2009 playoff picks: divisional round

I did absolutely horrible last weekend. The biggest personal blow was the New England Patriots being eliminated by the Baltimore Ravens 🙁 Against the spread I went 1-3 and straight up I went 1-3. Let’s hope I do better this weekend.

Against the spread:

Arizona Cardinals +7 over the New Orleans Saints

Baltimore Ravens +6.5 over the Indianapolis Colts

Dallas Cowboys +3 over the Minnesota Vikings

New York Jets +7 over the San Diego Chargers

Straight up:

New Orleans Saints over the Arizona Cardinals

Indianapolis Colts over the Baltimore Ravens

Dallas Cowboys over the Minnesota Vikings

San Diego Chargers over the New York Jets

Friday, January 15, 2010 //  Category: Sports //  2 Comments


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NFL playoff picks: wild card week

It’s the start of the NFL playoffs today so I figured I’d make some picks, both straight up and against the spread. I know it’s a little late in the day to post this, but I figure better late than never.

Against the spread:

New York Jets +2.5 over the Cincinnati Bengals

Philadelphia Eagles +3.5 over the Dallas Cowboys

New England Patriots -3.5 over the Baltimore Ravens

Green Bay Packers -1.5 over the Arizona Cardinals

Straight up:

New York Jets over the Cincinnati Bengals

Philadelphia Eagles over the Dallas Cowboys

New England Patriots over the Baltimore Ravens

Green Bay Packers over the Arizona Cardinals

Saturday, January 9, 2010 //  Category: Sports //  No Comments


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Possible upcoming posts

I think I might start posting some entries on the different software I like to use. I know not everybody cares about this, but it’s something I always love discussing because it gives me insight on both the positive and negative aspects of different software and you just never know when you’ll come across a new piece of software you might want to add to your “arsenal.” If I make these posts, feel free to add what software you like to use for a given task or why you don’t use others. I’m always up for an intelligent conversation about technology 🙂

Sunday, January 3, 2010 //  Category: Technology //  No Comments


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I’m a poser

By looking at my WordPress blog URL, I bet you thought I was one of those Dunkin Donut junkies. Well, I’m not. In fact I never go there and I doubt I will ever fulfill my coffee needs there on a regular basis. I don’t get my coffee from another chain either. I make it at home using Folgers coffee and a standard coffee maker. It will save you a lot more money in the long run doing that. I decided to use coolatta in my WordPress username because I love cold coffee and no other word best associates itself with cold coffee than coolatta <3

I’m a bit uncreative when it comes to choosing usernames. I never really know what name to use, so I usually end up settling on using my name in some form. My first account was my YouTube account and when I made it, I just used aaronluis26. It’s the username I’ve also used on most of my other accounts. It’s a combination of my first name, my middle name, and the number 26, which I will use sometimes since I was born on the 26th of September. I used my middle name instead of my last name because I was uncomfortable with using my last name at the time, but now it doesn’t really bother me. I’ve used it in a couple places like Twitter.

Unfortunately, when I was going to create this blog, aaronfournier was already taken. What I could have done is added a number to the end of it, but I didn’t really want a username like that on WordPress. So what to do now? I decided to use the username I created the day before when making a Chatango account. Well, almost. It wasn’t until I logged in my Chatango account a couple hours after making this account that I realized that I used CoolattaHeaven for Chatango and not HeavenlyCoolatta. Haha, oh well! The meaning is the same nonetheless.

I wasn’t intending this to be a username that I would use in multiple places. I just randomly used it because I was trying to be a little creative without sounding too lame (I hope I accomplished that, haha) and I was sick of using aaronluis26. Now that I’ve also used it with WordPress, maybe I will use it in other places as well 🙂

Saturday, January 2, 2010 //  Category: General //  No Comments


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Okay, let’s try this again . . .

Blogging is something I find really fun. I’ve tried doing this twice before using other sites, but I never seem to put enough time in doing it. It’s a shame because I’ve thought up ideas here in there that I would have loved to use as topics, but never put them into words due to laziness or my fear that it was going to take too long to type out. Something I hate about myself is that I always seem to take a while to put my words into writing. I think it’s a combination of wanting what I write to be perfect and hoping to get the most out of what I write. Unfortunately, I end up over thinking it and it almost never seems to add to the overall quality of what I wrote. A lesson in all of this is to try to type everything impulsively and quickly, getting out the general idea I wanted to convey first and then worry about the small details to make it better. That is something I hope to work on while blogging. Hopefully in return it will make me a better writer 🙂

I love sports, technology, video games, and anime so expect posts on most of those subjects as well as general musings of life activities.

Hope you stay along for the ride and don’t be afraid to tell me of ways I can approve my writing 🙂

Saturday, January 2, 2010 //  Category: Blogging //  No Comments


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