Eric Covener’s Journal

Only a few exits from Harolds Deli!

How badass was the Enterprise from the future in the final episode of ST:TNG, even with a neck-bearded douche at the helm.

Harolds Deli @roadfood.com

This is the Deli in the hotel that hosted regular Magic tournaments in Edison, New Jersey. Some good pictures including the pickel bar!

From the Pecze file… [NWS]

Pepsi Jazz Strawberries & Cream, which is a non-caloric diet soda, is fucking delicious.

It’s like Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi’s saucy foreign cousin.

edit: Brent Blood doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground

Being gay is like having a brown eyes, or blue eyes

Being gay means having all the brown-eyes you want!

NZ finds Black Cocks hard to swallow

It was a bloody silly idea in the first place, but New Zealand’s badminton world may finally have to concede that calling the national team the “Black Cocks” really is a bit too strong, the New Zealand Herald reports.

Badminton New Zealand adopted the name a year ago as “a gimmicky label to attract sponsors and fans”. It worked to a degree, because the organisation was quickly innundated with cash offers from companies such as - you guessed it - condom manufacturers.

NWS Audio (video is OK): Rip Currents.wmv

A battle cry I never thought would pass my lips.

Pope asked to convert to Islam

“If this person were really someone reasonable, he would not agree to remain at his post one minute, but would convert to Islam immediately,” Mohammed Gaddafi told an awards ceremony on Monday evening for an international competition to memorise the Qur’an.

New catchphrase to replace pot-calling-the-kettle-black: “Talk about the guy who’s at a Qur’an-memorizing tournament calling the pope unreasonable!”

Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music [support.microsoft.com]

During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play “Fur Elise” or “It’s a Small, Small World” seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer’s BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on.