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.

Puppy V Robot

Or, as the Japanese would title this link Super Happy Puppy Surprise Robot Attack

Also, the Mets got Johan Santana. Boo-fuckin-yah!

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.

Two, No Three Things

1 - What the hell did we do with our lives before the internet? Genius was the person who created the Wikiquotes page.

2 - If Tivo/DVR had existed about 10 years ago would great TV shows like Sports Night, Freaks & Geeks and Firefly, have been cancelled as early as they were? Or, would they have been saved because no matter what the network execs did to the shows' viewing schedule and running order, people would still be able to find and watch them? Discuss. (Also mention other great shows that got screwed.)

3 - Ever wondered who's been changing your Wikipedia entry? Now you can find out. Check out the edits a church did to the Origin of Species entry.

I Told You

It was only a matter of time before someone tried something like this.

This opens the door to children's names like Christo4 and K8. Its gonna happen in our lifetime so get used to it.

Names come and go in style. How many Jennifer's are being born now as compared to 20 years ago? Do you have any grandparents named Sierra or Dawson? When will names like Ethelred or Urban or Socrates come back into style?

Would You Do...

Found this site about female sportscasters.

Its rude, but funny.

You Tube: Return of the Bride

this gets good after the bride comes in

I've just found out that this video was staged. Darn.

Long Time Coming

Its been a while since I posted anything and just wanted to post this. Great video, that its in spanish is even better. Man I loved this show.

You Tube: Part 2

Another reason why You Tube rocks, and another person with too much time on his hands. LINK.

Weasel Stomping Day

Hooray for Weasel Stomping Day!

You Tube!

sometimes things aren't what they appear.

last second shot


and sometimes they are

Imagine There's No Heaven

It's hard to imagine a time before the internet. What did people like this do before they could express themselves through iMovie and a couple MBs of hard drive space?

Ask A Ninja

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