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On the basepaths, yes, but they tend to hit for power which makes up for their lack of speed. On defense, they tend to play positions where they don't have to move around a lot, like 1st base, or the DH if they're in the AL.

Jonathan Broxton

I have to agree with Volo, the Heat are still the favorites as far as I'm concerned. They have a much easier path to the Finals than anyone in the West. Sure, the Bulls gave them trouble during the regular season, but I expect the Heat to handle the Bulls once they kick into playoff mode. The only team I can see beating the Heat in a series in the East is Indiana, but the Pacers need to right their ship but quick, the way they're playing right now, they might not beat the Bobcats. The Spurs have to be the favorites in the West because they are playing so incredibly well right now. The Thunder's fortunes hinge heavily on their health. Can Russ get through the playoffs without his knee shattering into a billion pieces? Will Sefolosha and Perkins be 100%? If the answer to both those questions is yes, then the Thunder are obviously quite capable of winning the West. The Clippers and Rockets are scary teams, I don't know if they're consistent enough to make it to the Finals, but they're both quite capable of knocking anybody out. The Heat are beatable, but until someone actually does that and knocks them out, I still think they're the most likely team to walk away with the Larry O'Brian Trophy.

I fired up some Dungeon Siege III. I've been kind of itching to play that game again for a while and I finally scratched that itch last night. I'm up to the part where you rescue your first companion, Anjali in my case. Still playing Might & Magic X besides that.

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Quiet, Oby. You can't be so loud with your truthing or THEY will hear you. You don't want THEM to hear you. You're not safe from THEM, even is the seemingly safe, comfortable, completely 100% non-corrupt confines of Russia. THEIR reach extends everywhere. EVERYWHERE!

So, which 2 of these 3 teams get in? Phoenix Memphis Dallas

Finished Castle Portmeyron. Onward to the Forge to finish Act 1, then I can finally get to Seahaven to train some skills. They seemed to mostly take care of the performance problems with the latest patch. I have noticed very few slowdowns and even after pumping the graphics up a bit higher (farther draw distance and higher shadow setting). They still happen, but they're very rare now.

For tonight: Chopped salad with green and red cabbage, radishes, romaine, carrots, sauteed onions, bacon, and sharp cheddar. Sadly, I'm out of tomatoes and too lazy to go down the street to the store. Oh well.

3rd person action game where, instead of various weapons of mass destruction, you have weaponized dance moves. The guy from Depeche Mode is making a beat em up? Will this finally be the game that answers the age old question: People are peole so why should it be, you and I should get along so awfully?

Still not enough. They'd have to pay me more money than that to suffer through Ride To Hell: Retribution.

The only way it could be is in a scenario where the extra 6 GB of vRAM is more beneficial than the extra two thousand whatever cores. I don't think such a scenario exists, even taking into account that SLI doesn't scale quite as well from 2 to 3 as it does from 1 to 2.

And Victorino strained his hammy in the last spring training game of the year despite the fact that the Sawx only played him in 9 games during spring training specifically to try to avoid having him sprain his hammy. I have a sneaking suspicion that this will be the first of many visits Shane makes to the 15 day DL this year.

I concur. I actually managed to get 3 out of the 4 final four teams right in my bracket: Florida, UCONN, and Wisconsin. I have Florida beating UCONN and Louisville Kentucky beating Wisconsin. I would love nothing more than to be wrong on both accounts. In NBA news: KD extended his 25+ scoring streak to a mind boggling 38 games (just 2 shy of His Airness!). More importantly for the Thunder, Russ looks no worse for the wear after his latest scare (though I'm still frightened that his knee will shatter into a billion pieces at any moment) and the they might get both Perkins and Sefolosha back by the end of this week. The top 2 spots look pretty much set in the West with the Spurs being on a winning streak that seems like it will never end and the Thunder with enough cushion to third place and likely more concerned with keeping KD rested and Russ healthy than trying to catch the Spurs. Over in the East, the Pacers look like they don't want that 1 seed after all. Outside of their win against the Heats, they've been self destructing, with an embarrassing blow out loss to the Cavs being their latest stumble. I'll be curious to see if the Heat will rest guys or try to get the 1 seed. If the Pacers keep playing this poorly, the Heat might be able to do both, get the 1 seed while resting their guys.

Note to self: If ever visiting Candyland, politely decline any invitation to sample LadyC's cooking.

I feel for you. I call this spring time in Hartford, Connecticut: That was taken at 9am March 31st, about 3-4 inches fell in the span of about 3 hours. Luckily, it will be gone by evening as it's supposed to get up to high 40s today, but I've lived in Connecticut long enough to know that there is a reasonable chance that this won't be the last snow we get this "spring". We've gotten snow as late as the last week of April before. I imagine people in North Carolina aren't used to the weather we've gotten this winter and having snow this late in the year. Here it's standard procedure, though this winter was one of the coldest I've every gone through in Connecticut. We didn't have a February and a March, we had 3 months of January instead.

By an excess of cheese I mean the physical amount of cheese on the pizza, not amount of different cheeses used (I don't count cheese as toppings either). I make pizzas with multiple cheese varieties all the time, but I never go overboard with the total volume of cheese on the pizza. Yes it is possible to make pizza with 4 or more toppings that is delicious, my point is that the combinations are few and far between. There are tons of two topping combinations that work really well, a moderate amount of 3 topping combinations that work really well, and a very small amount of 4 or more topping combinations that work really well. The point is that beyond a certain amount of toppings you are a lot more likely to ruin your pizza than make it better by continuing to add more toppings.

I don't see any situation where this card makes any sense to buy. I mean, I suppose if someone only had one PCI-E lane for gfx and needed that amount of power, but, realistically, anyone that needs that kind of power has a motherboard with at least 2 lanes. The only advantage this card gives is the 12 GB of vRAM over 6 GB you'd get from a SLI setup, but not even a 5k setup would effectively use 12 GB of vRAM. In a 5k setup the extra 6 GB of vRAM might give a slight benefit, but certainly not $1000 worth. The other scenario is if you want to SLI two of these monstrosities together, but there is nothing out there that requires that kind of power, nor will there be anytime soon. This card is for people with money to burn that want bigger numbers on benchmarks because pen1s size, or whatever.

No one is forcing you to use a red sauce. I've eaten many a pizza with either a white sauce or a pesto sauce. With that said, I'm assuming Bruce's pizza had red sauce. I would use red sauce with banana and bacon and ham myself, I would just go very light on the sauce as the acidity of the red sauce might clash with the sweetness of the banana a bit.

With bacon and ham, yes. I can't see it working with anchovies, mushrooms, and garlic. Also, pizza pro-tip: If you're adding more than 3 toppings, you're almost always doing it wrong.

This Wildcats/Wolverines game is really entertaining. I don't care who wins, I want to see triple overtime.

Cleared out the lightower. No choice but to so the den of thieves now, which means I'll lose Rosalie and free secret passage locations. Oh well. I killed Mamushi first try, he came close to wiping me out right at the very beginning, knocking both my barbarians unconscious, but I managed to hang in there and keep my bladedancer conscious long enough for the regenerate spells to heal my barbarians back to consciousness. After that, Mamushi never came close to taking me down and I made fairly quick work of him. So, only the den of thieves and Castle Portmeyon left in act 1.

The Huskies win! The Huskies win! BAH GAWD the Huskies win!

An excess of cheese on a pizza is a sin, and that's coming from a guy who LOVES cheese. Otherwise, the bacon, ham, and bananas go well together, but the anchovies, mushrooms, and garlic sound really weird with the rest of the ingredients.