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Tivo is bliss... What Nissan commercial? Watched the entire game in just one hour. I am not nearly as disappointed in a Bills loss when I don't invest a full 3 - 3 1/2 hours of a Sunday on them?

Ok, let's hear it...any recommendations for restaurants at Niagara on the Lake? Some background...neither me nor my significant other has been to Niagara on the Lake. We are looking to go up there for an evening next week -- no overnight stay. The type of cuisine isn't all that important. Just looking for a good atmoshpere and great food. Suggestions?

Um...that quote comes right out of a USA Today article that ran July 20, 2005. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nf...man-cover_x.htm

Seriously look into this: https://www.econsumer.equifax.com/consumer/...ward=esn_detail

In a related note... Twister the movie really has really shown its age and reveals itself as downright awful. I remember when it first came out everyone was amazed by that darn flying cow. All the special effects kept everyone distracted from the poor plot/casting/acting in the movie overall. Now that those special effects look uber fake compared to what goes on in Hollywood today -- completely unwatchable. The unitentional comedy scale is through the roof though. Anyone remember how the Helen Hunt and what's his name characters managed to stave off that final out-of-this-world powerful twister? LMAO

...ALLEGANY-CATTARAUGUS-CHAUTAUQUA-GENESEE-JEFFERSON-LEWIS-LIVINGSTON- MONROE-NIAGARA-NORTHERN CAYUGA-NORTHERN ERIE-ONTARIO-ORLEANS-OSWEGO- SOUTHERN ERIE-WAYNE-WYOMING- 958 AM EDT FRI AUG 19 2005 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY IS EXPECTED TO SURGE NORTHEASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TRACKING THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES REGION. THE COMBINATION OF STRONG INSTABILITY AND MODEST MID AND UPPER LEVEL WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISTURBANCE WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY AREA FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE WEST OF THE FINGER LAKES...INCLUDING THE BUFFALO AND ROCHESTER AREAS. THE BEST TIME FOR DEVELOPMENT WILL BE FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM THIS EVENING. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.... The sky is falling! http://www.weather.com/weather/local/14222...&from=whatwhere

FWIW -- I played Little League and leading off and stealing was allowed for us in the 10-12yrs division for awhile, and then it was removed. I played in the East Lovejoy league where the coaches pretty much had discretion on what the rules would be. With that said, allowing leading off/stealing at that age is dumb. Ever see a pitcher try to pick someone off at that age? It was an accomplishment to just have a pitcher get the ball over the plate, let alone have the catcher catch it and make that farrrrr throw to second base. It worked out well for me though as I was always one of the faster kids. Any single would soon be turned into a triple a few pitches later. Ricky Henderson couldn't hold a match to me I was so prolific. Unfortunately each team had 3 guys like that too -- which is why it was a dumb rule. Balks were called though!

LMAO "Drew Bledsoe Sideview Mirror Helmet" "In an effort to protect slow, sack-prone QBs from having their brains scrambled by crushing blitzes, this classic helmet has been fitted with a sideview mirror. Keep one eye on the action downfield and the other on that defensive end who just broke your O-line. Coming soon: the Leon Lett model." http://www.syncmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,...719&po=5,00.asp

That woman who made the comments has a web site: http://www.gwendunlop.com/eng/index.htm From her bio... "...I am a Personal Coach offering instruction in both emotional processes and in Aware Parenting skills. My orientation is towards the use and expression of deep feelings as being central to human growth. I prefer to avoid approaching these issues in a complicated and overly intellectual way." E-mail her your thoughts!

No one is piling on the designers, the person calling the shots is exactly who is ultimately responsible. I am not sure who pulled the trigger here, but it might just have been Sabretooth... Seriously -- I am not sure it was the intention but the site has more appeal to kids 12 and under than someone who will actually buy tickets. It's more gimmicky than functional. A better strategy would have been to design for the average fan. The use of Flash is overkill. Check that, it's utterly unnecessary. I couldn't imagine how long that site will load over dial-up -- I would want to know how many Sabres fans use broadband, something the marketing folks should have found out. My guess is that the number wouldn't justify designing for it almost exclusively. Hey, this is a blue collar town after all Then there is the issue with the small fixed-size of the site. I have a 17" monitor -- I have more screen size dedicated to the background image than the content. It's annoying as hell. I am also very sorry for the site's content creators as well -- Flash means that Google and other search engines can't index their site content for search. That means all that great content will stay buried on the site. Oh, I know, let's build a site with content no one can find! Disguntled fan and web enthusiast.

Oh my -- http://www.sabres.com/ If the goal was to make a bloated, utterly unusable web site -- mission accomplished! Must have Flash to view...party like it's 1999? It's down right laughable in Firefox where I do not have Flash installed to avoid the annoying web ads. I switched to IE to check it out. I am speechless. Here's hope there is some momentum to move to updated Blue/Gold unis forcing this into redesign so that I can expunge this from my memory forever. Ack!

If I was him -- I would stop looking for more dates as well.... Give afrodziak a call LMAO

Um? wtf?

Indeed. Modest Mouse has simply been the best band I have had the pleasure to discover over the past 5 years. They bring it all together-- music, lyrics and that something extra you can't explain. That band doesn't owe me a thing. I am sure the snide comment above was made by someone who has probably heard what, one or two songs of the eighty or so they have recorded?