Do the Suns realize it’s not the playoffs yet? February 5, 2007
Seriously, I’m not sure if D’Antoni understands that the regular season is not the playoffs. Usually coaches go to a 6-8 man rotation in the playoffs, not before the All-Star break. Since the beginning of January, ie. the last 18 games, here are the per minute totals per player:
Diaw 33.9
Marion 37.7
Stoudemire 34.6
Bell 32.4
Nash 34.8
Barbosa 31.3
Jones 21.0
Banks 6.1
Thomas 5.1
Jones 2.0
Rose 1.2
Burke 1.1
And if we discount the 4 blowout games in which Pat Burke actually played minutes (how is it possible that there are only 4 blowout games?!?), in the 14 other games the totals:
Diaw 35
Marion 38.6
Stoudemire 35.9
Bell 34.7
Nash 36.2
Barbosa 31.4
Jones 19.8
Banks 4.2
Thomas 4.0
Jones 1.0
I mean, come on, already. A 7 man rotation in the regular season? After last …
Ancient Guiness… February 1, 2007
Well, this has been a long time coming (in more ways than one). In fact, Kyle gave these to me over a year ago. Anyway, this is for all the Guinness lovers out there. A few summers ago while Kyle was out at Baffin Island (way up north), he found two bottles on the beach. Bottles of Guinness. Well, the most astonishing part about this was (other than the fact there were Guinness bottles on Baffin Island) was what the bottles contained. A bit of history, the best beer company in the world dropped a bunch of bottles in …
Life in the Peg May 7, 2006
I’m a friend of TJ’s living here in Winnipeg (poor life decisions, more about that below…) and he’s asked me to post something about life here. I’m not entirely sure why, seeing as the blog seems to be mostly about tech or basketball, and if you have enough money to start up a tech company, you’re probably smart enough to do it somewhere other than Winnipeg.and if you’re into basketball, why not move to Minnesota where at least you have the Timberwolves. But in case you are an ardent basketball fan starting up your own tech company and you’re still …
Kobe is listening to too much Bush… May 3, 2006
“He didn’t like my toneage, if that’s a word.” Bryant said. “He’s the decider. Is that a word, decider?”
Bush: “I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I’m the decider, and I decide what is best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.â€
At least Kobe isn’t the decider…not yet anyway.
Random security questions: MCS 494 April 25, 2006
Well, this post is dedicated to Dweeks from Swiftwill. I think he underestimated how insane this shit would drive me till I figured it out. Big thanks to Ross at Swiftwill, too. Of course, the answers here could be completely wrong, if so, please let me know. BTW, these questions are from http://cr.yp.to/2004-494/1209.pdf, a course given by DJB.
So question 1:
A user clicks on a URL inside a PDF document, not realizing that the URL was created maliciously. The PDF viewer calls
command = malloc(strlen(url) + 20);
if (!command) return -1;
sprintf(command,”firefox %s”,url);
system(command);
free(command);
to start a browser. The browser displays a web …
Random Thoughts on Technology Startups April 21, 2006
I’ve worked in several different technology startups now, and these are some quick notes on this question – how do you know what company is a good one to get involved with, whether you are deciding whether to partner with somebody to start one, or if you are joining at a later stage? Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a good answer to this, or else we would all be running successful companies or be filthy rich. I don’t have the answer either, but these are some things I will definitely be looking out for in the future.
Invariably, if you …
Managing 101: The art of ignoring April 20, 2006
If you happen to work in the software industry, chances are that you face a continous overload of new work, new projects, new crisis, and new “very important” issues on a daily basis. Even more likely is that these challenges all present themselves in the same form: an email. Mountains of emails piling up in your inbox, and for every step you scale up it, an avalanche comes roaring down to knock you off your feet. If you are a manager in said software company, the problem is magnified: the avalanche is larger and it’s not just snow coming down …
If I had a vote for MVP… April 18, 2006
So the MVP discussion on this blog is getting interesting. Both Mo and TJ have put together some good arguments for why Steve Nash is the MVP of the NBA this year. And he is a good choice, a better one I think than the Black Mamba or Nowitzki or Lebron. But if I had a vote for MVP, it would be: Chauncey Billups.
What?!, you ask? Those are the words of a madman, you say? Here are the arguments against Billups: He has a great supporting cast. His team plays in the Eastern conference. …
Who is NOT the 2006 NBA MVP? (continued)
Well, we had Nowitski, Carmelo, Kobe, and Nash left.
Now Nowitski has had a great year…maybe even an MVP type year. But quite frankly, he’s not the MVP of his own team. If the MVP had to go to someone on the Mavericks, it would have to go to Avery Johnson. The lil’ General has the best winning pct. of any starting coach. He closed out last year 16-2 and he’s 60-21 this year for a sick .768 winning percentage. Check it out here. Crazy. Anyway, statswise, Nowitski has done pretty much the same as he done last year, …
Who is NOT the 2006 NBA MVP?
OK, Mo has been ranting and raving to me about the MVP race. First things first, I’m going to go through all the MVP candidates that can’t be MVP.
The major players are Steve Nash, LeBron James, Dwane Wade, Dirk Nowitski, Chauncey Billups, Kobe Bryant, Tony Parker, Carmelo Anthony, and Elton Brand.
Now, let’s drop everyone who’s in the Eastern Conference. The Leastern Conference is the weakest it has ever been. There are only 4 teams ABOVE 500 right now. That sort of devalues the 50 win mark since are about fifty games played in the conference. Take a look at …
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