MattPie

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.

I'd guess that's more about post merging than an actual unfinished post. Member writes something, posts it. Then writes another post, which gets merged into the first post and it's marked new.

I'm having a tough time figuring out what humorous in that. I'm back riding the bicycle again. MrsPie and I are trying to work out a move that'll put us close enough to "stuff" that the bicycle works for errands. I can get to Aldi on my bike without issue, but our Aldi sucks.

Nope, I've had pretty good luck too. Even doing stupid stuff like, "hey, I need my new license plates but my registration is 3 weeks expired" (back when they were switching from the red statue of liberty plates to the ones with the blue mural on top). I got a new license at the Shamokin PA DMV a few weeks ago and that was painless too. The only annoyance with PA is they used to require check or money order (No cash, no credit) so you'd go through the line and have to go find a money order if you forgot a check. Actually, I'm half thinking they didn't take personal checks either. Luckily, the only I usually go to was next to a grocery store.

I am too. I think Americans having a habit of ZFG for anything past their border has to feed into this.

My work laptop is bouncing around just under 10% with a bunch of apps open and chrome playing music. It really depends on what you're doing with your machine.

I agree with the last part especially. Could any of the foreign correspondents shed any light? Would MODO rather see MODO win the SHL, The Sabres Win the cup, or Sweden win the Olympic Hockey gold?

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Check the link I edited into my post, it looks promising.

That would be my guess, too. Another option is the update was to fix a problem that requires a lot of processing to happen, although days seems like a lot. Examples are an update to BitKeeper (disk encryption) or Defender (anti-virus) that requires the entire disk to be re-encrypted or scanned for viruses. Does task manager (right click on task bar, select "Task Manager") show something eating up a lot of CPU, RAM, or disk (processes tab, sort each column from high to low)? EDIT: I can't read this at work for some reason, but: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwilvL3klbnVAhVo7YMKHcL4DkIQFghgMAg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alienwarearena.com%2Fforums%2Fthread%2F94302%2Ftechnical-support-1%2Fhow-to-fix-fans-running-a-high-speed-all-the-time&usg=AFQjCNGKN0XUE0924RP5BgRUpV_ZMjGK8Q

I've wondered about this too; even if they attend, I have to think they have to pay out of pocket for travel and lodging, which could be a pretty penny. It's probably a good investment in your career, but depending on your situation dropping a grand or two may be tough.