Category: The Gambit
-
A Very Special Holiday Gambit
As one of the few non-public/federal employees to have today off, I feel entitled to say: ha-ha! As such, I wasn\’t intending to file a Gambit today, but this is just too good to resist. I present you with: footage of the infamous Charles Barkley vs. Dick Bavetta footrace. Ok, so it\’s not very notable,…
-
Death Warmed Over
I\’b thick… Ahhhchoooo… *hack*…. Ptooey Sorry…let\’s try that again. I\’m sick… and I know who gave it to me. Some a-hole at work who showed up on Tuesday looking like death warmed over. By Friday morning I too felt like death, and I too went in to work. Now why would I do such a…
-
hit the links
smiles, everyone, smiles. it\’s friday, thank god. as such, check out some compelling items from the interweb tubes today: it\’s been three years since scottie pippen has played in an NBA basketball game, but he thinks he can come back and contribute towards a team\’s playoff run. no word on whether toni kukoc (\”the magic…
-
It\’s radiation! And a skull! Run!
Exciting news today from the world of science! They\’ve changed the international symbol for radiation. I suppose to be more accurate what they\’ve done is taken the existing symbol and added more commonplace symbolage for people who don\’t know what the radiation symbol is. It makes sense overall, but what will they use for fallout…
-
happy valentine\’s day
crap. it\’s late, and i got nothin\’. oh, wait. yes i do. read this. whee. remember my posting about how some things don\’t hold up well? i tuned into the grammys earlier this week to see the police play– i\’m not a huge fan or anything, but like them enough to own a greatest hits…
-
In The News
Just a few assorted links for your perusal today. This article is an interesting read to me, as someone who feels it\’s perfectly valid to believe in BOTH evolution AND God, if you so choose. The Governator is making nose that he envisions California may become some sort of nation-state, which is fascinating on several…
-
no les no more
butera? got him. schatzeder? got him. davidson? got him. straker? not so much. yes, folks, there\’s a manhunt underway for one lester paul straker, former twins pitcher. you remember les– diminuitive venezuelan righty who actually started two games in the 1987 world series, including the pivotal game six. les even pitched a shutout the next…
-
Map of the World
Many of you are aware that I have a new shower curtain. It\’s a standard, Target-issue, map of the world on a big piece of vinyl. I had no intent for it other than to be a shower curtain, but apparently it has turned my bathroom into a land of knowledge. People have been giving…
-
let\’s go crazy
a recent bout of insomnia found me plopped in front of the tv watching– for the first time– purple rain, the 1984 musicama (dramsical?) starring our little purple prince. as i said, i couldn\’t sleep, there wasn\’t much else on, and i was inspired by symbolina\’s halftime appearance at the super bowl. besides, it seems…
-
Useless
I was going to post about the Pi-Search webpage. And since I\’ve mentioned it, you can find my birthday in the first 18,077,849 digits of Pi, starting with the first digit after the decimal place. Neat, huh? Something else caught my eye as well: an offhanded reference to the Useless Web Pages pages. Is it…