UngsungBlog: A (Fantasy) Sports Blog

One quick-hitter:

- FOOTBALL!!!  FOOTBALL!!! OMGWTF!!! FOOTBALL IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111

(I’m sorta a football fan; can’t you tell?)

- Some quick Barry Bonds thoughts:

•  I forgot where I heard it from (ESPN, maybe?), but the most telling aspect of Bonds’ HR pursuit might be the fact that it was not a very memorable moment, to some people (myself included).  I mean, when Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig’s consecutive games played record, I remember how awesome of a moment that is.  When I first heard that Bonds finally broke Hank Aaron’s HR record, I don’t remember reacting at all.
• Have you noticed how quickly the focus moved from Bonds to A-Rod as being the next guy to break the record?  Is that not another telling sign that the record breaker isn’t all that significant, except for all the wrong reasons?
• Like I said in an earlier blog entry, it’s Bonds record until he’s stripped of it, or until it’s broken.

It was real nice to see Aaron pre-record a video tribute to Bonds, though, even if the allegations that he was paid or “influenced” to do it are true.

- So I’ve been debating, back and forth, for the last few days on whether or not do build a budget AMD system, or if I should just splurge and build a powerful Intel system.  With the Newegg/PayPal $20 off $100 coupon floating about, I gotta figure out what to buy soon.  Low-end AMD X2 CPU with some micro-ATX board and a SATA HDD for ~ $200?  Or, should I go for a decent Core2Duo (E4400), a midrange mobo, a decent graphics card, and a SATA HDD for closer to $400?

(Well, it seems that the “midrange” mobo is now out of stock.  Drat!)

So…who wants to spend my money?!?

- Speaking of shopping for parts, one of the ways to determine whether or not a part is worth buying is the customer reviews on that product.  Unfortunately, you’re at the mercy of any perceived bias for/against a particular part/brand/model.  Actually, that’s not the worst part about customer reviews.  I REALLY can’t stand it when a customer review

1. discusses an aspect of a product that is either optional or not explicitly supported by the product (i.e. overclocking)
2. insists that a product doesn’t compare to an obviously superior product (i.e. my cheapy HP Celeron-D laptop with 512MB of RAM is so slow compared to my friend’s Lenovo Core2Duo laptop with 2GB of RAM)
3. treats the product review as their own blog, complete with missing punctuation, no capitalization, grammatical errors, and terrible run-on sentences.

I bring this up because I saw a review on some cookware at Macy’s, and it had eight total reviews.  Seven reviews had five-star reviews, and the eighth?

“worst ever set of pots & pans. very difficult to clean.
i had farberware for over 20 years & decided to treat myself because of missing pieces over the years
but i am so disappointed in my purchase i wish i never gave my farberware away.” 

So your high quality Farberware (my parents have some that they’ve owned for years; I can personally vouch that they are very good products) pots and pans worked better than this discounted cookware?  What a surprise!  Krunk told me that he’s also bent that his Honda Civic isn’t as impressive as a BMW M3.

(By the way, I’ll ignore the lack of capitalization :P)

Happy blogging!

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