http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060725/ap_on_en_tv/people_ken_jennings `Jeopardy' champ Ken Jennings blasts show NEW YORK - "Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings, who won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak, has a few unkind words to say about the show — and dapper host Alex Trebek. "I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings writes in a recent posting, titled "Dear Jeopardy!" on his Web site. "Nobody knows he died in that fiery truck crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I see your engineers still can't get the mustache right, by the way)." Jennings also takes aim at the show's "effete, left-coast" categories and "same-old" format. "You're like the Dorian Gray of syndication," he says. "You seem to think `change' means replacing a blue polyethylene backdrop with a slightly different shade of blue polyethylene backdrop every presidential election or so." A call by The Associated Press to "Jeopardy!" spokesman Jeff Ritter was not immediately returned Tuesday. Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, snagged 74 wins on "Jeopardy!" in 2004 before he was beaten by challenger Nancy Zerg. Trebek, 66, has hosted the show since 1984. In a "correction" posted Monday on his Web site, Jennings offers an apology of sorts. "We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a `cyborg,' not a `robot.'"
i'm disappointed. i was expecting him to say something about how they pressured him to lose or something more controversial. that question he lost on makes you think if everything was on the up and up.
I've been reading Jennings' blog for awhile now, and he actually has a very funny personality. The anti-Jeopardy article was 100% tongue-in-cheek, and anybody who reads it without realizing such needs a sense of humor transplant.
OMG, if you go to Ken's website, it says "This Account has exceeded its CPU quota"...You figure with two million bucks he could afford a decent web server.
If I'm running around with $2 million, the last thing on my mind would be a damn web server... (ok, so that's a lie...)
