Tiger Woods & Tibet

So, I'm on my annual NCAA vacation and CBS starts showing commercials for the Masters and they talk about Tiger and his chase for the 'Perfect Season.' Its March. Can't we at least wait until he gets back from England and his 3rd Major win in July before we have to see these ads? How sick of the Patriots chase did you become?

Please stop it CBS. Granted he is the greatest golfer of all time and the most dominant athlete of his sport right now, but he's got a long way to go. First he's got to get to 11 straight tourney wins. Which I don't think Tiger will do. Ever. Its the equivalent of DiMaggio's 56 game streak. Its the anomaly that can't be explained.

If the situation in Tibet gets further out of hand, do you think the US should pull out of the Summer Olympics? First of all, it's not going to happen. There's too much money at stake for it to happen. There would have to be protests on the scale of nothing I've seen in my lifetime. Cities in America would have to burn before we would think of boycotting these Games.

You don't think that the powers that be want our athletes over there kicking their asses on their soil? They go to sleep praying every night that this happens.

When it doesn't happen, look for the US to make a push for the Summer Games in 2016, and if that's already too late, expect the Summer 2020 Games to be on US soil.

Oh yeah, and Duke lost. Fuck.
But Opening Day is the 31st. Hooray.

I love it how my two sports don't quite overlap, although I wish they would. That would mean Duke is in the Final Four.

My Favorite Things

D&D nerds will enjoy this Order Of The Stick

This is my friend Dave's website. He has the coolest job of anyone I know.

When you want something better.

And my old award-winning* college feature paper. And my old radio station.

OMG!

This is one of the most spectacular things I've seen on line. If you are not brought to tears then you have no soul and I hope you die alone.

New 7 Wonders

In humanity's quest of the ultimate list they have decided to allow everyone with access to the internet to define the New 7 Wonders of the World. Please vote, because if you don't, the terrorists have already won.

God Save The Playoff!

Two things I love. Chuck Klosterman and College Football.

He's right you know, this is the same reason I love College Football.

Sigh

This might have been the best Word ever. If he doesn't win the Emmy next year, I will hunt and kill Barry Manilow. Who's with me?

Weasel Stomping Day

Hooray for Weasel Stomping Day!

You Tube!

sometimes things aren't what they appear.

last second shot


and sometimes they are

The World Needs More People Like This

An artist sabotages paris hilton cds.

Here's another one he did.

Very brilliant, we need people link Banksy in the US.

A Happy Day

Today was a happy day. I received a piece of mail that was 10 years in coming. My very last student loan payment book arrived. Ten fuckin years I've been paying those Sallie Mae pricks my money for a degree I haven't even come close to using. I want a refund.

Utterly Addicted

I started playing this game, back when I knew it as Moria in 1988 when some guys at the computer lab at the University of Hartford clued me into it. Way back when my first major was computer science, so I got a job that gave me access to the computer room. I would sit at the desk in the front of the room and make sure no one caught the computers on fire. It was rather boring, but I got paid. The only excitment I had all semester was when we got a virus. It caused a ball to bounce around the screen and knocked letters out of word documents. Then I got kicked out of the dorms, quit the job and decided that computer science sucked as a major.

But back to the game. Moria was utterly addicting, I never made it past 11th level at Hartford, although my playtime was limited. You couldnt play the game if there were more than 20 people on the network of computers across the 7 or 8 computing rooms on campus, and that was all the time, except early in the morning, or during the overnights.

About 8 years ago, I was able to download it for my mac. Moria, it was glorious in all its black & white & crappy graphics glory. I played until my hand cramped up. The same game I remembered from Hartford. But it was on OS 9 and I hate loading 9 over OSX, so I stopped playing it.

Three days ago, I found it again, this time for OSX and already I can't feel the fingers in my right hand. Now called Angband, its in color (sort of) and better than I remember. My first real character died at level 25, which pissed me off because he had an awesome weapon.

Heres the link to download it for whatever system you have, even if all you have is your old Amiga. If you think it looks stupid, just try it. Start with something simple like a half-troll warrior, keep rerolling your stats until your strength is like 18/50+ and your con is over 18 as well, then head on down and start wacking shit. Angband

If You Haven't Seen This

Please watch.

It's Stephen Colbert roasting the president.

Colbert

Freaks & Geeks

If you haven't seen this show, you should. Shows like 'Freaks & Geeks' are what tv should be, well written, entertaining and honest. Just 18 episodes long (fuck NBC), it joins elite company in the tv show pantheon of really good shows that were killed before their time, like Firefly (1 season) & Sports Night (2 seasons).

Most shows like this get ruined when the tv execs get involved and fuck things up, like showing episodes out of order, changing the night and times it was shown, etc. In a world before TiVo, not knowing where or when your show was on was a nightmare, and usually a sign that the show was on the way out only to be replaced by some crap show with former cast member of 90210.

I enjoyed the show for many reasons:
One, the music kicked ass and was the reason it took so long to be released on DVD. They had to secure rights to everything. From Black Flag and Joe Jackson to Buddy Rich and Rush.
Two, it depicted high school as I remember it, and how most of us remember high school. Stretches of akwardness laced with laughter and pain.
Three, it was well written and parts of it were unexpected. I've seen lots of tv and can usually guess what's going to happen in a show before the first commercial break. Much of tv is sterile and appears stamped out by a large cookie cutter machine. The ending of the series actually shocked me. Not shocked like hand from the grave at the end of Carrie shocked, but pleasently shocked. Plus this ending was better than what I was expecting.
Four, I have this 'thing' for high school cheerleaders and became infatuated with Cindy, the girl who would become Sam's girlfriend for like 3 episodes. I thought she was the hottest thing in the show until the final episode in which Linda Cardellini dances around her room to 'Box of Rain'. Hippie dancing is way hot.

God bless NetFlix for allowing me to see this, after watching all five seasons of Babylon 5, Freaks & Geeks was a nice change and a better show. (Only because of the 5th season of B5 was tacked on at the end and it felt that way.)

So rent Freaks & Geeks, better yet, buy it, you won't be disappointed and if you are then i will buy your used copy from you.

I Still Want The Robot Stealth Monkeys

The motherfuckers that were stealing dvds were caught! We nailed those sons of bitches, although the real credit must go to the people at Edward McCay who called us when they got there to sell the stolen DVDs. It was a great fuckin day to be at work. More than one person said they had never seen me smile this much. Its been a long time since a day at work was so much fun.
After being reamed by shoplifters for hundreds of years, its nice to see some of them get caught. Its even nicer to see them sitting in the back of a police car in front of the store. Fuck yeah! Rot in jail you fucks!
It could have been better though; if, when they were speeding through the parking lot to escape they had run over the guy with the jungle helmet. That would have been the greatest day in the history of the world. Bar none. Although today was one of the best days ever at work.

The sad part is it was only 1 pair of shoplifters and until we get our robot stealth monkeys and trap door in the vestibule, it will happen again. And again. Now I'm sad.

But wait, we caught somefucks! Got back $660 bucks! Fuck yeah! Happy again! Have fun in jail fucks! Don't drop the soap! Ha ha ha ha! Fuck yeah!