Dumb Ass Creeps

Jessica and I were going to watch a movie last Friday after the kids got into bed. It was a bad TV night (but it will be the best TV night when BSG starts 10/06) so I just left the TV on whatever channel it was on until Jessica came back down after putting Alydia to bed. The show that came on was Date Line (or Night Line, something like that) and they were having one of their "To Catch a Predator" specials. It's probably not so much of a 'special' anymore since they have these episodes almost every week. Anyway, if you don't know the premise of this show, they have undercover people in chat rooms posing as under-aged girls and setting up meetings with sick fucks that want to have sex with children. (Pardon the f-bomb, but that is all I can think to call these creeps.) Basically they set traps for sexual predators. They have a house somewhere and the undercover cops set up meetings with these sick fucks so that they can catch them in the act. To add insult to injury, these sick fucks are taped and televised on national TV. As a father of a little girl, I say they are getting exactly what they deserve. Although this sounds like trash TV, I was riveted. It was amazing how some of these men reacted when the cameras came out. Some ran (only to be tackeled by the police waiting outside.), some cried, and most of them lied. The reporter would ask why they came to the house with a teenaged girl and they would say stuff like, "just to talk." or "I wanted to be friends." COME ON!!! One guy said that he came to talk, but brought a bottle of whiskey and a box of condoms. Right. Talk. There were even some military guys that showed up to the house. (One of the criers was a Sargent or something.) The best was the guy that had seen the Date Line specials in the past and knew that the cops were setting up stings like the one he walked in to. Dumb ass. Anyway, watching this show made a few questions pop into my mind:

1. How does a grown man think that it is OK to have sexual chats with a teen aged girl and then set up meeting to initiate sex? I guess I can understand how men can see teen aged girls as attractive. It seems like young girls are in a huge hurry to grow up and become sexual creatures. Look at some of the outfits that teens wear these days. It's not uncommon to see a teen aged girl with a thong popping up out the back of her too-tight jeans or in a top that is cut too low and too tight. I get that it's the fashion, but it is no wonder that some men can look at these little girls in a sexual manner. Parents need to put their foot down and try to tone down their girl's outfits. I know, that is easier said than done. Also, it seems like girls are getting physically mature at a younger age. There are sixth grade girls in Noah's class (11 or 12 years old) that look like they are 16 or 17. Still, you can't cross that line as an adult male.

2. In this day and age of technonogy where anyone can access your computer with spyware and knowing that there are police stings out there to catch on line predators, how do men get up the balls to try something like that? I'll admit it, I have had some dark thoughts at one time or other in my life, but I could never cross that line to act upon them because 1. I know it's wrong and am not a sicko. and 2. I have a fear of jail and know that it would destroy my life and my family. Not to mention the mental scars that the girl would have. I am getting away from the point. It just seems too easy to get caught. How can you risk something like that? I guess if you are sick enough to try to have sex with a teen, you don't care about the risk that you take. But seriously, don't these guys see the Date Line show catching guys? Don't they see the set up?

Something else that throws me is how much kiddie porn is out on the internet. I saw a show last night that said there is a ton of kiddie porn out there and more is being added daily. Again, how does it get out there with all of the laws and spyware out there? I guess there are proxy servers overseas that throw off investigators and most of it is probably posted in different countries, but there is still a huge risk just by viewing a site with kiddie porn. Besides, how would you even find these sites? I doubt that you could do a Google search. I guess there would have to be chat rooms whee people share links. It's all a bit sick if you ask me.

Now, I hope that you did not read this post a think that I am a perve because I'm not. I'm not researching ways to get around the laws so that I can meet a teen. I just don't understand what these guys are thinking. I know I have probably checked out a girl that is too young, but looking is one thing. Doing something about it is entirely different. Besides, I am perfectly happy with my wife. Honestly, knowing that there are people out there that try to have sex with girls scares the crap out of me. If anyone tried to do anything like that to my little girl, I would end them. I wouldn't care if I went to jail. It would be slow and it would be painful.

Well, I'm sorry that I was a bit heavy with my topic today. It's just something that I thought was worth sharing. It is a scary world out there.

As Promised, Woodrow's Words of Wisdom

I mentioned a whiles ago that Jessica, my wife, was lucky enough to be gifted a booklet full of Woodrow's Words of Wisdom. In case you haven't know Woody as long as I have, he's basically the same guy now that he was back in highschool. We had some study halls together that we used to create some funny stories with Herb called The Bat Notes. OK, maybe they weren't too funny, but they were creative and Moe seemed to like them. It was perverse stories about Batman (written by Woody) Robin (written by Herb) and The Wolverine (me). It's not important how Wolvie got stuck with the Dynamic Duo, it just happened. Anyway, I am getting away from the topic at hand. I mention the Bat Notes because they had the same type of comedy and the WWWs. It's about 15 to 20 pages of witty advice to help Jessica "be as successful as Jay Leno and not as successful as Bob Craig." Anyway, enough talk up, here are some words of wisdom from Woodrow (aka Woody). I won't write them all down because there ae over 50 and I just don't have the time.

