I Suck At Deadliest Friend

last night actually turned out to be quite a fun night.

wednesdays are generally the days i get to hang out with my friends (marc and kelley). and as usual, karen and i had plans to hang out with them. unfortunately for me, work has been a little hectic of late.

the company that i work for wanted to launch a particular project. normally, launching a project would not be a problem... except that the launch was scheduled last minute for yesterday... after work hours. so there was a lot of haste and stress in preparing the project for the launch. in fact, by the end of the work day, i actually had a headache... which is something that normally doesn't happen.

needless to say, i was a little stressed about this project, particularly with the haste in getting things launched. but the headache pretty much disappeared when my boss told me those lovely words: "the launch is cancelled". of course, the two martinis that kelley made may also have helped with that as well.

anyway, i definitely felt much better and more relieved as the night went on. karen and i were still able to hang out with marc and kelley. in fact, marc made some delicious ribs for dinner. the dinner was very good.

and making the night even better was the fact that we got to watch three episodes of the greatest television show ever: buffy the vampire slayer. the episodes we watched were "superstar" about the lowly, but seemingly fantastic, jonathan; "where the wild things are" about buffy and riley pretty much being hot and heavy and locked up in a room together; and "new moon rising" which had the return of oz... only to see him leave again after finding out about willow's new relationship.

of the three episodes, i actually liked "new moon rising" the best because it centered on willow. and because the episode was not exactly one of the more comical ones, the four of us decided to watch the two hour showing of wipeout after buffy. wipeout is such a silly fun show. you just have to laugh watching it.

needless to say, after dreading the night due to the project launch, the night actually turned out great. it definitely helps to have friends like marc and kelley who can just make you laugh and forget all about the stressful things in life.

after all, where else but among friends can we talk about a silly idea that i call... deadliest friend. now, i suck at deadliest friend. as i am apt to do, i occasionally get an idea stuck in my head and run with it.

inspired by the show, deadliest warrior, and... also somewhat inspired by friends... i have been thinking a lot about a fight simulation program where scientific data is collected on my friends. from there, the data is entered into the program and the computer simulates a battle to the death scenario between my friends.

i started to think of metrics to measure the deadliness of my friends: things like how much force my friends throw when throwing a punch; how many times they can strike within a given time frame; arm reach; leg reach; dexterity; dodging ability; pain treshhold; psychology tests; etc. and to even make it so that one friend would not dominate (like my friend jim), i thought about different arena settings and other variables like alcohol impairment.

needless to say, i may have thought a little too much about my fight simulation program. but, i thought a fight simulation would be a fun thing to have for whenever there is a heated disagreement within my circle of friends... and i have witnessed a few over the years.

for instance, in high school i remember witnessing my bff (kerry) and my friend (jenny) having a heated tirade at the football stadium in quincy. now, wouldn't it be cool to see who would have really won the argument if they battled to the death (or had a simulated battle to the death)? i know i'd be curious about those results.

the matchup possibilities are endless. and quite possibly the best part about the fight simulation: no one actually gets hurt and we can all laugh about the absurdity of it all. how fun would that be? now all i have to do is create the program... and perhaps get scientific equipment to record metrics...