Join us in discussing Tom Siddell's Gunnerkrigg Court Web Comic in the "Other Reading" Forum.

After [scratches his head] around 15 or so years with the same avatar, the altered UNIX BSD daemon, I figured it was time for a change.



Actually, what happened was that a friend of mine hipped me to a new Web Comic by saying she'd found one with me in it. So checking out the comic, I was enthralled by the work and read the entire thing through. Of course the character she thought I was turned out to be the Trickster. Go fig, but what the hell, I can see some similarities. ;-p

What is this Web Comic? Sheesh, don't you people read my posts.

We try pretty hard not to, Q.

Ah, good point. Well, it's Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell and you should check it out if you're not already familiar with it.

Prost.

There's an article by Alyssa Roenigk over at ESPN Magazine which I've included near the end of this entry in which she states BMX's unpredictability makes it a predictable Olympic success.

I certainly hope so, but if the exposure NBC gave the sport is any indication, it won't be a success. 74 seconds of racing in a 5 minute block not in Prime Time doesn't foster success. That's it, kids. 74 seconds. That was it.

Granted, BMX isn't such a perennial favorite as diving, but compare the coverage of the two. They would discuss each diver before they climbed up the dive platform, they'd show the dive, show the dive again slow-motion, show still shots of the dive, show the dive in slow-motion again, cut to scoring and reaction shots of the diver, then talk about the diver some more.

Now the coverage for BMX. Cut to Costas saying "...and now we go to BMX. I'll be honest, I don't know anything about it. But it's exciting." Then they...

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