Really kind of a Mary-Sue kind of character, too.

Oh, tall side on the left, not the bump on the left, my bad.

That’s the J block. They’ve all been assigned letters: I, O, T, S, Z, L, and J.

Looks great. I wish Mario 64 got the same treatment in its recent rereleases. The game’s got good bones, but it has some rough edges with respect to controls that we could fix with a modern C stick, and I don’t think early 3D graphics have the same sentimental value that pixel art does.

Charge you $30 for $27 in credits that are hard to use along with amenities like WiFi that are free at other hotels. Basically a way to tack an extra $30 onto the room fee that doesn’t show up when comparing rates online.

The grift is more and more out in the open

If you’re into sci-fi, I hope you’ve seen Babylon 5. The political storylines have never felt more relevant.

With Chinese currency, the smallest coin is ¥0.1, one jiǎo. 0.1 CNY = 0.013 EUR. They may not be familiar with the convention of always writing the hundredths place, even if it’s zero, used with euros or dollars, especially if they’re using Google Translate for the menu.

“I was on cargo doing tasks.”

“In cargo?”

“I said what I said.”

Nookie Crisp

Happy Father’s Day!

Now we have two summer holidays

And that’s a bad thing?

That’s an Iranian Water Pipe.

I suppose a cartridge of just SMB1 is somewhat rare; anyone I knew who had an NES had the Super Mario / Duck Hunt multicart, or very occasionally Super Mario / Duck Hunt / Track & Field triple game cartridge from the bundle that included the Power Pad.

Nah, that’s now a cooling pond for a data center.

Gay for not pay

The Fellow of the Ring

The Tower

(Sadly, The Return of the King is already singular.)

It was down Thursday. It came back up overnight.

NJT tickets are normally subsidized by the state government. The Governor asked FIFA to chip in, so the taxpayers aren’t footing the bill for the extra Wold Cup traffic. FIFA refused, so NJT is taking it out on the attendees. (And no, no one believes the state is normally subsidizing $135 per train ticket, this is just revenge for FIFA’s “You should be thankful we’re giving you a game” attitude.)

It’s da bomb