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Cinco de Mayo – Not Your Holiday

Today is May the fourth, National Star Wars Day. I would like to extend the traditional National Star Wars Day greeting to everyone reading this: May the Fourth be with you!

Sadly, though, National Star Wars Day is not the biggest holiday people ’round these parts celebrate. The day after National Star Wars Day is May 5th. May 5th, better known to our Spanish speaking friends as Cinco de Mayo.

Maybe you’re reading this in Canada. Maybe you’re reading this somewhere up north of the Mason-Dixon Line, or maybe you’re reading this a little closer to me, in the Dirty Dirty. But you are undoubtedly preparing for Cinco de Mayo.

But before you get too excited, before you get too into it, please remember one thing:

Cinco de Mayo is not your holiday.

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Craven On....

Katamari

While the world of video games has always been defined by a wide-open world of possibility, nobody had ever thought, “Hey, what if that possibility was defined by TRIPPING ACID?” That is, until the introduction of the Katamari series.

Watch this intro video, then decide how badly you want to keep reading. Here’s a hint: it should be A LOT.

Excited? Of course you are.

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Real Talk

Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise

I love the Avett Brothers. Possibly too much, but I doubt that’s even possible. It’s like saying somebody enjoys $100 bills too much. That’s stupid.

Regardless of that fact, there is an Avett Brothers lyric that keeps bouncing around in my head. “Decide what to be and go be it.”

I like that. It’s simple. Decide what to be, and go be it. It speaks to the nature of our lives, in that we tend to complicate things. We look around at all of the nuances of this life and feel so bogged down that we worry we won’t figure it out. We wish we knew all of the answers ahead of time, when in reality, we don’t need to. We just need to decide what to be, and go be it.

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Guest Posts

Mr. Heinlein’s Lunch – Guest Post by Randomly Chad

Today, The GBOAT is welcoming Chad Jones, of Randomly Chad. Chad is a husband, father, and occasionally admits to working in IT, so be sure to ask him all of your technology questions now. Sometimes, Chad is goofy, whereas sometimes (like this post yesterday, or this one on introversion) Chad is serious.

Be sure to visit Chad’s site, follow him on Twitter, and also thank him for popping in at The GBOAT today.

The late Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is known as one grandmasters of the golden era of Science Fiction (he is usually mentioned alongside Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke). His contributions to the field, his soaring imagination, and his obsession with sex in his later years are undisputed (Don’t believe me? Pick up To Sail Beyond the Sunset–which begins with a gynecological exam. Better yet, don’t pick it up–you’ll thank me).

Among Heinlein’s groundbreaking works, are: Continue reading “Mr. Heinlein’s Lunch – Guest Post by Randomly Chad”

Craven On...., Lazy Post

Sheep (Repost)

Due to a lot of busyness outside of the blogging world (I know, so lame right?) today is a re-post of an older essay. Nobody likes a re-post, but every now and then, one must be a little bit lazy.

Be sure to come back on Friday for a guest post from Mr. Randomly Chad.

There are only a few differences between dolphins and sheep.

The first is that one lives in the water, while one lives on land.

The second is that one is smooth and eats fish, while the other is wooly and eats grass.

And the third is that one is highly intelligent, while the other is considered to be one of the stupidest animals in the world.

Flock_of_sheep — "His job is eating. The rest of us are supposed to stare while he eats."

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Is This Thing On?

Will You Be My Friend?

“If you can poke a friend on Facebook, you can poke a friend in real life.”

That’s my motto.

This idea stems from a universal rule, which simply states that if it can be done in the realm of Facebook, Twitter, and the Blogosphere, it should be done in real life as well. Instead of wasting all that valuable time trying to distinguish the lines between social media and real life, I’ve come up with a much simpler solution: completely blur whatever lines already exist.

Is there really any need to spend so much frivolous time worrying about which dimension of reality you’re in? I mean, if Google is going to turn me into a cyborg in the near future anyways, I might as well just embrace the fact that life is about to get real weird, and start easing myself into a lifestyle that resembles the next sci-fi flick starring the Governator.

Dear Google: Consider THIS as a possible prototype. You're welcome.

So as we look into the future of completely blending our internet lives with our real lives, here are some tips on how you can treat all of your friends – whether on Facebook, Twitter, or in person – exactly the same: Continue reading “Will You Be My Friend?”