I really shouldn’t alienate users of the SNY.tv blog network, but click over to ZagsBlog to read one of the most obscene overblowings of all time. I’m sorry, sir: Did you just compare Leprechauns to AIDS?
Amazing comments-section sanctimony
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Funny prank I wish I could claim
Apropos of nothing other than the discussion of fast-food burgers in the comments section of the last post:
On Grand Ave. in Baldwin, not far from where I grew up, there are a McDonald’s and Burger King about a half mile from each other.
A few years back, my buddy Mike and a couple of his friends had a clever idea.
They went to Burger King and bought a Whopper. One of them stuffed the Whopper in his jacket pocket and they went to McDonald’s and ordered, among other things, a Big Mac.
They sat down in the dining area with their food, then Mike returned to the counter with his Big Mac box and asked to see the manager.
“Ahh, yeah… I ordered a Big Mac, but I got a Whopper,” he said, opening the box to reveal the Whopper he had stuffed inside, complete with — naturally — various ingredients that do not match those served at McDonald’s.
Here’s where it gets awesome:
The manager didn’t doubt him in the slightest. He just picked up the box, walked back into the kitchen, and without any irony shouted, “Who’s makin’ Whoppers back here?”
Apparently you shouldn’t turn your back on a llama
Llamas are hilarious and I’m off to Citi Field.
Robot sucks at making pancakes
I mean, eventually it gets the hang of it, but c’mon. Thus far the machines aren’t doing a whole lot to inspire fear. I find it hard to believe there’ll be fully operational terminators by 2029.
The arrow-key thing is fixed
So is the less frequently reviled Ctrl+F thing. Return to your preferred method of scrolling through this site. I appreciate your patience, and a big shoutout to Matt Cerrone for his heroic efforts in figuring that out.
UPDATE: The arrow-key thing is not fixed. I thought it was, and I swear it was working on my computer, but apparently it persists. Someday.
In lieu of more stuff, here’s Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking all autotuned and such
I’m off to Yankee Stadium, hoping to chat math with Brian Bannister. You’ve probably seen this already, but that shouldn’t make it any less awesome:
Whale pwns sailboat
From the Daily News. The early lede in this story read, “Call me Squish-mael.”
The Eddy Curry Fat wheel revisited
In the survey, a couple of people asked for the origin of the Eddy Curry Fat wheel on my desk in the image above. I’ve actually posted about it before, way back in the earliest days of the blog. But since I’ve picked up a few readers since then I figured I’d rehash the discussion.
The Eddy Curry Fat wheel was a prop for an episode of The Nooner from when SNY’s Studio B was under construction. The Nooner, if you’re unfamiliar, was a web sports/comedy series I co-wrote that wrapped for good in March.
Here’s the episode, in which I very badly needed a haircut and former SNY digital sales guy Joey Pops steals the show:
And because I enjoy it, here’s the next day’s episode, which also features me, and which very few people other than me have ever found funny:
Much obliged
I wanted to put up a quick post to thank everyone who filled out the survey yesterday. It turns out people who read this site seem to really like this site, which makes sense. Selection bias is awesome for the ego. Plus there were a lot of solid suggestions and constructive feedback, some of which I will use and more of which I will intend to use and then end up forgetting about for a while, and then much later be all, “oh yeah, that was a really good idea,” and maybe doing it then.
Anyway, the results kinda came out exactly how I hoped they would. Most of y’all appreciate the Mets stuff but also seem to enjoy the site for all the other things I pass along, especially things pertaining to Taco Bell.
That’s good. I kind of wanted to make sure I wasn’t upsetting the base by not focusing as heavily on the Mets lately, what with Sandwich Week and all. Seems like I didn’t. Or I was writing so much about sandwiches that those people all left and didn’t fill out the survey, in which case, you know, good riddance. This was never intended to be exclusively a Mets blog; it just so happens that I spend a lot of time thinking about the Mets. That’s not changing anytime soon.
And if you appreciate the site as much as you say you do (most of you), please tell your friends, family, co-workers and romantic interests. I am extremely grateful for everyone who ever reads this blog, but the bigger the readership, the more cool things I’ll be able to convince people to let me do to inspire fresh content here.
Your continued feedback is welcome. Email me whenever at tberg@sny.tv or use the contact form up top. Just don’t do it today because our email is still broken thanks to the aforementioned Internet issues. So, you know, tomorrow or something. Also, we’re fixing the arrow-key thing. Soon. I swear.
Fail
Remember when I said I’d be back with “plenty more” this afternoon? You’ll probably have to downgrade that to “some more” or even “just a bit more.”
We got back from Yankee Stadium to find our office’s Internet down. It wasn’t an SNY thing and it had nothing to do with last night’s failures (I asked); apparently the whole building is out.
I’m set up at the studio now, which is good. My e-mail’s not working but I’m online. It turns out when you’re a web editor, there are very few ways to do your job without access to the web. I called Salfino back. That was about it.
Anyway, the upside to all this — and really the only reason you should care — is that the absent dude whose desk I’m using at the studio is apparently something of a Tsuyoshi Shinjo fan. I don’t know if he knows about ShinjoQuarters, but I hope he doesn’t mind that I snapped several photos of his bobblehead (that’s a Shinjo card over the Shinjo bobblehead’s left shoulder).
Tedquarters 