WTF PEOPLE!?! NFL Quarterbacks

I'm back with another WTF, and this one really got me frantic. The recent events with NFL quarterbacks are friggin' ridiculous. What in the hell goes up in their heads?!? I can understand that they're the core leader of the offensive line and in some cases the entire team short of coaches, but some of these guys are straight outta line as if they can get away with murder (or close to it for someone I'll mention very soon in my post). Anyways, here is what giving me all sorts of pissed off.

First in the line of fire of recent quarterbacks is Michael Vick. WHAT A POMPOUS JACKHOLE!!! I mean where do I begin, really?!? He couldn't really help the Falcons to anything while he was still an upstanding citizen. And then the whole dogfighting cartel turned him into a convicted felon (I guess if it was good for DMX and his Ruff Ryders crew, it's good enough for Vick). And what really puts me into a rant fest is his recent signing to the Philadelphia Eagles. MY EAGLES... SIGNED THIS SHMUCK?!? WTF PEOPLE!?! Some people think that this guy coming to the Eagles line up is a good thing. That bull. And the worst part of this, it's my fellow Philadelphians that like this guy. I feel betrayed. It's like they completely loss faith on our current roster and needing the assistance of a dog mongol/convicted felon/all around shithead. This I think overdone the whole T.O. situation. And the only reason I'm not ranting about T.O. right now is because I limited myself to only quarterbacks. I promised myself that I stay on that position because there's a lot of BS to pass around on that ground. So as far as Vick is concerned, he can suck it, and then sit on it and rotate; the bastard...

On to a new quarterback that just seem to never die, Brett Farve. This guy has had more coming out of retirements than Michael Jordon; but the one main difference between the two of them is that when MJ came back to basketball, everybody wanted it and welcomed it. This is not the same for number 4. The first time he retired Green Bay didn't want him back and he went to the Jets last year. Now granted, last year was probably one of his best years and definitely showed that the Packers has made the wrong decision not letting rejoin that organization. But he retired again, or so we thought. Now it seems that he will be coming out of retirement again, this time as a Viking? What, none of the other Viking QBs were good enough so you had to go through what seems like the top item from a NFL consignment store and hope for the best?!? I just don't know, don't effin' know with Brett Farve anymore. As far as I'm concerned Brett Farve is like the .1% of germs that Lysol claims that it can't seem to kill. He is the cockroach of the NFL, if there were a nuclear holocost, only SPAM and Brett Farve would survive. So I have this to say to Mr. Farve: come the hell on man, just let it be. Why can't you just stay down. They're plenty of other stuff you can be doing. Hell, look at Troy Aikman and his crap job at color commentating games on Fox Sports, it's like if John Madden had taken a crap and given it a mic. I'm sure that you can do a better job than that. Just promise me one thing Brett. Next time you retire, stay effin' retired.

And then there's just about a rant for almost every other NFL QB out there too so to keep it brief as this is getting way too long as it is, let me just summarize how I feel in this paragraph before I close. I see practically no real talent in quarterbacks now a days. There's no passion out there on majority of them playing now only with a few acceptions such as McNabb (because I'm an E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!! fan and I do see that he wants to be in it until he retires); the Manning brothers (c'mon they're like the first family of football, the posterboy for backyard football); and possibly Rothlesburger (the only good QB that Pittsburgh had since Terry Bradshaw). Other than that, not much in my opinion. Maybe as the season starts, my view would change but as of now, it's crap.

So in closing (finally), I just wish that there were some good things to say about quarterbacks nowadays versus how it was back in the say. I still remember how Randall Cunningham perfected the scramble and the short QB runs for first downs, how Dan Marino was the only good thing that the Dolphins had (and still hasn't had much of any goodness since), and how greatness could come in such a form as a Cowboys jersey with Aikman, about the only good thing that Dallas had produced. ( nllm mlln = both middle fingers in the air). Where have those days gone. Is it only in existance as color commentary on Fox NFL Sunday pregame show? Is it on ESPN's Monday Night Football booth? (Shout out to Jaws, another allstar Eagle QB). I just don't know except that it ain't out on the field like it's supposed to be.

BootLeG sampler.. signing out...

A Week of Calamities

This has been an exciting experiment this past week as I started my new shift at work. It seems that Murphy's Law was in full session all this week and I've had experienced the full farce of it. It had been a daily dose of calamities for the most part transitioning from night shift to day shift. All this with one looming question that comes before me: do I continue to strife through it or try to find a way to regain my once coveted night shift position. I just don't know. Maybe a day by day breakdown would help make this more clear to see what should I do to force myself to try and say that it was just a bad case of "Shift Happens".

