This movie started looking at the character of Bond in a more human manner, which writers of subsequent movies promptly ditched in favor of increasingly-ludicrous set pieces. The new take on Bond and my total crush on Famke Janssen as a result of this movie make it worth revisiting for me.

Sure. If you can’t be good at your job, you should at least be good at *something.* Apparently the Bears can’t even work up enough energy to make their games with the Packers worth watching.

Jesus, Chicago isn’t even in the top 3? I feel shame now.

Yeah, there’s no way that 2K3 would have been powerful enough to handle full-on FPS-style game play at all 22 positions. It would be fun for a first-person view as the pulling guard in a toss sweep, though. I’d probably end up tripping over the tackle’s back foot and missing my blocking assignment, causing a 3-yard…

One of the 2K Sports football games (maybe 2K3 or something that old) had the option to look through the QB’s eyes rather than the top-down or back judge view. It’s a vastly different experience.

Ah. So that last sentence was directed more toward the manufacturer rather than the individual drivers?

Think about that recent article about Baylor’s defensive scheme. They’re essentially sending in three calls on each play; one for the line, one for the strong side of the ball, and a third for the weak side. Try doing something similar on offense.

You’d hope so, but it sounds like maybe college QB’s are being taught at the level of “when the X’s look like this, here’s the play we’ll run.”

You can get around the WSJ paywall pretty easily—just Google the title of the article. That works most of the time.

I’m not sure that there’s a position on the defensive side of the ball that’s as crucial to the success of the team as the QB is to the offense.

Assuming we’re talking about cars over which the occupant has absolutely no input, I’m not sure you can be legally reckless or negligent. Presumably the car takes the ability to drive either recklessly or negligently away from the driver. If such cars become the norm, I think that “accident law” is going to be…

That’s a pretty decent argument for not holding the “driver” of an autonomous car liable for injuries, but I doubt many US states are going to be willing to let the victims of accidents like this (fender bender or 20-pedestrian mow-down) get left without recourse against *someone.* My guess is that we’ll see laws…

Stage Five: “The Bears Still Suck.”

Here’s some serious evil-genius-level shit. If I were a teacher I would do this just to watch my students’ faces as they start out-thinking themselves.

I think this is the game you would see if they ever played a list of Mike Singletary’s career highlights. I remember a play where he avoided a roughing the passer penalty by not grabbing the QB while taking him down based solely on momentum.

Christ man, don’t ask that question unless you’re ready to hear a bunch of fat middle-aged men spend four hours telling you how the ‘85 defense was the best collection of football players ever to walk the earth.

This reminds me of playing the first version of Flight Simulator without the “CRASH” screen at the end. (And that was literally all it was—the word “crash” on a black screen)

Driving home from my parents’ house in Columbus OH after Thanksgiving weekend some years ago, I stopped for gas in West Lafayette, IN. As I filled the tank, I noticed coolant spurting from the front of my car like it was trying to write its name in the snow. Having close to zero knowledge of cars at this point in my…

There is no debate.

I think I’d accept a few terrible games each year if it would eliminate the virtual guarantee that at least one team each year signs some guy off the street because they’ve lost their entire Week 1 depth chart at a position to injury.