The great altar of active entertainment.

I love my TiVo.
Sometimes my TiVo records the programs it is supposed to record at the times it is supposed to record them. Sometimes my TiVo gets moody and cuts off the last few minutes of very important, educational programs like the Biography of Alexander Hamilton and by the “Biography of Alexander Hamilton” I [...]

Random n@.

1. Officially now, I can no longer even SEE the winner of the Sportsocracy March Madness Challenge. I’m that far away, mired in something like 366th place. Here’s Shiny Quarter, sweating it out, worried, wringing his hands, wondering what is PittGirl going to do to his lame ass.

Voodoo? Juju? A [...]

Gotta love the Fuel Perks.

Giant Overpriced Eagle is complaining that they paid too much for chocolate.
The O’Hara-based grocer claims it was overcharged for $200 million worth of chocolate products between 2002 and 2007.
I should care about this because price fixing is wrong. I should care about this because if Giant Eagle is paying too much for chocolate [...]

Random n@.

1. Tennessee is out of the NCAA championship with a ridiculous loss to Louisville yesterday. There goes my hopes of dominating the Sportsocracy contest. Damn brackets. I frickin’ hate brackets.
2. The Pirates’ Kuwata, who likely would not have made the roster, retired from baseball and was asked to pitch one [...]

My ears never burned, my nose never itched.

Boy, the one week I don’t grab the City Paper from the newsstand and Chris Potter writes this:
This morning, for example, I opened up my Post-Gazette to the Forum section’s “Cutting Edge” feature. Cutting Edge offers a weekly wrap-up of the posts from the wonderfully diverse world of Pittsburgh blogging. But I wasn’t exactly surprised [...]