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Don Herbert (aka Mr. Wizard) was one of the biggest influences in my early years as a nerd-in-training being raised by the teevee. His show on Nickelodeon, Mr Wizard’s World, was one of my favorites; it was cool, it was fun, it was smart, it was educational, and it had girls my age on it…
He […]

[UPDATE: Results at the bottom]
Nick Diaz Vs. Gleison Tibau : Nick is on his way out of the UFC, and Tibau is on his way in. I would like to see Nick win again, he has let me down continuously over the last year, but I don’t have any reason to think that […]

So I’m off to the Frak Party!

He died yesterday doing what he loved and what we loved him for. I can’t help but think that that his death, due to a stingray striking him through the heart, was probably the way he would have chosen to go. Certainly better than dying in a car wreck, right?
Steve Irwin, dead at […]

I just wrote a fucking masterpiece of a post here reviewing UFC 62 and then my browser crashed AFTER I finished but before I clicked “publish”.
I’m not writing it again, just going to answer my own question: YES.
(I hate computers)

B. J. Penn gets his wish and will fight Matt Hughes again, even though Penn lost his fight again George St. Pierre.  GSP was to fight Hughes but had to bow out due to a pulled groin [insert masturbation joke here] so (figuratively and literally) big-headed, loud-mouthed Penn gets to lose the second of his […]

[Note: These are notes as from last night as I watched UFC 60 on pay-per-view. I didn’t bother correcting them today.]
The first fight on PPV tonight is The Ultimate Fighter Season One’s Mike “Quick” Swick against recent (and arguably undeserving) title contender Joe Riggs. Swick has gained his nickname because he has […]

You want the Truth? You can’t handle the truth, Dub.
Addressing the reporters, he said, “Let’s review the rules. Here’s how it works. The president makes decisions, he’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Put them through a spell check […]

On Nightline, even.  For almost a whole second.

I don’t like Inside The Actor’s Studio. And by “don’t like” I mean “hate so much that I couldn’t watch 10 seconds of Angelina’s episode”. Yeah, THAT “don’t like.”
But I love Dave Chapelle. That alone wouldn’t be enough (see “Angelina” above) but the episode of Inside the Actor’s Studio with Dave Chapelle […]