Rain stops play

Came home at 19-1 for the Haddocks (see last post).

Rugby Notes

Another great win on Saturday, this time 24-13 at home to Swansea. We never looked in real trouble. The pack was wonderful, causing the Jacks some real grief in the scrum and lineout (picture shows captain Craig Cleaver leaping salmonesque), as well as scoring a try from a 25 metre rolling maul.

Swansea never looked like winning and scored their only try when Greg Roberts was in the sin bin just before half time. This despite some dodgy refereeing by Hugh Watkins and by Swansea back rower Ritchie Pugh, who didn’t shut up the entire game. The ref proper managed to add 10 minutes of injury time in the second half. Good job we were a score clear, or the nerves would have been jangling again.

We are now riding high in 3rd in the table. A first home outing for the blue change jerseys, as seen in the pic. Very nice too.

Scorers: tries for the front row men Ian George and Richard Wilkes and for both wingers, Matt Jess and Simon Hunt. Two conversions for Sam Mills

Highlight: the work rate of Kris Gay who covered a huge a mount of ground and played the entire game. Good turnaround, Kris.

Lowlight: a red card for Kristian Owen for fighting on the fringe of a melee late in the game.

Fantasy Football Notes

Big win on the weekend, beating the top team 89-81. Huge 4 touchdown performance from LaDamian Tomlinson and 4 TDs from my WRs and TEs sealed the win. Need to sort out my QB position though; with Culpepper out for a while it looks like it’ll have to be Jake Plummer. Yikes.

Link of the week

Buzzwhack is a website that has all the corporate speak (bullsh*t bingo, in other words) you could ever want. Here are a few examples:

carbon-based error: Error caused by a human, not a computer (which would be a silicon-based error).

featurise: To add features to a product - often unnecessary - in the name of meeting a customer's needs. "As users identify new ways of using it, we try to featurise the product to meet those needs."

fugitive information: I once knew it and it didn't matter then so I let it go. But it does matter NOW and I can't remember it.

landspam: Spam delivered the old-fashioned way - on paper and via your local postman. Some of us still call it "junk mail."

non-verbal leakage: Body language, particularly in business where you can tell more about what the buyer's truly thinking by his or her body language, not by what he or she is saying.

plutoed: To be unceremoniously dumped or relegated to a lower position without an adequate reason or explanation

ringxiety: Triggered by the ringtone of a cell phone, it's when everyone in a public place or meeting reaches simultaneously for their cell before it begins its second embarrassing ring.