Cold-Hearted Apprentice Finale

I never watch the Apprentice, although it is a good show in my opinion, but I caught the re-run of the most recent season's finale on CNBC last night. The ending was one of the most F-ed up things I have witnessed on a reality show. First of all it was between this 30-something guy, Randal, black, really well-educated, owned his own business, hell of a guy... and this 24 year old woman, Rebecca, white, real strong personality (in a good way), very succesful for her age.

Ok anyways, they do their typical boardroom thing (it was live with an audience) and Trump ends up picking the Randal guy. He gets up all excited and runs around hugging people, etc.

Then Trump goes, "wait Randal, sit back down... Now that youve won, what do you really think about Rebecca?"
Randal: "Oh Mr Trump, she's a great girl, *more compliments, etc*"
Trump: "So, don't you think she deserves to win, also?"
The crowd kind of gasps and starts applauding wildy, hoping for a double-hiring situation. I sit up in my seat, suddenly interested cause I thought the girl deserved to win too.
Randal: "Actually, Mr Trump, the show is called Apprentice, as in one, so I think there should only be one Apprentice tonight"
Trump: "Ok, you could have convinced me, but we'll leave it at that, then"

WHAT THE HELL?? Where does this guy get off? It's not like if she was hired they would have to split the job or money or something. It wouldn't have affected him at all. Plus he would not stop saying how much respect he had for her in the previous episode. What a selfish prick. The audience actually booed for a short while, which amused me.

But the main eye-opening part was that a girl about my age was such an impressive person and was almost put in charge of a multi-million/billion dollar corporation. Imagine that, readers.

Chicken and Waffles Restaurant Review

Last night around 2am I went to what apparently is an Atlanta staple: "Gladys Night and Ron Winan's Chicken and Waffles". The place was a LOT classier than I expected from an open-till-4am chicken and waffles place. First of all it was a sit-down restaurant, which I didn't expect. The tables were nice dark wood, real classy. The place was full or people, but not loud drunk idiots typical of a post midnight restaurant. It was mostly couples, real low-key. We all pretty much ordered the "midnight train", which was four jumbo chicken wings and a waffle. They had an array of hot sauce, and I partook with the Texas Pete, which was just fine. Dan tried the grits with cheese, which was incredibly good. Definitely getting that next time. Bhuan's catfish was pretty good too. Overall a great late-night meal. However, the prices were somewhat high, with a small side of mac&cheese at over $3 and the meal described above at $9 (four wings and a waffle). The waffle does most of the filling up, so we were all pretty satisfied after the meal regardless. I put their website link below, and all my Maryland friends, don't worry there is a location in DC. To learn more, head to your local library, kids!

http://www.gladysandron.net/

Dodgeball DQ

What kind of team gets disqualified for misconduct during a dodgeball match? Apparently ours.

During the game, this guy Brian on my team got called out for stepping over the line on one of his throws. He disagreed (to say the least) and really didn't even go out until the third time the ref told him to get out. While he was on the sideline he continued his "disagreement" with the ref, and after disputing that he crossed the line, ended by saying "you need glasses, man". At this point the ref lost it and walked out into the middle of the court blowing his whistle and waving his hands. Everyone was of course very confused because there was still a minute 30 left in the game and it was tied with 3 people on each side remaining. Then the ref just announces "you guys win" and points to the other team, who after a moment of confusion start celebrating. Our team at this point has a "what the..!" moment and so i run over to the group of refs and he tells me "you guys just kept insulting me, you're out". What??? "You need glasses" is an insult worthy of an entire team's disqualification? Spencer at this point goes right up to the refs face and yells "you're terrible!" They didn't like that too much either. Haha. It was almost funny. It was very lame that we only got to play for 2.5 minutes and could have won, but it was pretty funny to be disqualified from a dodgeball match. We probably would not have won the tournament anyways, so what a way to go. The refs were REAL pissed at us though, and becuase we had on those uniforms we were easily identifiable and I even got an evil eye from a CRC manager guy later in the night. That guy takes his job wayyy too seriously.

