MattPie

That's life here. The strange thing is what I'm working now is probably the best chance I have at doing something that could actually save lives and make a difference (it's related to emergency services communications during a disaster), but I'm completely uninterested in the work. The opposite is often true, I like the nuts and bolts of the work but the system isn't anything I care about.

Years ago, there was a sign on the fridge that read, "The refrigerator will be cleaned March 17, 2007. Anything not labeled will be thrown out" (I'm not sure of the day, but I remember March and the year for some reason). That day came and went with no apparent change. Fast forward one year, sign is still there, fridge is in the same not all that clean state. Feeling a bit churlish, I stuck a post-it over the 7 with "8" scrawled on it as a joke. A couple days later, the entire fridge is empty except for my one unlabeled bottle of Franks. What's strange is they did toss the unlabeled bottle of horseradish I brought in a few days before to go with the Beck on Weck I made for pot-luck.

I dunno, a classic blue with Titanic on it would be pretty awesome.

Years ago, there were tons of frozen dinners in the fridge that had been there forever. I discretely put an X on each, and after a couple months (our food policy was something like 30 days and it gets tossed), I got free lunches for awhile. :devil:

Oooh, C. O'reilly! Brian Perry 1971 Francois Lacombe 1971 Steve Atkinson 1971-1974 Morris Titanic 1975-1976 Fred Stanfield 1975 Alex Tidey 1977 Derek Smith 1978-1982 Randy Cunneyworth 1982 Sean McKenna 1982-1983 Jeff Eatough 1982 Jim Wiemer 1983-1985 Bob Halkidis 1985-1987 Doug Trapp 1987 Kevin Maguire 1988-1990 Bob Corkum 1990 Tony Tanti 1991-1992 Randy Wood 1993-1994 Brian Holzinger 1995-2000 Norm Milley 2002-2004 Tim Connolly 2006-2011 Cody Hodgson 2012-2015 Cal O'Reilly 2016-2017

Agreed. I was watching a clip from last year (from the Eichel thread), saw 21, and thought, "Stafford"?

So in that light, the Bills upgraded WR production, making the team better for 2017. :)

Didn't I read that McDermott was on a list of 4 (?) coaches prepared by the NFL for teams that needed one? It's not like Pegula picked Gus Grimsley from Bishop Timon to be the head coach because he liked the cut of his jib.

The Bills downgraded in WR talent, Full Stop. It remains to be seen whether the Bills downgraded WR production (depends on how healthy Matthews is this season and Watkins would have been).

I'm betting on some incredible new fabric that some people see as blue and gold and other see as black and red. With a crest that features the slug arching over the other logos the team has used.

I'm sure that's right, but I prefer to think there's an Independent Study course in Canadian High Schools called, "Hang around a hockey rink."

Since I happened to look it up the other day, Dan Marino was the 6th of the 6 QBs taken in the first round of 1983. Elway, Blackledge, Jim Kelly, Easom, Ken Something, and Marino. Drafting is not a science, especially for QB.

I agree. Mostly because I firmly believe the Bills will move up to pick 2017's version of Todd Blackledge.

Let's hope it doesn't slip into "MrBean" level bumbling.

Thanks for getting my hopes up, jerk! :) The FAQ keeps on talking about FIOS tv provider, so if you only have FIOS internet you're not getting anything. To sum up, if you have FIOS TV, you can use the app. It sounds like that might work outside the Buffalo area, too.

You're not entirely wrong about the life ending stuff. Best enjoy what you do for work, that's the majority of the time you'll have to yourself (in my experience). I'm happy it worked out for you. I'm also guessing you have support family nearby or something. MrsPie and I are pretty much on our own here, so the only way we get out of the house without LPM is if we're prepared to blow $50-$100 on a sitter. MrsPIe is home all day with kiddo, so me going off to have fun after work is rarely an option. I do get a couple hours after bedtime to do my own thing, but that's slowly taking a toll on my health from lack of sleep. Damn, why isn't complaint Thursday open.

http://hockeyviz.com/fixedImg/shotLocDef/1617/NSH http://hockeyviz.com/fixedImg/shotLocDef/1617/TOR Nashville's is surprising if I'm reading that right; they allow very few from the low slot, right? And Toronto appears to be somewhat bad by allowing a lot of shots from the middle. But these do back up the story, Buffalo allowed a lot of shots from the points and sides.

There are numbers on shot location so it's mostly a matter of doing the math. This article talks about it: http://ingoalmag.com/analysis/an-introduction-to-adjusted-save-percentage/ They reference War-on-Ice which is gone. I'm not really a stats guy, but I'm sure someone knows places that have it now.

Best two posts in awhile.

Dude, you gave them a point for #3? I guess the President is the head of the military, but wow.

I'm confused by the tone of this thread. Someone asks a question, and then accepts the well-reasoned answers? Is this not a sports message board? :) I think the posters above have pretty much covered it. I want to like the guy, but his SV% on dangerous shots is apparently questionable and shootouts are terrible. The only deal that makes sense is a to keep him RFA as a try-out. This reminds me of some great analysis I saw here after Miller was traded to the Blues. Miller was terrible there and someone pointed out MIller's style of coming out to challenge didn't mesh well with the D system the Blues ran. Unfortunately I don't remember the details but I think it was that the Blues D didn't lock up forwards on the sides of the net so there were a lot of shot-passes that got behind Miller when he was up at the top of the crease. We tend to think goalies are interchangeable but there are going to be guys that work better with some teams than others. In this case, Brian Elliot (?) for the Blues tended to sit back in the net more so those passes to the side of the net didn't work nearly as well.

I'm in the process of writing up some design documents that are putting the nails in the coffin of a really cool cluster storage technology I wanted to implement on some work stuff I'm doing. I really wanted to make Ceph work, but it's just a little too complex for what we need to do and not really suited to small environments (3-5 servers). Gluster (what I'm going with) is kinda cool too, but not as elegant.

I have to say that, as someone that is entirely unlikely to make it, this is a fantastic idea.

That'd be too classy, apparently.

I've heard of it and had it. Not bad but unremarkable[0]. That does seem odd, although Senor Wikipedia tells me you can buy stronger beer at State stores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_Utah [0] It's truly an embarrassment of riches that what's objectively a pretty good beer get's a "meh" because it doesn't stand out against all the other pretty good beer we have available.