Author Archives: Nik Bronder

Mets Game: New Shirt & Bad Parenting.

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Last night we went to another Mets game and as you can see I’m sporting my new (free) t-shirt. I’m all about the free t-shirt. The Mets ended up killing the Phillies 8-1, with Jose Reyes’ Grand Slam in the fourth inning to more or less put the game away. The seats were great except for two things:

1. The child behind me was screaming for literally 3 innings for cotton candy. This was a nonstop scream, no tears, just screaming. The mother acted as if nothing was happening so I had to use every ounce of will power to refrain from killing the child. The funny thing is if this was a drunk person cursing for three straight innings I have to believe he would be removed. No such luck.

Kiddancing

2. Then there was this kid, who decided it was socially acceptable to dance at every chance. Sorry kid, but I’m predicting a rough next couple of years for you. Download the video here.

Lame Ken, Real Lame.

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Just plain wierd. Ken Jennings’ open letter to Jeopardy:

Dear Jeopardy!,

Hey, I hope you remember me. It’s been a while since we talked. We were a bit of an item a couple years back, in all the papers, but I think we both know that was just a summer thing. The last time we saw each other… well, the magic just wasn’t there. That’s why I don’t mind when I see you with a new special someone. Or two. Nearly every night! I’m sorry, is this sounding passive-aggressive? I don’t mean to badger you. I remember that, when we were together, it seems like all I ever did was nag you with questions.

You can read the rest here but it’s just fucking wierd. How can one question Jeopardy’s lameness when one is Ken Jennings. I’m not really talking about the fact that he wouldn’t be anything without Jeopardy, but more the fact the Ken actually sells a board game such as this:

Ken's Game

I guess when someone wins a over a million dollars on television they can create their own board game. I personally wouldn’t but then again I didn’t just rip Jeopardy for being lame.

Mystery My Ass.

ConED

For the record we didn’t get power back completely until yesterday afternoon. Granted we did get it back for about 5 hours on Tuesday. This relief was short-lived when an explosion near the manholes up the block took everything down again. So today with the power of electricity I stumbled upon this article.
Here are some key lines:

Power company Con Edison initially said fewer than 2,000 customers were affected, but it increased that number tenfold Friday morning to 25,000 customers.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg estimated that would translate to about 100,000 people considering that each “customer” could be more than one household in an area where homes are often sectioned into multiple units, and could even be an entire apartment building.

“The sad thing is, this shouldn’t have happened,” Bloomberg said. “We don’t know why, but the most important thing — make sure nobody dies or gets hurt and then help Con Ed to get it back up.”

Some of our neighbors called ConEd just to be told they wouldn’t even have an estimate for the length of outage till the next morning. The best part, no one worked on our block the entire night of Tuesday. Not one ConEd Guy. As the pictures show our block was literally on fire twice. How could they not be working on our block?

Consolidated Edison spokesman Chris Olert said the revised number followed a block-by-block cable inspection in northwest Queens on Thursday night. It said previous estimates came from the number of customers who called to complain.

I guess this is how the block by block check will go… Genius.