Sports Redux: It's Never As Easy As It Looks
April 30th, 2008
Ray Allen led the team and scored 21 points, and KG racked up 20. Garnett got into a little tussle after elbowing Zaza Pachulia of the Hawks. Pachulia retaliated French soccer player style with a head butt. Tensions were already high, and the fracas resulted in technical fouls for Garnett, Joe Johnson and Sam Cassell. Pachuila received a foul and a technical foul.
This could be just the beginning of the Celtics’ problems. When officials checked the replay, they noticed that Garnett shoved the ref and Kendrick Perkins and Atlanta’s Marvin Williams got off the bench and hit the floor. Both actions are an automatic one game suspension.
We can just add these potential suspensions to Paul Pierce’s $25,000 fine for making a supposedly “menacing” hand gesture towards the Hawk’s bench. Pierce, who can be seen making the gesture during team introductions, reportedly said it means “blood, sweat and tears.”
Former Celtic and current Hawk Joe Johnson scored 35 points last night, and, combined with the 28 points Josh Smith sunk, the Hawks’ skills on the court did the talking instead of Mike Bibby’s mouth.
The Celtics come back to Boston for the 5th game in the series Wednesday night, and who knows what we can expect from the hometown green team. Hopefully we can start seeing the team that went 66 -16.
Disgraced former Red Sox pitcher and current (alleged) face of steroids Roger Clemens my have lost any dignity he had left with the news that he supposedly had a 10 year affair with Nashville’s version of Pete Doherty, Mindy McCready. Slowly but surely, Clemens is making Jose Canseco look like a classier guy. Way to ruin your legacy, Roger.
TONIGHT: Jon Lester is sent to the mound against Roy Halladay and the Blue Jays. Hopefully he can last more than 4 innings. The last time the Sox played the Jays, they were swept and they had to worry about Frank Thomas. At least Lester doesn’t have to worry about the Big Hurt.
Tags: gesture, hand, paul, pierce
April 30th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
The music is already encoded in a lossy format. “Just” burning and re-ripping it will further reduce the fidelity, which makes your music sound like it was recorded on a Dictaphone in a lighthouse.
April 30th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
No, I didn’t know that. In that case then some audiophiles probably do buy from iTunes and I’m sorry I said otherwise.
April 30th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Why?
April 30th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
On reddit, a high nerd score is much more important for karma than a high human being score.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Forget general public. Even as a educated person to this kind of thing, I also would not think that Microsoft would make this decision. It is very bad for them to make. Although sadly, not unexpected.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I smell a lawsuit. This has got to be violating some fair trade law or another.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
DRM doesn’t hurt anything, and if you’re not a pirate you shouldn’t be concerned.Sorry, I got sidetracked passing out Hillary fliers after the McCain rally. Totally lost track of time.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I think the MSN license allows you to burn a certain number of audio CDs. I think the way to think of DRM’d music files is as just an intermediate format to be used for the sole purpose of burning a CD, after wich the DRM’d file can be discarded. You then end up with an audio CD just as if you had purchased a CD.You can then re-rip the CD to mp3. If you use a CD-quality bit rate, there should not be a noticable loss relative to the original DRM’d file.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Not programming subreddit.