My All Time Favorite Lists Are Boring

My all-time favorite lists are boring by popular opinion. I accept the favorite lists are weak opinion; however, my selections are good. Favorite books, favorite anime, and favorite movies are some examples. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is my all-time favorite book across all genres. Full Metal Alchemist is my all-time favorite anime. The Shawshank Redemption is my all-time favorite movie. The three examples demonstrate my all-time favorites or personal all-time greatest were boring yesterday. The all-time favorites or personal all-time greatest are boring today. The upcoming updates change nothing. Here are the latest boring blogs. 2026 year-to-date favorite blogs are excluded because they're recent. 2025 favorite blogs are excluded because they may be included in A Second Blook At 2025 blog written in Dec 2026. I write updates to most of these all-time favorites.

My Greatest Favorites Of All Time (Jan 25, 2024). Quick Q&A my personal greatest of all-time favorites. Examples include professional athlete is Michael Jordan, comic strip is Peanuts, candy bar is Milky Way, and actor is Cary Grant.

Top Ten Plus Ten Equals Top Twenty All-Time Favorite Movies (Nov 3, 2023). Many of these movies are not in the greatest all-time lists from professional movie critics such as Wall Street, UP!, and The Shawshank Redemption.

Top Ten Favorite Books I Read (Oct 27, 2019). I should have added more books to the list. I didn't read Moby-Dick by Herman Melville at the time. An update with more books added for a top ten plus is coming soon.

Top Ten Favorite Quotes 2 (Mar 9, 2017). A redo is coming soon combining the Top Ten Favorite Quotes written on Dec 30, 2015 and Top Ten Favorite Quotes 2 written on Mar 9, 2017.

Top Ten Favorite Quotes (Dec 30, 2015). The wisdom quotes affect each person differently. Different quotes for different folks.

Top Ten My All Time Favorite Anime Series (Sep 20, 2014). No updates because I'm retired from anime. I want more people to consider Full Metal Alchemist an all-time favorite for more anime fans.

Top Ten Favorite Brand Cookies (Nov 16, 2013). Almost Home is the only chocolate chip cookies on the list. On the other hand, sugar cookies or vanilla cookies is stronger attraction.

Top Ten Favorite Beatles Songs (Dec 8, 2012). A major update is due. More songs added are due. Let It Be is on many Beatles fans' favorite list.

Top Ten Favorite Board Games (Oct 13, 2012). I admit I haven't played recent board games. Nobody should complain my list contains classics.

A Five Minute Instruction Is Nonprofessional Training

Training for five minutes doesn't equate to being a professional. Five minutes of instructions is not enough to be a professional. Teaching skills and knowledge requires good training, good coaching, good teaching, and good instructions. Be patient. Take the time. Do the boring grind. Learn. Practice. Drill. Repeat.

It takes ten minutes to learn how to play poker. It takes a lifetime to become a master.

Fast forward. Everything is learned. The teacher taught everything. The books are read. No additional practicing required. No more rehearsing. No more reviewing; the brain is jelly. Tests are passed. The graduation commences. What is done afterwards matters more. Use it or lose it. Continue learning, practicing, and drilling. Innovate infinitely.

Planet Earth Still Orbiting Around The Sun

The world didn't come to an end. --Linus, A Boy Name Charlie Brown

The world is not going to end. --Any normal person

This world won't stand long, the captive hollered in conclusion to his tale. God won't let it stand this way long. --Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, page 191. The story took place during the US Civil War.

There are people who believe anything bad ends. The anything bad does end in many situations. I get to the point of today's blog. There are people who believe the world ends. The belief is expressed for years. The belief is expressed for decades. The belief is expressed for centuries. You're still here. I'm still here. The world perseveres. Losers are the people who say everything ends. The lazy. The weak. The irresponsible. The poor self-esteem. The life is over people. People with no self-respect.

I used to be one of the losers. I hated myself back then. I'm lucky the loser chapter closed decades ago. The world is not going to end.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

There are people saying human existence ends in 2036. AI takes over the world. Time will tell.

Update On A Past Blog

I add two more lessons or reasons to the Life Lessons Learned Playing Mahjong Riichi blog written on Mar 18, 2016. An international college student Riichi player from Japan told me if professional Riichi players placed fourth two times in a row, then they stop playing for the rest of the day. It's a timeout lasting the rest of the day. Take a break. Stop the frustration. End the bad flow. Occupy the mind with something else.

I admit it took me years to realize another reason they stopped playing for the rest of the day. The second reason is processing the two fourth place finishes. Think about the mistakes. Learn from the mistakes. Contemplate what went wrong.

Discipline is required to stop playing for the rest of the day. It's easy to continue playing with the false motivation and fake optimism to place first on the next game. I admit I continued playing in the past. No more playing foolishly with the frustrating losses.

Graduate Students Likely Teaching Bullshit

I experienced graduate students as teaching assistants teaching lower division classes when I attended San Jose State University. Almost all of them meant well. They wanted to teach their students the correct way. The course material taught was likely bullshit.

