Akzidenz-Grotesk is one of Helvetica’s predecessors. This has been my company’s typeface for years now and I still like it.

Back when I was playing COD:MW2 there was a pretty close team deathmatch game I was in, and it was coming down to the wire. I turned the corner and an enemy was prone and facing the other way. I pulled my Semtex grenade and had it pointed at him but decided to toss it right at his butt and that won the match. It was…

My cousin is in the National Guard in Iowa and he was sent with a bunch of other NG to California to make concrete airport runways—so the SEALs could come in and immediately demolish them as an exercise. And my cousin knows nothing about laying down concrete.

You mean in a couch gag next Sunday.

That is so randomly awesome.

Companies are made of and run by people (sometimes awful people) so they do act human in many ways, sometimes by making dumb decisions for all the wrong reasons. Some decisions are made in order to let higher-ups save face, rather than add shareholder value.

At least one of my bullies grew up to be a school administrator. I think that's part of the problem.

They died at the end of the Lone Gunmen series.

Naomi: How's that snaking suit working out?
Snake: I'm nice and dry but this dude's hard to eat as fuck.
Naomi: Bear with it, it's designed to prevent hypothermia.
Snake: WTF are you talking about? This is "Snake Eater," right?

I took my son to the doctor yesterday and it turned out he had the flu. The doctor said exactly this about the flu shot, which none of us have received yet. I'm not sure we will.

I used to throw my SNES controller against the wall whenever I had particularly hard losses in SFII, but it never did break. (It did wear out over time.)

I still think the SNES is the best game system to date.

I often wonder what exactly my blood type is. I'm O-negative but the blood center writes "multiple antigens present" on it and they often give it to a specific person, which I've not heard about before. For a long time it went to one person and then his name stopped showing up on the tags—I don't know if he died or…

I believe "whales" is also the term for heavy rollers in casinos, the ones who find it fun putting $30,000,000,000 on a roulette spin.

Argh, I submitted for this ("I am your father" scene) but didn't make it this year. (I had the last scene for Star Wars Uncut.) Oh well, it was fun to do. I think I'll have a screening party.

Is there a NBA Hang Time ranked list? I'd like to add my team of Wolfman and Sex Magnet.

The author here seems as misguided as Barbara Walters in the 80s. There weren't enough Mario games at the time to make SMB2 feel out of place. Us kids just thought it was fun. And his experience buying video games—like it's a lottery— wasn't my experience. First off, they didn't produce these cards he mentioned: the…

I have the Zelda watch. I remember some weird kid at school stole it and a few days later made the mistake of wearing it to school. $70-100? Maybe I can dig it up....

I tried getting into this game and was very quickly annoyed by the inability to actually hit anything (and I was playing quite a bit of COD at the time). I could have put in more practice time but I just wasn't feeling it.

I'd still be firing up my 600GB PS3, but my brother played it too hot and got a RLOD. I fixed it once but it didn't last too long. Now I don't play games for myself anymore.

I don't know if this is true in other Mario Kart games, but in Double Dash if you're far enough behind to start getting the blue shell then you're too far behind for it to help you in any way.