Category: digressing

This is killing me; I keep seeing John Cena wearing that Excite Bike shirt and it’s the awesomest looking thing EVER and I can’t find it anywhere. I guess it pays to be famous? Nah.

In the old school nintendo t-shirt area, I can find
– Donkey Kong
– Metroid
– Duck Hunt which is almost cool enough
– Punch Out
– Mega Man

But no Excite Bike. I’d settle for 10 Yard Fight. RBI Baseball would be unbelivably awesome but not possible.

Actually, the best place I’ve found so far is called, 80stees. Maybe I’ll get one of their controller caps instead.

(Added: More! Including Blades of Steel and Tecmo Bowl – but just the logo.)

It goes without saying that there’s gotta be huge copyright issues here. Or maybe they’re old enough where it’s public domain? If there weren’t so many Mario stuff around (which probably wouldn’t be as easily given the infinte copryfight that Micky Mouse has gotten but pretty favored) I could almost buy that.

So, I kinda took the weekend or whatever this was off from doing anything of value (ie: I still recaped the lack of ideas Velocity and Heat were) and now it’ 3:30 and I’m working on OO’s Awards which I should’ve done – Thursday? Eh.

Kids, never agree to write column like things if you’ve got a overwhelming aversion/dearly fear of writing column like things on the account of your deadly ability to suck and take forever at doing it.

Also, I don’t think I could be using pointless flowery statements and the word “awesome” any more. Also, I’m only done with – what, the first six? ARGH.

I think I’ll just see if I can finish this tommorow. Or die trying. Or just die.

Hey, fuzzy dice.

(Scott’s ’03 Rumble recap is up. So is Homer’s stuff – I forgot to add the last thing because I’m not very good at it. CMLL stuff later this week.)

Actual “conversation” with a Gateway employee:

12:19:22 AM Greg says:
For reference, my employee number is [omitted], should you wish to make note of it. Have you contacted support about this issue before?

12:20:15 AM ME!:
Yes. This is my fifth time talking to someone about some aspect of it, the last time about 30 minutes ago when I was asked to run a program and report back. My support number is 2-1274596594

12:20:54 AM Greg says:
Meanwhile, I’m going to give you a Service Request number to write down. I’ll be documenting everything we’ve done today under this Service Request number. If you need to reach us again for any reason related to this issue, please refer to this number so the next technician will use it to see the history of what we’ve done. The number is: 2-1274596594.

That’d be perversely amusing if that wasn’t the second time I had the same exchange in 4 days.

The great thing is after a week of this, they’re FINALLY actually asking to look at it themselves.

The not so great thing is that they’re charging me for a box to ship it to them in (and shipping and handling and insurance.) And that box is costing me $44! FOURTY FOUR DOLLARS FOR A BOX! A BOX! A BOX ON ALL OF YOU

That box better not be cardboard with foam inside when it gets here. It ought to be a box made of a really good steel or lunch meat.

Oh wait, this is even better: they asked if they could format my hard drive if it comes to it.

The hard drive they just sent me. Blank. That’s not working. Which is why I’m talking to them in the first place.

This is not a way to get a positive review.

Just like I called, the problem wasn’t the hard drive. Or just not only the hard drive, as the new hard drive I just got in the mail doesn’t work either.

The BIOS isn’t even detecting the hard drive, so something’s screwed up. And no laptop for at least a week more, and likely more.

It’s so great being right.

So yesterday, while driving through puddles around in the pouring rain for strange reasons, I thought to myself ‘At least this it isn’t cold enough for snow yet or this would be all kinds of funky.”

And today? First snow of the year. I bet people who watch local news and weather would know these things, but it was surprise to me. And a nice way to ease in, seeing as it’s really just three cups of snow blowing around at 35 MPH.

Shoveling snow on a quiet dark night is always a relaxing experience. For me anyway. But I’m not there yet.

Holy wow Bill Cartwright just got canned. This a move to make a move. Pete Meyers is now just not the man who replaced Jordan, but he’s the man who replaced Bill Cartwright. Which means he’s pretty much still the man who replaced Jordan.

argh argh argh I was writing this and now IE blew it up argh and I have to start again. This time, I’m smart enough to use the Microsoft Word I had opened earlier just so I could check my spelling of “embarrassing.”

