MattPie

Scandalous! ;)

I don't post here much because while I like whiskey here and there, it's never the first thing I go to (beer, and recently wine have become my preference before any liquor). That being said, the only alcohol I have in the house right now is a sample of Belvedere Vodka and 1/4 of a 750 of Bulleit Rye. I'm trying to decide how I want to use the rye; one cube, seltzer, or something more fancy. I do have some rock sugar, maybe I could make a small batch of Rock and Rye. http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Rock-and-Rye Thoughts?

I read the first few books, and gave up on it. Partially due to the soap-opera feel of it (albeit compelling) and partly because getting them out of the library meant all of my free (and some of my not-free time) was sucked up for the two weeks I had the book. I'd considering watching it at some point if I had access to it; I did see someone getting two seasons-worth out of the library the other day, maybe that's an option. Stranger Things made it hard to give up Netflix; I never got around to Four Falls of Buffalo either. Did you see Rogue One? There's a nugget about that in there.

It's easier than that: the NFL thinks you'll pony up $99/season (!!!) for live audio and full-game video replays. That's even more ridiculous than the $39/season they wanted for just the audio feeds with AudioPass until recently. I'm glad I don't like football enough to make that a hard decision.

Game notes, almost completely unrelated to football: - I got a Roku over the weekend and was pleased to find the TuneIn app does get WGR and isn't considered mobile so it had the game on yesterday[0]. I didn't really listen to much of it, but whatever. - I did hear the beginning of McDermott's press conference and all I could think was "God probably doesn't care who wins your football game, you don't need to publicly thank him". [0] For those that haven't tried, if you try to play WGR via tunein, WGR app, or anything else on your phone it's blacked out during NFL coverage; playing WGR on a laptop works (despite being on the same wifi network).

Exhibit A.

FWIW, so random article (the Arena.com or something?) put Tyrod at #21 for NFL starters. I can't say I heartily disagree, although if there's an offense in place that makes use of his strengths he might move up some; I can't see better than #15, though.

They could phase it in over a few years too; 18 years 4 months one year, 18 years 8 months the next, and 19 the last year.

Are you still working at Pizza Pizza? Wildcard: glad I could help. If you work with servers and stuff, it's worth looking up tcpdump and/or tshark; they can capture from the command line on the server and then you can pull the file into Wireshark to analyze it.

Ahem, from the Coller article: But if you don’t know when to disregard bad stats, you end up thinking plus-minus is a great measure of defense or batting average is the best baseball stat there is.

Seems like there's a business opportunity to cut out the middle-man there.

USA today's business model never included human beings as subscribers. As far as I can tell, it's based on spamming people via hotel room doors, largely with fluff pieces. I have to think most of their revenue comes from the contracts with big businesses to provide X number of papers per day to their location, and turning around and saying advertise with us, we have the largest circulation in the US. I'd call it a market niche, as it's unlikely that most other papers could use the model without being on the same scale. Did you note the article above that Facebook and Google have driven down the ad payout so far that places like the NYT aren't making enough on it to make it worthwhile? 20000 clicks only pays like $100; TBN is never going to get the clicks to make that sustainable.

WGRZ still gets money from their traditional product, selling viewer eyeballs to advertisers. They can put up some basic content on the web without hurting their model, and at this point, I don't think they've really been hit by cord cutting (and even then, they still broadcast so they're better off than someone like TBS or USA network). A Newspaper's business model is getting text-based information to people for a nominal cost, somewhat buoyed by selling ad space. Physical Newspaper subscribers are down, so ad space goes becomes less valuable as well, and revenue goes down too. They either need to reinvent themselves as something that people will subscribe to (either online of off), or they'll eventually die out. Online has the advantage that they don't necessarily need to produce something every day to sell papers, so they can spend the time on the "good" stuff. The Buffalo star seems to be taking that path so the don't have to pay people to create a bunch of fluff every day.

It looks like it is originally named Eliajh's Chair, but there's another book of that name so maybe it was published in English under a new name. Strange.

A shot at getting paid to play hockey with a bunch of NHL guys for a couple weeks? Absolutely.

Great book, along with Armada by the same author. I think I mentioned it somewhere in this thread when I read it originally.

Finished up The Princess Bride the other day; never really thought to read it before Amazon advertised it to me as a free for Prime members. iThe screenplay follows the flow and tone of the book very closely (which makes sense as the author wrote both), so if you liked the movie the book is worth a read. Hey NS, have you read "The Judgment of Richard Richter" by Igor Stiks (accent on S omitted)? It caught my eye as it's set in Sarajevo. I haven't started it yet, and I have no idea what to expect.

You kids! I was in high school the FOUR years the Bills went to the Superbowl. Your mark is meaningless! (Am I doing this right?)

In the first two rounds, I forgot to add. I didn't go any further.

FWIW, 6 Pro-bowl DBs were taken after Vince Young in 2006.

I agree. Sometimes it isn't a matter of will the player adapt, but *can* they adapt. Darien Hatcher would never be a mobile, puck moving defenseman. Tyler Ennis will never be a power forward.

It's possible. I'd go download Wireshark and do a packet capture to see what's going out over the wire, that will be fairly definitive. Plus, you're a software person right? Wireshark may be one of *the* most important tools for diagnosing network issues with software. Apps and logs lie, the wire doesn't. PM me and I can help some if needed. Edit: Also, keep an eye on https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning. They offer free ebooks daily, a couple of which are Wireshark-related, and almost all of them are software development themed.

Depends on how you spin it: Everyone has strong points and weak points, and no matter how hard you try sometimes things aren't a good fit. DB's system for D required good long-distance passing and surveying the entire ice to make that pass. Those seem like rather hard things to practice if your skills are weak there. If you're strong skills are rushing the puck and making good short passes (as we've seen with the Sabres, those can be harder than they look), Housley's system is (likely) to be good for you.