List of Awesome Things
This is a rolling list of things that are awesome. The only order they are in is the order in which they came into my head. Some are simple, some are complex. Explanations will come eventually.
4. The first hit with a new baseball bat
5. Hitting a baseball as hard as you can
8. The high-cuffed pants and stirrup-sock look
10. Kevin Millwood’s no-hitter
11. The 2011 Phillies
12. The 2010 Phillies
13. The 2008 Phillies
14. The 2009 Phillies
15. The 2002 Phillies (while nothing special, they were the first team I followed religiously so they will always hold a spot in my heart)
16. The number 16
17. Rock Band video games
18. Roller Coaster Tycoon
19. Burritos
20. The memories I have of watching the 2008 World Series with my dad and the ensuing parade
21. Philadelphia
22. Chicago
23. Wrigley Field
24. Milkshakes
25. Ryan Howard
26. Gavin Floyd
27. Cole Hamels
28. Chase Utley
29. College
30. Amtrak
31. Roadtrips with my two best friends
32. SimCity 3000
33. The internet
34. Roy Halladay
35. Cliff Lee
36. My 12th grade Calculus teacher
37. My 12th grade English teacher
38. The memories I’ll have from my Senior Year of High School
39. Learning to play the guitar
40. Flyers sweaters
41. Phillies jerseys
42. The new Sixers uniforms (they’re sexy enough on their own, but compared to their predecessors… Oh man.)
43. Silly little middle school crushes
44. Sex
45. The memories I have of my first Phillies game (including watching all the flashbulbs go off when Mark McGwire went up to bat and booing JD Drew in what history tells me was the second game of his first series in Philadelphia)
46. Citizen’s Bank Park
47. The Spectrum
48. The Vet
49. Beards
50. How I Met Your Mother
51. The Office
52. Jeopardy!
53. The Simpsons
54. Thinking about how long the Simpsons have been on the air
55. Thinking about life in general
56. Thinking about how, in the grand scheme of things, we are completely insignificant and will not be remembered by some point in time
57. Knowing that there IS life out there, yet we will never make contact with them
58. Space
59. Rocketships
60. Leap Year
61. The rise and fall of civilizations and societies
62. History
63. Wandering aimlessly in Center City Philadelphia
64. iPod Touches
65. Telephones
66. Radios
67. Television
68. The history of Television
69. The Dead Milkmen
70. The Cars
71. The look on people’s faces when I tell them I don’t drive.
72. The Phillies
73. My Name Is Earl
74. Crab Cakes
75. The Golden Phoenix restaurant in Chinatown, Philadelphia
76. Golden Phoenix’s fried wonton appetizer
77. Bobbleheads
78. Havertown
79. Wawa
80. Hockey
81. Football
82. Playing music on the computer
83. Playing music with my friends
84. Pretending our band is good (we’re terrible!)
85. The Clash
86. The song “Train In Vain”
87. Illinois the Band
88. Chris Creamer’s SportsLogos
89. Jumping into a pool without thinking
90. Facebook
91. Waking up with a song in my head
92. Trying to keep the song in my head in there for as long as possible
93. Billy Madison Dodgeball
94. The memories I have of playing Little League baseball
95. Robotics
96. Robots
97. Legos
98. Record players
99. Discovering old technology on my own
100. Dissecting old technology and finding out how it works
101. Being a straightedge being admired for it
102. Passing my first year of college classes
103. Surviving Ryan Drummond’s Design I class
104. SEPTA (when it’s on time)
105. 30th Street Station
106. Market East Station
107. The Comcast Center
108. The Sears/Willis Tower
109. Being inside old buildings and just feeling the history that ranspired
110. Studying architecture…
111. …And calling it architorture
112. Simple math
113. Calculus
114. Physics
115. Little kids’ imaginations
116. Little kids’ innocence
117. The elderly’s advice
118. Stories from my grandparents
119. Fire trucks
120. Georgia Tech (my “big dream school”)
121. Illinois Institute of Technology (my “little dream school”)
122. Philadelphia University (my actual school)
123. Riding public transportation to a sports game with other people doing the exact same thing
124. Giving change to homeless people
125. Saying please and thank you
126. Holding the door open for strangers
127. The look on someone’s face when they really appreciate some small gesture
128. Hugs
129. Boobs
130. The period of time between classes starting/ending and everyone moving in/out
131. Roommates who are cool people
132. Hearing someone else’s viewpoint on something that we both witnessed/lived through
133. Speedball
134. Stewball
135. Laptops
136. The thought of becoming an architect one day
137. The thought of dropping out of school and becoming a bum
138. Tony the Bum
139. Simon Bolivar
140. Che Guevara
141. Tina Weymouth
142. CBGB
143. Punk rock
144. Studying revolutions
145. Studying something on my own
146. Perusing Wikipedia for hours on end
147. Perusing baseball-reference for hours on end
148. Perusing YouTube for hours on end
149. Studying the history of a small town
150. Ireland
151. My girlfriend
152. My two best friends
153. The rest of my friends
154. Staring at the sky
155. Taking pictures from different points of views
156. Madden NFL
157. John Madden
158. My freshman year of college Physics professor
159. Being better than everyone in a given situation
160. Knowing you’re better than everyone in a given situation
161. Knowing that everyone else knows you’re better than everyone in a better situation
162. Being appreciated
163. Being acknowledged
164. Being told you’re too good at something
165. Struggling so much at something that you work really hard to become just adequate, and then wind up being better than everyone in a given situation