I’m trying to transition from long pent up updates where I forget half of the material I wanted to use to short ones where I randomly shout words at the nonbelievers and apparently forget what I wanted to say through mass incompetence anyway. You tell me how it’s going.

The one thing I’ve been meaning to mention for about week now is the thing that I’m listening to bunches, because of the unexpectedness at the very least: Radio@Netscape (Spinner in a past life, an above-average source of Net Radio) is now broadcasting a station dedicated to

So here’s the thing. I’m watching Velocity. I’ve already done Heat – I just haven’t pushed the right buttons so it’s up here. 2 segments in – enough to continue my preoccupation with the WGTT/Funaki non-issue and wonder why they just turn more things into angles in the hopes that something actually clicks – but now we’re into Rhyno/Kanyon, two guys I like enough not to just go “Gore (x:xx)” and more on, but I just don’t have any energy (or interest?) to recap anymore. Right now. At least right now. Even the promise of personal fav American Dragon (and versus Spanky!! oh the fun that’ll be had) can’t keep me going.

It’s also 2 AM. I’m not sure if I should sleep or not, because my sleep has gotten completely messed up by this point. But I just feel tired of this.

Problem is, if I don’t finish Velocity by 5-ish tomorrow, it won’t turn up on OO till Wednesday. And that seems always seems like a personal failure. And I’ve had my fill of them.

The deal with the RunDown that I wanted to point out, but don’t feel like a going into much detail, is that Thursday night advertising is traditionally bought out by movie companies to promote whatever’s debuting the next night. This is why NBC and CBS are in a death struggle (well, from the looks of ratings things, it’s pretty clear that NBC is the only suffering from death) for being the highest rated network on the night; higher ratings (and being #1) equals more money they can charge to the movie people, who don’t really have any options about going at some other time for it being cheaper.

UPN is a relatively smaller player in this (and everything else), but SmackDown! does attract a fair amount of the typical target movie audience – particularly if it’s a big blockbuster action type deal.

The Rundown is pretty close to that.

And it bombed. Well, maybe that’s too harsh – but it didn’t come close to it’s expectations.

SmackDown! already doesn’t get it’s “fair share” of ad revenue. And if I’m a movie exec, and I notice that a movie the WWE tirelessly worked to promote failed that badly, I don’t think putting my own (lesser) ads on during

This is just a theory. I’m sure either movie execs don’t care about these things, or they have people researching these things so they know where the money’s both well spent. Or someplace in the middle – like I know.

But if we still had someone who chronicled commercials around, it could be interesting to research if the number of movie ads before, during and after the Rundown. Last thing the WWE needs is one more dwindling source of funds.

That was the short version? Egads.

Gonna get some water. Then post Heat. Then, whatever.

Ever have one of those days when the theme song from the Garfield and Friends stuck in your head (because you watched an episode, what, 3 weeks ago? all the incidental music is rushing back now, that’s no good) and that’s a relatively less annoying thing than many others going on. C’mon to the place where the fun never ends…

I listen to the Dan Patrick radio show (over the wherever possible, because before long, all ESPN Radio network shows will be reduced to 2 minute windows on ‘MVP).

Since the World Series, he’s been repetitively talking about a conversation with a player there, who had played for the Cubs and hit less than five home runs, was drug tested 5-6 times, while Sammy Sosa was never tested.

Dan never says the name to conceal the confessor’s identity.

Except, it’s Lenny Harris. It can be no one else. He’s the only guy who was on the Cubs this season and in the World Series. Lenny Harris will talk to anyone – he’s kept around for that, not because he can actually hit or something. It’s blatantly obvious to anyone with a freaking clue.

Dan continues with the description. Oblivious? Annoying!

SAY THE MAN’S NAME ALREADY. He ain’t Beetlejuice or nothing. (I sure hope not, or me typing Lenny Harris will cause him OH NO HE’S HERE)

Either truly conceal the man’s identity (he could’ve said “a well known power hitter who’s been near the top in home runs for the last decade” instead of the tell of Sosa – kinda wrong to be saying what other people are saying Sammy did without actually asking the man himself, too) or just say the guy’s name already. Don’t half do it and pretend you’re not a moron. Because I know. Oh ho ho, I know.

Salisbury dying via laughter on air kinda makes up for it, though. If your last name was Pound, wouldn’t you consciously learn to use “Richard” or “Rich” and definitely not “Dick”? I can’t believe they let a guy with that poor decision making being in charge of something in the Olympics.

