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Dear Flabby
I agree with your comments on both articles. The birthday party for one year olds has always bugged me. Ask most parents how old their kid is, and you get how many months old they are until at least 2 years old. Why celebrate the one year birthday, when most still refer to the kids as 12 months old. We never had birthday parties for the neighbors and family friends for our kids. You hit the nail on the head with your comment on not remembering the day anyway! Kids don't remember the happy things that happen until they are much older. Some remember the bad things, but that is another story. We took our kids (at the time 6 & 9 yr. old) to Cancun for our family vacation. We snorkled, jet skied, parasailed, went to an ecological park, swam with dolphins....the works. I asked my kids the other day about that vacation.....the 9 year old remembers having Montezuma's revenge ONLY. The 6 year old said, "what is Cancun, have I been there?!?" Proves your point in spades. Save the BDays for family until they can talk and have THEIR friends come over.— October 9, 2008 3:12 p.m.
Music You Love to Hate
I agree 100% with antigeekess about Pandora.com. I listen at work most of the day...until customers walk in. Then I have to mute it. My taste in music does not jive well with most of my customers. Saliva, Disturbed, Zombie, just does not convey a sense of business LOL.— September 12, 2008 12:43 p.m.
Strike Three! You're Out! A 9-year-old pitching sensation.
Not sure if anyone else caught the MOST IMPORTANT part of the story. The league his PARENTS put him in was a NON-COMPETITIVE league for beginners. It was not a league for a gifted pitcher. His parents probably put him in that league so he could be the "star" without the competition. He should of joined the Amer. Little League program, which is a world-wide competitive league. If they had put him in the league he belonged in, this story never would of happened. How fair is it to the other players in the league who have never played baseball trying to play against a super star. I blame the parents!! Not the kids fault, but he never should of been in that league. BTW: He was told he could no longer PITCH after some of the other opposing players were SCARED to even stand at the plate. He had the option to play any other position, just not pitch. Upon being told this, his coach did in fact play him the next game at second base with nobody saying anything. It was the following game the coach decided to have him pitch again, even though he knew he was'nt supposed to, and that the other children were scared. Non-competitive leagues are designed to introduce kids to a particular sport. Once your kid is good at it, then move them up to a competitive league. You don't keep your gifted kid in a league full of beginners!! What a joke for the parents to then complain about it not being fair. Where is the "its all about the kids" from the parents and the coach of this kid?? They are the problem (as usual in youth athletics) in this story, not the superstar pitcher.— September 6, 2008 3:47 p.m.
Barbie vs. Bratz
The guy that created Bratz, while working for Mattel, DID in fact pitch the idea to Mattel. He already had the 4 original Bratz designed on paper to show the Mattel brass. They did not like them and killed the project. He then went and sold the idea to another company which made the original 4 dolls. They are upto 20 different ones now. Mattel brought out the original drawings and notes from the meeting in court to prove he worked on it for them first, on their dime. That evidence was a big reason Bratz lost the case.— September 6, 2008 3:31 p.m.
Top 10 Overrated Movies
The vampire movie by Tarantino was "Dusk to Dawn" which is the name of the bar where the movie is set. While not a great movie, it did have Salma Hayek as the queen vampire doing a smoking hot dance. Worth watching for that alone. My pick for most overrated is "Chariot of Fire" 1981...7 Academy Award nominations, winning 4 including Best Picture. What a piece of crap, boring 3 hour long movie that was!! I was a teenager, on a date, on a Friday night with nothing else to do when it came out. My date and I walked out after a miserable 2 hours. I still remember that one. The critics and award shows all praised it. That was the day I started ignoring critics.— September 6, 2008 1:34 p.m.
Fantasy Football - Rockport Running Rebels Rule!
Agave Assassins Rule!!! Got Steven Jackson with the 10th pick! We will see what happens tomorrow. Good Luck with you team Josh. BTW, did you notice the CL Cupcakes trying to pick all USC alumn, as Paula got her Master's there a few years back. She is going down tomorrow!!! hahaha— September 6, 2008 1:22 p.m.