We had been playing at the Georgia Tech "One Night Stand" which is when the rec center is open until 4am and there are all kinds of organized sporting tournaments (volleyball, basketball, etc) and contests, such as doughnut eating and half-court shooting. All in all, a very cool idea and event. This dodgeball game was at 2am and I should mention several of my team members were therefore three sheets to the wind. That probably didn't help the situation too much. For this spring's intramural dodgeball I'm going to have to take the team to sportsmanship school.

November Pictures

The ITAR club, est. 2005

Getting a "Taste of Africa"... the intenstines were actually very good. I got video of the guy George in the middle doing an African dance with a wifebeater on. The man's got rhythm.

Georgia Tech 4 seconds from beating Miami... also looks like the Wizards won in the bottom ticker.

The brave ones that went on the Pine Mountain trip.

The only view at Pine Mountain and it wasn't even on the trail. This was after we finished and saw this overlook on the side of the road.

Interesting outfit at the Clemson game. To clarify, it was a few days before halloween.

Are you a Guinness Believer?

If you haven't heard of these Guinness Believer events, then I've got some good news for you. The event basically consists of Guinness representatives giving you as much Guinness as you can drink while telling you random trivia and history about the beer. It's all FREE and they don't try to sell you anything. You just sign up online for a local event, it's usually held at a local bar/club. Bring all your friends and they serve free food (appetizer type food) and best of all, free guinness!! They give drafts, bottles, extra stout, even Harp and Smithwicks. MY GOODNESS MY GUINNESS!

We went last night and it was better than I even expected. Unfortunately I had to drive myself so I couldn't partake as much as some people, but it was still a blast. I took home a Guinness pint glass and a three pack of those cool Guinness posters. Needless to say I'll be all over it next time they do it. Guinness is probably my new favorite beer as of thanksgiving break, where I was drinking the bottles while at home. Goes down extra smooth because there's no carbonation. And I learned that those little things inside the bottles and cans are nitrogen capsules, cause that's what makes the head stay and makes the beer creamier. LOVELY DAY FOR A GUINNESS!

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I missed November, didn't I?

The time between my blog entries keeps getting longer. I got a lot to cover so I'll do it in my usual half-assed style. Let's see, since the last post we played Clemson at home in football, and wupped em. Their fans showed up in force and were quite obnoxious so it was a satisfying victory. Their school cheer is just spelling out CLEMSON TIGERS (like C-L-E-M... etc). Pretty dumb.

In early November me and 4 others (Ben P, Leah, Nick, Brian) went backpacking down in FDR State Park on the Pine Mountain Trail. It wasn't as fun as previous trips mainly due to the lack of scenery. The trail never has any overlooks or anything so it's just a long walk in woods. Plus it rained in the morning right as we were taking down camp, so everything got wet. But now I can say it was fun because it's over... isn't that how it always goes?

My friend George was in a "Taste of Africa" show on campus so a bunch of us went to check it out. There was a lot of African dancing and singing (including an Alicia Keyes song, which I guess is an African cultural song?). The highlight was a play they put on about an African guy finding a girl and getting married, that was really funny. The food at the end was interesting too. I tried some cow intestines, and it was surprisingly delicious, though chewy.

Oh and then surprise, Georgia Tech beat Miami in football on 11/20. That was pretty huge, we were at a party and everything kinda just stopped in the 4th quarter and everyone huddled around the TV. Like "what, we are going to win??".

Then I went home for Thanksgiving back to Maryland. I didn't do much at home except watch movies and the usual James Bond marathon on Spike. I think I only left the house once to go play some poker at Josh's new place. The highlight of that night was the last hand of the night. One kid had an Ace-high flush, I had a full house, and before I could reach and pull in the $30+ that was in the pot, Josh surprises us all with a King-high straight flush! Son of a! That's the second highest hand possible in poker! Helluva hand Josh.

On the intramural sports front, my bowling team ended up winning the Graduate league playoffs, so I guess that makes us champions, even though there were only 3 teams in the league. Ha. We play in the school championship monday, where we will play much better teams, and it will take a miracle to get through the first round. For volleyball, we made and won the first game of the playoffs, but then got stomped by a highly organized team with a guy that was like 8 feet tall... not fair.

Anyways, that sums up November/early December. I won't make the usual promise to blog more often, because I probably won't. Be cool, stay warm.