Quote on Effort by Michael Jordan

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." — Michael Jordan

Walls Alone Won't Save You

Building the strongest walls and never letting anyone in is of little use when everything within is crumbling and burning to the ground.

Oust Unnecessary Envy

Become your ideals, and you won't have to envy others.

Learning Together

My posts won't always be 100% accurate or in line with your beliefs, but as long as a handful of them stir imaginations and open dialogues, I'll sleep just fine, and maybe you'll seize the opportunity to teach me a few things too! :3  

A Few Dance Game Firsts

One of Sean's and my mutual friends, Omar Ambrose, asked the following the other day:

"Who can remember their:

1st ever DDR song played

1st ever ITG song

1st ever AAA on any DDR

1st Ever quadstar on ITG"?

I may have been able to find more precise answers to the first two questions with a bit more digging but settled for replying with a combination of what I could recall and what I found through a quick Facebook search instead:

1. Not sure, but possibly We Will Rock You. Nicholas DeOrnelas was probably there for the moment on on DDR Extreme on 6/27/03, since he's the one that introduced me to dance games.

2. Not sure, but I wanna say ROM-eo & Juli8 or Zodiac. David Frausto or other old friends from the Oh Wow! Nickel Arcade may have been there at the time, shortly after ITG1 came out.

3. 1998 on 12/22/10. I didn't play DDR very seriously after getting into ITG and was usually more about the passes than the scores, so this took me extraordinarily long. (Bonus: Sean got this AAA two days later too!)

4. You Spin Me Round [9] on 12/25/10 (Christmas day and 3 days after my first AAA!). My first quad on an ITG official chart, however, was roughly 13 months later: Boogie Down on 1/29/11

Quote by Paul "Bear" Bryant on Earning Victory

"It's not the will to win that matters—

everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."— Paul "Bear" Bryant

My Sexuality

Something I wish I'd been better at verbalizing in my dating years: I'm typically only attracted to people who seem attracted to me or attainable. Beyond a one-night stand, I can be choosy about looks and even choosier about personality. Women aren't attracted to me as often as men, so the odds of me finding one I'm attracted to are much lower than with men. I typically prefer relationships with men. I'm typically more lustful toward men. I prefer sex with women.