Service

So its Christmas time, the time to give, so I just thought that I should spread some Christmas cheer to my readers (if there be any, say "Aye!") by telling them about my favorite thing to do on Christmas. I like to serve others. Its pretty much the best feeling in the world, other people will love you for it, and its just all around good. So go make somebody have a great day. Now.

Blinded

You must know that I love music. It is essential for you to understand me. I have a list of approximately 30 songs that are, in fact, the greatest 30 songs ever written by anyone on this planet. But now is not the time to reveal that list. Now, I would just live to discuss the song "Blinded" by Third Eye Blind. It is definetly on the list. I was just listening to it the other day and I thought: "Holy crap! This is an amazing song!." Im not going to go into the details of the song now, but if you guys want to check it out, heres a clip that I dont think is official, but if it is it is really lame (videowise). Songwise, this is one of the best that you can get.

16-0

For those of you who read my blog, you probably know that I am a football fan. When it comes to the NFL, I never expected to see a team go undefeated in the regular season. But it will happen this year. Yesterday the New England Patriots become only the fifth team in NFL history to start a season 13-0. The next two games they have are against the Jets and the Dolphins, the two worst teams in the NFL. The Patriots could beat them in their sleep playing third string guys, but the Patriots technically havent locked up the #1 spot for the playoffs, so I assume that all of their starters will play and will destroy both of those teams. The final week of the season includes a matchup against the New York Giants. Normally, this would be the time to rest your starters, and that still may happen. But what is interesting is that yesterday the Giants clinched a playoff spot, so they really have nothing to play for for the rest of the season. So in the final week, they almost certainly will be playing backups. With New Englands depth and their genious coach, they will be able to defeat the Giants back up squad to complete a perfect season. Wow. On the other end of the spectrum, the Dolphins are the worst NFL team that I have ever seen. They will finish 0-16, which is unfortunate because they dont really need Darren McFadden or Matt Ryan. Speaking of those two guys, last year the Patriots traded for the 49ers first round draft pick, which is bound to be either the first, second, third, or fourth pick. So they have a realistic shot at those guys as well. But they dont need them either, so they should trade the pick to Atlanta or something, who could use either of those guys, and then they could get more picks and dominate next year. It just isnt fair.

I Cant Get to Sleep

I couldnt fall asleep last night. I kept thinking about how The Lovely One said that I ruined her life. You, my dear readers, do not yet know much about The Lovely One. Perhaps I shall reveal more later, but for now, all you need know is that she is frustratingly maddening, or maddeningly frustrating, if you will. Two days ago, we were just fine. Then, last night, she tells me that she hates me and that I "ruined" her life. Where did this come from? All that I ever told her was that I talked to, mind you, talked, nothing else, to a girl a while ago. What did we talk about? Work. I was at my job, doing my job. How is this offensive? Then, I told The Lovely One that I expect her to get married while I am on my mission. You, my dear readers, also do not know about my expected mission, do you? I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, commonly called The Mormons. I know the teachings of this church to be true, and that is not one of those things that I am always right about because that is mostly just funny to say, but this church I know to be true. Nobody can take that away from me. Anyways, young men in the church are asked to go on a mission for the church to preach the gospel for two years when they turn 19. I look forward to going on my mission more than anything else in life. I have always wanted to serve a mission for the church. You may say that it has been my life goal. Anyways, back to my story...The Lovely One and I are the same age. I will be gone for two years while she will be out at school. No matter what our past, everybody seems to be able to admit that there is a high likelihood that she will get married while I am away. That is all that I told her, and somehow it "ruined" her life? I dont understand!

The BCS

I wanted to write about this on Monday, but I didnt have any time. The BCS obviously frustrates thousands of college football fans every year. It is an inefficient and ineffective system of determining a national champion. This is agreed on by almost all college football fans. The most common alternative format is a playoff. But how many games should be played? These are just college kids, and we see how even the best of them hit the wall at the end of the season when they go to the NFL. Thus I think that even a four team playoff would be too many games. One bowl should determine it all, even though there will still be grumbling, but the effect on the kids playing the games outweighs that. So who should play in the championship games? Who should decide? Well, as far as this year goes, my ideal matchup to determine national champion would be Hawaii versus Ohio State. I cannot, no matter how weak their conference is, discount a perfect season. If Hawaii wins in their current bowl, whos to say that they are not better than Ohio State or LSU? Speaking of those teams, even though I think that Hawaii would be a better pick, I cannot say that I hate the pick of LSU. They were ranked high in the preseason, played solidly all year, and the only two games that they lost were in triple overtime to what ended up being two ranked teams. By the way, I root for BYU football and basketball, but lets face it, they dont deserve a great bowl.

