Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
The Basilica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia. Strangest looking church I think I’ve ever seen. The front, or maybe it’s the back, looks like it is made of melting wax. Have any of you ever seen it?
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The Fax Of Life
Earlier this month the biggest, fastest, and strongest high school seniors in the country were all asking the same question: What’s a fax machine?
It sends emails you can hold!
That’s because every February, the nation’s greatest high school football players commit to play football for the nation’s greatest institutions of higher learning via the nation’s greatest tool of business communication from the 1990’s.
You may ask why these commitments are not done electronically, but that would be a stupid question, because fax machines use electricity. So then you may rephrase your question and ask why these commitments are not done via email, and I would tell you I don’t know. I don’t know why they are not done by telegram, or smoke signals, or carrier pigeon either. There comes a time when you just have to accept the fact that there are mysteries in the universe we will never understand and move on with your life and stop asking me questions.
So back to the point of all this before you interrupted me. Every February the NCAA has something called National Signing Day. On this day, great athletes are allowed to commit to play football and occasionally go to class at colleges around the country. Before this day they can verbally commit, but these verbal commitments, from what I’ve gathered, are not legally binding. Thankfully, neither is the devotion you pledge to a student when he verbally commits to your school, then stabs you in the back with the sharp end of a fax machine six weeks later.
Trip to Spain & England
Last Tuesday my friend Jordan and I left for Madrid, Spain. We spent a couple days in Barcelona, then three days in England. The trip was for some research on a book I really hope I get to write. Here is a link to some of my photos, and I should have a video up later this week. Also, the flight to Madrid cost me $5. Yes, $5. I’ll tell you how to do that later too.
Mo Money, Mo Problems
The following numbers are submitted without comment. I just found them mind-boggling.
Let’s say you and your wife bring home $82,000 combined. According to this website, that puts you in the richest 1% of the world. Your income is 36 times that of the average person in the world. This site also provides giving information, so if you donate 10% of your income, $8,200 in this case, you are still in the richest 1.4% of the world (Hey, your part of the 99% again!), and you are still 32 times richer than the average person in the world.
Then I found another application that compares your annual income to Mitt Romney’s. And at $82,000 a year combined salary, how long do you think it would take you and your wife to make what Mitt made in 2010? How about 264 years. Dang!
So, I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts on these numbers.
A Quick Look Back at 2011
I’ve been working on my second book for over a year now. It’s a book on hate, as seen through the lens of the greatest rivalries in sports. So in 2011 I got to see some pretty cool stuff, and after going back and looking at some of the pictures and videos I took, I began to realize just how much I saw. Below is a quick video I put together that proves, if anything, I have a really awesome wife! But enough about me, what was your favorite memory of 2011?
