Disappointment

I kind of said yesterday that I didn’t want to know the details.  And now that I do, I just find myself very disappointed. 

And now, I’m moving on.

In addition for his family, I do feel sorry for the federation- they have to find a way to bounce back from all of this, and they’re going to be getting a ton of bad press in the near future.

So Long, Crippler

Iron Mike called me about three hours ago to tell me Chris Benoit died. At the time, the idea was incomprehensible, and it doesn’t make much sense now, either.

For the last year or so, Benoit was the main reason I still watched wrestling. Sure, the Rock, Jericho and Austin moved on from active competition, but Benoit was still wrestling and carrying people with one-tenth his talent to great matches nightly.

And now, in some event, from some causes that I’m not sure I want to know, he and his family are gone.

At least I still have all those old matches on tape or DVD somewhere.

And this is still my greatest moment as a fan:

Fun in the sun

With temperatures in the last few days reaching the mid-90s, I think it’s safe to say that summer’s here.

I’m almost tempted to watch my local news to see if they run my favorite story- the reporter who locks him/herself in a car to see how long one (in the place of a child or pet) can stand being in a car in the hot weather.

It’s an amusing story, but not enough to get me to watch.

In Soviet Russia, Missile Commands YOU!

One summer, growing up, I once made the top score on a game of Road Blasters at an arcade in Lake George, New York.

The next summer, my initials were still at the top of the list (but they were gone the next summer). I’ve spent a lot of time playing video games, both in the arcade and at home. But I never realized until today how good I had it.

Wired.com just posted an interesting feature about Soviet-era arcade games. There’s a photo gallery containing some of the game cabinets and one or two screenshots. It might just be their dilapidated state, but these games look bad.

What’s more, according to the article, these communist timewasters did not have high score lists:

“That kind of competition wasn’t encouraged,” explains Alexander Stakhanov, one of the museum’s founders and engineers. “If you got enough points you won a free game, but there was no ‘high score’ culture as in the West.”

Looking back, some of the games in our arcades years ago are primitive. But they were light years ahead of Adventures of Comrade Marioski in Capitalist Land.

LOST withdrawal

It’s been two weeks since the last new Lost until February.

To help hold you over, here’s a nice little blend of Lost (season 2 flavor) and some Weird Al:

Thank you, bobville.com!