I don't know what it is about the Seahawks, but they seem to be a magnet for bad calls. And I mean BAD calls that resonate for years to come ( Read more... )

While celebrating my mother's 70th birthday and Father's Day on Saturday, we were watching the third round of the U.S. Open. Never the big fan of sports, Kate couldn't help but mock the sport and numerous double entendres -- "gripping his shaft too tight" and "He's having trouble getting it in the hole" were the popular ones for the day -- but did ( Read more... )

Some friends pointed me in the direction of a new game store in Pasadena called Game Empire. It has the tagline, "Land of a Thousand Games", and it is no exaggeration ( Read more... )

I can't stop giggling. :)

Here's a weird one. Not sure if this is legal or not ( Read more... )

Delayed going to work again to watch the USA-Algeria game. It was a tight match throughout, though made exasperatingly excruciating once England scored on Slovenia midway through the first half of their game, which meant that the US had to win; anything less and they were going home (unless Slovenia somehow knotted it up ( Read more... )

It's not often I get upset when a celebrity dies. But Manute's death hit me surprisingly hard. He was one of the truly good people in the world, someone who gave up most of his wealth earned in the NBA to help his countrymen in Southern Sudan when that country went through a terrible civil war in the '80s and '90s ( Read more... )

Here's a prime example of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From ( Read more... )

Always makes me snicker when I see it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhZonH-V4Os

I find it amusing when a geologist uses the words "active" and "dynamic".