Why Blog?

Because I want people to be able to bask in the glory of my amazing correctness, I have always wanted to somehow spread my thoughts to every human on the planet. There were several logical avenues for this venture: a book, a radio program, a television network, a magazine, and internet site, a newspaper, a movie, or a song, among other things. But not to many people read books lately, so that was out. You can only present audio material on the radio, and I needed a visual element as well. Television would cost a lot of money. A magazine would be difficult to produce weekly or even monthly. Nobody would ever find my internet site. A newspaper would be difficult to produce. A movie would be costly. Songs only have about three minutes to impress somebody. So I finally settled on the blog. At first I was worried that nobody would ever read it because everybody is blogging nowadays and mine would just get lost in the clutter of the internet. But I recently decided that I just dont care if anybody reads this crap or not. This blog has been in existence for almost five hours now, and still nobody has commented. But what do I care? This blog, if nothing else, has been an excellent way to get what is locked up in my head out somewhere. And thus I blog.

I think, therefore I blog. I blog, therefore I am.

Curses

The postings that are newer appear at the top! How annoying! Now nobody will read the first posting and understand the second! This is terrible! Exclamation points! Gah!

Blogs on One Page

So I was planning my first real post to be about something important, but then I was customizing my settings for this blog (by the way, this somehow feels like deja vu, even though I have never blogged before) it asked me how many blogs I wanted to show on one page. The default was seven, and I was like: "Why seven? Where did you pull that number from? Could you show me some sort of study that proves that the optimal number of blogs on one page is seven?" So I changed it to 999. But then I thought: "thats too much. Nobody is going to want to scroll through all of that crap." Ooh, I also just had another though. Read other peoples posts and decide who you agree with: The Idiots (as I will collectively refer to everyone else, even though I know that not everyone on the planet is completely moronic, just most people), or The Correct One. Anyway, back to the optimal number of blogs: I was wondering what you guys thought. How many blogs are you willing to scroll through on one page? How annoying is it to have to click to a new page for every blog, or every seven blogs for that matter? I plan on posting blogs quite frequently, so there may be more than seven rather quickly. I still have it set at 999, but if you wish it, I will change it.

Welcome to Thoughts

I am new to blogging, but I plan to use it as an online journal of my thoughts as regularly as possible. To give you, my faithful readers, some background as to who I am, you must first know that I am always right. Simply because I have said this, you must now accept it as fact. I am not overly egotistical, nor am I delusional enough to think that you will immediately accept that I am always right. To understand my apparently outlandish claim, you must know more about me. I am intelligent, but not a genius (as will be proved throughout my blogging career by my inability to spell), and my specialty of things to know is useless facts. I hear them or read them once and they stick in my head. It is a gift and a curse. Anyway, those who know The Correct One (me) personally, have come to regard my ability to spout off useless facts and memorize information quickly and easily as the ability to be right about everything, always. To prove this further than a simple survey of my associates, I have studied myself and my claims over the years. This study began seven years ago. Since that time I have been wrong a grand total of seven times, and, for those of you who cannot do math, that is an average of once per year. So, no, I am not actually correct 100% of the time, but I am almost always correct. Correctness, in my definition, at least, is stating a claim as if it were a fact and the claim being able to be proven to be true. So that definition does leave out opinion. But I must warn you that those of you who come to read my blog regularly will soon learn that I am very opinionated. And because of my ability to be always right about factual things, I have, along with others who know The Correct One, come to regard my own opinions as fact. They still cannot be proven true or false, but I will state them as fact, and you should regard them as such. All of this information will become important to you dear reader as you continue to read my blog. I promise to update it regularly, although not daily, and perhaps not even weekly. My blog will be a random string of my thoughts related to whatever I want it to be related to. I am willing to talk about religion, politics, sports, or anything else that interests you. Please post responses, try to question my authority...I dare you. You shall come to know me as The Correct One, and in due time, you will not only respect my opinions, but you will praise them, and if you study them carefully enough, you to may soon regard them as fact.