The drug suspension system is a utter joke, but I wonder about that % – remember in Spring Training, where a bunch of White Sox were thinking about refusing to take a test, as to assure there’d be enough to get to 5% and make it a permanent deal? They backed down then, but I wonder if that came up during the season again, and we just didn’t hear about it..

Please don’t think I mean that all – or even a great amount of – tests were refused/failed on purpose. Just wonder if ended up playing a part in after all. There’s definitely a division about testing among the players, and it may be the only hope of getting a policy with actual teeth in place.

I’ll actually, you know, talk about the site, give links to stuff you’ve already seen or don’t care about, not hype up my guest writers as much as they deserve and ramble about how the Rundown’s lack of success hurts SmackDown! more then people realize.

But before I forget – I’m incredibly annoyed but sadly not particularly let down by the WWE not mentioning Crash’s death. It occurred to me the other that a great deal of the people who still watch probably don’t even realize that Crash isn’t working for the WWE anymore; he was only gone a few months ago, and guys like Nathan Jones disappear for months on times without any official explanation. Kanyon’s a regular part of the roster, and we can go a month or two without ever seeing him, and that’s just on Velocity. The people who watch SmackDown only probably don’t even know – NWA/TNA’s not that big, and the Internet’s not that big (unless it’s causing a problem.)

The only actual sign that he ever left was his place in the Velocity open being swapped out for Rhyno (I think) a while back.

A large part of the business is based on fans connecting to a character, and if a guy who was a supporting character can not only leave, but die without a trace, without the company meaningfully mentioning the end of your existence, well, it doesn’t say connecting to those supporting people is worth all that much.

Which may not mean much to you, because you’re still watching for Austin or Jericho or Angle or Benoit or (god forbid!) Triple H or not watching at all, but because I’m the guy who watches for people like Crash, like Steven, like Shannon Moore, like Funaki, well, that tells me that I’m watching for no good reason at all.

As if I needed to hear that same message…

Followup to the SmackDown Report, via Dave M:

“Faarooq will be kept out of action for a few weeks selling the knee injury from Smackdown last night. Not sure if he’ll be back for Survivor Series or not.”

This sure would back up my (kinda obvious but stuck in my head) theory that Cena’s on Angle’s team. Given the disparity they’re going for – big guys vs not big guys, A-Train fits better with the heels.

This would end up having Bradshaw being on that team for no good reason, but I guess there’s not an obvious (heavyweight) person to take his place? Eddie should have better things to do.

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r for that job – though actually what you do cover seems pretty thorough – no Unix, which is kinda what they seemed to be faking, though.)

Why can’t I find THAT job in the paper anyway. Nepotism. Haha Adam called her on it. But he sucks. So it’s not as good. Neither is her hair (there’s blond and there’s color being drained out of your hair) but what can you do.

I’M IN PAIN I’M IN PAIN I’M IN PAIN – wait, i have a phone call.

They should just tease Kim being in danger for 24 hours but nothing happens. Nothing at all.

Prez’s brother is definetly evil. That’s a gimmie.

Jack’s got a bit of a tension problem but Chloe’s a bit annoying herself.

When Chase said he’d talk to Jack about Kim, I didn’t figure he’d actually talk to Jack about Kim. I did figure the phone would ring.

Like they know the soil will be fine! You’re getting rooked, Hector. But then you’re evil so you’ll get over. Also, guess you didn’t break him after all Claudia Him and his body dumping days run wild.

Someone should have called the negotiator to let him know it’s not worth his time to threaten Salazar. He’s soooooo dead within three hours.

Claudia should’ve kinda thought this relationship over before getting involved. Add her as being dead.

He’s not exactly selling it! He’s an end user. It would explain the bad acting.

It’s awful strange how the parallel unvierse has adopted “Homeland Security” and “Alert Levels”. I guess a nuclear bomb did drop on the Southwest, though. Chalk up Doctor Anne as evil. OHHHHH, evil in love.

I’m not sure, but I think Jack might be sick! Something bad just might have happened with Salazar! We just might be treated to long explainations or flashbacks in future episodes! Ahh, withdrawl. Please don’t make watch the needle inject. CAN’T A MAN TAKE HERION IN PEACE?

He had an identical briefcase ready to give to the guy? That’s planning. You know, perhaps they should’ve just donated real money instead of doing the commerical. It would’ve been better.