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Freaking sweet.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Feb 20, 2007 -> 11:24 PM) If many of you were like me, you've heard of 'Jericho' but never bothered to actually view it. Continually hearing CBS proclaim its own show as "the new hit series" during promotional spots in a football game isn't very convincing. Honestly, I thought the entire series would be littered with religious references; another factor which drew me away. OnDemand has now convinced me otherwise. This show is tremendous. If none of you are familar with the premise, it's similar to "The Stand"--without the supernatural elements or a plague. The pilot episode begins with a nuclear explosion over Denver visible to the residents of Jericho, Kansas. From this event, and subsequent information released later (I'm not going to ruin it), the town bands together for survival. As one may expect, numerous events occur which test the residents and provide interesting post-apocalypic drama. I know I sound like I'm slurping the show, but I feel it's incredibly underrated. Comparing the first 11 episodes (which are free OnDemand, btw) to the first 11/12 of Lost, Jericho kicks the crap out of it. One noticeable preference for Jericho is the development of various characters. I genuinely care more about them and their situation than a large majority of stranded Lost cast-members. Hopefully this seasons begins strong. Rex, I and a few others had a thread on jericho a while back. Its definitely one of the hidden shows on television and I have stayed into it despite a longer layoff than Lost had. That said there is still half a season left and I'm sure there will be more great stuff. I didn't see an episode till about the 8th one and after seeing that I downloaded the old episodes and caught up and just found myself hooked. Lost....Heroes....Jericho are three of the better shows on tv with Jericho and Heroes having the momentum (albeit Jericho doesn't have the ratings).

Somewhere steve would be happy...I'm growing out some facial hair as my countdown to busy season ending and me going out to spring training.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 07:45 PM) China's markets holding steady right now. Thats good news considering the tanking it took today.

I think were getting a player from Tampa Bay with a lot of upside. Like the move

I changed up my 401K a bit but I have absolutely zero holdings in individual stocks. I have some international funds that have done outstanding, and than a couple bond funds, a REIT, and than a few specific retirement funds with a target retirement of when I'm 55-60. I pretty much don't pay much attention to the day to day because my thinking is very long term but I've had real nice appreciation thus far (but I'm sure somewhere along the lines there will be some bumps in the road).

QUOTE(Reddy @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 03:59 PM) now are we playing against each other or against WSI? Against WSI. I should note that some of the roster spots were questionable and everyone will get to play. If we end up having extra players, we will have a second game so everyone will play.

Attached is the updated roster. Please let me know if you signed up and don't see your name on there and I'll take care of adding it. For some players I didn't get there positions they would prefer (not a big deal). If anything has changed and you can no longer make it, please let me know: Moniker Age Position Chisoxfn 23 Wherever Southsider 33 Whereever Greg Pratt 18 P, 1B, 2B Kapkomet Wherever Shipps Wherever JDDirtySox 27 SS, OF Joeynach 2B, SS, 3B FlashTizzle 22 2B, SS, 3B NorthsideSox72 1B, 2B, 3B, P Reddy 20 CF, 2B, SS Hangar18 30 2B, C RibbieRubarb 35 Infield, C elamin 22 2B, 3B Hangar18 Friend 30 3B TitoMB345 18 1B, LF TheWood Need Info RobinVentura23 Need Info

This past nights episode was the best heroe's episode I've ever seen. I'm officially hooked on the show.

Wow right when I'm about to invest into some shares of conexant.

QUOTE(maggliopipe @ Feb 21, 2007 -> 05:30 PM) I recently bought a 56" Samsung DLP and I love the thing. While that style of HDTV may not be for everyone, I strongly recommend purchasing from amazon.com. I couldn't have been happier with my experience. Their price beat Best Buy's by $330, plus free shipping with 'white glove' delivery and no sales tax. I had the thing in my living room 1 week after placing the order just in time for the Superbowl, and they even disposed of the box and all the packaging for me. Don't hesitate to buy from them just because it's a big ticket item from something other than a brick-and-mortar store. I bought that tv for my mom (my gift of saying thanks for the free rent I get) and a 50 inch one for myself and couldn't be happier. Through amazon.com and the price was a total steal. I too had an outstanding experience with amazon.com. And damn does the tv look great on the Xbox 360 as well as the high def channels and on the HDMI dvd player.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 21, 2007 -> 07:17 AM) I'd go with neither. The best tv's on the market are made by Samsung. If you're willing to drop 13-1400, and not opposed to Wal-Mart, you can get a Samsung 42inch plasma from SamsClub. We just bought the 27inch LCD for the bedroom for $700. Excellent picture quality, very bright, and it has two hdmi inputs. The plasma would be even better. http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate....&pCatg=6150 If you can spend $1800 they have a 50in plasma too. Obviously this is different from your Best Buy hookup, but ask about their Samsungs. Also remember that they jack up all the settings in the store to make them look as bright as possible (while keeping all of the lights off in the TV area). If you're looking at rear-projection they have great picture quality but you need a dark room and you need seating that's directly in front of the tv. If you trust your Best Buy buddy though i'm sure he's told you all of this. Completely agree. My Samsung is absolutely amazing and my guess is you can get your buddy at Best Buy to get you a discount on that. If you are going to drop the money you might as well drop it on a real nice tv that will last a long long time.

