The Golden Adams - Lifetime Achievement Award

About a month ago I wrote a post about bringing back the Lifetime Achievement Award from my ill-fated personal awards, The Golden Adams.  I didn't get many suggestions as far as who I should give the award to.  In fact, I only got one.  But I promised an award and an award I shall give!

When thinking about who I should bestow this prestigious honor, I wanted to make sure it was someone worthy and someone who might not otherwise get the recognition he or she deserves.  Then I saw the Bond at 50 celebration at The Oscars and realized it's time for someone to honor Bond with an award.  There were two actors, both who played henchmen, who I immediately thought of.  And I decided to go with the actor who co-starred in two Bond movies.  So without further ado, the Golden Adam Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013 is awarded to (drum roll, please)... Richard Kiel!

For those who don't know, Richard Kiel portrayed Jaws in both The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. What you may not know is that Mr. Kiel also had appearances in TV shows such as I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan's Island, and Starsky and Hutch.  He was also recently the voice of Vlad in Tangled.  As Jaws, he showed incredible acting range, portraying such varied emotions as anger, sadness, and even love.  That's right, only in a Bond movie can a henchman find love.  Mythbusters even tested a myth based on one his Bond appearances!  If he doesn't deserve a lifetime achievement award, I don't know who does.

Congrats to Richard Kiel on a career worthy of recognition!  Here's a high five from me and all your fans!

What's your lollipop moment?

Have you ever thought about the people who have changed your life?  Have you ever thought about who's life you may have changed?  Drew Dudley poses these questions in his engaging and inspiring TED Talk:




It's amazing to think how many little exchanges you may have had in your lifetime that could have had a much bigger impact than you ever imagined.  How cool would it be to know that you made that kind of difference in someone's life?  And how cool would it be to thank someone for making that kind of difference in your life?  I know I would love to find some of the people that did that for me and thank them and give them a high five.  I'm sure it would just make their day.  I want to challenge all of my loyal readers to think about your lollipop moments.  And if you're able to high five the person responsible, do it.  Who knows, maybe someone will high five you in return.  I also want to give Drew Dudley a virtual high five for giving such an awesome talk.

And, finally, I want to remind you all to vote for the new name for my blog.  The poll is located in the previous post, so please read and vote.  Thanks!  More high fives to come!

Changing my Format

Hello faithful readers!  I've been writing for awhile now and I've decided that I want to do more with this blog.  So I want to celebrate high five worthy moments from around the world.  I want to give people more reasons to give a high five.  Because, after all, you can't help but smile when giving and receiving high fives.  Don't worry, there will still be an element of randomness, but I really want to give more high fives, and in turn create more smiles.

You may have already noticed the new color scheme.  Let me know how you like it.  I also want to give this blog a new name, and I want to get your opinion on what it should be.  So please take a few seconds and vote for your favorite title in the following blog.  Or if you have another suggestion, leave it in the comments.

What should my new blog name be?

Rules for Rushing the Court

I love college basketball.  I watch games pretty much everyday.  It's an exciting game full of action, surprises, and upsets.  It's the upsets that everyone loves.  David taking down Goliath.  And those upsets often lead to one of the most common scenes in college basketball: rushing the court.  But it seems like lately everybody is rushing the court.  In my opinion it's getting way out of hand.  Don't get me wrong, I love seeing fans rush the court, but only when it's warranted.  That's why I've decided to lay out my rules for when rushing the court is acceptable and when it is not.

Rule #1 - If your team has EVER won a national championship you should never rush the court.  I don't care how big the win may be.  Your team has a banner hanging in the arena and a trophy on display.  No win is bigger than that.  Stay in your seats.

Rule #2 - If your team is currently ranked in the Top 25, you should not be rushing the court.  If you are a ranked team, that means you are good, and it shouldn't be considered an upset no matter how high the other team is ranked.  If it's not an upset, it's not worthy of court rushing.

Exception: If your team beats the #1 team in the country and no team in the history of your school has ever beaten a #1 ranked team, you are allowed to rush the court.

Rule #3 - If your team has at least a five game home winning streak over the team you are playing, you should not rush the court.  Clearly your team has success against this other team, so it should come as no surprise when you win again.  No surprise, no rush.

