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 [...]
Archive for August, 2008
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]