sucks.

i got an old laptop on thursday for free. my old boss, brian (was in charge of me when i was an intern) basically said "do you want this?" i said "sure why not". i have aim on it and a web browser, and as geoff pointed out i'll have civ2 on there soon. really don't need much else from the laptop. even found wireless internet in my apartment building, but i will probably stick to my own network as opposed to someone else's. the whole "stealing internet" thing is kinda dirty... maybe because it shouldn't be considered stealing so it's a bad term to use. yes. that's it.

i'm now signed up for what is, according to thad, the max number of free yahoo fantasy baseball leagues one can be signed up for. i'm overwhelmed, for sure. all the leagues have live drafts, so we'll find out how i handle this whole thing pretty soon - it's all about prepping for the draft. the first, most important draft is next weekend - it's the keeper league we started last year. we dropped the people who didn't care or pay attention, added a few people who hopefully will pay more attention, and we are looking at having a pretty sweet year. even nick and ken have claimed they will pay attention all the way through. nick friggin bought a magazine in order to prep. good work nick!

anyways, my prep work has been more... computer-centric. i loaded up lahman's database on elscorcho, as well as zips projections and the preseason rankings from sporting news, sportsline, and espn. the question is... how am i going to analyze all this? it's a lot of data, for sure. i'm creating a hell of an application, if you consider just the data i have. i'll be able to figure out the strongest/weakest positions in terms of depth, and i should be able to figure out average stats from last year so i can compare how certain players did versus the league averages. that's just two things that come to mind. thad, i know you're intrigued. gimme a shout.

great fedex ad on right now. i'm watching espn2, some subpar a-10 basketball. i should find something else on tv. anyways, this ad is pretty decent, reminds me of some of the stuff we used to do with phil - basically bring up everything dumb he's ever said ever, no matter how irrelevant, as often as possible, thus making him look much stupider than he actually is. it was pretty effective

worker 1: you're always wrong
worker 2: how am i always wrong?
worker 1: steely dan is not one person. we get fringe benefits, not french benefits, it's not the leaning tower of pizza, and james dean was an actor—jimmy dean makes sausages.
worker 3: so fedex isn't too expensive?
worker 2: so we don't get french benefits?

i imagine if i worked with phil stuff like that would happen all the time. especially if thad was around, and we had an officespace kind of thing going on.

then again, that would be a miserable world of bobs and staplers and tps reports.

anyways, i digress. i think. i'm not sure what i am digressing from, but i'm pretty sure that last train of thought was digressing from the main point.

the main point is this - if you're gonna do anything, do it nerdy.