The Avenger

I'm in now....

My guess is that aren't allowing any new connections - if they do they'll get flooded and crash again.

I can't get to the site at all - "System Maintenance"

I was just on a chat board where people were bitching about Fanball and someone from Fanball posted that they are having a complete site outtage and hope to have it up soon. Sounds like this has happened every year for the past few years...

As long as we finish by 11-12 I'm OK.

I've been getting that message for about 45 minutes now....

It would also take FOREVER. Can we hijack the TBD chat room? Anyone want to go there now?

I'm OK for quite some time - nowhere I have to be tonight. I'm also OK for the rest of the week after about 7, but it looks like others may have conflicts. F'in Fanball.

I was in about 40 minutes ago, then came back and things were hung up so I left thinking I'd come right back - now I'm locked out. Problem is that their servers can't handle the load of drafts running right now.

I have images of the system merrily drafting away for us based on its rankings - I wonder who's going to get Curtis Martin - he was ranked really high for a guy who isn't going to play.....

Good Lord I've had my share of technical issues tonight - my wireless connection dropped out on my laptop when doing a demo for clients in Australia about 2 hours ago, now this - is it a full moon or something?

Can't get to the site - get a message saying all servers are busy - WTF?

That's the problem - who gets to decide what is beneficial enough to justify animal experimentation? Your previous example of the dogs and thirst - you seem to make the case that the research wasn't beneficial and the experiementation was needless. Another person could look at it as a way to determine whether troops in desert climates (Iraq) could one day be hydrated by tube, or is it pointless because they would always need to drink from a canteen, even when wearing full chemical suits? I think there are very few, if any, experiemnts that have no benefit - its just a matter of who is evaluating that benefit and assigning value to it and determining whether the value justifies the experiment.

I was at the game on Saturday and I've got to tell ya - I can't think of a single bright spot for the Skins unless you count not suffering any serious injuries. They couldn't do anything on either side of the ball. Brandon Lloyd got deep and the ball hit him in the hands and he dropped it. Brunell looked like a rookie when he got pressured, stepped up and flicked a little shovel pass right to a defender (not sure how he dropped it). Ugly. To give the Pats their due, they also looked very good - really hitting on all cylinders. You might hady Brady (I do), but he looked very good out there. Put those things together and you get 41-0. Not saying this will be us in week 1 - but if we look as bad as the Skins did and the Pats play as well as they did it will be a very long afternoon...

What's the best wine to serve with guppy?

So are dogs, depending on where you live....

Actually, the statement is: ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT. Early may refer to his life rather than the century which would mean he wrote it when he was in his youth, before 1900.

I have it on excellent authority that erynthered likes to hang out on nerdnirvana.org.

Premise 3 states that each homeowner keeps a different type of pet. By strict logic you can get all the way to the end and state for certain that the German does NOT keep dogs, cats, horses or birds, but it does NOT tell you he must therefore own a fish. The German could own a rabbit, or an emu for that matter. Unless you state that someone MUST own a fish the German could own anything (except what the others already own). By asking who owns a fish you ASSUME that someone does and that someone is the German, but that's only an assumption - hence the need for another statement that someone owns a fish (some actually think this answer is the actual riddle and that only 2% of people would question whether anyone even owns a fish).

Actually, if you use strict logic on this all you can come to is that the German does not have an a pet - you can't conclude he owns a fish - you'd need to add a statement that one person owns a fish. Just to split hairs...

Damn - that was tough. You start out and a bunch of pieces fall into place, then you get stuck and sit there trying to figure out how you can make any more progress. Fortunately, once you do figure out another item a bunch more fall into place. My head hurts, but I feel good for getting the answer!

Did this thread really start by talking about little kids wearing pajamas for Christ? In only 64 posts we went from Jesus to picking up $50 bills with your crotch

Hey - one less celestial body to line up perfectly in order for the Bills to win it all - I like it. I'm guessing it'll only be another 2.8 billion years before it happens, maybe longer if they continue to ignore the o-line...

That was one of the coolest scenes ever - perfectly scored with Powermad doing Slaughterhouse in the background - makes you just want to go out and beat someone...

Tom Brady is still testing them - when he has a preference we'll see them (hopefully with his face on each)...