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Updated on August 31, 2004
		August 23, 2004 Here are a few things that NBC has done to annoy me: 1. Opening Ceremonies: Bob and especially Katie talked over Björk's song written for - and performed (lipsynced) - the very first time at the ceremony, yet all I could hear was Katie telling me what it meant. Sure Björk is a freak and all but she does sing in English . . . let me hear the damn song. 2. Gymnastics. The coverage of qualifications was good addition to the coverage. Especially to learn that both team and individual event qualification is at stake. I'll just illustrate with the men here. During qualifications and team coverage we only saw USA, China, Romania, Korea adn Japan. But when the individual events came, they were littered with other people like the Greek guy that won gold and even a French guy contending. 3. Softball. I guess this became an event because they had to when they took baseball. But it is very clear that this sport does not meet the requirements. Not even Canada can field a team. How can anyone get excited about the pounding that the USA is putting on people? It is worse than when we sent Dream Team 1! --David
		1. We suspect that NBC was too busy trying to get a camera under Bjork's dress to actually bother listening to her song. 2. While obviously we too would like to see entire events with all of the participants, we kind of have to side with NBC, here. There is literally no way they could show all of any one event during their prime time coverage. Yes, NBC tends to lean towards showing the Americans, but that's where most of their audience is. This is unfortunate, but necessary. 3. No Canadian team? Au contraire! In fact, their star pitcher goes to school just up the road from us. Now, just because Canada fielded a team doesn't mean they were any good, but that's another story. As for Team USA's dominating performance, well, they deserved it. Remember, just four years ago in Sydney, USA Softball lost three games. The world was catching up with them, so they practiced harder and got better. And this year, just three Olympics removed from Dream Team 1's tremendous success, Dream Team 4 was lucky to win bronze. If other countries are willing to make the effort, they can catch up.
		August 27, 2004 Team Rockwood, Congratulations on recognized by a major publicationbeing for your efforts. I knew all your hard work breaking down Olympic coverage would pay off one day. At least the mis-quoted www.rockwood.comic.com isn't some porn site (your mom would be so disappointed)! Keep up the good work... ----Paul
		Want to know the other bad thing about that article? A quote: "His average breakdown of the four-hour show: events, 2 hours, 44 minutes; ads, 1 hour, 18 minutes; and meaningless fluff, 48 minutes. " Whoops! That adds up to four hours and 50 minutes, which is pretty impressive for a four-hour show. We think he was taking figures from the 2000 Olympic Watch. That's some quality journalism right there!
		August 27, 2004 Traditionally (having bought each yearly calendar Rockwood IS officially a tradition!), your Family Circus spoof cartoons are the only Rockwoods I haven't enjoyed, but Friday's cartoon was funny! Good one! I could see them actually publishing that in the real Family Circus! No wait - please don't be insulted! It was meant as a compliment! Heck, if we all enjoyed the same brand of humor we'd all be stuck reading Cathy every day. (Is she still hanging around the station's bar or has the newt finally gotten her?) Ok - I'm off to try and figure out how the cast of the Rockwood, who know they are in a comic, actually also draw the comic (forcing Billy to take over as guest artist when they leave for the Olympics). And if that means "Brian Lundmark" is really Will's nom de plume? But when Brian went to the Olympics wasn't Will still on the station? "Ack!" my brain hurts... --Brian #3 (who has had way too little sleep this week)
		You think it hurts now? Try this...everything we say is a lie! Illogical! Illogical!
		August 27, 2004 Ok...a couple of things. #1 Doesn't Billy's mom look, well, more like a guy than a female? Is this something like Nathan Lane's character in The Birdcage? #2 Bill must be doing VERY well, judging by the size of his kitchen. Now, just going by the width of the counter from where "Mom" is at and the counter facing us, using the standard measurement for kitchen tile, the floor is 13' wide. This shoots the "Two meter dash" message down; since the kitchen is 3.964 meters across, and his starting point is roughly 2 tiles back from the counter measuring point(if that is his starting point), then he did the 4.5 meter dash AND drew a comic. He deserves a medal. Unless of course Bill had a custom floor put in and each tile is only .47 feet long, then the two meter thing would work. Of course, mom would only be 3 feet tall! --Bad Panda
		Wow. And we thought we had too much time on our hands. We suppose that's all true, Panda, but Bil Keane has always been accused of being notoriously bad with perspective. This is just our tribute to that. Yeah, that's it.
		August 30, 2004 What's with all the links you have had recently that automatically fire up w/ lots of sound? I wile away lots of time at Rockwoodcomic.com (including a whole mess of time in the Olympic Watch) while I am supposed to be contributing to the economy with efficient and purposeful working at my job. Since my employer uses VoIP for phone and voice-mail, I have the computer speakers turned up for the occasional real work that I may actually have to do if the bosses walk by and they (the speakers, not the bosses) suddenly blare out the music/commentary from the web wave files on some of your links. How embarrasing for me. My point: Would it be better to: a) request you don't link to spontaneous sound bites OR b) request you label spontaneous sound links on your page, OR c) quit my job and move back w/ my parents where I can surf their cable modem without fear of reprisal? BTW excellent job on the Olympic coverage. Even though you watched so I didn't have to, I still tuned in and agreed w/ your commentary. --Rather be Surfing
		See? This is why we love reader feedback! Honestly, RBS, we'd never considered that before. While we strive to make sure that all links are "safe for work," we'd never really thought of noting that some of them would make sounds. From now on, we'll just add the word "(sound)" behind a link. You know, like this (sound). Enjoy!
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