Feb. 15th, 2010

philmophlegm: (Midnight)
Finished Dragon Age: Origins last night.

Conclusion: Very good game, cliched setting but generally well-realised. Ridiculous shoulder-pad armour. I'd probably write a longer review, but it would have to include spoilers, and I know at least one person on my friends list was also playnig it and might not have finished it. Combat not individually as satisfying as 'The Witcher', tactical spellcasting not as clever as the Baldur's Gate games, but all in all, very good game. Recommended.


Have decided to give PC a bit of a spring clean with a new operating system, so will install Windows 7 this weekend. The computer is two years old and that's a decent interval before a nice fresh o/s install anyway, ao I might as well put 7 on there.
philmophlegm: (NFL draft)
In American football, for most positions, speed is very important, and the most common measure of speed for players is 'the 40', i.e. how fast a player can run 40 yards from a standing start. This is shorter than sprinters in athletics will run because it would be very rare for a football player to have to sprint for more than 40 yards.

The draft newsletter I have in front of me lists the unofficial 40 yard dash times for all of this year's leading draft-eligible players. The fastest time listed is 4.38 seconds (Clemson running back CJ Spiller) and the second fastest time is 4.45 seconds by several players.

The reason I mention this is that today it has been reported that former Washington Redskins cornerback Darrell Green today ran a 4.43 40 yard dash.

Now what is quite amazing is that a retired player with no real reason to keep himself in peak fitness should be able to run faster than 21 and 22 year olds whose draft status depends very much on how fast they run in the various draft workouts in the next few weeks.

What is really amazing though is that today was Darrell Green's fiftieth birthday.

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