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February 23, 2010,

Heh, sorry, it's been awhile since I was an undergrad!

The pregnancy reference.

The Imhotep reference.

(I thought you had probably seen this since it seems to fit your humor!)

--Crabtree

Confusion explained, Crabtree! We actually hadn't seen the "Look Around You" video series before, but you're right about Team Rockwood's enjoyment of it. And we're actually incredulous that we, of all people, somehow managed to miss a story on a pregnant Olympic athlete.

That said, this just goes to show the importance of showing your work! While Team Rockwood is much-knowing and much-seeing, we're not all-knowing and all-seeing. We love it when people provide links to things they think might interest us. Thanks!

 
February 23, 2010,

I didn't want to be another person to ask you for an RSS feed. Instead, I made one.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/RockwoodComic

--Mark W

Awesome! Thanks, Mark! Once we wind down from our Olympic ordeal we'll stick a button on the front page so other people can easily link to it. Those of you who are here now can just click and link to it right away!

 
March 1, 2010,

Actually, I didn't stay up late enough to see that NBC cut off the end of the closing ceremonies, but it doesn't surprise me. Too exhausted after the nightly, hour long battle with my 2 year old getting him to STAY IN BED.

But I am annoyed at them for Saturday. I am not sure exactly what they were thinking, but Saturday afternoon they stopped covering Olympics and started an endless fluff piece about 9/11 and how it related to Canada, I guess. I am not sure what it was exactly about, after a while we muted the TV and waited for sports to return. After what seemed like an hour, maybe it wasn't quite that long, I finally just turned off the TV.

Usually Olympic fluff is annoying, cloying, "touchey-feeley-good" pieces. But this was even worse. 9/11 is to news programs what Nazi/Hitler references are on the internet (the old usenet joke), or it should be. ie the ultimate conversation-stopper, where they end up all too often.

And "The Marriage Ref?" - ugh. From the ads, it looks to me like Jerry Springer, except it isn't even trying to pretend to be anything other than a comedy show that is exploiting and mocking its guests. Reality TV at its worst. Once again, what is NBC thinking????

--Bobby

NBC, thinking? Ha ha ha ha ha! That's your first mistake right there, Bobby!

Just to satisfy our curiosity, we wanted to see how many NBC primetime shows we actually watch. On NBC's website, we counted 18 primetime shows in their "current shows" listing. Out of those, Team Rockwood only watches two of them, "The Office" and "30 Rock." Ouch!

The sad reality is that the people in charge of NBC are creatively stagnant and don't appear to recognize talent when they see it. They keep ordering "Law & Order" spinoffs because they don't know enough to go out and find something creative. As with everything on television, this is cyclical and eventually they'll figure it out, but for right now their down cycle extends from programming all the way through Olympic-fluff generation. Hopefully they'll figure it out, soon.

 
March 1, 2010,

Another great Olympic Watch.

The giant hamster ball is I guess called a Zorb Ball. Here is a link to Peter Gabriel using on in his Growing Up Live tour.

Very cool concert too - take "theater in the round" to a new meaning.

--Carl

Interesting, Carl! And for those of you in New Zealand or the Great Smokey Mountains, you can go try out a Zorb for yourself!

 
March 1, 2010,

After two weeks of, I believe, excellent coverage of the Winter Olympics, NBC cuts away from the closing ceremonies to show "The Marriage Ref"? Really? That's just a sign of how far the once dominant network has fallen (I would certainly hope that CBS or ABC would not have done the same thing--I can't speak for FOX).

Setting aside that "The Marriage Ref" was an absolutely TERRIBLE show (that, yes, I watched--in hopes that the rest of the closing ceremonies would immediately follow), this was a truly classless act by the network. *sigh*

Oh...by the way...did you realize that the planet-oribiting-spinning-thinger behind the word "Promote" at the top of your web-pages isn't synchronized with the rest?

--Scott

The Olympics on Fox? Just the thought gives us chills, Scott. But like you, we think that most of NBC's coverage this year was very good. We'll have a full recap of the entire Olympic Games in a couple of days after we've caught up on our sleep.

As for the "Promote" button, in reality, none of those buttons are synched up. They're all individual GIF elements, so their rotation is dependent on how fast your browser loads up one over the other. Our guess is if you reload your browser, they'd all be spinning at the same speed. Still, at any given time it is possible that they're not synchronized, so consider yourself to have sharp eyes for picking that out!