Continuing my decline back into the world of Cable TV, I’ve been captivated by the Spike TV Bond Marathon. Comedy Central still rocks.

Thanks to that, I finally realized that John Goodman was the coach in The Revenge of the Nerds. I suppose it’s helpful to be watching the flick sober for possibly the first time.

(BTW- on the IMDB database, Goodman’s first film is Jailbait Babysitter If this isn’t an intriguing title, I don’t know what is…)

Our sports coverage has been a little slow lately, too much politickin’ goin’ on ovah here.

So not that anyone cares, I’ll just mention that my alma mater is a national champion again. In a real sport, one that the entire world plays, where men run both ends of the field for 90 minutes, instead of grunting for 15 seconds and resting for 30 for about 3 minutes, then sitting on the sidelines for 5 minutes or so.

So I was at Target to pick up paper towels and such, and they had a rack of 32 MB USB drives hanging by the checkout for $20. Floored me. I hadn’t realized they were so commodified yet, but hey…

I’d been tempted to grab one for a while; it’s a clearly useful product for moving work between the office and home. I’ve been using e-mail to do it ever since I got high-speed internet, but that’s kind of a pain, and what if I’m not going to hit the house? Floppies don’t work with the iBook, and burning a CD for each transfer seemed awfully damn wasteful. I did a quick price check when I got home, and while pretty much nobody is selling any USB flash drives smaller than 64 MB any more, all of those are $35 or more. Hardly impulse purchase material.

Small thing, but it made my day. Twenty bucks… Less than a case of beer…