March 2009
22 posts
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The Avett Brothers - “Go to Sleep” -...
“I don’t know if I can work there anymore. I mean, they honestly believe...”
– A friend talking about a frustrating job.
Josh Kopelman on getting into areas that seem... →
Everyone will tell you it is stupid to go up against Google, Microsoft, or ESPN. Often times the game is not even close to being over.
Jake DeSantis resigns from AIG →
What happens when you raise taxes on people to unreasonable heights?
Band of Horses - The General Specific
Heard this...
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A Shot In The Arm - Wilco
Hard to...
Prepared to be Dissapointed
Top 5 Fantasy Baseball players that if you draft you’ll be dissapointed. This isn’t to say any of these players are bad, but for Fantasy purposes they are some how tainted, overrated, or scary.
Brett Myers - If you’ve drafted him in the past few years and thought to yourself: “He’s a totally serviceable #2 SP” you know what I mean here. He’s gonna let...
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ohtis - downtown your...
Fantasy Sports Bar →
Someone needs to open one of these in Manhattan. Computer friendly bars customized to the Fantasy Sports fan’s needs.
WatchThis just made my night. Not sure how I missed this a while back. Wilco performing a new song “Wilco The Song” on Colbert. Heard this album is due out in June.
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The Black Lips - “Starting Over”
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WatchAnnaliese’s mom was on The Colbert Report last night (starts around 9:20 mark) and did a great job.
Sports Illustrated Top 25 Fantasy Players →
Good list from SI. I do think they are making a mistake putting A-Rod out of the top 25, despite being out for a month during the regular season. He may still be worth a 2nd or 3rd round pick.
“Obama is brazenly doing what the left accused Bush of: cynically using the first...”
– James Taranto, WSJ Best of the Web in response to Clinton and Emanuel’s comments to “Never waste a good crisis”
Hunter has been posting a song a day it seems for...
Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft (1)
Instead of reading every fantasy magazine I can get my hands on and spending countless hours thumbing through Baseball Prospectus, I’ve decided to prepare for this season by doing mock drafts. In this first mock draft I wanted to accomplish 3 things:
See how the draft would react if I took pitchers early.
See how long I could wait on a second baseman.
What my team would look like if I...
Scientist make HIV strain that can infect monekys →
It’s payback time.
WatchI’ve liked watching recent interviews and presentations by Evan Williams. Notice a few things about what he is doing and saying:
He is constantly trying to control the hype. Just like a band that gets over exposed too early, it sounds like Twitter is very conscious of keeping the expectations of their progress in line with what they can actually deliver.
It’s still really hard,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-1) →
Robert Earl Keen (11)
Charlie Robison (4)
The Kinks (4)
The White Stripes (2)
Damon Albarn & Ray Davies (1)
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