Category: Alex
-
Overheard in the Bathroom
Snippets of conversation I\’ve been lucky enough to catch over the last month or so: Two boys, middle school aged: Boy #1: You shouldn\’t let that faucet run, it contributes to global warming. Boy #2: Your face contributes to global warming! [Pause] Boy #1: No it doesn\’t! Man and young son, in bathroom stall: Man:…
-
PCP: Best Damn Place to Watch Sports (Period)
Hi ho. Most of the time, I\’m content with watching the latest [insert favorite sports team name here] tilt from the comfort of my living room, sitting on my cushy chair, watching on my own TV. However, there are other times when it\’s nice to gather with other fans– people you know and people you…
-
Phooey. Rhymes with Bowie.
Former commissioner of baseball Bowie Kuhn passed away yesterday, at the age of 80. I\’ll be honest, I don\’t really remember the man. After all, his tenure ended in 1984, when I was the ripe old age of nine, and who besides Wade A pays attention to such things at a young age? I do…
-
What\’s so funny?
Interesting article in the New York Times recently. See, this is the kind of psych that interested me when I was studying it. Apparently if you\’re not a professional comedian, you\’re only as funny as you are powerful. Or if you want to flip that around, it would seem that if you perceive yourself as…
-
It ain\’t right…
Yet another one of those things that I\’d like to un-see. I\’d advise you to avoid this if you can, but if you watch ESPN at all, good luck. What follows is a highly disturbing commercial for ESPN\’s fantasy baseball service. If I can someday pay for the selective memory removal of Kruk pulling off…
-
Talkin\’ \’bout the weather
It\’s so Minnesotan, isn\’t it? Well hell, it is Monday after all. Still, it was so nice to walk out to my car this morning and not shiver. It was nice to have dew on the windows instead of frost or ice. It was nice to have my windows intact. Heh. In any case, it…
-
In the Links
Just a few quick jottings culled from the internet tubes today: There are times when I hate my job. And then there are times when I realize that things could be a lot worse. For example, I could be the person tasked to deal with this. So you\’re saying CBS turned your son gay, ma\’am?…
-
This is Monday\’s Gambit
Apologies for the extreme lateness of this posting. Or, you could look on the bright side and realize that when Wade posts his normal Gambit that you\’ll get a double dose of goodness. I\’m such an optimist. But so yes, this is Monday\’s Gambit. This would not have been Monday\’s topic, had things been normal,…
-
The NHL Trade Deadline and You
I\’ll be honest – not even I knew that the NHL trade deadline came and went on Tuesday. That won\’t deter me from offering up my own two cents on the transactions that piqued my interest. I\’ll have a lot to choose from – 25 trades went down in the last six hours before the…
-
Free Running
A while back I was discussing the newest James Bond movie with wadE, and I commented that the opening sequence had some really cool action shots with a sort of kung-fu on wires look to it. As it turns out, there were no wires. Instead, the stunt man was doing something apparently called free running.…