Ripped like Jesus

Classic Greg Behrendt.  One of my favorite stand-up comics:

Make sure you visit his website @ http://www.gregbehrendt.com/

Vivid Dreams

I am a vivid dreamer.  Think of the most crazy, lovely or horrific events one can imagine, and I have probably had a dream regarding it.  I’m truly not bothered by this since it is almost an adventure every time I go to sleep.  Most of these vivid dreams occur during REM sleep, or the ones that we can remember.  According to some these dreams occur constantly during REM sleep.  Individuals that wake up right after a dream usually have a better chance to remember what happened.  Normally the next morning I can recall pretty much everything that has happened during the night.  Lately I’ve been plagued by zombie dreams, but I can attribute this to a particular game I usually play before going to sleep.

On occasion though I have experienced what is called Lucid Dreaming.  This is where a person is aware that he or she is dreaming, and can actually manipulate experiences as the dream happens.  I’ve actually been working on this somewhat with myself in that I would to control my own dream sequences.  Two of the most interesting lucid dreaming experiences I’ve ever had happened several years ago.  My grandparents have  long ago passed, but on occasion I have dreamed about them and remember having vivid conversations about current events in my life.  It was absolutely fascinating to be able to converse with them, even if it was only in a dream.

So are you a vivid or lucid dreamer?  Leave your comments below:

-Kev

iPhone 3.0 Love

All I can say is finally.  Finally Apple is listening to the scores of people complaining about basic functionality such as copy/paste.  Today Apple released iPhone 3.0 firmware to developers.  One of the most notable additions was copy/paste.  This has been a huge issue for some iPhone users from the beginning.  Another noteworthy is the addition of MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service.  iPhone users only have the capability currently for SMS.  I am not sure why this capability was not designed into the 1st Gen phones since it is a basic service on even the cheapest phones in the market.  Disappointing though as it will only be available on 3G phones, not 1st Gen phones.

Macworld is reporting a vast array of features such as:

• Landscape orientation for all key applications, such as Mail, Notes & SMS
• Voice memos
• Spotlight search capability (very exciting)
• Stereo Bluetooth Support (A2DP)
• Note Sync – personally my favorite.

iPod Touch users should expect to cough up about $10 for the updated software, which is the same price as the 2.0 software last year.

- Kev

Confessions of a Bald Man

What should be a balding man’s worst nightmare? The comb-over.  Nothing struck fear in me more than that dreaded phrase.  Comb-over is even in the dictionary;

combover |ˈkōmˌōvər| (also comb-over)
noun
hair that is combed over a bald spot in an attempt to cover it.

The other night I had a nightmare about a comb-over.  (Yeah these are the types of nightmares I have..last night I had a dream about batting in a little league game, and threatening the pitcher for throwing at me…in little league…)  My dream consisted of me looking at myself from behind, and watching me trying to comb-over hair.  Not pleasant.

So I knew ye old hair was going for a long time, and I had come to accept that.  Eventually less and less hair was at my disposal to use.  Then the inevitable happened, and I knew.  I fired up the car and took a drive to Wal-Mart, bought an $8 pair of clippers and shaved it all off.

Outside of feeling more aerodynamic at the time, there were some other pros for having a shaved head:

1.  I’m going to save a ton on shampoo.

2. I’m going to save a ton on hair gel.

3.  Women are going to rub my head.  Lots of them.

Number three did not occur as much as I had hoped, but that was a pro at the time.  For a few years I’m feeling pretty good about my new found “do”.  Occasionally mom would say something like “Wow I wish you had your old hair back” or “Why don’t you try some Rogaine?” I guess there is something about spraying a chemical on my head to grow hair that frightens me.

Figure 1 – Comb-over examples

Then year before last the whole bald thing hit me.

I was up with Dave  & Susie in the Wisconsin Dells taking some kind of horse drawn carriage ride, with this Mom, Dad & little girl behind us.  The tour was going right along and then I hear the little girl say, “Wow Mommie…THAT GUY IS BALD!”  I was looking around to make fun of the bald guy too.  This was gonna be awesome!  “HEY CUEBALL!”  I turned around and saw she was looking at me.

Oh crap.

My first reaction was to say something off the wall like, “That’s what chemo does to you…”, but I’m pretty sure I would have caught on fire right there for that one.  Instead I just laughed and smiled.  What else can you do?  It was a little kid.

There is a point to this.  Guys – if you are staring to go..accept it.  The quicker you do, the quicker you can endure the humiliation.

-Kev

P.S.

Don’t think I didn’t imagine pushing her off the cart.