Comic posted Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004

Posted: 9:09 am, Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Big day for the Irish in the New York Times. Well, big few past days. Yesterday, there was an article about the gargantuan new arts center and how it will hopefully make Notre Dame a more prominent school of the arts. On Monday, Dean Mark Roche wrote an op-ed pleading for Catholics to take the blinders off and not vote for Bush simply because he doesn't like abortion. It gets a little disjointed at the end - think of it as saying 'there's bigger fish to fry right now.'

I've been meaning to post this for a few days - Baseball Prospectus has a postseason success indicator that they update every day of the playoffs that gives a certain team's chance of winning the series they're embroiled in currently, and the World Series. BP is a good site, but sometimes the math gets too theoretical for me and I just kind of gloss over and start thinking about cheese or something. Anyway, it hasn't been updated for today yet, but I'd imagine the Sox would drop from a 48% chance to beat the Goat Fuckers to around 40% or so after last night's shitting of the bed. Man, there's nothing like having to sit on a stalled F-train, next to someone pouring over the Post sports section the day after dropping the first game of the ALCS to the Yanks to really put me in a good mood right off the bat. If anyone at the office tries to talk to me right now, I may kill them just to let some steam off.

More baseball, this story broke on the web yesterday, but since Pedro goes tonight, it's still relevant. Everyone knew that the Yankee Stadium crowd was going to have bootleg Who's Your Daddy t-shirts, but I am pretty surprised that MLB actually sanctioned it at some point. Honestly, whatever. Print all the t-shirts you want.

The final presidential debate is tonight! We'll actually be watching it instead of the middle innings of the Sox-Goat Fuckers game, so I'll have some stuff to say about it tomorrow, and plenty on Friday, after a day to digest everything and see what the webwonks have to say. By the way, found a political blog that seems to be speaking directly to me.

Republican yo' mamas. I know some people who wouldn't get this.

Away from politics and to the wonderful world of video games. I just found this going through some old e-mails yesterday. When I first got a Nintendo for Christmas in 1988 (a more damaging thing to my social development never happened, unless you count the fact that my mother was a nun), I got Top Gun in addition to the Super Mario/Duck Hunt cartidge that came with it. Top Gun was fucking hard. I kind of wonder if I could beat it today, but I certainly couldn't back in the day. So, I never saw the ending of it until I found the Video Game Museum. Then, I remembered that, even had I beaten it, the endings in Nintendo games were almost always horrible. Blaster Master was one of the hardest games I've ever played - no continue, no password - and the fucking ending is "very thanks"? Noted exceptions: Bionic Commando (fucking, Hitler's head explodes!), Ninja Gaiden, and Star Tropics (one of the best NES games ever, I feel). Wow. Three games out of 60 of so that I've beaten. Why did I like that thing? Oh, Super Mario 2, also. And, of course, Metroid, because Samus would strip.

More Nintendo-y fun, i-Mockery checks out the ghosts that haunted old NES games. Also, there's a link in there to sexual moments in video games, which is fairly hilarious.

I just found out the guy from Scrubs and Garden State is dating Mandy Moore. I don't know what to do with this knowledge.

I had a pumpkin-spice latte from Starbucks yesterday. Fucking thing was $4.13 for a small, but it was pretty tasty. I'm looking forward to the eggnog latte, which I will not consume until after Thanksgiving, no matter when they become available, becuase that's the way I am.

Finally, there's this. Holy God. Oh, there's sound - I didn't know there was sound on the gun nut page yesterday (which will probably be revisited, since 2.0 and I poked around there for a bit yesterday and found some amusing shit, including a free Bible offer).

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