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When Jeopardy! came back on the air in 1984, with dashing mustachioed Canadian Alex Trebek as host, I was twelve years old. And when I was twelve years old, I watched an almighty whack-ton of TV. In 1984 my family didn’t have cable, or even a VCR yet, but we all managed to spend a ( Read more... )

I have a bit of catching up to do! I didn't write about last weekend at all, which on a normal weekend would be fine...but lots happened last weekend! I'll break it into parts.

( Part I, Jeopardy! )

In fact I had an awesometastic weekend, but now I'm playing catch-up at work and find myself without sufficient time to blither about it in quite the way I'd like.

So:
1. Jeopardy! audition: awesome. In contestant pool for next 18 months. Wonder what they will do when there is no longer Polaroid film available. I grinned big & stupid for the ( Read more... )

Work is predictably a bit nuts since I was gone for a few days, but nothing major blew up or anything, so it seems under control more or less. That said, it might come back to bite me, but I'm going to take a few minutes to try to ( write the trip up a bit. )

Then taking the Jeopardy! online test may be for you!

Tuesday, January 29 for fellow East Coasters, other regions other evenings.

Hey, I missed out last year because it wound up being the night after I had carpal tunnel surgery, so I'm looking forward to trying it this year.

In an amusing confluence of events, I spent a lot of time talking about Jeopardy! last night with my folks, because my Dad's in the middle of reading Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!. He liked Brainiac better, but he has found things to enjoy in Bob Harris' book as well, such as strategies and behind-the-scenes tidbits ( Read more... )