Pistons are up right now 63-51 in the 4th against the Cavaliers in Game 7 of the series...the split second Lebron exits the playoffs, I will cease caring at all about the NBA Playoffs, or the NBA as a whole.
David Stern was asked the question during an in-game interview on whether he thought Lebron was as good as Michael Jordan. David Stern didn't like the question at all, saying "one player isn't going to carry the league anymore." Uh, hate to break it to you Commish, but Lebron is a lot bigger than you or the entire league. He's the show. Not the Pistons, arguably the best team in the NBA and certainly best defensive team. Not the Heat, with the other game-changer in the league, Shaq, on their team. Only Lebron matters in a league that continues to be as irrelevant as the day Michael Jordan stopped winning championships with the Bulls.
In fact, I'd be willing to bet that you could go back in time a few years and find that the rapid rise of the NFL's popularity has come largely at the expense of the NBA. And if Stern thinks he can get away without acknowledging the larger-than-the-league status of Lebron, and how important he is to the success of the league over the next decade, he better just go ahead and retire.
And that's enough words wasted on that!
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Monday, May 15, 2006
Back from a whirlwind tour of Chicago (for a work conference), Nashville (for Evan's graduation), and Dallas (for Melissa's graduation). Got to see Gaurav and Noah up in Chicago and go to a White Sox game, which was great. Noah gave me an autographed Imogen Heap disc, addressed and made out to me personally, from Coachella that he got ... which was really cool.
Ready for what should be an interesting week here in Beaufort before heading up to Nashville for 5 or so days.
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." - Frank Tibolt
Ready for what should be an interesting week here in Beaufort before heading up to Nashville for 5 or so days.
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." - Frank Tibolt
Monday, May 01, 2006
Been a while since I posted here ... I tend to blog a lot and then not blog at all, so I guess I'll be getting back into a routine of blogging a lot for a while.
Let me say something about blogging and social networking and how they reconcile with a workplace environment. First of all, anyone who's seen my piano website (www.bradleymetrock.com) has access to this blog, as I am pretty sure it's linked through there. Even if it isn't, this blog comes up in the first page of results if you Google me, so there is no doubt that there are people from work (and who knows where else) reading this.
We are in an interesting transitional period where you have older folks accessing the internet who a) don't understand the internet itself and b) don't understand the internet culture. The meshing of this older group and people like me who are younger and fluent in technology is 99% of the source of the perceived problem of employees having a "private" life out there on the internet.
The way it is now, somebody my age has a blog, or has a MySpace account, or has a personal website, and that is viewed as a liability at work. I've seen it numerous times and already at my current job I've seen online "stuff" (have to keep this vague) negatively affect multiple people.
For me, I don't say anything in this space, or elsewhere on the internet, that I wouldn't say in person. I'm just as honest here as I would be in person, and while I don't blog about people I don't like or that really suck to deal with, those people pretty much know who they are. No there's not really any secrets to be unearthed by reading this.
And that's the way this whole internet/blogging/social networking stuff needs to work. Honesty in person, and honesty online. No two-faced stuff, no talking behind somebody's back, none of that. If you say the same things online as you do out there in the "real world," you shouldn't have any problem. If you don't, you can bet the internet's going to come back and bite you.
Consequently, I don't like to see people my age avoid the internet and avoid creating their own "online footprint" simply out of fear. This temporary time of aging baby boomers casting aspersions on younger folks who use the internet to blog and to have a voice outside of work is something to be cognizant of ... but also something that will be over within the next 5-10 years.
Let me say something about blogging and social networking and how they reconcile with a workplace environment. First of all, anyone who's seen my piano website (www.bradleymetrock.com) has access to this blog, as I am pretty sure it's linked through there. Even if it isn't, this blog comes up in the first page of results if you Google me, so there is no doubt that there are people from work (and who knows where else) reading this.
We are in an interesting transitional period where you have older folks accessing the internet who a) don't understand the internet itself and b) don't understand the internet culture. The meshing of this older group and people like me who are younger and fluent in technology is 99% of the source of the perceived problem of employees having a "private" life out there on the internet.
The way it is now, somebody my age has a blog, or has a MySpace account, or has a personal website, and that is viewed as a liability at work. I've seen it numerous times and already at my current job I've seen online "stuff" (have to keep this vague) negatively affect multiple people.
For me, I don't say anything in this space, or elsewhere on the internet, that I wouldn't say in person. I'm just as honest here as I would be in person, and while I don't blog about people I don't like or that really suck to deal with, those people pretty much know who they are. No there's not really any secrets to be unearthed by reading this.
And that's the way this whole internet/blogging/social networking stuff needs to work. Honesty in person, and honesty online. No two-faced stuff, no talking behind somebody's back, none of that. If you say the same things online as you do out there in the "real world," you shouldn't have any problem. If you don't, you can bet the internet's going to come back and bite you.
Consequently, I don't like to see people my age avoid the internet and avoid creating their own "online footprint" simply out of fear. This temporary time of aging baby boomers casting aspersions on younger folks who use the internet to blog and to have a voice outside of work is something to be cognizant of ... but also something that will be over within the next 5-10 years.