Ya, sometimes you can call and get a room that way. That would be my best recommendation.

The server crashed earlier today and the time of the server hasn't bee updated yet. Once it is the time will be back to normal.

Interesting. We give up a 3rd round pick pretty much for Jason Williams and he should fit in nicely as a top 6 forward moving on down the road. I like this move considering we have a glut of defenseman.

Fullerton took 2 of 3 from the Bruins (we lost our home game, swept our two road games at UCLA). Nice win considering UCLA is a pretty darn good team. Roemer was out-dueled and the offense got shut down in the first game by UCLA's ace whose is looking like a legit mlb prospect. Still we went 2-2 on the week which was kind of dissapointing. That said I'd imagine we stick right around 10 in the rankings.

Is King any good? Or is this more a deal for the draft pick?

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Feb 21, 2007 -> 09:15 AM) How do you connect the computer to the TV? Is there another way to do it besides using the Slingbox? If your tv has the right hookup and the laptop has a monitor out section thats about all you have to do (or computer). So its just a matter of finding out what hookup you have in the back of the tv.

QUOTE(longshot7 @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 11:15 AM) As seen in the film "In Whose Honor?" I'm familiar with the Univ. of North Dakota controversy as well. Their mascot is the Fighting Sioux, which although (to my knowledge) didn't have a chief Illiniwek-type character at halftimes, the name Sioux is offensive to the Lakota nation (the real name of the tribe - not Sioux as it was given to them by an enemy tribe.) The UND controversy is complicated by the fact that the school has a new basketball/hockey arena, which has the Sioux logo impressed onto every seat, and a clause in the building's lease which states that if the name Sioux ever changes, UND will not be allowed to have games there. As you can guess, the major donor behind the arena's construction was a big Sioux (the name)-defender. But they'll lose their court case, so it'll be interesting to see what happens next. I hate that film. Our high school had to watch that film a million times because our mascot was the Warriors and there was debate on whether we should drop the name Warriors. Luckily we voted to keep the name (not like I have major school spirit but I think the whole idea of dropping your name is such hooey). I can buy into the whole RedSkins idea though so to speak and that being a poor team name.

Damn it, Bulls should have won. Pissed another one away. Its ridiculous to think how many games we've lost this season that we should have won. And that was such a freaking foul on Webber when he got the offensive rebound and tip back for the win.

I think at some point this season we'll see a lot of John Danks.

Talk about a big trade. Too bad the Hawks aren't gonna get off there ass and make some moves to set up next years squad.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 10:04 PM) You're an Arsenal fan Jason? Oh goody. Suppose it COULD be worse, but still it's pretty bad. In other news, West Ham SUCK. Getting Tevez and Macsherano somehow sent this team on a downward spiral that they never recovered from. Oh and Nigel Reo Coker is probably going to Arsenal next season as well. West Ham flat can't score. They got owned today. QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 10:04 PM) You're an Arsenal fan Jason? Oh goody. Suppose it COULD be worse, but still it's pretty bad. In other news, West Ham SUCK. Getting Tevez and Macsherano somehow sent this team on a downward spiral that they never recovered from. Oh and Nigel Reo Coker is probably going to Arsenal next season as well. I'd what you'd call a relatively new Arsenal fan. This is the first time I've ever followed the premiere league and I'm a huge Henry fan. I watch Fox Soccer Channel more than anything right now (but I'm not a big fan of the spanish league games or the Italian league games...I prefer the EPL. Too much diving in the spanish league and I won't support the cheaters league, ie Italian league). I'm still learning a lot about how exactly the EPL works and the random tourney's like the FA Cup. I love the replay format though.

f***ing ehhh and Hell ya Jimbo I want to see if our young squad can do it. No Henry in the game but we still got Rosicky. And than we got the FA cup replay on Wednesday against Blackburn. Damn STS channel that I've never heard of ruins my plans of watching Chelsea/Arsenal.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Feb 18, 2007 -> 08:36 PM) Man, I hope '300' doesn't suck, because what I've seen looks amazing. I fear it will be overdone. Miami 911 is jsut like the show...some hillarious parts...lots of absolutely stupid parts. My recommendation is to wait to rent it.