The Amazing Race 6--"Counting Bears is Not Rocket Science"

Is this the most Scandanavian race ever?

I'm curious what people think about the new Roadblock rule. Teams are going to have to be very strategic about who does what. And at least one team is going to use its stronger member once too often just to survive, I'll bet. And we'll have to see some weakling scale a cliff or something.

Apartment starting to look presentable

It looks a lot better than it did when I took the pictures indexed on this page. I dare say it would even be fit for company, if I wall up the boxes of books still in the office. I'd do that, but I'm waiting for Fortunato to get over here.

The Amazing Race 6--" I'm Not His Wife -- He Doesn't Need to Scream at Me"

Who will be Philliminated...

next?


Edited to add visual representation of below mentioned 5-second pause.

I just thought you ought to know...

Uranus is a low-friction environment. (Read through the whole article).

Is that joke ever going to get old?

The Amazing Race 6--"The Game's Afoot"

Sherlock Holmes never said that in the literature, by the way.

Welcome to the Spoilerrific discussion thread for the Tuesday night, two hour premiere of TAR6.

New Hatblog Feature

Spoilerrific Discussion Threads!

These will be posts specificaly designed for discussion shared entertainment options so that you can post your thoughts free of worry that accompanies e-mails that someone else may not have seen/read it yet. And unlike big ol' generic forums you have some predictability here on who's actually posting.

I had the thought to do this for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (if that ever comes out), but I'm actually going to start with the sixth season of The Amazing Race.(premiering Tuesday night on CBS, 9-11 EST I believe.) So every Tuesday I'll get a post up, with nothing spoileriffic on the front, and then when you get around to watching it on your DVR you can check in and share your thoughts.

Tell your friends. We'll see how this goes. Feel free to initiate in this thread with discussions of this year's teams. For you non-watchers: what the heck is wrong with you?

One of those employees you hate

Tommorrow is Veteran's Day. (Go hug a Veteran.) As a result, NRL is closed. That's right, I'm finally one of those people who gets every federal holiday off. I couldn't go to the base without an after-hours pass, which requires an extra security clearance. I don't care to get that because a) it's a lot of paperwork and b) if I can go to the office on the weekend, I'll sooner or later have to do it. As it stands now, if I try to work later or on the weekend, I get shot. That's a hell of an incentive/excuse not to do so.

There needs to be a word...

For that guilt/conflict you get when you have two opposed, but equally good-hearted, impulses.

As an example, take this article in today's Washington Post (soul-sucking registration required). It tells the story of kids going on diets to make weight-restricted football leagues. (Not always in an unhealthy manner, but still...) The idea behind the weight maximums seems like a good one--keep the kids who hit their growth spurts early from dominating leagues. But if it's encouraging the sort of weight-crashing that leads to horrible physiological practices and even to psychological body-image disorders, it's bad. What's a person to do?

Anyway, I want a word for that.

Ignoreland

I know that this is vitriol, no-solution, spleen-venting.

But I feel better having screamed.

Don't you?

Woohoo!

As expected, they did nothing inside, spent 15 minutes outside and now I have connection. Pardon the Interruption is emanating from my TV screen and I am posting this. I have rejoined the 21st century.