Day: August 16, 2011

Eat My Sports: Fantasy island returns

With three weeks to go until the start of the regular season, I’ve found myself in a new unaccustomed spot of being involved in multiple fantasy leagues. Last year I was involved in three, but this year all three have returned with a potential fourth. I’m not going to go over the semantics of how having multiple leagues can completely screw up your drafting philosophy, or bye-weeks, or who you play on a weekly basis. No, I’m spread thin now because I have to come up with names for all these teams.

The SeriouslyGuys are involved in a league with some guys from college, it’s not really much competition because our draft usually involves a handle of Jack and not really giving a crap about drafting Wes Welker in the third round. Anyways, after last year’s Green Bay Is On The Guest List (don’t ask about the inside joke), this year we have landed with The Jacksonville Jackuars. My team is ready to stumble to victory … or the concessions. Continue reading Eat My Sports: Fantasy island returns

Spoiler Alert: The entire Internet

Not to give away the conclusion of this research study from the University of California at San Diego, but it appears that spoilers might not ruin stories or films. The researchers found that giving away the ending actually enhanced the first viewing experience of some subjects, in fact.

This is why The Guys took a vote  (sorry, Chugs) and decided to spoil the plot to the original Terminator movie for those of you that started with T2 and never looked back: John Connor is not the same John Connor that Kyle Reese made.

Well, he is now. (And by “now,” we mean T3 and Terminator Salvation now.)

It turns out at the very end of The Terminator that the original John Connor sent the original Terminator back to stop Kyle Reese from having sex with his mom. Reese wanted to command the human resistance and figured the only way to beat Connor at his own time travel game was to become his own grandpa.

And that is why each sequel to T2 feels a little more and more like date rape.

You’re welcome.

I’d probably go with anything by OMC myself

A convenience store (the last bastion of acceptance when all you want to do is get loaded plastered drunk inebriated buzzed in their happy zone) in Columbus, Ohio, has decided to start playing classical music in the store, all in the hopes of getting rid of the less than preferred customers.

Reportedly, it seems to be working, but it can’t for long. See, in my neck of the woods, we have a grocery store called The Fresh Market, and all it plays is classical music. Not only do you get stuck having to pay high prices on odds and ends and “organic soy fresh free-range turkey intestine from Argentina,” but you also have to watch out for old people that apparently cannot properly drive half-carts.

Look forward to that, random convenience store!

Talk about hammering down on the pedal

There’s a new car source on the planet, and it’s ready to put gasoline in its place! The name of the energy source: Thorium.

Thorium is a heavy metal, barely radioactive, natural element that is three times more abundant than uranium. Yes, it’s used as a nuclear source, but let’s focus on that aforementioned characteristic: barely radioactive. It’s theorized at the moment that’s it not enough to give someone radiation poisoning, but as always, we’ll need willing participants to give it a shot first. Nonetheless, Laser Power Systems wants to give it a shot at powering down the highway.

The technology seems promising enough at the moment and there’s nothing like something that can give fossil fuels a break (if they’re not already run out by the time thorium can be used). But let’s not get too happy yet: for the most part, it’s nothing more than a really efficient battery.

Still, if thorium gets me one step closer to driving the Spider-Mobile, then I am all about it.