Absolute BS

The Cardinals are in the Superbowl. What a season. It’s been pointed out to me that once upon a time a few years ago, I called for Kurt Warner to lose his job. I was totally wrong. And they fired Denny Green instead and now the cards are in the Superbowl. So hats off to KW, and let’s see him get another ring in 2 weeks!

This is Sandy and Steve, our season ticket neighbors, who brought a little positive attitude to the game. The stadium was ridiculously loud, and despite it being a beautiful 79 degree day, the roof was closed to make it even louder. The brid’s nest has got to be one of the loudest stadiums in the league. Visiting teams had something like 45 false start penalties on the year.

And here is a panorama taken from just in front of our seats. You can see me in the background in a gray hat not paying attention. Jesse’s girlfriend Kayla is standing up next to me wearing an edge jersey.

GO CARDINALS!

When some wonderful person ported GnuChess to the iPhone, I remembered how much I enjoy the game. I started playing again on Chess.com, which has a great slow-paced format that doesn’t require any more attention than you choose. The minimum time limit to make a move is 1 day, so it’s a lot like mail chess, except occasionally when you and your opponent are both online it can move quite a bit faster.

Here’s a link to my first game, where my opponent developed his rook far too early while I was busy setting up mate.

To be fair, the next game I lost just as quickly after some terrible oversight in my opening.

The most recent game I played was a good match where I had a chance to develop a a pawn and a bishop behind enemy lines. I wrote an annotated blog post about it.

So if anyone wants to play, go sign up on chess.com and challange me. My name is samsonasu and I welcome the challenge.

This game is very dumb, in my opinion. I saw someone lose on the TV show with a question that involved converting rods to furlongs. Nobody in america knows that, not even 5th graders. However, the show put up a website that at least validated my existence for now.

Kurt Warner, despite his superbowl ring, is the worst starting quarterback in the NFL today. There, I said it.
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Our first two weeks of Fox Sports Fantasy Football have come and gone, and Fox Sports is still the worst FF hosting I’ve ever played on. I log in today to receive the following message:

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* Making “Roster Changes” has been temporarily disabled. We are working to get this corrected as soon as possible. Please try again later. Thank you.

This is ridiculous. We couldn’t add anyone to our rosters the first week (we drafted offline on Wednesday and NFL started Thursday), and then when we finally could pick up players before week two, the players list wasn’t sortable by anything but name. Wow, good work guys.

In summary, Fox sports continues their legacy of awful sports coverage that began with “The Best Damn Sports Show Period,” continued on to sideline moron Tony Siragusa and culminated in an online fantasy league that disables roster changes. Oh well, at least I beat Kicker last week.

Big surprise: I play games on the internet.

I play set game pretty much every day and its awesome.

Also I was playing this other cool 3d puzzle game yesterday and it was a lot of fun. Levels 16, 19, and 23 I thought were real tough but you can beat them.