The Future of Football

Well, Leslie is fired, so if he WAS a part of the Vikings' general suckiness (which I'm not entirely sure of - his part in it, not the suckiness in general), maybe there will be a better season next year.  I watched a shit-ton of ball yesterday, and with the NFL still looked at askance with all the head injuries and such, I was thinking: what can be done to keep the game exciting as things will get (not unnecessarily) more nanny-stateish?  The only thing I could come up with was this:  when there is an interception, the offense suddenly becomes the defense, right?  The offensive linemen or anyone can be called upon to tackle the illicit receiver.  But what if the defense (that is: the team who was intercepted against - their defense guys on the sidelines) had to run on the field to tackle the guy who made the interception and the offensive players had to run off at the same time - while the play wherein the interception occurred was still going?

I really think it's the only hope.

Cat camera with a DIFFERENCE

So, like the rest of us, you stand around your break room at work, bemoaning the state of cat cameras: those cameras that are affixed to la tete du chat and then transmit a cat's eye view of the world, what old Mr Whiskers is doing, etc.

If you are fed up, you likely say something like "There have been no real improvements or new ideas in cat cameras in ages. This stuff you get now - it's no different than Letterman's old monkey cam, for chrissake! And THAT was twenty-five years ago."

As ever, Nick Eddy Relents posits the new and the innovative.

I'm speaking, of course, about a cat camera that is attached via a headband or the like (I leave the proper science of it to the professionals - I'm on the IDEA end) and has the camera mounted on the end of a seeming crane, with the lens pointed back at the cat. That is what is new (and breathtaking!) about this. As Lyla, say, runs around the house or through the yard, you will not be shown what she's seeing (who cares? Crawl around the baseboards yourself, if you're that curious), but rather her face as she moves about looking at stuff. AND THAT ONLY!

It's SO time for this. Write your congressman, while you're still allowed!