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If Anyone Can- Carwin Can

UFC 116 is looking to be a very interesting card for the finally deep UFC Heavy Weight Division. When Brock first started wrecking people most fans felt he would own the division the way Wanderlei Silva did in Pride (5 years as champion). Little did we know Lesnar was only the beginning of a new generation of HW’s. They are skilled, athletic, and most of all impossibly big for their abilities. Heavyweight fights are short because the fighters are more skilled and dish out inhuman levels of damage not because they just gas and fall over. Shane Carwin is a perfect example, 12 fights and nobody has gotten to round 2 with him.

Lesnar is a seriously daunting challenge in that he really has no obvious weaknesses. There are many unknowns with him (his conditioning, his chin) but that isn’t the same as a weakness. Nobody really knows how well he can take a punch but I suspect given the size of his neck and his posture fighting it is much better than most people might think. His positioning on the ground rules out most kinds of submissions, so he has clearly learned for his 1st fight with Frank “Muhr”. Even given all of this the division is so deep a long reign as champion isn’t assured for anyone.

Carwin has the ability to KO livestock as well as humans and can he wrestle. As a member of Greg Jackson’s gym a good game plan is almost a given. If anyone can knock king Lesnar off the hilltop Shane Carwin is a prime candidate. Checkout a recent interview

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Rich Franklin is Human After All

I actually found this video to be a bit of a relief. When he broke his arm during the fight and was completely relaxed about the whole thing I was starting to think maybe Ace has been hitting the painkillers as a pre-fight ritual.

Franklin is the man that’s for sure.

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Broke-ass Clients Video

Aside from the vulgar language this is exactly what bad clients say. I wish this were not true but it is, some people really don’t understand that Web Designers are real professionals who require real wages. This video, in terms of client requests, is exactly like a request I’ve actually gotten thank G-d I didn’t respond the way the “Designer” in this does. One way to know that the job will be very difficult is if the client keeps repeating that the job is really “easy”. If it was easy they would need a Designer.

As a Designer it is hard not to laugh hysterically at this video since I really have gotten requests like this. Although I was never offered a $1.50. I have had people ask for $10,000 worth of work for $100 dollars and that is just as bad in my view.

Sometimes it is ok if the client can’t afford to pay but knows the value of the work. In those cases I’m actually pretty forgiving. The BS that sets me off is when a potential client approaches the relationship with zero respect for a skill set they don’t possess and could never do. I wonder if architects get crap like Web Designers? In a way we do very similar things. I can just see it now:

“Um, yeah Mr. Architect I don’t like foundations, they are too expensive, so can you just build my house without one? And I saw a movie where this house was floating and could reshape itself at anytime, yeah I’ll take that. Oh and by the way, I’m going to need that house designed and built by tomorrow afternoon. The check? Oh we can sort that out after we are done can’t we?”

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