Blogcation

I have mad stuff going on this week (girlfriend's birthday, parents coming down, mad work) so I'm taking a brief hiatus from the blog this week. Don't expect any posts until next week.

Peace

Factoid of the Weekend

*Not a regular feature*

The Wall Street Journal did an analysis of a football telecast and found that for the typical 2 hour and 57 minutes broadcast, there is only 11 minutes of actual live action football. Obviously there is a lot of down time, but I never thought it was that much, damm.

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I never thought sheets could be so funny.

Whaaaaaaaaa?

I never would have guessed! Does anyone really care anymore, concussions are the new steroids.

Weightlifting....sure.......

He played it well though, I'm sure he knew that not many people care anymore so why not admit it now. Just like Tiger Woods will be fine 6 months from now when there's a new scandal that everyone is obsessing over. Personnaly I predict that Andy Reid will admit that he actually ate Ray Rhodes to become the Eagles' coach in '99.

Playoff Tracker

0-1 right now. I didn't get to see much of the early game since I was watching Drexel lose to William and Mary (when did they get so good?). We'll see how the Cowboys-Eagles game goes...

Updates will be coming over the weekend

**1-1 for Saturday, I really thought the Cowboys-Eagles game would be a lot closer, Andy Reid didn't even have a chance to display poor clock management. They did use Vick for an actual pass which I think was a good thing, but that's really the only good thing you can say about the Eagles. Did you ever notice that when players are being interviewed they're always looking around as opposed to looking at the interviewer? What are they looking for? People to celebrate with, hunnies in the crowd to tag later that night? It'll always be a mystery...

**Man, people on the news here are real tight. Hahaha, they're interviewing a player right now and he's trying to hide food behind his back so the cameras don't see, awesome.

**2-1 so far, and looking iffy on the last game of the weekend. Though this could be a game if GB scores before the half...

**2-2 for wild-card weekend. A few things we learned about listening to Ben and his football predictions:
-Always obey the unibrow rule
-At least he can pick which game will be good, even if he doesn't get the score right
-That's probably it, until next week...


SIDE NOTE:

Don't you wish Jing could go to CES and pop and lock in the booth where they do this? How ill would that be?

NFL Playoff Predictions

Ahhh, we’re finally into meaningful football games in January. You know what I’m talking about, the ones that don’t begin with the Capital One Meineke Car Care KFC Dinner Bucket Daffodil Bowl. I’m talking straight forward Wild Card Weekend in the NFL (sponsored by Gillette). Rather than auto tuning my picks (though I still might) I thought I would write them down since that’s really the only thing that separates me from T-Pain, knowing how to write (and probably read!).

Dallas vs. Philadelphia

I’m going with Dallas here. Romo has been playing much better than he has in years past and they didn’t crumble like they normally would in the game last week against the Eagles. The key to this game has to be the containment of DeSean Jackson as both a receiver and a kick returner. He’s the Eagles most explosive player by far and if the Dallas secondary lets him get some open field he’ll burn them pretty quickly (the Giants learned that the hard way). If he’s in shape I think this could be a good opportunity to use Vick to try to throw off the Dallas defense. I don’t know what condition he’s in but it was surprising how little (and how straight forward) they used him during the season. For the most part, if Vick was in the game you were expecting him to run. Obviously people don’t want to take big risks in playoff games, but I think it could be worth having McNabb and Vick in the backfield at the same time and trying to fool the Cowboys defense. I think the Cowboys have the benefit of having a well balanced attack and their breakout star Miles Austin. As long as Tony Romo doesn’t have to hold a game winning field goal, I think they’ll be alright.

Cowboys 27- Eagles 21

Cincinnati vs. N.Y. Jets

I think this is definitely the most underwhelming game of the weekend, and the one I’m glad I’m missing if I go to the Drexel basketball game on Saturday (battle for 1st place!). Even though Cincy had some of their starters in vs. the Jets the effort just wasn’t there, and why should it be since they had nothing to win or lose. I don’t see Sanchez winning his first playoff game but I do see him eating a hamburger on the side line at some point during the 3rd quarter. Passing is the new hotness in the NFL (Andy Reid has been all over it for years) and it’s something the Jets just aren’t that great at. Carson Palmer appears to have regained some of his old form and my boy Cedric Benson should be alright. Cincinnati wins this game and leaves Jets fan wishing they had a dome for Brett Favre to play in last year.

