It’s less then a half hour before the NBA Draft is about to start. I’ve made my way to the living room with my laptop to watch Sportscenter, and I am chatting online with my friend Angie online.

Angie: So I didn’t know you were that excited about the NBA draft

Me: Oh yea! It’s the last time I get to see my favorite college players before they fizzle off into the obscurity that is the NBA.

Angie: So it’s more like a funeral; or a ‘celebration of life?’

Me: Remembering the good times we had…

In my mind, the NBA is second tier basketball. There are 80+ games in the regular season that decide which 14 teams out of 30 will not make the playoffs. Once a majority of the teams in the league make the playoffs, they face immediate elimination after losing four games in a series. A player can “take a night off” and not have to worry much about the consequences.

Give me a one-and-out playoff, at least in the early rounds and I might be interested.

That being said, I am a college hoops fanatic and love determining what teams need. It has been nice to see most of the players that are being talked about in the draft play in college thanks to the new rules.
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A recent study by Harris Interactive states that a typical mid-sized business that leaves its computers on overnight wastes more then $165,000 per year in electric costs; more then $1.72 billion wasted in the US alone. The article continues:

Simply by turning off machines during night hours, the report says, the average business could also eliminate 1,381 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year, which translates to nearly 15 million tons nationwide.

I recently started shutting my home computer down at night after a friend told me how much he saved on electricity by shutting his down. Unless you are downloading something completely legal, what’s the point of keeping your PC running at night – unless like me you use it as a heater in the cold months.

Read the Register’s article.