Day: March 27, 2012

Eat My Sports: Madden Men

For those of you expecting a rant on modern sports topics this week, I will surely disappoint you. This week we’re going back in time.

What spawned this was the release of MLB ’12. You see, I’ve been an avid videogamer for a while now, and yet baseball is the one sport they just can’t seem to make a decent game for anymore. The last good MLB game came back in 2005. The game was MVP 2005, in fact the game was so good that I hunted down copies for XBox and Playstation 3 just to see if my system had the capability to play previous generation games. I was wrong. But then that got me thinking again about all the lauding the NFL received over the Madden franchise, when in reality, Madden stopped being cutting edge about six years ago. Continue reading Eat My Sports: Madden Men

Will you be enemies with us?

Friends are great and all, but if Facebook is useful for anything, it’s for keeping tabs on exes and enemies. To date, the social networking site has not been eager to support that effort, refusing to issue dislike buttons and increasing privacy settings to foil our reconnaissance.

One app developer, however, is trying to change that. Dean Terry of the University of Texas at Dallas has created EnemyGraph, an app that allows users to mutually declare each other enemies and presumably update you when new pictures indicate they’ve gained weight. You’ll have to hurry, though, because Terry believes Facebook will pull the app in a matter of weeks.

So, in the meantime, will you be our enemy? For all of our crimefighting and adventuring, The Guys are seriously lacking in the nemeses department.

Beware of sea aliens

Just past a year following the earthquake and tsunami that wrecked Tohoku, one of the largest single pieces of debris from the disaster has crossed the ocean, a full-sized commercial fishing trawler. The derelict was sighted about 50 miles off the coast of Canada’s British Columbia province, near the Haida Gwaii islands. Spotter planes found the ship floating upright, intact and seemingly seaworthy but for the extensive rust covering the hull. There were no signs of life aboard the vessel.

Human life, that is.

Contrary to popular belief, the patch itself isn’t “solid enough to walk on”. Much of the debris is submerged and almost invisible. Having watched tons and tons of movies over the course of my life, I have the utmost belief that there is some kind of hidden alien or monster in that vessel, secretly waiting for silly humans to attempt to stumble onto it. Or, the ship has become a lure for some giant angler fish-esque leviathan.

The only safe course of action to do is burn the water. Twice. Just in case.

Wear a raincoat, just trust us

Be glad you don’t live in North Dakota. (And if you live in North Dakota, well, consider moving.)

The state is becoming overrun with trucker bombs, and it’s probably not what you think. North Dakota’s economy is booming, thanks to increased oil production in part of the state. This has led to an increase in truck traffic. The only problem is that there really aren’t any rest stops out there. Instead, truckers decide to relieve themselves in soda bottles and other plastic containers, then toss them out of the truck.

Littering? Sure, but it really sucks for the guy who has to mow the side of the road out there.