WWW#1 Don't Drown
WWW#13 There is no WWW#13 because 13 is an unlucky number.
WWW#32 50 Watts per channel!
WWW#33 It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing Milk bone underwear
WWW#63 What if... everyone in the world farted at once?
WWW#69 Ha Ha Ha ZEX!!
WWW#72 Life is hazardous to your health
WWW#75 What if someone actually laughed at these jokes?
WWW#83 Kinky sex toy!
WWW#89 At BASF, we don't make alot of the WWW's that you read. We make alot of the WWWs that you read stupider.
WWW#110 This is a test. This is only a test. This is not a quiz. This is a test of the Emergency Comedy Broadcast System. If in the event that this was a real joke, you'd be laughing.
WWW#111 Word or the day: Weinerschnitzel. (don't aks me. It's Rinnert's word.)
WWW#125 WOMAN!!!!!
WWW#137 WAH! (another Rinnert word)
WWW#169 One Hundred and HA HA Ha ZEX!!!
WWW#175 Pain don't hurt.
WWW#194 If you show these WWWs to anyone, I will find you and I will kill you.
WWW#206 Hello, I'm Woody. But in a way, aren't we all?
WWW#227 I was an Etch-A-Sketch artist until I realized women had better knobs.

Well, I think that is a large enough dose of Woody for today. I will post a few more WWWs on a later date. I hope that #194 is not true or else Woody may find me and kill me (my wife too). For more of Woody's brand of Tim foolery, check out his blog. It's quick, it's easy, and it's FREE!

Oh yeah OSU beat Penn State. Good game.

Fun Playing With My Balls

So, my bowling league is started last night. That balls did you think I was playing with? Sick-os. As you may or may not know, I have been bowling almost all my life. I started out pretty well with a 201, followed up with a 191, and ended the night with a 160 (I was getting tired). Since I haven't bowled for almost five months, I am happy with the performance. I think it turned out to be a 180 average, or something like that. It's about normal form me. I'd like to push it up to about a 190 or 195, but after all of these years of bowling, I don't see it happening. I did have a good pick up though: the 3-6-7-10 split. That's three pins on the right side of the lane and one in the back left corner of the lane. Of course, no one was watching.

One thing that is convenient about my bowling league on Thursdays is that the poker game I like to play in on Thursdays is just down the road from the bowling ally. I will be able to get out to play card a little more often now that I will be in the area. I played for a few hours last night and only won $10. I see it as a good night though because I was getting terrible cards all night, but still left with more money than I came with. I made a few calls that I won the hand on the river (when the last community card is turned up) and some of the players (the ones I beat in the hand) were like "How can you call that?" In other words, they felt I should have folded since I didn't have the best hand until the last card came up. Well, it is called gambling, right? Besides, if I am already invested in a hand, I am usually going to see it to the end, unless I know I have no chance. So, I say to the haters, "Screw you! I won some cash!!" I have three goals when I play poker with these guys:

1. Win as much money as possible.
2. Don't lose any money. I usually only buy in with one $20, like last night, where other players buy in with up to $80 or $100. If I leave with as much money as I came with, I am happy.
3. Have fun. I like playing with most of these guys. There are just a few babies some nights that are sore losers. These punks are just lucky that I wasn't getting cards or I would have cashed in. I was on my game last night. I folded when I knew I was beat and bet when I knew I was in the hand. The one bad call I made was when I had two pair and knew that the other guy in the hand had a straight. I called him though, because I was already invested in the hand and thought he may be bluffing. Oh well. Honestly, I like when people get angry at the way I play. It means that I am getting under their skin and they won't play as well against me.

Big Game tomorrow: OSU vs Penn State. Ohio Stateis looking for some payback after losing to PSU last year. It should be a good game. Starts ar 3:30.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

No, it's not Christmas time. It's New TV Show Week!!! For months we have been subjected to reruns and bad reality TV. To be honest, we have been watching alot of old shows on DVD that we didn't see the first time around. For example, the 4400, which is suprisingly good. Anyway, that time is over and now is the time that our DVR will be working overtime. No longer will we need to think about which show we should watch when there are two good shows on at the same time. Tonight, for example, CSI and Grey's Anatomy both start at 9:00. We can watch CSI and record Grey's Anatomy for a later date. Well, I'm sure that most of you know of the wonders of DVR and TiVo, so I won't get into it too much. Here's a list of shows that we are excited about:

1. Battle Star Galactica - Season 3 starts 10/06/2006 and if you've ever read my blog, you know that this is my favorite show.

