not-really-sports

To-Do tonight: Unlock the universe

Nick Douglas · 08/21/06 07:24PM
  • When you're ten-pinning tonight at Bowling 2.0, remember: guns aren't allowed in league play, no matter how many times that fucker from Skype shouts over his staticky VoIP phone. [Upcoming]

Bowling 2.0 1.0: The revolution will be ten-pinned

Nick Douglas · 07/14/06 12:10PM

The first night of Vinnie Lauria's Silicon Valley bowling league went off without a hitch, according to the clip below. Unfortunate, I know. It's all Vinnie (one of the boys at social startup Meetro) talking about the friendly competition and inevitable VCs who want to hang with the dot-commers.

Foosball showdown, Valleyschwag vs. Jumpcut

Nick Douglas · 06/16/06 11:20PM

Foosball games in the dot-com-heavy South Park neighborhood don't mean there's a bubble — it'll be a bubble when a San Francisco startup has room for ping-pong tourneys. But it still felt like 1993 (for those of us who weren't still in grade school) at the offices of Jumpcut.com today. A team from the online-video-editing startup battled the guys from Valleyschwag (the schwag-magazine division of web-dev company Rubyred Labs, which lives across the street). It was a foosball tournament for the ages — or at least for the weekend.