The Critic

Happy Birthday Wino! Live up to the name today!!

QUOTE(Antonio Osuna @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 11:28 PM) Of course, had the Sox acquired him, he would not have been in the situation he was in to get injured. Well, he was running the bases, so I would HOPE he'd have been in a similar situation had the Sox acquired him....

Thankfully, of all the problems I have, allergies are not among them.

Why do people call me when they KNOW they're gonna get my answering machine and I'll probably take forever to return their call?? Email is absolutely the best way to reach me. As Hawk would say: "Ah luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv email..........."

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 09:13 AM) I think I just went the longest ever for me without any TV or internet at all, 4 days. I feel completely disconnected from the world? The only things I heard were the White Sox games on the radio. ...and yet by reflex alone, your PC posted 468 times in your absence....

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 07:21 PM) I cannot get into that "Hogan Knows Best" show. There is absolutely nothing real about that show. I disagree. The arrogance and stupidity are genuine and very real.

I heard that you can only buy the HE GONE and YOU CAN PUT IT ON THE BOARD, YES! shirts outside the park.....

Kind of harsh to put a disabled player on a "washed-up" list. Where's the list of sportswriters who are so bankrupt of ideas that they have to resort to stupid pointless lists? I mean, it's not like there are two tight wild card races to write about, or league MVPs to debate, or close races in two divisions to report on, or.....

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Sep 5, 2005 -> 04:40 PM) I got nothing, but this is definitely caption worthy... "I'm pretty FLY for a WHITE GUY....."

Farmer + Melton + WSCR = unlistenable. Farmer is so bad at PBP that they're going to have to hire someone unbelievably good just to carry him to a halfway decent broadcast. I have no idea who that could be, either. I love Stone, but I don't think they'd be a good mesh. I'd hire Stone to work with Hawk ( if Stone even wants to do local TV anymore ) and move DJ to the radio side......never to dent my eardrums again. And I'll say this again, PLEASE GOD, no Dave Wills!!!!! ( If you love me at all, Jesus, don't do that to me..... )

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Sep 5, 2005 -> 09:53 PM) In a way I feel bad for the Hawks. They really did spend some good $$$ to put a good product on the ice, and they already always have to compete with the Bears for the paper, now they will have to compete with the Sox for the start of the season. There going to be hard to find in the sports sections. It's nobody's fault but their own. You s*** on the product for a half-dozen years at least, as well as erasing half your schedule from mass consumption via television, and you're going to be banished to the pages behind prep sports and horse racing. Add to that a lost season for no apparent reason and you've got a league on life support. I love hockey, but there's not much to love about the NHL. I really hope the rule changes bring me back a little bit....

It's not going to be difficult to find Blackhawk tickets at all.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=redw...ov=st&type=lgns Tough break for Detroit. Looks like we have our first "fiscal responsibility" casualty. Wanted 6 mil, was offered 5, said goodbye.

QUOTE(SnB @ Sep 5, 2005 -> 12:04 AM) i have an FM transmitter as well. Sometimes it works great, othertimes crappy. It all depends on finding the right radio station. Sometimes you'll have to adjust it every once and awhile, but not a big deal. It's well worth the money.....just think, your entire music collection in your car. Yeah, I got her one of those Griffin iTrip things too. It works pretty well on some of our radios, and not at all on others. Again, weird. Also, the signal is kinda weak - we have to crank the volume way up on the radio. We have to return the iTrip anyway, it has a small crack on the case. Maybe that has something to do with the poor signal, we'll find out I suppose.

That cartoon is SO old news, I've been saying all that s*** to my friends ALL SEASON.....

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2005 @ Sep 5, 2005 -> 05:43 AM) Not to mention the evolution of Jon Garland. With a little bit of better luck, he would already be at 20 wins by now. On topic: Cotts has been flat-out unbelievable this season, and hats off to him! Off topic: With the season the Sox are having, isn't it also hard to believe that there's still a decent chance that they won't even have ONE 20-game winner? Garland made a nice step towards a possible 20 with Sunday's effort, but for a while there it looked like a lock for JG and MB to get 20+ each, and now neither might get there. Just goes to show how long of a grind the regular season is.

QUOTE(bmags @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 02:51 PM) your wife doesnt' like punk? are you recharging through your USB on your computer? Because then, at least with mine, it always has the do not disconnect sign until i eject it...and if it doesn't eject it...if the computer says its not in there but it still has that screen for a while...just hold the menu button and the center white button until looks like it shuts off but really just resets... She likes SOME metal and almost no punk, and she likes a lot of "Mix 101.9 music". I get THAT LOOK when I play most of my stuff . And yeah, I've been recharging via the PC until I get a charger for it. Thanks for the tip on that icon not leaving, although the icon did drop off a couple times before. That's been the frustration so far - seems like nothing is consistent with it. I guess I just have to learn more about the damn thing, which I'm not really looking forward to....

Update: After f***ing around with it a little, I was able to restore my wife's playlist and the thing seems stable. Still not sure why the "do not disconnect" icon stayed up so long during the battery charge. I had to click on the "safely remove hardware" icon to remove the USB cable, then get out of the iTunes player and then do it all over again. I'll definitely keep an eye on it - I guess it's a good thing I got the extended 3-year plan. And thanks for the tip, bmags - I was able to get all of my "bad" songs ( my ugly punk & metal stuff ) off of her playlist. She will be VERY grateful to you....

QUOTE(bmags @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 02:00 PM) now i'm starting to think you got a lemon...my 20 gig takes only 4 to completely charge up That's what I was thinking in the first place....

QUOTE(bmags @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 01:56 PM) to take individual songs off you just take it off of auto update, and go into the ipod on the computer and press clear...its not that difficult I'll try that, if the damn thing ever gets done re-charging the battery. Two hours and counting right now on that simple task. Good thing the Sox are winning or this thing would be through the window....

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 01:45 PM) Critic, are you updated with both the newest versions of iTunes and iPod Firmware? Yeah unless they came out with new versions in the last 2 days. Like I said, I just got this thing for the Mrs. Even before the freeze, I didn't like it anyway. Not very user-friendly, IMO, and I like to change my songs up more frequently, so I just go with my trusty CD/MP3 player and burned mp3 discs.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 01:45 PM) Which one do you have, the mini or the shuffle? Which version of iTunes are you using? What kind of computer are you using, RAM, Processor speed? How are you connecting your ipod to your computer, via USB, USB 2.0 or Firewire? Mini 4.9, updated every time I plugged it in 512 RAM Compaq with XP home USB 2.0

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 01:41 PM) This is a perfect example of what you'd call user error. I've been using my ipod for over a year now with no problem as are millions of others. If that's the case, then there are a ton of users having this error, because there is a section of Apple's support page dedicated to the exact error I'm having. Hray for you and your perfect year, but the one I have is awful.

My favorite commercials are the ones I miss by using my remote.

So my wife wanted an iPod, and we went and got her an iPod Mini on Friday. What a f***ed-up piece of s*** THIS thing is! It's already frozen on me once, forcing a complete re-install, and EVERYTHING I want to do takes f***in' forever. Loading songs, recharging the battery, everything. Awful, worthless piece of garbage. Plus, you can't even delete individual songs. You have to basically reload it every time you want to add or subtract a song or two. Two days in and I already want to take this little piece of s*** back to the store. Shuffle on THIS! :puke iPod