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Just Jack

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  1. Not a single kid showed up yesterday in my apartment complex

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    I noticed that myself. Both times I lived in a complex, not a single T-n-T, even though I knew there were kids around.

     

    We went to the mall (Carousel) where they were letting kids T-n-T from 5pm to 7pm. Lots of families, and some adults dressed up.

  2. Ok sent mine....

     

    Dear ESPN producers, directors and support staff who  are responsible for content on the Sunday night football games,

     

    I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your fine reporting of the Teddy Bruschi story, a well written documentary with dramatic footage of his pre and post stroke Herculean efforts. This story hit the hearts of those who root for the underdog, and cheer for the "comeback kid" each and every Sunday. The wonderfully produced pre game interviews were well done and thoughtful, creating a well paced, yet informative chronicle of his struggle to get back on the field after such a serious event.

     

    The inclusion of live shots of his wife only enhanced the nights drama, as she was seen many times in the throes of anguish, excitement, disappointment, and several other emotions such as despair, chagrin, melancholy, boredom, indifference, nervousness, hunger and painful menstrual cramping. I could only hope that we could have seen more of her as she cheered for her hero!

     

    I would also like to thank you for creating the wonderful fades into and out off the broadcast showing Bruschi as a hero of epic proportions.

     

    This wonderful evening was only marred by the occasional reference to the game being played on the field, my question for the staff assembling this wonderfully dramatic piece is, Why did you broadcast it when there was a football game on? All that chatter about a game that was being played somewhere backstage or on a field somewhere took away from the real reason you people put the show together. I will admit that a good portion of the broadcast was about Mr. Bruschi, but there were parts of the broadcast that dealt with a game between the New England Patriots and the Buffalo Bills. This was an utter distraction! I refuse to watch any more of your documentaries if you continue to cut away briefly for these shots of games being played someplace backstage. Please stick to what you are good at, documentaries about people and topical informative reporting of issues that would generally not be seen in mainstream media. This football stuff has got to go, you ruined a quality documentary by mixing that football stuff in there. If we had wanted to watch football Sunday, we would have turned a game on...

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    Guff, you always come up with good ones.

  3. What model laptop? Where I used to work they bought several, I forgothe exact model name but if I heard it I'd remember it. Anyways, these had the 17" widescreen LCD's. The units when they were manufactured had some cold solder joints that over time would open up, so pressure in certain areas would cause the problems you describe of needing to power off/on to get your screen back.

  4. Anybody have a phone # for ESPN's corp. office in Bruschiville??

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    I came up with three numbers.....

     

    ESPN

    935 Middle Street, Bristol, CT 06010

    (860) 766-2000

    Email: infoaerocast.com

     

    ESPN - Viewer Information

    935 Middle Street, Bristol, CT 06010

    (860) 766-2236

     

    ESPN Inc

    899 Middle Street, Bristol, CT 06010

    (860) 641-8800

     

    I was actually in Bristol a couple weeks ago, drove right by ESPN. Wouldn't have noticed it except for all the satellite dishes outside.

  5. Well, if you must know, I had my Bills flag out till about halftime, when I took it down because I was going to the bedroom to watch the end of the game. And what happens? We lost. Now, if I had left the flag out the entire game, we'd be celebrating being in 1st for the AFC East. That's Karma.

  6. It's actually old news, I started seeing it in late 2003 with IBM Netvistas. It's an interesting story......

     

    Leaking Capacitors Muck up Motherboards

     

    While a unit is in warranty, manufactures will usually replace the motherboard. Once it's out of warranty, you can either find someone to do the replacing of just the caps (badcaps.net), or if you're handy with a soldering iron, replace them yourself.

     

    The issue we were seeing in IBM's was when running W2K Pro, the system would reboot itself before it finished booting. First it might happen once, then twice. Eventually, it would never finish booting, just a constant reboot.

  7. I sent an email to DHL, expecting to get some type of reason why it was going to take an estimated day longer.  I mean, even if they would have said its because its guaranteed to be 2 days, while ground is sometimes one day, sometimes 5 days, that would have made sense.

     

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    Air and Ground shipments are sent two completely different ways through the sorting facility. I always look at where a company is shipping from while deciding between ground and air for any of the carriers. Anywhere in the Northeast, I will usually choose ground because that will take anywhere from 1 to 3 days. From the mid-west to west coast, either 2 or 3 day air, depending on cost.

  8. I recall reading an article awhile back that said as much of a prick as Modell was for moving the Browns, he actually helped stabalize the NFL.  It sent a shock to the other NFL cities that they should build/improve or consider building/improving stadiums and improve lease agreements or they too could lose their team.

     

    Off the top of my head, since the Browns moved:

    Bills: Renovated the Ralph

    Steelers: New Stadium

    Cincinnati: New Stadium

    Patriots: New Stadium

    Indy: Trying to work out new stadium deal

    Philly: New Stadium

    Washington: New Stadium

    Chicago: Renovated/New Stadium

    Detroit: New Stadium(i think)

    Tampa: New Stadium

    Seattle: New Stadium

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    Didn't Green Bay also do some renovations?

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