I’ll admit it, I used to think that people who played fantasy sports were mouthbreathing dullards.
This year, I decided to give it a shot.
It’s a geeks dream, you get to sit and look at numbers and compare and contrast, it’s great.
Plus you get to talk to people. You know, those pink, brown, yellow, red, etc, bags of flesh you see walking around, about yay tall?
Archive for October, 2005
Fantasy Sports.
Thursday, October 20th, 2005Cute Overdose.
Thursday, October 20th, 2005San Diego Zoo Panda Cam.
I take no responsibility for any cuteness-induced vomiting.
Glass bottles of coke.
Thursday, October 20th, 2005I have no idea what it is, but glass bottles of Coca-Cola taste the best to me.
The state of computing.
Thursday, October 20th, 2005I have loved computers most of my life, starting with the Commodore 64.
They should be useful resources for the user, not crashy and insecure.
They are increasingly not depended on, and expected to fail.
I switched from Windows to Apple for this very reason. Things just work.
I am a Windows network administrator, and every day I grow more weary.
It seems every PC owner is inundated with spam, viruses, spyware, search toolbars, pop-up advertisements, etc.
When did this become the norm and accepted?
Why is such inferior, insecure technology allowed to thrive?
You would think that in our capitalist, free-market economy that an inferior product would be overlooked in favour of something better, but that has not been the case. More people are complaining, yet these are the same people who keep buying that same technology.
Actions speak louder than words. Don’t use Windows, switch to Linux or Apple. A monoculture is a very dangerous thing.
And how come it’s never called an “Internet Explorer bug” or a “Windows Vulnerability”, but “computer viruses” and “software vulnerabilities” and “Internet browser flaw”?
Flickr
Thursday, October 20th, 2005I have a flickr photo webpage, I’ve uploaded my (IMHO) best photographic work to it.
The link is over on the right, in my blogroll.
I’ll implement a gallery on this site shortly.
Hockey.
Thursday, October 20th, 2005I am really, really glad that the NHL is back.
I can’t be the only one who misses Barry Melrose, though.
Hockey is now a young man’s game, there is no doubt about it, Mark Messier and Brett Hull’s retirements cement that.
The game is much more open, you can just jam a guy up on the boards without getting a whistle now. This game belongs to the new crop of rookies like Crosby, Parise, Ovechkin, etc. The goalie pads won’t do that much, I don’t see guys giving up more than a couple extra goals a year due to those. Martin Brodeur’s been wearing small pads all his career, and he’s not exactly a sieve. The trapezoid rule makes sense, as does the icing rule. The only bone I have to pick is with treating the goalie as just another player when he’s out of the crease. To me, there’s just something taboo about laying a hit on a goalie, and I don’t see anyone doing it without drawing the ire of an enforcer. The shootout I used to be against, but I hate ties even more. If you can’t settle the game on your own, 5 on 5 in upwards of 70 minutes on the ice, then you have to settle it somehow. They’re great 1 on 1 matchups, player vs goalie.
Click here for explanations of the new rules.