Today I went to the Seahawks practice at the VMAC facility. It rained really hard for the first half of the practice, so there was a bit of slipping and sliding on the grass.
Here are some observations I made:
- Jordan Kent looked amazing; he made a lot of really good catches way down the field.
- Butler dropped quite a few passes
- Aaron Curry blew past Justin Forsett twice in a row in 1-on-1 drills
- Hasselbeck looked to be having troubles throwing deep balls; they tended to float in the air a lot and receivers were slowing down to wait for them to come back down
- Hasselbeck’s first pass in the scrimmage got picked by Josh Wilson and it looked like it would have gone back for a TD
- Mike Teel was overthrowing receivers badly. He’s still a bit rough to be sending out there.
- Deon Grant went down during the scrimmage and had a trainer looking at his thighs
- Seneca looked solid, maybe held onto the ball too long in some cases
- Our O-Line was getting owned badly by blitzes. Anytime we did a secondary blitz, there was no answer and it led to a sack
And here are some pictures. You can see the amount of rain coming down in a lot of them.
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I just discovered this site today. It does a great job of keeping track of your favorite bands and when they’re coming to town. Previously I tried to use ticketmaster for this, but that really only works for bands that play in venues like the Showbox or larger. Setup of my account was a breeze: it takes your iTunes export and grabs all your bands from that. You can filter those bands by how many songs you have of theirs and then pick individually.Then you can pick how often you want the site to email you about new shows.
It also has connections to Pandora and lastfm, so you can have your account auto-update as your tastes change.
One note is that I found the site a little slow to navigate, but for my purposes, I’ll be more relying on the email than the site itself.
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At the beginning of April, I started up a new aquarium and have been slowly adding to it since. I’ve been taking pictures periodically, so I’ve got a nice visual diary of how the tank has progressed in the two months since.
Here are the pictures in a gallery:
Current inhabitants:
- 8 neon tetras
- 3 pygmy corydoras catfish
- 1 honey gourami
- 1-2 amano shrimp
- A bazillion pond snails
Current plants:
- Java fern
- Anubias nana
- Dwarf hairgrass
- Amazon sword
- Cryptocoryne wendtii
- Dwarf babytears
- Pygmy chain sword
- Elodea
- Amazon frogbit
- Water wisteria
- Micro sword
- Rotala indica
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A while ago my Netflix account was switched over to the new Silverlight player instead of the Windows Media Player version that worked great before. In a word, it sucks. The quality is a lot blockier than before; there is a crapload of screen tearing, and it doesn’t stop your screensaver/monitor power saver from turning on.
Fortunately, the last one is correctable. I was perusing the Netflix forum when I found this app. It acts as an entry into Internet Explorer and turns off the screensaver for you. Now if I could just find one that forces vsync to turn on for the Silverlight player, I’d be set.
http://netflix.timbot.net/Publish.htm
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Not entirely sure what this blog is going to turn into, so for now it will be random crap I find on the internet along with my always humble musings 
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