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I never really bought into Carpal Tunnel Syndrome until I played this game. Damn orange squares.

Man, I wish I had cable so I could watch these U.S. Soccer games. But I'll have to settle for ussoccer.com's Matchtracker (which is actually pretty slick.)

But how 'bout that Cobi Jones? God, the man's ageless, you know, with his 9202930752935 caps. BTW, I just love the phrase "snatches a point at the death!" (he scored in second-half stoppage time to tie the game at 1 after Panama had gone ahead in the 71st minute.) So it's a shame that with 5 points from 3 games, we're only 1 point ahead of the 3rd place team, but but with 2 games at home to come, we're in good shape.

CNN's running this story right now about various governments forming a global task force to patrol chat rooms (primarily looking for child porn.) Now, here's the weird part:

Under the plan, an officer would appear in a chat area from time to time to observe conversations and would be identified with a type of "cyber badge" or icon for the "Virtual Global Task Force" to let everyone in the chatroom know, Gamble said.

What the hell does that mean, and how would it work? Would they have to force the operator of every single chat room on the internet to allow a setup like this? And what's to stop somebody else from imitating one of these guys?

In other words, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, yo? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

So in today's other news, Smarty Jones lost at the wire to Birdstone in the Belmont Stakes.

Goddamnit.

As a 24-year old Philly native, I don't know what it's like for a Philly team to win a championship. The city's last title was in 1983, and obviously, I don't remember a lick of it.

God fucking damnit.

I have no idea what it's like when a team you've rooted for as long as you can remember finally wins a championship. We've come close several times, but invariably, we fail. We can't even win by proxy (Philadelphia Park, Smarty Jones' home track, is actually in Bensalem, PA.) We can't win when one of our college bball teams gets hots for a full season and makes a run. We can't win when we make it to the conference championship game 3 straight years. We can't win when we play Toronto in the World Series. We can't beat the Lakers or the Red Wings.

gg

Yeeow...

A woman found a webcam taped under her desk and her department's IT guy resigned immediately. Yeeowza.

So many people watch the show, yet I never hear anyone talk about how much they like it. All I hear is one comment after another about what a crappy show it is and how they're all soulless and shallow yuppies. Any argument along the lines of, "If so many people watch it, they've got to be doing something right, don't they?" is met with, "Now you see how stupid Americans are."

I think lots of people bash Friends because it's trendy. It makes you sound smart to bust out all these critiques about the show that you heard from someone else.

Well, it's over. Tony Kornheiser did his last show on ESPN Radio today. Now, there are rumblings that he'll be back in a local context in several months, and I do live in the Washington, D.C. area, so there's hope, but still, I don't know what I'll listen to from 10-1 at work anymore. I don't know about this new show, "The Herd". I'll give it a chance, but I hope it isn't like shock jock shows, because those are just garbage. It took me a long time to realize it, but they never had current athletes on the show, and this was "a good thing". Let's face it, current athletes don't have much to say that's interesting, and we don't need to hear from them.

Anyone else here a faithful listener who's also upset like me?

This article on CNN is about a new awards show starting up in Britain called the Awards Awards. Now, this has been needed for a long time, but the article mentions an episode of Absolutely Fabulous in which Edina Monsoon attends the "PR PR Person's Awards Dinner of the Month Lunch."

However, the PBS children's series Square One beat them to the punch by a mile. The only reference I can actually find to it on Google is here, but Square One's ongoing crime series Mathnet had a mysterious revolving around the ASFAS, or the Awards Show for the Awards Shows, and the AP writer has failed miserably to cite this earlier mention of such a concept.

Damn AP.

This is the happiest day of my life!

Why, you ask?

BECAUSE I FINALLY GOT A SUBMISSION ACCEPTED!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!

There are three things that I base my self-worth on: 1) Hits to my website 2) Comments in my Slashdot journal 3) submissions accepted by Slashdot.

This is better than the day that the doctor told me I didn't have worms.

For the record, it's not posted yet, but it'll be the story about Rockstar announcing GTA: San Andreas.

Ok, here's the deal. The GamesNet IRC network was recently sued over the domain www.gamesnet.net, so they merged with another network to form gamesurge.net. Inevitably, there are channel conflicts. One of the channels I idled/chatted in for at least two years was #postal, the official IRC channel of Clan Postal, a QuakeWorld Team Fortress (and other games) clan. Now, for years, Running With Scissors, the makers of the worthless games Postal and Postal 2 (possessing extreme racism and homophobia) has had #postal2 for their IRC channel on GamesNet.

Once the merger happened, the dumbfucks at GameSurge gave them #postal without even consulting our channel and they won't give it back. The GameSurge people aren't helping us either. Now, I'm not a member of Clan Postal, but the clan has existed in one form or another for about 7 years on GamesNet (same with the channel.) So basically, GameSurge caved in to corporate racists. Good fucking game.

Ok, so, as few to none of you know, I have a strategy guide for the old NES game Contra here. Apparently, some Thai gaming site did a retrospective or something on the game and they included my site as a link. So my site got about 10 times its normal traffic yesterday. Now, this is cool and all, but a couple of things:

1) Can anyone read it and tell me what it says?

2) They ripped off some of the screenshots from my site, but on the other hand, I ripped them out of the game, so I don't know what sort of ownership I have over them, anyway.

A little help?

when you send an email to the entire company by mistake. I guess it could have been worse....

So heliocentric has a journal entry right now that he's going to delete soon so that we can all learn what happens to comments when a journal entry is deleted. It's a shame, though, since his requests for comments have yielded some pretty good material.

It'll all be gone soon, though. Then we will be sad.

According to this CNN article, Haitian and Cuban groups are joining in expressing outrage at GTA:VC. Quite ironic, don't you think? The Haitians and Cubans are mortal enemies in GTA:VC, but Rockstar has managed to bring them together in real life.