Which superhero would you be?  Note that this only applies to Marvel superheroes, so you can't be The Tick.

I got Nightcrawler, which I expected since I opted for 'teleportation' as my super power:


Speaking of superpowers, who the heck wants "Breathing under water" as a super power?  Unless you just want to do some parlour tricks, that's the most useless power ever!  Okay, so you can stay underwater.  What's down there?  Any robberies happening?  Potential babes to be saved?  Um, no.  Hello, ain't nobody down there with you!  You wanna pick a power that has some real use.  Like teleportation.  Teleportation beats everything.  EVERYTHING.

Eye beams?  Destroying shit ain't helping people.  Wall climbing?  I'll call you when I need my windows cleaned.  Super strength?  Not bad, 'cept it ain't gonna stop any bullets.  Teleportation is the way to go - dodge bad shit that's coming your way, zero commute time, insane multi-tasking abilities.  Potential uses of teleportation are endless.  What's not to like?

Teleportation pwns.

Nike and Adidas have really outdone themselves with their latest basketball related web sites.  Check out their latest sweet flash sites:

• TMac 4 - be sure to watch the commercials
  
• Lebron and the Castle of Fear (click the Castle of Fear link)

The Nintendo DS will be hitting the stores on November 21, and what a piece of technology this baby's gonna be.

The most obvious feature is the two screens (DS stands for Dual Screen).  Gaming with 2 screens could be really, really well done.  Moreover, the lower screen is actually a touch screen interface, which holds even more gaming potential.  But beyond the gaming, the touch screen means that the DS has some Palm Pilot style functionality.  Not that I plan to use any of the productivity tools, but it'll make it easier to justify the purchase.  :)  The DS will also be backwards compatible, always a good feature on any new gaming system.

The biggest feature for me, though, will be the built in wireless networking.  Advance Wars DS, played wirelessly??  Whaaaaaaaaaaat.

EB is offering a trade in package for your current Game Boy Advance, and I'm sorely tempted, if only for the wireless networking.  However, not a lot of games will be available when the DS releases, and I just can't live without Advance Wars 2... I'll probably pick up a DS when Advance Wars DS comes out.  I look forward to busting up Al in our apartment... wirelessly.

One game that will come out early is Feel the Magic XY/XX.  Good attempt to incorporate the touch screen feature of the DS, but what a piece of crap this looks like! 

EBGames.com has more details about the Nintendo DS as well as a list of games coming out.

The Red Sox's historic victory over the Yankees is possibly the greatest sporting achievement I'll witness in my lifetime.  With the history between the two ball clubs, the drama of the extra inning games, coming back from being down 0-3, I can't think of anything else that would beat it.

Except for Ben Johnson.


Ben Johnson's victory at the '88 Seoul Olympics, where he crushed American legend Carl Lewis and a host of the best sprinters of the time, was similar in magnitude of accomplishment.  It was not a best-of-seven event, of course, but it was performed at an Olympic final, the sporting world's grandest stage, and Ben Johnson shattered the world-record by finishing in 9.79 seconds.  In fact, his time has only been bettered by Colin Montgomery, who ran 9.78, in 2002.  It took 14 years to become faster then Ben Johnson!  (Please don't give me an argument about Ben's steroids use nullifying his time - everybody uses steroids but nobody beat his time in 14 years)  I would rank Ben Johnson's victory as the greatest sporting achievement of all time but for the steroid scandal that followed.

I'm guessing the Greek contigent are going to chime in with the Greek victory in this summer's European Championships in soccer, and while that is indeed an amazing accomplishment, I don't think it's as great as the Red Sox - no Curse was overcome, no history, and it was a single game.

The Boston Red Sox make history.  They become just the third team in best-of-seven history to win the series after losing the first 3 games.

Pedro called the Yankees his daddy, Shilling goes down with an injury, and the Sox got absolutely crushed in game 3.  And of course, there is (was?) The Curse.  So much to overcome.

Yet they somehow did it.  2 dramatic extra inning wins, Curt Schilling making good on his second chance,  Johnny Damon has a Game 7 performance for the ages.  What a comeback.  What a series.  All this against the Yankees?  Just wow.


Red Sox Nation, rejoice.

AEK's comment link is sooo funny I just had to post it here:

http://www.leftcorner.com/swg/ff/ff6.htm

Actually I'll be living rather than sitting, it's Lake Ontario rather than a bay, and it's more like an apartment building rather than a dock, but "Living in an apartment building down by Lake Ontario" just didn't have the same ring to it.

At the end of October I'll be moving down to the Harbourfront on Queen's Quay about a block east of Spadina.  I'll be splitting a 2 bedroom unit with Alex, so there'll be lots of comics and movies in my future.  ;)

The building has a great gym (any bets on how many times I actually use it?  17?  5?), a pool table and sauna room (that would be a  single room for both pool table and sauna - perfect for those times when you just can't decide between playing pool and sitting in a sauna), rooftop patios with running tracks and BBQs for their tenants, and two bikes that you can sign out for use.

The building also has a little pond in front that leads out to Lake Ontario itself, and there are two canoes that you can sign out!

"Live in a apartment building with canoes available for sign out" - scratch number 72 off my Life's To-Do List.  :)

If you are what you eat, then I'm a LOT of turkey.  Saturday night - turkey with home-made-from-scratch-by-Henry clam chowdah.  Sunday night - turkey with Honey Glazed Ham.  Monday night - turkey with... uh, just turkey, actually.

If you need me, I'll be napping for the entire week...

Check out the Evolution of a Programmer.

I got a headache reading the Master Programmer code.  :)

Cracked open a new 130 mL tube of Colgate Total (with the Fresh Stripe) this morning; let's see just how long it will last me.

Prediction: 147 days.  Actually, I'm not going anywhere on vacation in the next few months, so make that 136 days.

Woah.  Check out these rotating optical illusions*, and these, too.

* warning: pregnant women, the elderly, the mentally unstable, and those who are very busy should not view illusions

Sheldon Lai will be drinking wine, eating a fine selection of cheeses from around the world, and rubbing elbows with the likes of Robert J. Sawyer, Douglas Coupland, and Margaret Atwood at a swanky book release party some day, but before he becomes too big to acknowledge us little people, read his first published work of fiction, a short story entitled The Light(switch) at the End of the Tunnel.

Congrats on getting published, Shel!!!

I saw THE coolest thing this weekend:

Leather Rhino Ottoman!

Reiner's Originals makes a whole zoo of animal ottomans, but at $260 a pop, they're slightly out of reach.  The Hippo looks more like Don Cherry's dog Blue than a hippo...

And check out this leather rhino:
I think SWAT should use this to batter down doors - scare the crap out of cokeheads sitting in their hidey hole with a rhino busting down the door...