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When Rick Astley overplayed the geeky/cool card too far to the cool side:

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Feb 2, 2014 -> 11:31 PM) I put some stuff together, check it out top-rated comment:

MLB.tv also on Roku

Well, if anyone can do it....

Starters quit playing on special teams in 3...2...

What a brutal PI call EDIT: I take it back

MLB has greater parity than the NFL I always look forward to this

Ray Guy! Finally

Cubs ought to move to Iowa

A line of my family traces its roots back to Newmarket in County Cork where they farmed about 100 acres of land it seems until the 1860s. From what we can tell, they had lived in Garrison (now on the border to N. Ireland) until somebody in the family stole a horse and the rest of the family got the hell out of there. After Newmarket, most of the family moved to Cappamore near Limerick. From there, my great-great-grandfather moved to Chicago to become a lightweight prize fighter. There are some official records of how he did, but they are bafflingly contradictory. Two newspapers would report opposite results. We have a picture of him wearing a belt, but we are unsure of the significance. We don't think, at least by the time he finished, that he very far over .500. He did it to make a living. His son played for the White Sox's farm teams for a while back in the 1930s. We have a picture of him playing for the big club's Spring Training team somewhere. He had been invited to stay on as the big league backup, but the time in Pasadena made him very homesick and he came back to Chicago and played in local leagues before quitting entirely. Sadly, I'm told, this part of the family was entirely Cubs-oriented.

If we have interest in Colby Rasmus, then things have gone horribly wrong

I'd say Harden is the one who retains most of his value as a non-ball-in-hands guy. He was really efficient with that team as a guy who didn't have to create his shot every time down the floor.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 06:13 PM) Scott Feldman signing all over again. It's a strategy I wish this organization would employ. They turned Feldman in to Jake Arrieta, Pedro Strop, and international bonus $$$. We signed Felipe Paulino -- and for $1.75 million plus a $4 million team option, both reducing our risk if he's no good and drastically increasing our reward if he is. Anyway, we don't fill our pitching staff with has-beens every year because our system actually produces pitchers worth giving MLB innings.

I just don't see Denver being held under 28 points and I don't see Seattle scoring that many.

While I normally balk at people that are inexplicably super well-liked, I can't help but root for Peyton. I like to see greatness in action and he's very easy to root for.

I kind of like the Samsung Smart PC Pro 700T. 11.6 1080P display, much better battery life than original Surface Pro at nearly 7 hours, same 3rd gen i5 processor plus 4GB RAM plus 128GB SSD. Real dock solution, Wacom digitizer with onboard S Pen storage. I can get factory refurb for about $650.

Hmm...Microsoft Surface Pro is $500 today at Best Buy. That could possibly take the place of both laptop and tablet? Active digitizer is a must for me and it has that. Battery life is huge concern though.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 08:32 AM) For the most part you don't actually need a docking station. While they make things a bit more convenient for an additional cost, they're not necessary. All you really need to do is take your laptop and plug it into your monitor/keyboard/mouse. The only thing the docking station does is allow you to plug those things into it, and then put your laptop into the dock, so you don't have to repeat the steps of plugging those devices in over and over...but other than that it doesn't do anything. If you are interested in anything highly graphically intensive, such as video, I'd recommend a desktop for serious work, and a combination of your tablet/phone to synch any necessary items on the go. Laptops always use mobile versions of their desktop counterparts, such as a mobile-gfxcard, a mobile-processor, which are always slower, and tend to run a LOT hotter. A laptop is fine for photo work, however, so long as it's color calibrated properly, and out of the box, almost no LCD is. I can't decide what I want to do. FWIW, my work is academic research, which means that screen real estate and multi-tasking/RAM capability is more important than much else. My laptop has 4GB RAM and I believe that tends to be the bottleneck as I work. My desktop has 8GB and works great, other than the slow-ass HDD that makes it start up slowly. If I keep it, I plan to install an SSD in its mSATA port and keep the HDD in place for file storage. The heat issue is one of the things that prevents me from feeling like the docking/plug-n-play-as-if-it-were-a-desktop solution is something I can just go and do. I can imagine many consumer laptops getting really hot with heavy usage while outputting to a big monitor/multi-monitor setup.

Trolls - meh People who have outrageously non-normal opinions - this can be good, especially when there aren't organically interesting things to talk about In times where there are things to talk about that will already be divisive/interesting to talk about, I'm not nearly as fond of the non sequitur.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 10:07 PM) His choke signal was his horrendously poor decision to throw that ball. Except, of course, that was him playing bad rather than taunting his opponent on the field after winning. I don't think Sherman's a bad guy or anything, but he definitely didn't endear himself to me with the way he acted. Not a fan. But that's okay.

Probably had something to do with Kaep not making choke signals at people and shouting in his on field interview

Totally different subject now and I'm looking for some insight into whether this is a brilliant idea or a terrible one. Right now, I have a new AIO desktop. I love it. I also dropped about $1400 on it. I have a mid-range ultrabook that I also love, I dropped about $500 on it. I also have a Galaxy Note 8.0 Android tablet, and (guess what) I love it. I paid $280 for it, which is quite a steal given its original $399 MSRP. However, I'm not getting enough mileage out of this stuff. I feel like I can eliminate at least one of these devices. Right now, I hardly use the laptop. It gets used when I go on vacation or the rare occasion that I need to do work and I am staying at my girlfriend's place. I use the desktop a lot - it has a 27" QHD monitor that is awesome for the multi-tasking I do. I can put up several documents to read, an open document to write in, and something else like a browser window or an early draft as well. I spend a lot of time on this, though I get sick of sitting at my desk here and there. Now I'm wondering if it would make more sense to sell both the desktop and the laptop, assuming I can get something like the value I paid for them (bear in mind I got good deals on both and therefore selling at these prices is potentially doable). I could then buy a better laptop that can handle a heavy graphics load and dock it at my desk along w/ external monitor when I need it while also having a great laptop I can use when I am away or just don't want to be at my desk. Is this docking-a-laptop solution something legitimate, that people do, seems possible without losing a bunch of money? Am I overlooking something? I would have to buy a good monitor and possibly a USB docking station. Would having my laptop sitting there and plugged in for extended periods toast its battery in short order?

Thanks to Pete Carroll, I found myself siding with Duke

KD's .617 TS% over the last 5 seasons is pretty remarkable, too. Compare to Kobe's .556 TS% after his first two seasons (same subtraction I gave KD), minus this one MJ checks in at .579 from 3rd season through Bulls era, FWIW. eFG% over same time spans - MJ .519, Kobe .488, KD .536 ORtg - MJ 121, Kobe 112, KD 118 I don't think scoring titles are irrelevant, though they are certainly context-dependent. On the other hand, I think it is a good way to see how a player scores relative to his league. KD - 5 consecutive if these season holds (4 per game titles, Carmelo had more ppg last year) Kobe - 4 in a 6 season span (2 per game titles) MJ - 11, including 7 in a row, and won in each season that he played more than 67 games (only non-winning close-to-full seasons were with Washington). 10 ppg titles