http://blog.alysivji.com Sivji. Blog. It's pretty self-explanatory. Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:02:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en '09 was a success. Here's to living bigger and better in oh-ten. http://blog.alysivji.com/2010/01/05/2010-resolution/ ESPN's 30 for 30 is starting tonite.  30 documentaries about sports stories over the past 30 years.  Hopefully the execution will be as great as the idea. Tonite's feature: Kings Ransom.  Details Gretzky getting traded to the Kings back in the 80s. http://blog.alysivji.com/2009/10/06/30-for-30/ After my self-imposed 6 year hiatus from fantasy football, I had the Yahoo! computers pick my team and I'm pretty pumped about the upcoming season. My Team QB - Jay Cutler, Carson Palmer RB - Adrian Peterson, Marion Barber, Knowshon Moreno WR - Steve Smith, Wes Welker, Santonio Holmes, Deion Branch, Nate Burleson TE - ... http://blog.alysivji.com/2009/09/06/fantasy-football-2009/ Obama threw out the first pitch at the MLB All-Star game last night. The First 'First Pitch', if you will. He came out wearing an ugly pair of jeans and almost bounced the ball in front of the plate. This is my President?!?! I'm sorry President Obama, but you're just ... http://blog.alysivji.com/2009/07/15/not-impressed/ Swoopo is like eBay, but you pay to bid.  More details on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, people are idiots and don't use common sense when bidding.  Once I'm done my exam, I'll be working on optimal stategy theories so I too can score a Macbook for $35. http://blog.alysivji.com/2009/05/24/swoopo-tax-on-stupidity/ It's a horrible attempt by Pepsi to rebrand Gatorade.  Why use a letter instead of the very recognizable lightning bolt?  It doesn't make sense... but then again, these are the same ad wizards that gave us Mtn Dew. http://blog.alysivji.com/2009/02/17/whats-g/ Yeah.... The Bold was too expensive and I didn't know about the Pre. http://blog.alysivji.com/2009/01/12/posted-from-my-iphone/ When you get a raincheck from the store, you're basically buying a call option for the item for a premium of 0. If you scope out market demand and wanted sale items, you can get rainchecks and wait for the prices to go up and profit handsomly. I wonder if I should ... http://blog.alysivji.com/2008/10/13/raincheck-exchange/ I'm in Chicago and it looks like its gonna be a long while before I can rock the Blackberry Bold. Other than that, things are looking good.  That is all. http://blog.alysivji.com/2008/09/21/quick-update-2/ - - - - - Degrees Awarded - - - - - Degree: Bachelor of Mathematics Honours Computational Mathematics, Co-operative Program Confer Date: ... http://blog.alysivji.com/2008/08/29/its-finally-mine/