling use than if for nothing else. Currently I have a lot of things going on. I’m in the middle of finishing up my undergraduate business degree and am studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is quite the experience. In addition to the random commentary about my own life, I plan to use this as an outreach to talk about other topics in the world as I see them come up. While I could write down lots of my interests (guitar, comedy, business, etc.) I figure I’ll just let the nature of what this blog encompasses be built on what I decide to add.
That is part of the trickiness of writing a coherent blog however, as I am unsure if it is best to keep one regularly updated blog (on a single subject) or several individual blogs on different subjects, but have them be updated far less. As it is, I will keep some of my posts relegated to their specific blog (fantasy basketball advice, for example), while keep the general other topics all here on this blog.
I hope you enjoy it, and if you like what I write please pass my work onto a friend.
~ BM
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