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Updated on February 28, 2006
		February 21, 2006, Ack! Did I send that (last letter) as Anonymous??? Bleh! Still, you don't owe me a new keyboard (it's not like it is made of smores or anything ;) --Spike
		Well, Spike, just don't put that Smores keyboard next to an overclocked CPU, otherwise you might have a big melted pile of goo on your desktop.
		February 24, 2006, You might be from the eighties/getting old if... someone says "Rock Stars" and you think "Dire Straits" You might be an engineer if... You had to look up the name "Dire Straits", because as far as you're concerned, that song and video were made by "Weird Al". --Brian #3
		Obviously, we wouldn't consider Dire Straits the biggest rock stars of the 21st century, Brian, but the joke really doesn't work any other way. We're a slave to the humor!
		February 26, 2006, I understand that it isn't all about the medals... but a "rebel/bad-boy" that doesn't win (any medal - not just gold) is just another idiot. But, nobody is a total waste... they can always serve as a bad example to the younger generation. I was obviously pulling for team USA... but I just couldn't stomach the over-hyped Bode. --Spike
		The ironic thing is that the same media that built Bode up leading into the Games, felt no hesitation in tearing him right back down. Miller still needs an attitude adjustment, but we do feel a little sympathy for him in that he was naive enough to believe that the media wouldn't turn on him. He could indeed serve as a bad example. Future Olympians! Heed the tale of Bode Miller! When someone touts you as the next big thing, wait until you get the medal before you agree to shoot the magazine cover.
		February 26, 2006, Team Rockwood: It's been awhile since I last wrote in, but something with the Olympics Watch got my attention. DUDE, YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE! Okay, that's off my chest. Now, if memory serves me, I recall you stating at one point you didn't want real advertising on www.ROCKWOODCOMIC.COM. So, why do you have Go ogle ads on your Olympics Watch webpage? I assume you aren't making very much money off of them, but I did do my part by clicking on the links for about 5 minutes. (I want half the revenue). Anyway, back to filling my life with useless facts as I continue reading your Olympics Watch stuff. --Leif
		Leif, we plan on getting out more now that the Olympics are over. As for your ad comments, they're half accurate. What we really said is that we didn't want pop-up ads --which are from the devil himself-- and that we weren't big fans of banner ads. We didn't like banners because so many of them were poorly written that they would actually slow the page loading times down, and we didn't want to compromise our load times for the measly pittance we were going to get from the ad revenue. That said, those were different times. We get more than 10 times the number of hits now than we did then, and through Google's ad program we think we can actually break even with Rockwood instead of losing money. Plus, since the ads are all text, they add almost nothing to the load time. Someday in the far future, when we at Team Rockwood get around to redesigning the rest of the site, we'll probably include a space in the format for advertising. The Olympics Watch pages were a testbed to make sure we could live with the results on a small scale. And while the payment we're getting out of it is definitely "small scale," it's at least more than we were getting before, i.e. it will let the cartoon pay for itself, and that's more than it's doing now.
		February 27, 2006, NBC's Final Olympic Day I know your Olympic Watch is limited to the prime time coverage, but did you know that NBC had scheduled a two hour program to cover the 50K Cross Country starting at 4pm ET on Sunday? Oh joy, I thought, finally an event that will get it's full due. They won't be chopping this too much, I thought, knowing that it takes just a little over two hours to complete the 50K for Olympians. To my great horror, the program turned out to be a "review" of the figure skating at these Olympics. The 50K ended up getting 18 minutes or so of airtime, sqeezed in between Vernon Baker and The CC and interupted by Sam Sullivan. Don't get me wrong, the Vernon Baker story is a great and inspiring story, and one that needs to be told. But it is not an Olympic story. If NBC wants to tell it, they should give Brokaw an entire evening to tell it. Otherwise, leave it to the History Channel. I was so happy about the NBC coverage and then they @#$%@ the last day! --DH
		We did not know about the early skiing coverage, DH. However, even if we had, we probably wouldn't have watched. After all 64 hours of Olympic watching in two-and-a-half weeks is plenty (well, we did sneak in some afternoon hockey games here and there). The sad thing is that NBC has actually showed marked improvement in their Olympic coverage over the past six years, but they keep blowing the final day. It's like a gymnast that can't stick the landing.
		February 27, 2006, Re: Jim Rockwood's comment (fourth letter). I don't think I was being original, it is in the URL afterall: http://www.rockwoodcomic.com/rockmail.html --DH
		True that, but we'd never before considered making "Rockmail" the official title. We're still waffling, but you never know what will happen.
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