NASCAR

I’m sorry but I just have to know, what is so special about NASCAR? I mean, who thought of this? Where else in America can you watch cars drive? Oh yea, Everywhere! Now its not that I HATE the sport, but I don’t think it’s a very interesting sport to be honest. I would go to a nascar race if I wanted to see how to execute a left hand turn at 200 mph, but that’s pretty much it. Other than that, there is no reason that I would go to a NASCAR race. But just to be fair, lets weigh the pro’s and con’s about it:
Pro:
1. Cars driving fast,
2. All the left turns you could want,
3. Maybe a cool crash if your lucky.

Con’s:
1. A huge waste of time, (but then again if you think about it, most sports are).
2. You have to pay money.
3. Its boring.
4. Everything is expensive.
5. Think about it people, you drive to a stadium and pay money to watch other cars drive, and then you drive home and feel somewhat satisfied about how you spent your last 5 hours. And I just KNOW that everyone who drives home from any nascar event is pretending he/she is racing the other cars on the freeway.

Now I know that somebody out there who loves nascar is going to bash me on something and tell me how much they hate me or how ignorant I am, but I just have to tell you how I feel about sports. What kind of friend would I be if I let you all think that I actually liked nascar? And why is it mostly a southern sport? I don’t get that. How did they adopt this as the “Official sport of the south”? For all I care they can have it. To me the top best sports to watch (in no particular order) are: Football and Basketball. The most boring to watch is NASCAR, bowling and golf. There is just no way to make bowling and golf interesting to watch. NASCAR can be interesting if something explodes or catches fire or something, but if nothing goes wrong then its really not all that great. I think we should stick with our physically demanding sports and not rely on a machine to get us a trophy or a flag or whatever they get for winning. A new seatbelt or something sounds appropriate.
Anyways, hope to hear your thoughts.
~Ian

Star Trek

Hello friends. I am back in beautiful San Diego California working at Balboa hospital. I cant stress just how much I love this place compared to any other place on the globe (save for wonderful Grass Valley of course). They tell me that I will be working in the ward with 12 hour days. It should be hard but I will learn a lot.
This somehow brings me to my next point: Star Trek. A friend of mine (Back at my old camp) made me watch a couple episodes of star trek. Its not that I didn’t like it, but I could find millions of things wrong with it. I am only going to mention 7 of them, but I think they all could be fixed. These are just 7 things I don’t like about star trek:

1. Technobabble.- I don’t even know half the stuff they are saying on the show. Its like: “Engine 4 was blown so I solved the problem by reversing the polarity of the battery cell, and routing the power through my satellite dish. The resulting subspace plasma caused a rift in the space-time continuum, which created a quantum tunneling effect that charged the protons in the engine core….” Seriously, what the heck? Is the captain sitting there like “Oh so the problem was the tunneling effect through the polarity sensors. I gotcha. I thought it might have something to do with that. I knew I heard some sort of scratching noise coming from there.” Yea-ok all cleared up.

2. Chain of Command- What kind of hierarchy is this? The captain says something like “Fire the torpedoes!” and like a million people give their opinion on what they think they should do. C-mon people he’s the captian! Do what he says. I think he knows what he is talking about.

3. The Doors- You can't walk three feet in a starship without some door whooshing or screeching at you. So many people would have gone on a killer rampage by now just by that annoying noise alone. Haven’t these people heard of WD-40?

4. The Federation- If I understand correctly, this is a planet-wide government that runs everything, and that has abolished money. How creepy is this? I can point out about one million things wrong with this alone. How would this even work? Can you say dictatorship?

5. The Holodeck- I’ll admit, this is cool and all, but I don’t think people would use it for Sherlock holmes mysteries and western saloons. Lets be honest, all of us would spend 23.5 hours a day in there acting like we were super-rich or famous or amazingly beautiful or something. I’m sure it would be used for *ahem* less than noble purposes as well.

6. Seatbelts- Watching people cripple themselves by flying over the captains head each time a colored blob of energy hit them would make one of them think “Gee, I wonder if there is some sort of restraining device we could use to keep these people from flying all over the place.” Then instead of inventing seatbelts, they invented a hard plastic thing that's locked over your thighs. Oh, I'll bet THAT felt good around corners. Each time they make a U-turn somebody comes out with Scoliosis or something. Good thinking!

7. The word Polarity- I don’t think they know what this means. They need to just stop reversing the polarity of everything! It might work once in a while, but usually it just screws things up. Its like: “What happened to the toilet in Stateroom 3?" "Well, the plumbing backed up, and Giordi thought he could fix it by reversing the polarity." Yea that’s what I try to do to. I would just stick with the Dran-O instead.



P.S. Notice how I didnt even mention the fact that everyone wears the same thing. The tight spandex with the V-neck and the boots. How can you even tell what rank everybody else is? This is an Honorable Mention.