2. Heroes - I have never seen this show, and it could be a big flop, but the commercials look pretty good. It looks like a bunch of regular people wake up one day with super powers. One can fly, one is invincible (a hot cheerleader who saves people in her cheerleader outfit. Nice.) and one can see the future in his paintings. They are marketing this show alot. I hope it's worth the hype. I think it starts this Sunday. It may be a rip off of M. Knight Shamalan's Unbreakable, but it looks good.

3. Desperate Housewives - Yes, it's basically a soap opera, but the stories are engrossing and the housewives are hot. Eva Longoria, enough said.

4. CSI - Not Miami, not NY (which I think was cancelled), I'm talking about the original. This show has been on for a long time and is still very good. They definitely have not jumped the shark yet.

5. Grey's Anatomy - I like this show alot, but I think they are starting to recycle content. If you watch this show, aren't you tired of the whole Merideth-Dr. McDreamy sexual tension? It can only go on for so many seasons, can't it? Plus, it looks like they got rid of Izzy (Catherine Heigel). They killed off her love interest and the last episode of the season shows her telling the chief that she is done. Izzy is an interesting character and HOT HOT HOT!!! Not that that's important. Anyway, the show is interesting and pretty funny.

Other shows that we watch and are new this season are:

1. Vanished, about a US senator's wife gone missing. It's not my fav, but it's OK.
2. Criminal Minds, about an FBI profiling team. Another one that is OK.
3. Justice, about a legal firm that defends murderers. You get a behind the scene look at all of the tricks and stunts that lawyers use to get their clients off. Plus, at the end of the show they show you what really happened (if they did it or not). So far they have gotten off all of their clients who have proven to all be innocent. The ones we are looking forward to are the when they get off a guilty guy or can't get off an innocent one.
4. Deal, or no Deal, ok, it's not new, but it's like video crack to me. It amazes me that people are so ready to risk thousands of dollars in order to win more. Some times it works out for them but mostly it does not. Monday I saw an episode where the guy playing could have won $3mil, but he took the deal after the money got up to $650,000. When they opened his case, it was the $3mil case. Throw in Howie Mandel and HOT HOT models (not that that's important) and you get video crack.
5. Eureka, about a US Marshal that stumbles into a high tech research town and becomes the new sheriff. It is pretty interesting and worth the watch.

Any more shows out there that I should watch?

A good weekend

So, I took Friday off and Jessica took the weekend off, and we took a trip north to Put-In-Bay. For those of you that don't know, Put-In-Bay is the tourist name for South Bass Island in Lake Erie. We drove up to Port Clinton and rode the Jet Express (a fast ferry boat) to the island (about a 25 minuted ride). South Bass Island is one island in a cluster of several islands in the middle of Lake Erie. For you historians, South Bass Island is where Commadore Perry docked his fleet during the war of 1812. His victory over the Brittish fleet is why we (those of us born in Toledo, Ohio) are Americans instead of Canadians. Something else I found interesting is that Lake Erie has the highest (or maybe second highest) number of ship wrecks on a body of fresh water. We took a tour of the island, which included stops at Heineman's Winery, which has some GOOOOD wine and a cool tour of a Crystal Cave, the largest geode in the world. We also say Perry's Cave, which was kinda interesting. There was an underground lake which was crystal clear water from Lake Erie that was naturally filtered by the limestone rock in the cave. Native Americans living on the island showed the lake to Commadore Perry who used the water for his troops since the water out of Lake Erie was unsafe to drink. Just a bit of history for you all. The tour also had a stop at the "War of 18 Holes" which was a mini-golf course (notice the name-spoof: War of 18 Holes, War of 1812. Those island folk are clever.) The historical information from the tour guide was kinda funny. We learned about all of these grand hotels that were built in the 1800's that could hold so many people, and then burned down. At least 8 historical buildings on the island (mostly hotels) where burned to the ground. It was funny because the tour guide would tell us that we were approaching the site of a historical hotel or other building, "However, it was burned to the ground in....." The main street on the Island (Delaware Ave. I think) was kind of like a mix of Cedar Point's shopping area the French Quarter in New Orleans. It was a long line of shops, resturants, and bars. The crown that wandered the streets resembled a mix of the crowds of Cedar Point (families that go for the touring and family activities) and the crowds in the French Quarter (drunks guys that make fools of themselves and drunker girls that want to show everyone their boobies). since Jessica and I were in the previous group of people, we hung out in our room after we went to see all of the things we wanted to see. We had a jaccuzzi tub, candles, and plenty of wine, so we were able to entertain ourselves. All in all, it was a good time. I will post some pictures later. Oh, and if the pictures we took came out OK, I have a game of WOW for you all to play. WWW is a game that I invented called "Which One in the Woman". On the tram we took for the tour, there was a man and a woman sitting next to each other and from behind, it was tough to tell which one was the woman. I hope the pics come out OK.