One class taught by multiple graduate students was the Academic English II laboratory from the Linguistics And Language Department. Students attended the laboratory two days a week and the lecture two days a week. Academic English II was the second of two English remedial classes. I was lucky I didn't have to take a full year of Academic English I and II.

One of the graduate student instructors emphasized his students to "think." There was a piece of paper on the table saying "think" in small font. Students must bend their heads down on the table to read "think." It was bullshit. Most successful people don't think. The late Steve Jobs is a good example. Trust intuition.

Academic English II, English 1A, and English 1B failed to teach me how to write. My Economics Writing Workshop taught me how to write.

Update On A Past Blog

The Real Life Match Game blog written on Jun 12, 2019 can be interpreted literally as a match or an equal. I wrote matching relationships between people, places, and things. In particular, relationships between people among friends, dating, and family.

Two people are in a dating relationship. Two people are engaged. Two people are married. The five general categories to determine a matching relationship are physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial. Physical includes body shape and sex. Mental includes intelligence and wisdom. Emotional includes calmness and self-esteem. Spiritual includes religion for those practicing a religion and/or sleep. Financial is defined as money discipline.

People are different. Two people with their differences can find matching similarities. Some people are hard. Some people are soft. Some people are strong. Some people are weak. Some people are beginners. Some people are advanced. Some people are loud. Some people are quiet. Recognize the deal breakers. Stand by the deal breakers--be honest with oneself. There are reasons we don't get along with everyone. The deal breakers cause the mismatches. Person A finds another person. Person B finds another person.

I Read The Story About Ping Book In First Grade

I remember a book titled The Story About Ping by Majorie Flack and illustrated by Kurt Wiese in first grade. One student read the book during the reading period. A student passed the book to another student at the beginning of the reading period. The teacher didn't log her students who read the book at least once. It seemed my classmates ignored me when passing the book to another classmate. I read the book once during the entire school year. A classmate named Lindsey passed me the book. I was happy because she recognized my presence.

I read the book for the second time today as an adult. My life world awareness was immature and undeveloped being six years old. Ping was not an English word defined as a short sound. Ping was a Chinese name. The story took place in China. Perhaps, my Chinese nationality caused students passing the book to other students. I could relate to the yellow duck being ignored in a positive way during some social situations. Also, luck favored me and saved me in bad moments.

The end of the story my lesson takeaway. Accept the small inconveniences because they can be better than potential big inconveniences.

Instant Bullets Blog Sep 12, 2026

*People should sleep well tonight because tomorrow somebody is doing something stupid. It's not going to be you.

*A restaurant posted the sign for the customers.

*austerity: a set of political and economic policies implemented by a government to reduce its budget deficit.

*Three Years Of Therapy In 60 Seconds. Click Instagram video devin.the.one. Your parents did their best. Also, your parents screwed up.

*1 Corinthians 13:13. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

*Three Historic Bubbles Burst. A brief explanation of the 1637. The Tulip Bubble or Tulip Mania occurred in Holland in Winter 1636-1637. The price of the rare tulip bulbs collapsed in Feb 1637. A futures market emerged where buyers and sellers signed contracts to purchase bulbs while growing in the ground. The contracts traded multiple times a day without the physical flowers ever changing hands. The panic began when buyers didn't show up at a Haarlem auction in Feb 1637 because buyers refused to honor the high priced future contracts.

*The 2026-2027 NBA regular season schedule was delayed because free agent LeBron James delayed signing a contract with a new team. The new team James plays influenced the schedule from the opening week to Christmas Day. James signed with the Philadelphia 76ers.

James got the league by the balls. No pun intended. Money was the talking point. Also, life is unfair. Some teams get a schedule with fewer national broadcasts and marquee games.

*How To Draw A Wolf. Step 1: Draw a circle. Step 2: Add some details. The pic depicts how boot camp classes are taught; for example, programming, medical, and financial investments.

*A slow day is a good day. The life wisdom applies to many instances.

*If you're over age 35 moving to a new residence, then hire movers. You're friends are too old. Nobody wants a back injury for pizza and beer. Further, movers are professional. They know the techniques to carry boxes and furniture.

*Another restaurant posted the sign for the customers.

*The Cover-Up Is Worse Than The Crime. Hide a mistake or lying destroys trust. There can be additional penalties. Don't conceal. Don't suppress. Don't whitewash to make crimes or scandals look acceptable. Don't disguise the true nature of something. Watergate is a top example. The San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York is a recent example. York pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors disorderly conduct and possessing criminal tools for soliciting $160 in a prostitution sting operation in Youngstown, OH. The tool was his phone used to solicit a prostitute.

*Collateral fault is indirect fault. Second party fault. Somebody must pay the price. The cost or the punishment must be administered even though the first party is not present anymore.

*MOR Music TV. I watched music videos on late night in 1994. Viewers could buy the album by calling the toll-free phone number like buying on the Home Shopping Network.

I remember these musical artists: Enya, Sophie B. Hawkins, Bonnie Raitt, ABBA, Yanni, Kitaro, John Tesh, Blues Traveler, Roy Orbison, and Enigma.

