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  • Dynasty Sleepers: RB

    Before I get going, I’d like to remind you to also check out my opinions on the sleeper QBs for the coming year. Now that I’ve finished that completely selfish advertisement, on to the RBs!

    Running Back is premier position in fantasy football. Very rarely will you find a successful team without at least 1 great RB, and more than likely, that team will have 2 or more top RBs. Because this is such an important position, RBs tend to get picked first and fast, and if you don’t get to them early, you might miss out all together. Here are 5 guys that should fall to at least the 4th round (which is very late by RB standards, most leagues draft RBs for the entire first round) and should help you be competitive in your league next year.

    Find out after the jump

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  • Passive Income – February 2008

    This month I added a new category, Surveys! Yay! I signed up with Pinecone Research and MySurvey and so far I’ve made $8 off two surveys, which is great considering I’ve only been a member of both sites for 10 days. Anyhow, last month I set the goal for myself to try and average $100 a month, did I make it? Indeed I did, and my February earnings even make up for being $4 short last month.

    • Interest: $35.37
    • Dividends: $11.86
    • Credit Card Rewards: $23.10
    • AdSense: $4.41
    • Text Ads: $25.00
    • Misc website income: $15
    • Surveys: $8.00

    That’s a grand total of $122.74. Not bad at all, and for the record if you’re lazy like me and want to buy a few extra cups of coffee a month I highly recommend you sign up for MySurvey. (more…)

  • Selling a ZIP Drive

    I know, you’re probably thinking “they still make ZIP drives?”, right? Well I checked and they do.

    Anyhow, I’m selling one on eBay right now and someone actually bid on it ($0.99 + $9.99 s&h). Weird. It’s the 100MB model from 2000, still shrink wrapped in all its glory. How is that possible you ask? Umm, good question… well, I found it buried under 8 years of junk mail in my Grandpa’s office last month when I was cleaning.

    I’m totally happy getting $0.99 for it, but if I can make $2.00 that’d be insane! Join me next week when I’ll be auctioning off a vintage copy of of Microsoft Word 5.0 and a Leading Edge word processor.

  • Abilene Christian University + Apple = PR Stunt

    Check it out, Abilene Christian University is offering students a “free” iPhone or iPod touch.

    “Freshmen will use an iPhone or iPod touch to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors’ offices, and check their meal and account balances – among more than 15 other useful web applications already developed“, said ACU Chief Information Officer Kevin Roberts.

    That of course doesn’t mention the hefty AT&T subscription you’ll be stuck with, so I’m assuming you can choose between the iPod or iPhone. At any rate, it’s all good news for Apple which is now 5000 iPhones closer to selling 10 million.

    It’s a cool idea and everything, but seriously, are they that desperate to attract new student? Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for bribing people, especially when that person is me, but if I was given an iPod touch that I could use in class I would totally play games the entire time.

    In other news, I just switched schools.

  • Dynasty Sleepers: QB

    I received a few friendly reminders here recently about my lack of posting, after vowing to do better this year. I’ve been rummaging through my brain trying to find something worth writing, and decided to divulge some more useless crap that I know about fantasy football.

    I’m the type of fantasy gamer that thinks football should be played all year; and since they stop playing games in mid-February, I do my part to ensure that I have plenty of things to keep me going year round. I’m currently in the middle of a startup dynasty draft (yes, ANOTHER dynasty draft, that makes 6 dynasty teams that I run!!) and we are approaching the mid rounds, when teams are truly separated because of their ability to grab key players, before they become household names. Before I start listing off these no-namers, I want to admit that I got alot of this research from other guys, and then looked into these players on my own, and I encourage you to do the same. Nobody gets it right every time, but I found a few people that seem to see things close to the same way I do, so I keep coming back for more insight. I’ll list them for you at the end.

    Enough with the introductions, let’s get on to the list making! This “edition” of my dynasty sleepers will focus on the QBs. I’ll catch you after the jump: (more…)