August 2006 Archives
Our Fantasy draft was last night. I'm pretty happy with my team, it should be enough to at least get me in the playoffs:
Manning, Eli QB NYG
Johnson, Rudi RB CIN
Williams, Cadillac RB TB
Kennison, Eddie WR KC
Stallworth, Donte' WR
Ward, Hines WR PIT
Watson, Ben TE NE
Stover, Matt K BAL
Jaguars, DST
McNair, Steve QB BAL
Barlow, Kevan RB NYJ
Henry, Travis RB TEN
Staley, Duce RB PIT
Bennett, Drew WR TEN
El, Antwaan Randle WR WAS
Walker, Javon WR DEN
My depth at RB is a little questionable, but if a miracle happens and Duce finally pans out this year, I'll be good there. I got Hines in our 5th or 6th round, I guess folks are shying away from him since he's not playing in preseason (they must have forgotten that he didn't play preseason last year either). My sleeper pick probably goes to the Jaguars defense. They are ranked #4 in the cheat sheet that I was using and I held off picking them up until the second to last round.
Here's an interesting quiz... It lists about 10 or so issues and you give your opinion on them. It then reports back which canidate matches the closest to your repsonses.
Surprisingly, my results showed that Casey was about 30% lower than the 2 Republicans who faced Santorum in the primaries. Not surprising was that Casey was about 40% higher than Santorum.
I'm impressed how the Virginia Tech IT department is using the front page of vt.edu to keep the community informed of happenings and instructions. I fully expected to go to the homepage and not see a thing about what is going on, but was surprised to see an alert bulletin as well as an audio message (although mislabled as a podcast) from the head of security.
I know something like this is pretty simple, but when dealing with levels of bureaucracy that can exist at such institutions, a quick response like this is impressive.
It's amazing how the same lyrics put to a different music style has such a different affect.
A workstudy at CERMUSA recently completed his summer project, a Google Earth Map of St. Francis University (Requires Google Earth). It was picked up today by the Google Earth Blog. Check it out, he did a great job on it.
I enjoy dealing with the cable, phone, and gas companies about as much as I'd enjoy running down an erupting volcano purging lava. However, the God's must be smiling upon me this week. I updated to a High-Def TV system this past week and actually had a good experience from Atlantic Broadband. After I picked up the new digital cable boxes and had everything setup and functioning, I was dismayed to see that I was only getting about 3 of the 10 HD stations that I should have been. After a call to technical support which led to no solution, they had a guy come out and do a trouble call the next day. He actually showed up when he was supposed to and fixed the problem fairly quickly (when they put my order in, they didn't set me up with enough ports or something). He then proceded to walk me through my cable line system, which has splitters, amps, and everything else under the sun throughout it. He showed me what was needed and what was actually causing more problems that fixing. Then he went out to the truck and got a bunch of spitters and replaced all of my old ones. Now my picture looks great throughout the house and my cable modem should perform better as well.
So, I still think that Atlantic Broadband's prices are entirely too high and I'll probably switch back to either Dish Network or DirectTV as soon as I can get DSL again, but at least today I'm happy with Atlantic Broadband.
