How to spot an NFL draftnik
Published 11:38 pm Wednesday, April 23, 2008
It’s the most exciting time of year for football “draftniks,” people who dedicate countless hours researching the NFL draft.
Draftniks are easy to spot — they’ve got lots of time to surf the Internet at work, but they quickly toggle to a spreadsheet when you walk by. That said, not every engineer at Boeing is necessarily a draftnik.
For the hard-core among them, today’s Seahawks draft preview features kicking prospects. Key qualities in a kicker: resemblance to the water boy, ridiculous-looking face mask and willingness to make the punter your only friend on the team.
Microsoft has developed a cool BlackBerry application called TellMe. It looks up things such as traffic, movie times and the weather using voice commands and GPS technology.
Microsoft says a version for Apple’s iPhone is planned, just as soon as hell freezes over.
And just in case we didn’t have enough to worry about, seismologists say a fault extends farther than they thought from the tip of Whidbey Island.
Local residents, of course, already knew there’s a fault on the map in that area. We call it Lynnwood.
