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"I WANT TO STAB GARY BETTMAN"

Wavers?

7 mins left in 3rd and WXIA went to Aves/Stars....

It's not the end of the world or anything, but you've got to admit... it sucks that it went down that way.

No Stojan. I don't even care what the freaking trohpy is in. Once. Just once I'd like to be on that side!! Game 5 is in Buff... they should take that, all's not lost. We're not doomed and all that... but man, after watching 'em drop the series lead and the 2-0 this evening, it sure does sting a little. -Jeff

Yeah, WTF was that? We actually blew two 2-0 leads. Series and the game. One freaking trophy. That's all I want. One damn championship! Make the jokes stop!

My point is that it's painfully easy to build a small scale infrastructure that can handle thousands of "brochureware" websites. You know the type, the ones phone companies, internet providers, and consultants can throw in for "free" as a value add to their core service. Land a couple/three of those and they'll do the heavy lifting for you. Channel sales. I've got a buddy that did just that. Built up a decent infrastructure, landed some corporate resellers, and invoices them on the number of sites they've sold. He lined up for or five of those and now that's all he does. No sales overhead, almost no direct customer support calls, no design work. I think one is a group of doctors, another is a magazine publisher, yet a third is a domain registrar. He's got it all automated to the point that they can tie into it via an API. He does nothing except for replace the occasional failed hard drive or add a bit of RAM every now and then. I've been knee deep in the website business for ten years now. The big problem in my opinion is there's not a lot of differentiation between one shop and the other. Crazy Eddie offers 10GB and Crazy Tommy offers 11GB and a free Google certificate. There's no real clear leader. I think that there's some serious money in the infrastructure surrounding that business, you know, supporting people that do what you do. One of these days, I'll test that theory. -Jeff

See, the problem is scaling that. I designed/built/deployed/run a system that's hosting 101,000 domains as of this morning. Ten machines and a 5 year old storage array. The problem is that it's someone else's system. I'm in the process of doing a new system that ought to handle twice that. One of these days, I'll apply that type of system to something that doesn't kick me in the non-compete, and cash in.

Dead on. My heart still kicks it up a couple notches right before I pull the trigger on anything. Especially when there's a deer in the crosshairs. -Jeff

Wow, good for them! When I was in high school, there was this guy who drove a smaller car... few of us picked it up and carried it onto the sidewalk trying to get him a parking ticket. No ticket, but shocked the hell out of me that we were able to pick it up. Edit: By "few" I mean like a dozen and by "picked up" I mean "scootched"

Right, but then they would have let robocop go.

Don't forget Pominville's!!

That sucks. These are playoffs!!!! C'mon! Thank heavens for free NHL.com radio...

The camera work full on sucked ass last night in my opinion. Commentators were alright with the exception of all the football references. Tight end. Tight end. Tight end.

Yeah, if I wouldn't get sued, I'd setup a stream =) OLN == Outdoor Life Network. -Jeff

OLN... I have DTV, but I think the majority of the cable carriers have OLN now...

Yes. It's true. Search for a flight online, and you'll see something like "Due to a U.S. government travel restriction we are unable to book this reservation." Care of travel.yahoo.com. I can't even book Mexico City to Havana, but I can buy this here direct NYC to Tehran, Iran flight without a problem. Now that I've searched for flights to both Havana and Tehran, I don't expect to be around much longer. Wait, be right back... there's a knock at the door now.... -Jeff

I have no problem with the "sport" (obligatory quotes - no, I couldn't do it. I can't perform bypass surgery either, that doesn't make cardiothoracic surgeons athletes). What I have a problem with is the lame commercialization of it all. The was a commercial on with a blonde girl in a corvette throughout yesterday's game, for NASCAR car cleaner or something. My wife and I kinda sat there for a bit... so NASCAR makes it clean better? Or is it just faster? Competitive cheerleading. I don't get that either. BUT... thread hijacking aside, that was one hell of a game. Bunch of missed passes early on but it looked to me like Buff just dominated that game. If Esche plays like he usually does (and probably will after having a performance like that mean nothing) and this looks like a 4 - 1 series. -Jeff

We didn't listen!! We didn't listen!! That, my friends... THAT is global warming.

Why yes, yes I do.

I double checked. You're right. HOW did you know that off the top of your head?

Man I hear that. Cautiously optimistic. That's a good way to put it. We could have won every damn game played this year, I'd still feel this way. It's the curse. Edit: That said, I _really_ feel like there's a chance this time, I've got visions of the cup... must...block out....until..... must block out...

I used to do it because I'm used to doing it in email messages. I've grown lazy, though =)

...is that what I think it is?

I still miss Sals.