JonahLomu's Blog - Operation Sports

Saturday, March 17, 2012

One simple thing OS can do to improve greatly

Posted on March 17, 2012 at 06:26 PM.

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Add auto-save as a feature for blogs, forum replies and anywhere else idiots like me who hit a wrong button don't lose all their work.

That's right, work. Why go to the trouble of coming up with a good angle for my dynasty thread on the Cubs for The Show, only to see a misclick send that analysis to the outer dredges of hyperspace, never to be seen again?

Right, type more carefully. Check.

Put it on notepad or blogger.com, then copy it over. Check, been ... Read More

Friday, February 24, 2012

Back in the Day

Posted on February 24, 2012 at 09:10 PM.

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Years ago, the most fun I had with a baseball game was playing the tabletop "The World's Greatest Baseball Game."

Basically, you would flip over a couple of numbered cards to check against the batters' card, eventually coming up with some kind of play: walk, double, flyout to right field etc ...

It was quick and easy to play - and to keep box scores in a notebook. Each season, you would get a boatload of perforated sheets of cardboard-like sheets of players.
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