The coach of the Saints is now coming out against guns calling for more regulation because he hates guns.
This despite the fact that the shooter didn’t have a carry permit and was in fact breaking the law by just owning a gun in the first place. If he was breaking half a dozen laws just by having bought the gun and carrying it, not to mention the laws against ramming other cars, and shooting people, what’s another gun law going to do?
How do these solutions help anyone? How about you work with your players on conflict resolution and non-violent responses to tense situations?
Not to mention something seems off here, as Will Smith was coming from a dinner with one of the policemen that was involved in the pretty shady shooting of the shooter’s father.
Yeah I don’t get this mentality either. I think it’s human nature to want to Do Something after an even like this, even if it’s completely ineffective. It makes the masses feel better/safer even if they aren’t.
If you read the Sinfest comic strip, it features a tribute to Prince this week.
Edit: the Bloom County comic for April 21st is also good. Berkeley usually puts just a little bit of color for emphasis in each day’s B&W comic strip, but this one is decidedly purple and gorgeous.
In a different kind of death news, the National Museum of Natural History in New Delhi, India just lost their entire collection when a fire in the building a couple of floors up worked its way down. The sprinkler system appears to have been out of order, but the materials inside did most of the work in spreading the fire.
Disney Infinity. Didn’t make enough money due to a “slowdown in the toys-to-life market” so Disney cancelled any further development and is planning on getting out of all game production. They’ll just license their items and let others make the games again.
For Disney Infinity, I think it was probably the glut in the market. It reminds me a lot of how the rhythm game market has seen a sort of boom/bust cycle. Skylanders got early market share, but didn’t have the marketing potential of the Disney or Lego properties behind it. Now there’s some huge popular properties… but the market is split as consumers have to choose between the versions.
Yeah, some of that happened since Lego joined in, but I also think Disney did it to themselves. They sold the power discs for the first and second release in “blind bags” where it was random as to which ones you got. Then for version 3.0, Disney changed it so the power discs were sold in six theme packs with four discs each and you can see exactly which ones you’re getting.
A lot of players were happy because now they weren’t spending $5 per bag trying to get discs they didn’t already have eight of. But that meant less money coming into Disney because their customers were now buying exactly what they needed, rather than buying on the hope that random chance would be in their favor. That was probably a good chunk of the $147 million loss they reported in ending the game.
Kind of sad to see short-sightedness and greed kill a game that could have gone on for a few more years.
Burt Kwouk, from a couple of days ago. Looks like he had been in quite a few movies and TV shows, but most will remember him as Cato from The Pink Panther movies.
Sports Authority. They spent quite a bit of the past few years buying other companies in order to grow, which meant the amount of debt they had increased, so they didn’t spend as much as they should on improving their stores and selection of merchandise.
All of their stores have entered liquidation, but remember that the standard practice by the companies that do the liquidations is to first mark up the prices to the full retail price, then start the discounts. So the cost after the 30% discount they start with might be higher than what it was before the liquidation. Wait until things start hitting the 50% mark before you go. There won’t be as much there, but the prices will actually be discounts by that time.
Yup, truth. I hit the closest Sports Authority a couple months ago. Didn’t find anything I wanted, much less at anything close to deal prices. The selection there was poor before, it’s just crap now.
I think Academy may have contributed to their downfall, too. Ten or twenty years ago, Oshman’s was great, but after they were bought out and the store names were changed to Sports Authority, they went downhill, like they lost their pride or something. Plus Academy really stepped up their game. I fixed some of the printers and fax machines at their corporate warehouse facility, where the buyers did actual product testing. They started getting really serious about quality, started pulling inferior products off the shelves, and made sure their price points were competitive. They also did a good job of cleaning up the stores, even older locations. Last summer, a new Academy location opened up a few miles from my house, but before that, the closest one was, like, 25+ years old, but still a nice place to shop.
Awwww… I remember my first Gordie Howe hat trick.
A goal, an assist and a fight in one game!!!
Recently I’ve heard that he never actually had one himself but I’m just sticking my fingers in my ears. Nope, don’t want to hear it. Lalalalala
Hockey lost another one. Ron Mason, longtime coach of the MSU Spartans, died yesterday. He was such a nice guy and a good coach. We would go to his radio show every week (held in the sports bar down the street) and he was always willing to chat for as long as you wanted to. And about anything, not just hockey.
