Yes, I think this is a good point. And for some people spending the money on a device that is simultaneously fancy and limited might provide some incentive to use it. If I plunked down several hundred for this thing, damn straight it would be a statement — partly a statement to myself about what my priorities are.

CONSTANT VIGILANCE. If you’re not on your toes at home, BAM! That’s where they’ll get ya.

Yeah, but most of them go pro early. Good for her for keeping her amateur status.

How that didn’t qualify her for the American Competitive Being Born Into Privilege team I’ll never know.

Sexy, sexy shame

PREACH

PREACH

It’s a purse hook. They used to be installed under many desks and (best of all) under bars. The world is much worse than it used to be. Old man out.

It’s a purse hook. They used to be installed under many desks and (best of all) under bars. The world is much worse…

This is wonderful. I don’t know who’s getting angry about this highly enjoyable contest but they are doing life wrong.

I like that the NBC Universo call makes it sound like the ball was recovered by Los Egos de Philadelphia.

Nice. Now I want to get high and watch a supercut of every time announcers debated the meaning of “catch” during an official review.

I recommend some clear way to mark those loud asshole bandwagon fans from afar. Here in Seattle the “12" jersey works fairly well, helps one keep one’s distance.

These posts are CLEARLY all written by Dan, in a successful effort to get us to admire his hair. Well played, sir. And well groomed.

No, you’re not getting your thousand dollars back.

Today I am a satisfied consumer of internet comments.

Identifying a package pirate is not a high priority for local authorities. Embarrassing clumsy doofuses is. Sometimes they overlap, but it’s just a happy coincidence.

As Neil Postman says, the future is more Brave New World than 1984. Or the future was when Postman wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death. I guess that’s the present now.

Well shoot, now I want that too.

OHMYGOD AND WHAT???? You can’t keep me in suspense on this forever!!!!!

OHMYGOD AND WHAT???? You can’t keep me in suspense on this forever!!!!!

T9 texting was awesome. I enjoyed the serendipity of words that used the same number sequence — “home” and “good,” e.g.

I somehow missed “ok” in my reading of the journal, and I want to thank you for correctly directing my attention to it.