By the way I'm basing this list on my work week, I work five days straight but what I call my Monday doesn't really resemble the day Monday, just my first day of my work week. Just to clarify...

Monday: I like to start by saying that working at a call center there has to be an influx of calls to come in. For some time there was an issue with my line of business receiving incoming calls as if it was bottlenecking and only a few were coming in at the time. So I've been taking other line of businesses calls. But they fixed that problem, a little too well, because instead of bottlenecking, it was a tidal wave of calls from my line of work that came in and I had to troubleshoot. I mean MacGyver don't even fix stuff this well. It caught not only myself but everyone from my department off guard and we were standing there (well sitting in our cubicles) avant garde to the situation. By the way, the wave of calls would last all week. Great for business, bad for someone that was once used to a tricke now experiencing the heavens pour down upon him.

Tuesday: A nice part of my work is that I have a roaming profile that can be taken from computer to computer so that if somehow someone had taken my seat from the prior day I don't have to worry about starting from scratch. This only works if the profile on said network actually works. I went to a different computer (because unlike night shifts there's actually a lot of people that work, not just two or four) and my profile didn't move with me. I had spent the better part of the first thirty minutes of my shift trying to find a computer that would load my profile, but there wasn't one. So I sent a ticket to IT and had to find my profile from our shared server before even doing my job.

Wednesday: Same thing from yesterday as I was waiting for IT to resolve my profile issue, because now it wasn't even loading my profile on the computer that I'm used to be on. Add that to the fact that the night before there was a thunderstorm because of the monsoons that occurs this time of year in Arizona. That storm had sprung a leak over my bed and in the middle of the night me and my wife had to move all of our bedroom every which way so that we wouldn't get soaked. We're still waiting for the roofers to repair the leak above before we can fix the ceiling. Add that to the fact that I had to wake up an hour later just to get ready to take the bus for work because my wife needs the car to transport the kids to and from school plus other errands.

Thursday: I just don't get it. Why is all this crap happening to me all this week. My alarm did not go off and I was an hour late getting to work. Simple enough. Luckily my seven-week-old son woke me up crying for food and the wifie took care of that. The only saving grace of my Thursday, IT finally resolved my roaming profile issue so that I can pull up all my tools and whatever without trying to search for it within our shared servers.

Friday: I can't friggin' believe it. I guess I had to take all the crap in the beginning (and by beginning I mean most of the week) to get to a decent day. I think it's either the transition of sifting through all that bull just to get to a decent day was a trial of patience, diligence, and most of all, sticking to a new routine. That and that it was my Friday and I could look forward to my weekend. Oh Happy Day!!!

So as I enjoy my weekend, I'm posting this for a reminder that change is hard, change can be good, and most of all, change always happens. It's all on how someone handles the change is what makes whatever result that comes with them. I just hope that next week, it would be a helluva lot easier than how this week was now that I got my toes wet.

BootLeG sampler.. signing out...

A helluva week

Damn. I'm beat. I mean I can't be possibly anymore beat down that I think that I can be now and still able to write in my blog. I have been dealing with personal and professional crap all this past week and leading into this and next week. Two worlds colliding to an epic cataclysm. To put it so that I don't stir up more controversy and possibly leak any confidential information from my employer, I'm just gonna give it a brief rundown of what is becoming the bane of my existence.

So let's start in the beginning. I have been very active with prior engagements (outside of this blog) with my church and my family. My wife and I had been working with Children's Church on Sundays as well as lending our services with our bus ministry to help them outreach to people by providing them transportation to and from their homes to attend church services. We love to give our all when it comes to matters of our faith, beliefs, and ministry. We try to do what we can with what resources we can offer. We are also sending our two oldest boys, Blaine and Skyler, to their Christian School this upcoming year and preparing them for the year to come in that their curriculum is more advanced than some of the public and private schools in our area. Our boys were accepted out of our good faith and works to our church. But what has happened in the past week and in the near future could cause such tragedy in future endeavors.

In the past week, there had been a shift bid for everyone in my department to change their shifts to meet company needs. I had the unfortunate luck of getting a shift that is not going to work with my family life nor my church commitments. This totally blows, especially since the new shifts don't take into effect this upcoming Sunday, during a month that me and my wife are obligated to run Children's Chruch for each Sunday of the month. It could not happen in a worse possible time having this shift change. From my past postings you know that I've recently became a dad again with our infant, Logan. And to sum thing up, without ranting for hours on end, the new schedule would have put my entire family life in jeopardy. This means no time for family meals or any family time, no church, no anything. And wouldn't you know it, that's what happened at first. But with a little fighting with those in power (more like carefully phrased deliberations that took roughly all week to accomplish because honestly I like making a living and having food and a roof for my family), I've managed to achieved a schedule that would work for both my church and family lives.

