“Sitting in front of the telly.. that’s what you call it right? *snort* the telly?”
This ESPN commentator is so obnoxiously bad…
This American commentator on ESPN sounds so brilliant: “The best you can do with your three darts is to hit triple 20 three times. That is called 180.” Gee, you must have gotten through the 5th grade, doing that 20 x 3 x 3 like that!
At least they do seem to have the Sky guy Sid Waddell (I think) who not only gets really excited, but beyond that actually knows something about darts. Though being used to hearing him from Fox Sports rebroadcasts of Sky darts coverage, it’s strange to hear him actually EXPLAIN things as he does for ESPN and the American audience.
Of course, this whole “World Series of Darts” name and structure is retarded. Let’s take the best darts players around the world, and pit them against US amateurs? Come on. Though I do know why they’re doing it: they’re trying to dummy up some excitement about “anybody” being able to win, as they got with poker.
Law and Order used to be a great show. Now it’s just political grandstanding with a thin veneer of a plot.
I miss Ben Stone.
James Taranto caught the AP in a lie today:
From an Associated Press Washington dispatch:
“We’d love to have a cease-fire,” White House spokesman Tony Snow said. “But Hezbollah has to be part of it. And at this point, there’s no indication that Hezbollah intends to lay down arms.”
The AP headline? “U.S. Opposed to Cease-Fire With Hezbollah.”
They just can’t be trusted.
The Barry Bonds prosecutor failed to get a single indictment of the man from his first grand jury. So, of course, he’s just going to get another grand jury and try again.
How long will this crusade last?
I can’t believe this. First Gagné is out for the season, and now the Dodgers are 1-7 since the All-Star break! This is ridiculous!
The President’s long streak is over: He finally vetoed a bill. This first swipe took down HR 810, a bill to spend taxpayer dollars on embryonic stem cell research.
Good job! Now we just need a veto on the billion dollar pork shold it pass.
Rob wants to know if I’ve met any notable people. Well let’s see…
- I was standing right there when Patrick Volkerding came by the KDE booth at Linux World in San Francisco.
- In high school I went with a group down to Admiral James Stockdale’s home to interview him about his experience as a Vietnam POW.
- When I was 5 and in the hospital for heart surgery, Rod Carew and some other Angels came by and signed autographs.
That’s about it.
Florian Schulze pushed out the new PrBoom on Sunday. This is the big Mac release, with the fixed sound effects crash, fixed music, and the new Cocoa launcher.
It’s no wonder that as of right now, PrBoom-2.4.2.dmg has 262 downloads to prboom-2.4.2-win32.zip’s 201.
Muzzling private citizens while giving exemptions to newspapers who give free advertising to campaigns *and their websites*, under cover of writing a news story, is unacceptable.
I wonder if I should go ask this Democratic challenger some tough questions since he’s just going to be in town and all.