Why didn’t anyone think of this sooner? Since we lost Ray Wershing, all of our kickers have had four letters in their first name (Mike, Jose, Todd, etc.), and they’ve all sucked. All we really needed was a kicker with three letters (Joe, as in Nedney) 
This kicker is a keeper
Archive for October, 2005
An Israeli firm has found a way to make computers totally disappear from offices. The company’s “Jack-PC” squishes inside a standard in-the-wall network connector box and contains a Windows CE based thin-client computer. It gets its power, and connects to the outside world, over Ethernet inside the wall.
Kathy, this one’s for you …
Dilbert.com - DNRC: “Now my siblings and I live in different parts of the country. Our competition hasn’t diminished. It just changed to a new category: health calamities. To win the competition, you need to boast the most painful and debilitating ailments, short of actual death, which would be considered unsportsmanlike. When one of us inherits a health problem from a parent it’s worth bonus points under the theory that you ‘got screwed on that one.’”
GM FastLane Blog: Passing the Corvette Baton: "Dave was often disruptive, stubborn, unwilling to take direction, unwilling to take advice, unwilling to accept constraints or limits — in other words, the perfect man for the job."
Time to clean out the garage - I soooooooooo need this
Target Stores will start selling full size video Arcade machines for less than $500. The one machine plays 12 of the original arcade versions of Defender, Defender II, Robotron, Joust, Bubbles, Splat, Sinistar, Rampage, Rootbeer Tapper, Wizard of Wor, Timber.
Funny, Pets.com was building their new headquarters on the same block South of Market where I was working at the time. It was a beautiful structure of glass and steel, and about a month after it was finally finished, they went under. I wonder what ever happened to that building?
Ah, Good Times, good times …
The most astounding thing about the dot-com boom was the obscene amount of money that was spent. Zealous venture capitalists fell over themselves to invest millions in Internet start-ups;new college graduates became instant millionaires (albeit on paper), Now check out the biggest failures from the dot-com boom.
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
According to industry sources, we may see Pinky and the Brain and Animaniacs on DVD possibly in mid-2006.
Strong with the force, am I
The Revenge of the Sith DVD will be released on November 1, and is said to contain a little easter egg for the fans - Yoda dancing to a hip hop tune with some stormtroopers bopping their heads in the background!
To Sir With Love - Lulu ?
Too bad I wasn’t born in the UK: Baby Now That I’ve Found You - The Foundations