166. Thinking about god(s)
167. Wondering about what happens after life
168. Sleeping
169. Onion rings
170. The first bite of something you’ve been dying to eat
171. Waking up with a girl in your bed
172. Sleeping with the window open
173. Rain
174. Scooby Doo
175. Spiderman
176. Waking up one morning and remembering what you did
177. Waking up without realizing you fell asleep
178. Vivid dreams
179. Dreams that get you thinking
180. Thinking about life
181. Thinking about how life started
182. Thinking about how life is probably one big stellar accident
183. Thinking about alien planets
184. Trying to learn a new language
185. Making up a language
186. Cap’n Crunch
187. Pokemon
188. Email
189. Receiving an unexpected email
190. Receiving snail mail
191. Wikipedia
192. Firefox
193. Staplers
194. Ants
195. Spiders
196. Diving into a pool
197. Studying building floor plans for no particular reason
198. Bonding with people over a shared experience
199. Knowing that American Studies will never, ever harm me again. Ever.
200. Thinking about how many baseball players wear a certain number
201. Stop Making Sense
202. My birthday
203. Christmas
204. Christmas presents
205. New Year’s
206. Halloween
207. The month of March
208. The month of October
209. The month of December
210. Skype
211. Knowing that somebody out there is reading this list and agreeing with at least one thing
212. Triggering a happy memory in somebody and watching them smile
213. Smiling
214. Ice Cream
215. Thinking about my first firsts
216. The number 484
217. Ticket stubs
218. Frank Lloyd Wright
219. Posters
220. Mies Van Der Rohe
221. Playing drums
222. Pennies
223. Windows 7
224. Mac OS X
225. Apple products
226. Ubuntu Linux
227. Cheeseburgers
228. Marble Hornets
229. Michael Vick
230. DeSean Jackson
231. His punt return
232. LeSean McCoy
233. Donovan McNabb
234.Home runs
235. Conan O’Brien
236. Arena football (before Bon Jovi sold them down the river…)
237. Nerf guns
238. Bacon
239. Transformers series
240. Google
241. Ballparks
242. Hot dogs
243. Travis Chapman
244. Getting autographs
245. Mesh shorts
246. Getting accepted to college
247. Camden Yards
248. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
249. The Big Lebowski
250. The Hangover series
251. The Ramones
252. The Kinks
253. The Album “London Calling”
254. The Dirtbombs
255. Grounded for Life
256. Still Standing
257. Designing buildings
258. Hanne’s breakfast nook in Havertown, PA
259. Twitter
260. Baseball hats
261. Baseball jerseys
262. Baseball logos
263. Designing logos
264. This song
265. Mario Kart Double Dash!!
266. Mario Kart 64
267. My parents
268. Summer
269. Winter
270. Spring
271. Cute girls that smile at me
272. People that talk to me
273. People that make eye contact with me
274. People that @ me on Twitter
275. Engineering
276. Socks
277. Teal-Black color combination
278. Powder blue-maroon color combination
279. Powder blue-brown color combination
280. Triangles
281. The Beatles
282. Soul music
283. Classic Rock
284. Hip Hop
285. New Wave music
286. Eric Clapton
287. Chuck Berry
288. The Who
289. Topper Headon
290. Listening to the same song over and over and over and over
291. Listening
292. Hearing
293. Seeing
294. Color
295. Smells
296. The rise and fall of dinosaurs
297. WordPress
298. Making your way through a maze
299. UniWatch
300. Discussions about sports with knowledgeable fans of other teams
301. Discussions about sports with knowledgeable fans
302. Discussions about sports
303. Big Bang Theory
304. The actual Big Bang theory
305. The String Theory
306. Futurama
307. WNOC
308. The song “Biddies”
309. The word “biddies”
310. Beavis and Butthead
311. Millersville University
312. True Stories
313. 60s rock music
314. Ghostbusters
315. “Under the Influence” by Citizen King
316. Reading Phillies
317. Lehigh Valley IronPigs
318. The IronPigs’ logo
319. When teams with meh to boring logos/uniforms introduce new, exciting ones
320. Brandiose
321. New York-Penn League baseball
322. Little League
323. Times Square
324. My favorite shirt
325. Gatorade
326. My Jim Thome Poster
327. Cheesesteaks
328. Pie
329. Philadelphia Phantoms
330. My memorial Phantoms puck
331. Led Zeppelin
332. Hunter Pence
333. Shane Victorino
334. The fact that we have the technology to launch things into space that orbit around our planet like a moon
335. Satellites
336. Satellite Radio
337. Ham Radio
338. Star Wars Episode IV
339. Star Wars Episode V
340. Star Wars Episode VI
341. Star Wars Episode I
342. Star Wars Episode III
343. Graham Slam Ice Cream
344. Peanut Butter
345. Bagels
346. Milk
347. Going home when you really need it
348. Sabermetrics
349. Dogs
350. Smooth pens
351. Mike Schmidt
352. Thumb Tacks
353. Chinese Food
354. Tackling
355. Making a great catch
356. Playing goalie in (pick a sport, they all work)
357. Blocking shots
358. Sacrificing yourself for the team
359. Finding money in your pocket
360. The Phillies Phanatic
361. The concept of time
362. Clocks
363. Watches
364. Babe Ruth
365. Sweatpants
366. Taking things apart for fun
Thoughts from Underneath a Phillies Cap 
most. AWESOME. list. ever.
Green Day came into your head before Talking Heads?
I was listening to my Green Day CD while I started this.
You have too much free time to think