*Riddle. An apartment tenant lives on the eighth floor. He takes the elevator from the eighth floor to the first floor to exit. Hours pass. The tenant enters the apartment on the first floor. He takes the elevator from the first floor to the sixth floor. He walks the stairs from the sixth floor to the eighth floor. Why does he take the stairs from the sixth floor to the eighth floor?

The answer is the tenant is too short to press the eighth floor button in the elevator. He's tall enough to press the sixth floor button.

*I'm the stronger person. I'm strong now. I forgave you before you apologized. It's too late to apologize because I already forgave you.

*Need a problem solved? Go to the person in charge such as a manger, director, vice-president, commander, or CEO. Ask the person for a decision. The decision is no. Problem solved.

*Dessert Charcuterie Board Suggestion. Graham cookies, Oreo cookies, chocolate, peanut butter cups, mint candies, marshmallows, strawberries, and nuts.

*A Conversation Starter. Ask the following question: What rule do you want to change?

*Do we have a gentlemen's agreement? It's like we have a Godfather offer.

*capacious: big enough to contain a large quantity

*epitome: highly representative example of a type, class, or characteristic

*oxymoron: a phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together for special effect. For example, wise fool and legal murder.

Top Ten Plus Six Equals Top Sixteen The Garbage Collector Picks Up

The garbage collector is a metaphor. A good or service yesterday was useful. A good or service today is useless. It's garbage. Toss the garbage out. The garbage is the old. Clear the garbage. Make space for the new. Bring the replacements. Many people underestimate the power of goodbye. Everything and everyone become garbage eventually; for example, professional computer programmers say "all code is garbage" because new code is written. There are exceptions.

Here are the top ten plus six equals top sixteen the garbage collector picks up.

16. Brita Water Pitcher. I'm allergic to the retail grocery store water filtration products. I was sick in May-Jun 2014. I stopped drinking water from Brita. Instant recovery.

15. Former Family Dentist. The family changed dentists in 2019. The previous dentist was part of the family between 1998 and 2018. The practice went downhill for years. Prices increased. Outdated technology.

14. My Second Boss Was Fired. My second boss at my second company in the commercial real estate industry was fired. Management gave her advance notice to find another job. The termination reason was incompetence. I continue to remember the lesson: have nothing, do nothing, get nothing, be nothing, and people treat you like nothing. Never be a nobody.

13. Unfollow Twitter Accounts. Self explanatory. People change. I change for which I lose interest. They change their tweets for which I lose interest.

12. Old Technology. Self explanatory. Never stop learning new technology. Use the latest and greatest to be relevant. Use the latest and greatest to be productive.

11. My Bookshelf. My bookshelf is full of books. I purge my own library. The least desirable books are donated or placed inside free neighborhood libraries. Some books may be desirable today. Give it time. Some books may not be needed tomorrow. Free shelf space. Less clutter.

10. eBay Auctions. My junk is another person's treasure. Some examples of my auctions include board games, DVDs, anime, and toys.

9. Clothes. No more polo shirts. No more plain white t-shirts. Dress appropriately for the occasion.

8. Items blocking the walkways are removed.

7. Friends. People come and go in our lives. It's natural partings. It's life. In particular, say goodbye to the people dragging you down. Don't let people hold you back. If you can't find good friends, then take a chance going alone. Mismatches. There are opportunities to meet new people. There is time to find matching friends.

6. Incorrect Gym Workouts. It took me 10 years from 1998 to 2008 to find out my gym workouts were wrong. A friend told me about bodybuilding.com. I threw away bad workout plans. I follow good workout plans.

5. People don't pay their debts. People who don't respect themselves. Tenants not paying rent are stealing. These people are examples of garbage.

4. Role Playing Games (RPG). Many of my past friends and current RPGs disagree with number four. Playing RPGs was a waste of my time. RPGs was a poor escape from life. RPGs was a poor leisure activity. It should not have been a match for my hobbies. I continue catching up what I missed today.

3. Family Guy. I donated all my Family Guy DVDs. My intelligence improved afterwards. I can't explain it.

2. Liquids. No drinking eight glasses of water a day. No drinking milk. No drinking green tea. No drinking processed orange juice when I'm sick.

I'm in the minority regarding the health benefits of green tea. Drinking green tea daily negatively affects my body. I stopped drinking eight glasses of water after my two surgeries at O'Connor Hospital in Mar 2017. I drink water when I'm thirsty. I'm the healthiest I've ever been.

1. Junk Food Or Processed Food. No eating processed food in moderation. I minimize eating processed foods. No candy for breakfast. Fast food restaurants are included in the processed foods. The only day I eat processed foods all day is Super Bowl Sunday.

Update On A Past Blog

My Washington Canada 2008 vacation from Nov 15, 2008 to Nov 20, 2008 summed up a human nature lesson. Every human is the same. We want to be with people. We work. We attend school. We spend our leisure with our favorite hobbies. We want to be happy. I want to add every human wants to succeed. Click link to read my Washington Canada 2008: Epilogue written on Jan 27, 2009.