Rule #4 - The only time you should rush the court when your team beats an unranked opponent is when that opponent is a team with a pedigree like Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, etc.  These teams are rarely unranked so you won't often have to deal with this, but it could happen.  However, the court rushing should only happen if a win against such a team has either never happened or is rare enough to be considered a shock.

Rule #5 - Winning a conference championship is not sufficient reason for rushing the court.  The exception is if it is your team's first conference championship.

Rule #6 - Just because you won an overtime game, or a five overtime game (yes, I'm talking to you Notre Dame), that doesn't give you a reason to rush the court.  Check the above rules to see if you qualify first.

Rule #7 - Winning a game on a buzzer beater doesn't give you a reason to rush the court.  Yes, I understand that it is exciting, but it happens a lot.  If your team doesn't qualify based on the above stated rules, then stay in your seat and celebrate from there.

If you disagree with any of these rules or feel that I may have missed something, please let me know.  I'm open to discuss this issue.  But I'm tired of seeing so many teams' fans rush the court for no reason.

Excitement to Disappointment in a Matter of Seconds

This post is dedicated to those moments when you get really excited about something only to be met with disappointment in a matter of seconds.  The items listed here are in no particular order.  Feel free to comment with your own moments or choose to agree or disagree with mine.

First, when you see that there is a baseball game on WGN and flip over only realize it's a White Sox game, not a Cubs game.  So disappointing.  The White Sox announcers might be the very worst in baseball, and even though the Cubs have been terrible lately, their games are more tolerable to watch than their south side neighbors.  I'm sure some of you are saying to just put the game on mute, but I grew up listening to Vin Scully.  I want to hear my announcers.

Next, seeing an episode of The A-Team on only to realize it's a season five episode.  Now, I'm a firm believer that The A-Team is the best TV show ever, but I will fully admit that season five was a disaster.  The addition of Frankie Dishpan and General Stockwell was a poor decision.

Next, sitting down to watch a James Bond marathon and realizing they are showing a string of Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan Bonds.  I don't know why they even bother to show those movies.  They are terrible.  Goldeneye is acceptable, but that's the only one.  And even though I've seen the other Bond movies multiple times, I will continue to watch them because they are amazing.  I prefer not to have Dalton and Brosnan ruin my viewing.

And next up we have the sight of a hot girl.  But when that hot girl lights up a cigarette it is so disappointing.  I don't care how hot you are, if you smoke you have no chance with me.  Of course if she doesn't smoke I probably have no shot with her, but that's a story for another blog.

My next item involves Disneyland.  There's nothing better than walking up to the front gate at Disneyland.  And there's nothing worse than seeing the sign that Space Mountain is closed for the day.  Don't get me wrong, Disneyland is awesome no matter what, but it is a little less awesome when you can't ride Space Mountain.  The Matterhorn is only an adequate replacement.

Finally, we have that moment when you smell bacon somewhere and get so excited only to realize that it's not for you and you can't talk your way into getting it.  I think we can all relate to this one.

Again, feel free to agree or disagree and add your own!

Most Random Post Ever

I realized that I haven't posted anything over a week, and I want to keep my 100 post pace.  But I can't think of anything to write about.  I asked a friend of mine if he had a topic that I should write about and his suggestion was to write an interview with a squirrel.  He also suggested that the squirrels like Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.  I'm not feeling that creative right now, but I thought I could at least write a haiku.

Squirrels love Arnold
I'm talking Schwarzenegger
They really love Twins

This particular conversation reminded me of something I saw yesterday.  As I was riding the bus home from my camp retreat, I saw a bird out the window that appeared to be racing the bus.  So here's a haiku about that.

Bird racing a bus
I think the bird might take it
No, No, I was wrong

Then as I was writing this post I was watching Pawn Stars.  They have some cool stuff on that show.  Tonight, there was a 1918 $1000 bill, a stereoscope, and a golf cart that was turned into a cardboard-looking tank.  You can probably guess what's coming next.  That's right, a haiku.

Hey look, it's a tank!
No wait, that's just a golf cart
Can't fool the Pawn Stars

Ok, I really have to stop now.  Based on the trend I'm seeing lately only three people will read this post anyway.