BTW, times have obviously changed since the days of Bob, what with all the cool LED lights, flatscreens everywhere, and all that high-tech stuff. Back in the day, shit was really ghetto and hammered-together, wires sticking out the back of things... I have a shot of the back of the TPIR podiums and it's all rickety…

I did my TPIR pilgrimage during the Bob Barker era, and the funniest thing to me was how when they would show the photo of the airplane and hotel of a trip prize, some skeezy stagehand guy would come out in jean shorts and a wrinkled t-shirt (might as well have thrown a lit cigarette in the mix for good measure), and…

Gotta love how he took a big ol' pint swig between turns. And yet poor lil' Wade couldn't throw for shit!

Did he really hop a flight from DFW to Houston after the game just so he could appear at some doucheclub?

.fr? ..about as valuable and sensible as .eu or .biz or .info ..

Having attended UNLV, that rule has not worked well for me..

That's why I breathe a sigh of relief that my job isn't nationally televised...

It's funny, my friend calls that "Huauaauahaauah'ing" but did you know there's actually a technical name for that obnoxious style of riff? Meet "Melisma." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melisma

Well, as Caroline had told me, she had made $39503.27 per hour "on the Internet".

My favorite spot in Italy is Cadenabbia di Griante on the coast of Lago di Como; probably the most gorgeous spot in all of Europe I've seen, but Christ the driving is so treacherous... all along the lake there are spots on the road where there is only width for one car, and yet these big-ass buses commandeer the…

Yes, yes, "the company". And what was that company? Oh, Broadcast.com. And what did it do again? And what did Yahoo end up doing with it? Oh, right, nothing at all.

Just so you know, if the $800 question was on the board in Double Jeopardy, it would be a relatively easy one, as in 2001 they doubled the values to $400, $800, $1200, $1600 and $2000. Ao.

Why is it assumed that my post was written in anger and bitter rage? Eh, it's fun to be cunty, especially about Mark Cuban. I've long accepted that Cuban was simply a very lucky fellow who was in the right place at the right time, knew the right people. My original point was that shows introduce him as a "computer…

Yeah! 'Cuz nobody nitpicks about nonsense on Deadspin (especially when it has to do with Mark Cuban!), this place is reserved for mature above-brow discussion and +1s only!

Aww, you mean I'm not gonna get a bunch of your idiotic +1s for Christmas this year? You sure do know how to milk some serious sads on the Internets, there, guy!

It's quite simple, really: First you have to hop in a time machine and go back to 1997. Then you buy up some snappy domain names. Then you propose that you're going to do something badass with it. The luck part comes in someone at Yahoo taking notice to this non-existent "business" and offering ungodly amounts of…

Bitter? Nah. Jealous, fuck yeah, that goes without saying — the most I've ever sold a domain name for was for $5000. It's more like incredulous is the word.

Hey I have a fun question, and it goes somethin' like this:

My go-to run-down Vegas hotel is the horribly and hilariously nasty Gold Spike downtown.

Great piece, John — I've often wondered about the intricacies of how they put those kinds of broadcasts together. One of the things that still mystifies me is how the production crew almost never gets fooled by a trick play and still are able to follow the ball no matter who's carrying it; despite the viewing public…