Cincinnati 23- N.Y. Jets 16

New England vs. Baltimore

Remember this: anytime you have a unibrow playing in a wild card game, take the unibrow. Baltimore is going to win this game on the ground (even though I said it’s a passing game above). New England’s defense is right around average compared to the rest of the league and I think Ray Rice and to a lesser extent Willis McGahee will take advantage of that. Plus, I think the knee injury to Welker hurts them a lot more than people think. Welker was averaging almost 9 catches and 102 yards per game. He’s one of the key players in helping New England move the ball and Julian Edelman will not be an adequate replacement. Additionally, I just don’t see New Englands jumble of running backs making significant gains against Baltimore’s defense. Fred Taylor will be back, but he can’t be perfectly in game shape after such a long layoff. Oh, and I don’t know what deal with Brady’s ribs are, but you know Baltimore’s pass rush will be gunning for them.

Baltimore 25-New England 21

Arizona vs. Green Bay

I think this could be the best game of the weekend. I see it as a high scoring affair with a lot of score changes. I’m going to have to go with Green Bay on this one mostly for the great play of Aaron Rodgers. I think Green Bay flew under the radar this year with the Vikings in their division and New Orleans and Indy looking to go undefeated. They’re coming into the playoffs hot having won 7 of their last 8 and their final game was a shut out of Arizona (not that Arizona was trying). Keep the passing attach going and they should be able to outlast Arizona whose hopes ride on a great game from Kurt Warner. Neither team has an amazing running game so we should see them air it out a lot.

Green Bay 35-Arizona 31

Side Notes:
-Has the ever been this many teams playing each other two weeks in a row?
-In Bill Simmons newest article he compares home team records vs. the spread to say that home field advantage is going away. Shouldn’t the spread take home field advantage into account?What’s to say Vegas hasn’t just gotten better at calculating it in?

I am a Post Machine!

3 in 1 day, that's a personal best...

Not sure how many of you have heard about the Consumer Electronics Show happening out in Vegas right now so I thought I'd do a run down of some baller things coming out of it. It's a yearly show that highlights the latest and greatest tech for the year to come, all the major players are there (Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, etc.) though I'm not sure whether Apple still attends or if they do their own thing. Anyways, lots of cool stuff coming out it:

Gunnar Optiks 3D Glasses- now you can look trill as hell while watching Freddy vs. Jason 3D on your......

60 inch, 240 Hz, Wi-Fi enabled, 3D Sony HDTV!!!!!

Sony and Samsung are pushing 3D TVs like there's no tomorrow, and the intial reviews sound promising! There is also news that the PS3 will be able to handle 3D Blu-Rays without and issue so if you're rockin one (like me) there's no need to buy a new player. They also reported that DirecTV's 3D channels looked pretty good at the demonstration.

CES isn't just TVs, Dell introduced the Slate which seems like a hybrid between a tablet PC and a smarthphone. It has a 5 MP camera and a SIM card slot, but from what I can tell it would only be used on a cell networks data plan, not as a phone. (Looks purty though)

See through laptop...WHAAAA?! Is it practical? Probably not. Is it amazingly trill? ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

And we're back to TVs... Panasonic's 152 inch 3D TV with 4096X2160 resolution, let's play guess the price on that one! Speaking of prices, the world's first 3D camcorder will be $21,000. Someone better buy that for my birthday!

Microsoft gave us some info on this Project Natal business, it's basically a gaming system that can track your whole body so there's no need for a control. It has the potential for awesomeness, but also the potential for a major failure (aka bowling 24/7)

There's a ton more, but you can go visit a technology blog for that, so I'm going to end with one goofy thing and one baller thing, it should be pretty obvious which is which.

A washing machine running android (the OS that the G1, Droid, and now Nexus 1 phones all run). So pointless!

Is that what I think it is? YES!! A POLAR BEAR WITH AN HDTV IN IT!!!! BALLERIFIC TO THE MAX!

I don't really care about digital cameras or camcorders, headphones, standalone blu-ray players, streaming TV boxes, etc. but there's a ton of that stuff too. If you want to check it out I recommend heading over to http://gizmodo.com/tag/ces2010