Modern Polymath

A few years back, I was dating a girl who is rather well known (even more these days) for her incredible beauty. She was a lot of fun to hang out with, and I got a great feeling of being ‘da-man’ whenever I showed up somewhere with her on my arm. One evening in particular, when we had just started seeing each other, was of particular embarrassment for yours truly.

She and I had gone out to dinner, and decided to rent a movie to take back to my place to watch so the rest of the evening could be enjoyed relaxing in each other’s company. I have a TV and DVD player in both the living room, and the bedroom, and asked my date if she wanted to watch the movie on the couch, or on the bed. She chose the bed.

I put the movie in the DVD side of the DVD/VCR combo, changed the channel on the TV to read the video player, and got the magic blue screen, waiting for the movie to start playing. I decided to use the restroom, and told my date to press play when she was ready to start the movie, and I’d be back in a minute.

When I came back into the bedroom, I heard the unmistakable sound of moaning and cheap instrumental dance music, and saw a very confused look on my dates face, and porn playing on the TV.

“I just hit play. I don’t know what happened”, she said.

I did. The DVD/VCR combo was still set to VCR, even though I had just put a DVD in. When she hit play, the player started playing the porno tape I had left in the VCR part, rather than the DVD.

I quickly hit Stop, pressed DVD, and then play. “Whoops” was all I could say, and then couldn’t help but start laughing hysterically.

She was cool about it. I think she held back some laughter for fear of embarrassing me.

Because I like to manage my online presence, I often perform a Google Search on my name to make sure I'm doing a good job of it.  I'm the only Micah Rousey in the world, so if someone Googles my name, I'd rather my blog and software expert sites come up first, rather than all the poker stuff.  Cash in a few major poker tournaments, and your name is plastered all over the internet as a poker player.  It made it look like that was all I did.

Anyway, what I found on my last search was entertaining, and filled my mind with questions:

One for everyone:

http://www.stylefeeder.com/i/299m242m/I-Love-Micah-Rousey-T-Shirt

And of course, for all you special people:

http://www.stylefeeder.com/i/g4lcry2t/Micah-Rousey-Loves-Me-T-Shirt

I know you're all dissapointed these are no longer available, but really, someone did design this to try to sell... and it wasn't me.

(I did figure out why these exist, but I'm not sharing.)

A coworker, Marcus, is taking pictures of employees for our internal website.

While he was setting up the camera in the conference room before he started to take the picture of another coworker, Ernie, I opened up the door to say 'Hey'.

Ernie says something about the 'Big Tripod'.

Marcus replies:  "It's not a big tripod, it's just the way I'm standing."

Last night I went over to Blackwater. There was some ‘Impromptu Art’ going on: music, someone painting a wall, poetry and dancers. Interesting to say the least, but not really my bag.

Near the end, to celebrate Valentines Day, puffy heart stickers were thrown around the room. Kelly took one that landed near me and tried to stick it to my shirt, but hadn’t peeled off the backing first, so it slid right off.

I took the backing off, and stuck it to her shirt. She moved it to her sleeve, and made a joke about wearing her heart on her sleeve.

Music was still blaring, and I decided to make a joke, saying loud enough to overcome the music, which had suddenly stopped, leaving me to yell out in an otherwise silent room:

I almost never go through my Spam folder, but today I did. I did so because I was expecting a faster turnaround time from an automated website, but I’m REAL glad I did, because I found a personal email in there that I was kind of expecting, and disappointed I hadn’t gotten.

But aside from all that, I still get a great number of spam emails, and there are certain words in the subjects that seem to tip me off that I don’t need to read it:

Winner

Inheritance

Finance

Debt

Pharmacy

Inches

Congratulations

Bigger

Sex

Women

You get the idea. Money, sex and drugs:  all the top sellers. Today, I saw one with the subject:

GRAND FELICITATION!!