In fact, I'm posting this just mere moments before I have to go to work because it's the only time that I have to work on my blog. So for a status update I might not be able to post my normal minimal of three days a week on here, but I'll try hard as hell to meet with that commitment as well. Consider this my 'sorry if you missed me and now you know why' post. Anyways, I'm off to seek the crack of dawn and do my duties that warrants me to have a forty hour week. Until next time (hopefully later this week).

BootLeG sampler.. signing out...

WTF PEOPLE!?! Flash Games

Hey, BootLeG sampler.. here, back with another installment of "WTF PEOPLE!?!" More ranting about the subtle tendencies of a majority that drives me completely insane... New to "WTF PEOPLE!?!", then check out the first post here.

Any cubicle working drone and seven year old pretty much by now knows what I'm talking about. Flash games, those little snippets of pointing and clicking to make an action and achieve an unbeatable high score that we're all seem to be addicted to whenever you think of gaming on the computer that isn't World of Warcraft. They're quick little bundles of joy for the moment we start to play them, then after 10 minutes or so, we start to realize how much time is truly wasted on these games. Granted it's time well wasted, but it is indeed wasted time regardless. It sounds good, it looks good, but is it really. In the grand scheme of gaming, is flash games really a great gaming medium or just another waste of space in the infinitely massive world wide web.


First things first, breaking down what is a flash game in as simplistic of a way as I can produce. It's a game that takes little or no effort and some simple programming skills to create; most likely consisting of activities that stay within a 800x600 resolution window where the objective is to click something to make something happen. This also might include the use of the following keys on a keyboard for special features: A,S,D,W, space, the arrow keys, as well as the top row of numbers on said keyboard. Simple enough right, well, that's all it takes nowadays to make a very cheap and mediocre game. But is it truly a game to gamer standards? I don't think so. A game has to be of some kind of playability on someones television or installed onto someones computer hard drive. that doesn't have to have an Internet connection to play it. This is the most generalized rule that I can possibly think of. Of course there's aways exceptions to the rule when it comes to games, but in the case of flash games, the rule is finite.


Now that we got the technicalities of flash games outta the way, let me talk about all the BS that is flash games. First off, they're every-friggin-where. I can't browse online anymore without seeing a banner ad for a flash game. They're like the cockroaches of the Internet, right up there with penis enlargement junk mails and YouTube. They can survive a nuclear holocaust and some radioactive person on the verge of dying will still be able to see "Chocolate Rain," WTF!?!

It's a friggin' epidemic on how many different sites out there has these things. And they all seem to fall under the same five different genres of flash games; shooter, puzzle, racing, RPG, or a hybrid of any of them. The games are short, usually featuring unlockables for advancement to other levels or upgrades, and tries your patience if you so happen to fail on accomplishing such. It tries to imitate some features of old school gaming such as the classic side scrolling flow of progress, simple sound effects, and even simpler controls until the more advanced levels come to kick you in the junk. This might sound like intriguing concepts, and it's because they are. If the developers and programmers that designed and produced such games didn't make them so effin' likable, then there would be no need to have them so other banner ads for other useless crap on the Internet can interrupt you while playing. They are literally interactive advertisements; and not like those banner ads where they're an object that replaces your cursor is something that give the illusion of interacting with it while in reality they're just waiting for you to click and spam you with adware, spyware, and all malware crap. It's the same principles as television programs, the main purpose of them is of being a delivery device for commercials.


Another thing about them is their addiction factor. It's an escape for anyone that works in a cubicle, a student during study hall, or any Joe Schmoe that want to waste time from between downloads and checking email. And part of that addiction is that they're friggin everywhere; from the most apply site name for flash games addictinggames.com to even the bombardment of them on Facebook. I admit, I play some on my account, and I am quasi-addicted to it. But I don't consider them games for the above reasons. *famous last words coming up* I can quit when I want to, it's not a problem with me. I feel like they overwhelm what little else is there to do on the Internet that it's gone from funny to disturbing. It's time to take a queue from the boys in Mayberry, NC and nip it in the bud.


So finally, as I try to stifle myself from prolonging this rant any longer than necessary, flash games are in my opinion much like America's Funniest Home Videos. They're entertaining for the moment, but a marathon of hours among hours of watching some random guy get hit in the groin 50,000 different ways start to get a little dull.



BootLeG sampler.. signing out...



P.S. Tom Bergeron did AFV better than Bob Saget, but Bob is the funnier comic by far...