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After watching the premiere on Sunday night, I’m happy to say I’m not disappointed. The gameplay was quick, concise, simple and easy-to-follow. Celebrity partners Rachel Ray and Neil Patrick Harris were surprisingly competent when it came to giving and receiving clues, and Regis kept his dialogue mostly to the game.

I read about the format a few weeks before the show aired, and I was skeptical since it’s completely different from the previous 2 versions of Password (Password Plus and Super Password) in that the main game is not the 5-word password puzzle. Regardless, I do like the new format, as the old format would be too slow to attract and keep viewers nowadays (why do I feel like an old fogy using the word “nowadays”?)

As always, when I watch game shows, I like to yell at the TV when players make terrible decisions. The second guy to play for the money decided to risk his $100,000 for $250,000 after seeing what the first 5 words would be. I expected him to get the first 4, but the 5th word, “corner”, would be too risky, and without knowing the 6th and final word, I told the TV that he should take the $100K. Of course, he got the first 4, missed corner, and had to get Neil Patrick Harris to say “fiasco” using only 3 clues in 40 seconds. Of course, he didn’t get it, like I thought he would. He left with a measly $25,000. What a jerk.

So yes. Million Dollar Password is the goods.

This.

Reading this made me sick.

Bullet points:

• Government contractors are ridiculously corrupt. They spend money just for the sake of it, so that the federal government can reimburse them plus pay them 3% of the spent amount (“cost-plus” contracting.)
• A contractor spent $72 million constructing a police college.  The building was so poorly constructed, the ceilings were reeking of human waste, and a brown substance dripped onto the arm of an army auditor during an assessment of the site.
• Contractors will send technicians to sites and have them do things they are unqualified to do (i.e. send an air conditioning tech to fix Humvees, and later, have him fix ACs without the proper tools.)
• Waste of resources (dumping thousands of nails into the desert because “they were too short” and burning a truck because it had a flat tire and no tools in which to change the flat.)
• When a tech gets injured in the war zone, canceling his health insurance and not paying any bills whatsoever, leaving the near-crippled man with a large stack of bills and no way of earning the money to pay for pain meds or the bills.

So sick.

You are all probably aware of my job and what it entails. Most of my stories are about the stupid people I have to deal with on a daily basis. The following story, however, contains a lot more to be scared at than just technical ignorance.

The only preface I will give you is that the title of the livejournal entry is a good hint as to what you can expect.

From the techsupport LJ community: Hookers, Pitbulls, Weed, Meth, Beer, and Screaming

Will Farrell is fantastic, as is the actress that plays the landlord. Her mastery of the craft is apparent, and I think we all can learn from her.

In the latest entry, you can read about how I donked off (translation for the poker illiterate: lost in amateur fashion) 3000 tournament chips in one hand.  Yay? No.  Not yay.  This is the direct opposite of yay, whatever that is.

Last year, the Kansas State Board of Education voted to require the teaching of Intelligent Design (creationism) in the science classes of public schools within the state. In response, the creator of the above web site founded the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a diety who created the world starting with the mountains, the trees and a midgit (sic). See the picture.

Baseball goodness and NES goodness. Fantastic stuff coming from both a Mets fan and a fan of old-school NES. Length of video: 8:30.