Digital Brainwaves

I don’t have any big entries to present at the moment, so here’s just a stream-of-consciousness entry, bunch of catch-all things I’m thinking about at the moment. I’m numbering the entry in anticipation of doing the same thing again in the future.

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They got him.

Bucky Phillips got pinned down in a wooded area near the PA state line and surrendered to the police Friday night around 8PM.

I’m happy he’s not out terrorizing people anymore, but I’m mildly disappointed that my prediction didn’t come true, as he surrendered, and is still alive.

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John Scalzi’s wife Krissy rocks.

No, I’ve never met her, and she has no idea who I am, but she had no problem putting a drunk in his place Friday night. Then again, if she carried that cluebat all the time, I wouldn’t piss her off, either.

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The commercials are making School for Scoundrels, a remake of a 1960 British film, look really funny, but I haven’t seen any reviews of the new movie yet. Anyone heard anything on it?

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I’m watching The Path to 9/11 while I’m blogging here. I must confess I’m not intimately familiar with every minute detail of what’s supposedly in dispute, but a lot of the stuff that I’ve read about in Wikipedia jibes with what I’m seeing so far. Not all of it is accurate to real life, but this isn’t being presented as an absolute this-is-exactly-what-happened documentary, it’s a drama. Some parts are fictionalized, that’s no secret. Seems like a lot of the more public complaints about it aren’t about the dramatization of what al Qaeda did, it’s about the depiction of the Clinton administration. Kinda makes you wonder if people remember who the bad guys are here.

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Never before have I been so pissed off over winning two picks in a fantasy football pick’em game.

The New England Patriots hosted the Buffalo Bills in the first week of this year’s NFL season. I participate in two groups in Yahoo!’s pick’em game — one involving point spreads, one not. The Bills were listed as nine-point underdogs; for those unfamiliar with point spreads, this means that you can expect Buffalo to lose, but you still pick them over New England if you think they’ll lose by less than 9 points. In my two groups, I picked Buffalo to beat the spread, but lose the game.

I try to make my picks on what I realistically think is going to happen, but meanwhile, having spent my life as a Western NY resident, I’m a Bills fan, and when they have a chance, I want to see my team win. So I was exstatic when London Fletcher picked up a Tom Brady fumble on the first play of the game and ran it into the endzone for a defensive touchdown on the first play, and was in a good mood going into halftime, when Buffalo was leading 17-7. Then came the second half.

Buffalo seemed to do pretty much nothing throughout the second half, allowing the Patriots first to tie the game, then give up a safety to lose the game 19-17.

Un-fucking-believable.

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Yaye falling oil and gas prices!

UPDATE: Evidently, some people are concerned.

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And, finally, why have one wacky story about sex toys when you can have two?

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That’s all for this time. As Glenn Reynolds says to finish off his podcasts, I’ll be back whenever I feel like it.