Author: mjmadaio
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Grinds My Gears: School Zones
You know what really grinds my gears? Going through a school zone (15 mph) for a high school. What is the deal with that? Ok, sure, I can understand slowing down for an elementary school, because you never know what little kids are going to do. But high school? Give me a break. If you’re in high school and you don’t know to not run out in a busy road, you deserve to get hit.
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Autistic Teen Drops 6 Treys in 4 Minutes
… would have been 7 if his foot wasn’t on the line. Just an amazing story.
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Chinese Democracy gets Olympic Gold
This just in — its no wonder those Olympic medals look so strange, like CDs — they are! Winning a medal is the only way you can get a copy of Chinese Democracy.
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Let’s All Go to Walla Walla, Washington!
So I’m watching this “Funniest Commercials of 2005” show on TBS the other night, and they show an IKEA ad from Canada which has a catchy tune in the background that I kind of dig. The only lyrics I can pick out are “Let’s all go to Walla Walla, Washington”, so, as any early adopter is wont to do, I head over to Google to figure out what the song is so I can grab myself a copy.
Only problem is, when I get to Google, all I find is other people who are trying to find this song! I spent a good few minutes going through all the search methods I could think of, but the best thing I could find was a guy who claimed to correspond with IKEA’s customer service, as follows: (more…)
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Super Bowl Thought
Obviously Pgh was the better team tonight, but as a fan who had no strong rooting interest, I have to say that I was frustrated by the fact that the game was pretty much decided by two penalties, both of which were questionable. I’ll never completely blame a game on the officiating (because the team that does the best it can with the situations provided is usually the deserving winner), but I do wish the game could be decided by the players and not the officials.
To clarify, I’m talking about the supposed offensive pass interference in the first half that took away a Seattle touchdown and the supposed holding that took away a first and goal from the 2 in the second half (and led to the big Pgh interception). Perhaps these were penalties, perhaps not, but they were both close enough that they could have gone either way. If one or both of those is called in Seattle’s favor, it’s a totally different game, and maybe even a different champion.
The Stillers made the big plays when they needed them, and Seattle did not. This is the reason the yellow & gold hoised the trophy. I just wish there were fewer penalties deciding those big plays.