MSNBC: Isaac Hayes has quit “South Park,” where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion. Hayes, who has played the ladies’ man/school cook in the animated Comedy Central satire since 1997, said in a statement Monday that he feels a line has been crossed. “There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins,” the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said.
The Women’s College Basketball tournament begins soon – the tournament seeds were announced today. This NCAA tournament threatens to blow my mind.
First off, props to my alma marta for getting into the Big Dance. Sacred Heart‘s previous claim to athletic fame came from the mens basketball team winning the Div II title in 1986 and when the “new” football team went 5-4 in their first season in the early 90’s. SHU entered Division I in 1998 and now offers over 30 sports – a far cry from my freshman year, when they were a Div II/III school with only seven sports – and they’re already breaking into the NCAA tourney. That just kicks ass.
The other thing that has me goin’ “errr?” is that they’re having one of the regional branches of this thing in Bridgeport, CT. I mean I know UConn is in the Dance every year and I noticed Hartford got in this year… but… well… um… I guess Harbor Yard is a better venue that I was giving it credit for. Jeesh.
On the other hand, since when did CT become Indiana for womens basketball?
The Best Buy flyer this week has a 12-month Xbox Live Gold Pack priced at $19.99. I figured it was a typo – a quick trip to BestBuy.com confirmed that it was in fact an error: the actual price is supposed to be $69.99.
I do not envy the people that are working at Best Buy this week that will have to deal with the chaos caused by this one glitch.
Game Revolution has a great write up on the drama that is Gizmondo. The flow chart is simply astonishing, if it’s even remotely accurate… I’m betting it’s dead accurate which is funny…
Ironic: the life and death of the Gizmondo gaming system was more fun to watch than their games… go figure.
The other day Anna was over, puttering around in my kitchen, while I was dropping a disc in my DVD player in the living room. Just as the tray retracts into the player, the only thing I hear from the kitchen is, “What. Is. This?”
I guess the “free ride” of blogging tools couldn’t last forever… I was checking out Windows Live Search this morning and said “oO, lets see how it does with SharpMT.” It did well: found all the sites I expected it to. Even has a Feeds search which is kinda neat… then I noticed an ad on the right and went “errr?”. Oh, not because there are ads there, but what the ad said: “Smarter than SharpMT”.
I guess it’s time to come out of the closet with this…
I don’t play World of Warcraft.
In fact, I refuse to play WoW. And when pressed about it, I get very animated about not playing it. Why? No interest for one, but there’s another reason: self defense. Read this entry from Rands In Reposes and come back.
That’s why I won’t play it. You don’t give a diabetic keys to a candy store. You don’t give a heroin addict a vile full of crack. You don’t hold Elphaba under a waterfall. Bad ideas, all of them. I’ve got too much to do already these days to “waste” time on WoW… besides, I refuse to give up the time I dedicate to shooting other humans in real time via Halo. Guilds… Level 60… pft. Who needs’it?
Who’s Paul Dini? He’s a writer that has given us a bunch of excellent story lines over the years… check out his “resume” of sorts at IMDB – I had no idea the same guy was behind so many different cartoons that I’ve followed over the years, but it would makes sense, wouldn’t it? And what’s more is that he blogs at LiveJournal.
Thanks for the entertainment, Paul – you’ve got some mad skillz.
Word of advice… when you’re hurt, angry or generally pissed off, write an entry your blog. Write it all out. Don’t think about it: shoot from the hip. Just get it all out there, in the blog editor. Don’t try to second guess it – when you’re out of fuel you’ll know you’re done and then give it proofread. Polish it up, just like you would any post. Make sure it’s good and biting and cutting and that you feel better, generally, now that you’ve gotten it off your chest. Breathe deeply, and feel cleansed.
Then delete it.
There are somethings in this world that simply do not belong on the Internet.
A new version for the application that wasn’t supposed to get a new version! Not a total re-write, but I’ve looked at almost all parts of the application for possible improvements, retiring obsolete functions where I could, and adapting the bits to use the 2.0 version of the .NET Compact Framework.
Resizing should work on all devices, connections should work better and more reliably, and I’ve cleaned up some of the UI that has irked me after looking at it.
Nothing was released today – Week 2 has simply become enabled, offering a bit more teasing as to what the Origami Project is about… why would there even be a set of Week 1-3 links if they product was dropping on Week 2? Dare I guess that Week 3’s link will go live next Thursday?
Wonder if there are going to be retractions or corrections published today.. pft, probably not.