Archive for August, 2008

Be Forewarned:

Posted: 31st August 2008 by T.F.P. in Sports

From now until the end of January, a majority of my posts will probably focus on football and/or fantasy football. I’m playing in six fantasy leagues that encompass both the college and pro ranks, and of course I’ll be recapping the Bears games every week as well. I’ll likely also add a weekly post recounting [...]

Bengals Cut Johnson

Posted: 30th August 2008 by T.F.P. in Sports

The Cincinnati Bengals have cut running back Rudi Johnson, thus bringing to an end the seven-year relationship. Johnson had been hampered by injuries and was performing so poorly in the pre-season that it didn’t take sophisticated budgeting software to figure out that his projected yards-per-carry wouldn’t be worth the money he would cost the team. [...]

Fantasy Files — Chris Cooley

Posted: 30th August 2008 by T.F.P. in Check it out

I’ve been meaning to write about these NFL.com Fantasy Files commercials for quite some time now, but kept forgetting about them. Anyway, I think these commercials are awesome — event though they’re obviously fake. It’s hard to choose just one favorite out of all of them, but if pressed on the issue, I would probably [...]

Lost… and found

Posted: 29th August 2008 by T.F.P. in Life

I had a bit of a scare earlier this afternoon when I couldn’t find my Cartier watch. The thing is more than 10 years old at this point, and is probably not worth anywhere near the $3500 retail price anymore, but it has a lot of sentimental value for me still, so I was freaking [...]

Orton to Start

Posted: 28th August 2008 by T.F.P. in Sports

The last exhibition game of the season is tonight, and I just realized I haven’t posted much about the Bears during training camp. That could be because I’m not at all encouraged about the way the team looks right now. I don’t think they’re going to do much during the regular season — especially now [...]

So many strays…

Posted: 27th August 2008 by T.F.P. in Life

I don’t know what’s going on around here, but I’ve noticed a dramatic increase in the number of stray cats in the neighborhood. It might have to do with the bad economy (I’ve read where people have been forced to abandon their pets because they just don’t have the money to buy dog and/or cat [...]

Did I get ripped off?

Posted: 27th August 2008 by T.F.P. in Rants

Last month when I bought my Kindle, I also ordered a 2GB Kingston SD card to go with the device. I figured I’d want to load the Kindle up with books so I’d never be without anything to read. But then I remembered how tiny book files are compared to other file types. I have [...]