In football news, OSU beat Cincinnati 37-7 and M*ch*g*n stomped Notre Dame by some rediculous score of, like 976 to 24. Ok, it wasn't that bad, but it made me gain a bit of fear for the OSU vs UM game at the end of the season.

Lone Star Ass Kickin'

#1 Ohio State rolled into Austin Texas this weekend to take on the #2 ranked (and defending National Champions) Texas Longhorns. I think is it pretty safe to say that this is probably the most looked forward to game of the college football season. #1 meets #2 in the second week of the season. It is the first time that #1 played #2 in the last ten years in a non conference match (other than in the Title game, of course). After Texas beat OSU last year in the Shoe, OSU fans have been looking forward to this rematch hoping for some payback. Well, we got it. Ohio State defeated Texas 24 to 7. It was great watching the Buckeyes live up to their hype as the #1 rated team in the country. The offense was stellar and the defense was able to shut down the Texas offense when it counted by forcing a fumble and an interception. The Longhorns only touchdown came after a questionable 'roughing the passer' penalty that gave Texas a first down inside the OSU ten yard line. By 'questionable' I mean bullshit. Anyway, I think the playeer of the game had to be Anthony Gonzalez, OSU wide receiver. IT seemed like every time OSU needed a completion to keep the drive alive, 'Gonzo' was the go to guy. Well, I won't go into too many details of the game,but it was awesome to watch and I could not hope for a better outcome. There were also some other interesting games this past Saturday:

Notre Dame stomped Penn State 41 to 17. I really thought that this game would have been closer than it was. Man, what a shocker.

Iowa had to go to OT to barely beat Syracuse. Another suprise since Iowa is expecting a good year. In their defense, they were missing their starting QB due to injury.

The other Big Ten teams that OSU will face this year did about as I expected. I must say that I really like how this OSU team is not looking beyond any opponent. The first week, all they talked about was NIU. The second week, they would only talk about Texas. When asked about the upcoming Big Ten season, the responses were all geared toward this coming week's game against Cincinnati. Concidering the problems that the Bearcats have given OSU, I am glad they the Buckeyes aren't over looking UC.

The Resistance

Scifi.com is webcasting a little mini series called The Resistance. It is updated every Tuesday and Thursday and is based on Battlesta Galactica, the best show on television. The webcasts are little two minute bits telling the story of the humans on New Caprica, now occupied by the Cylons. I watched the second clip today, but I missed the first one that aired Tuesday. Since I couldn't figure out how to watch the first episode today, my guess is that you can only watch the webcast on the day that it premires. I'm hoping that changes since I'd like to see all of the episodes. Apparently, it is about how some of the humans start to fight back against the Cylons and their occupation of New Caprica. Anyway, after the episode, there were some clips of the new BSG season that starts in LESS THAN A MONTH!!!! (Oct 6th, if you didn't know) I was hoping that the second half of season two would be released on DVD before the new season starts, but it doesn't look like that will happen. However, thanks to the incredible invention called DVR, I can record the back episodes of BSG (airing on Scifi at, like, 2:00 am on Saturday) so that I can refresh my memory of how season 2 ended. It's not as good as a DVD, since there are commercials, but at least I can fast forward through them. I'll probably DVR all of the new season so that I can go back and watch the episodes over and over and over. You may think that a bit extreme, but I think that I've watched the first season seven or eight times. Yes, the show is that good. Buy the DVDs, get caught up, get hooked.

1 and 0 and Ready To Go!

Ohio State won their opener against Northern Illinois yesterday 35 to 12. I won't bore you with all of the details, since you can click on the link and check out ESPN.com. I will touch on a few things though:

Good:

Troy Smith looked GREAT as he passed for over 72%, almost 300 yards, and for 3 TDs.
Ted Ginn Jr. like he could get open at will. He had 4 catches for 123 yards and 2 TD
Antonio Pittman ran for over 100 yards.

Bad:

The offense lost the ball twice inside the red zone, costing two scoring opportunites
The kicking team missed two field goal attempts that, in the past, would have been a sure thing

All in all, I was happy with the offense and the defense. The defense gave up a few big plays, but was able to rally and hold NIU to 12 points. Next Saturday is the Big One doen in Austin Texas. It should be another good game and hopfully the Buckeyes will be able to come out on top this year. If the defense can improove a little bit and the offense can hold on to the ball, I think they have a good chance of winning.