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| Xanga will never make a comeback, which doesn't bother me or anyone else. But it's still here, and whenever I randomly stumble upon the site I'm always immediately full of regret for having deleted most of my old entries (circa 2001-2004, the best, hilarious years of Xanga) because of my then-desire to avoid future embarassment on the off-chance that someone decided to read them. Which, yeah, was probably valid, since nobody ever stopped me from making a fool of myself on the Internet back then, but that's what made those entries awesome! I will never be able to revisit those early high school years of dramas and foolish moments, the good times and the frequently bored and depressed. A goldmine of hilarious immature teenage thought, manually deleted. Damnit! Die, "nik3lbak" of early high school! Oh wait...you already killed yourself, on purpose, a long time ago.
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| So my return to Xanga didn't last long. Here's where I'm spending all of my time bloggin: Zalad.
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| Since James and Drew are as lame as Mike Hampton's arm will be after one regular season inning and won't start their sports blog, I guess in the meantime I'll start rambling about the Hawks and whatever else is on my mind. Maybe do some fantasy analysis too, except my highest finish of 4th in any league I've joined doesn't reward much street cred, no matter how fantastic. Just wait until Yao Can't Beat Me (formerly known as Yi Yao Yi Yao Yi Yao until the CCCP stepped in and decided their reputation was more important than my fantasy season, more on this later) tears through the 14-team league that I'm in right now. Then you'll trust me to pick up players like Jose Calderon and Nate Robinson. Yes, I'm actually telling you to pick up an Isiah-coached Knick.
I guess I'll start off by saying that Billy Knight has contributed to the Hawks' losing habits as much as Mike Woodson. Yes, we see Woodson blindly leading this team stocked with young promising lottery picks to a 24-33 record, 3-7 in last 10 (wait, we traded for Mike Bibby 9 games ago?). I see Woodson do more stupid things to ruin a potentially great team than the number of times I've seen him call an isolation play for Joe Johnson at the end of a close game where Joe gets the ball at half-court, dribbles for 15 seconds, launches a tightly-guarded fadeaway 3 that barely grazes front rim while everyone else was too spaced out on the floor to grab the offensive rebound, then dips his head and shoulders in shame and silently berates himself until the next game. Do you feel comfortable with a 12 to 14-point lead with 8:45 left in the 4th quarter against any Eastern playoff team or any Western team period? You can attribute your nervous breakdown as Josh Smith takes a rainbow 3 while the Hawks are down by 6 to the great discipline that Woody has inspired on the team.
But enough about our great coach, at least for now. Billy Knight thinks he can get away with screwing up the franchise by diverting all of the negative attention to the coach that he hired, leaking to the AJC the fact that he tried to fire Woodson multiple times this season. No you don't Billy, it's your fault! You hired the wrong man, gave him absolute disasters for draft picks, then turned a blind eye to his horrendous coaching (69-177 in first 3 years, good for a 28% win percentage) and didn't attempt to give someone else the job, someone with a functioning brain and any knowledge of pro basketball. Then of course during the first playoff-potential season under your management, your friendship with Woodson - which was your actual reason for hiring him - turns sour, and right after you made the blockbuster trade for Bibby that could have lifted the Hawks into the playoffs, you turned the locker room into a mess and gave our players more reason to quit on him. You think our young guys are going to listen to a retarded coach when they find out management tried to fire the guy 3 separate times this season? This may actually turn out to be a positive if the players can just block out Woodson and play exciting, fastbreak Hawks basketball and anything resembling defense. And damn ownership for blocking the firing. They say if you want to win you have to start from the top. We have losers at every level of the organization BUT the players.
More to come on the Hawks, Woodson, Knight, and after I'm done venting my frustration I'll move on to more lighthearted news in the NBA. Like Chris Andersen doing LSD, PCP, meth, and heroin at the same time. Good times.
Feel free to write horrible, insulting comments like regular sports blogs.
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| Back to Xanga, at least temporarily. I forgot about this place.
Anyways, the reason for this post is while studying for my biochem test (today 9am, currently procrastinating and not even close to being ready) I thought of an idea for a future bioengineering project. So, the problem is we can't just eat trees to survive because we can't break down the beta linkages between glucose molecules in cellulose. Herbivores and termites contain symbiotic microorganisms that secrete cellulases (enzymes that break down those beta linkages). We can however break down the alpha linkages between glucose molecules in starch by Ronjon's favorite - amylase - which is how we can eat a few select parts of a few select trees. The idea is to either create a symbiosis between humans and cellulase-producing microorganisms (stick a few of them in someone's stomach?), or to just straight-up incorporate cellulase secretion into the human digestive system which seems feasible since we already secrete an enzyme similar in amylase. We'd just have to find the gene (HAHAHAHA...HA) that regulate amylase production and secretion, and alter it slightly to produce/regulate cellulase instead and somehow stick the altered gene into the genome. So after all that bullshit I just typed, we can just eat trees and never have to worry about food again until all the trees get cut down in a few decades. This tickles the hippie in me. Though there's the problem that cellulases take awhile to degrade cellulose, so it may be a few days before you digest the carbs from eating that tree branch outside your window. Whatever, better than spending countless dollars on "human food" when I could be spending it on...greenery.
I apologize that had to be my first post in over half a year. Georgia Tech has officially converted me. I'll have to post something after this so that this isn't the first thing people read when they stumble onto my Xanga. O/U "people who'll stumble onto my Xanga" - 2.5 in the next 18 months.
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| Everyone come visit my new house. Before it's too late.
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