http://seatgeek.com its a site that apparently aggregates all the ticket buying websites and tells you what’s a good value and what’s not.

Info from another website where I found it, recommended on lifehacker and apparently has been recommended everywhere, says its got some cool features to consider. It aggregates the data of prior games and will tell you if you should buy now or wait based on the team/venue.

So my example here? Mets-Yankees in the summer this year.

This looks like a really cool tool to use. Especially for people like me who like to buy tickets to games 1-4 days before the game starts.

I made a new header today. Say good bye to the old header and in with the new one!

Some photos again did not make the cut but that’s okay. Enjoy the new header!

There’s a lot of great stuff here.

The main story centers around a man, Larry Gopnik, whose life is unwraveling before his eyes. His wife wants a divorce so he can marry a widowed family friend and his entire family is falling apart. So he goes to seek help, counseling and rabbis. This is a great film and very funny, darker comedy, but funny. Especially when the second rabbi tells a story, I loved the different angles of camera work and the re-recorded voice so that it looks like the storyteller is talking for the character. The story goes on and on and where does it lead? Is nowhere an answer?

I love all of the works that I have seen from the Coen brothers far. I haven’t seen all of them but the ones I have seen I have enjoyed. One formulaic part of their films, that I’ve seen, has been to kill of at least one character in the story. I could be wrong but it tends to work at the right time.

There is a part in this movie, towards the end with about 20 minutes left, turns out to be a dream sequence but I could not stop laughing at the moment Larry wakes up. However I did enjoy this film and, if I were to rank what I’ve seen now, I’d put it between District 9 (low) and Up in the Air (highest) of the best pictures I’ve seen.However, I have still yet to see The Hurt Locker or Inglorious Basterds.

I found this to be very entertaining, the ending is mysterious but I like it. You get a type of conclusion as the film’s third act is ending, the family appears to have resolved some issues but others arise. Kind of like No Country for Old Men was an adapted ending, this was an original ending left slightly unresolved but end satisfactorily.

I did a bunch of writing over the weekend at SienaSaintsBlog.com as well as a BracketBuster recap on RushTheCourt.net.

Ryan Restivo is the RTC correspondent for the CAA and an occasional contributor.

That’s the line I like. I also have a piece on RotoSavants for today which is now part of the YardBarker network! Troy Patterson, who doesn’t need my personal compliments, does a great job running the site as it will start to see the steady increase of pre-draft day hits and he writes as great stuff at The Hardball Times too.

I’m not sure if I’m going to keep the comments section because all it appears to do is spam me. I’ll have to figure out a way to just put “tweet me” but I’m sure twitter could be spammed eventually. (Am I wrong on this one)

Meanwhile I’m working on a book list for the future and I have these titles on there.

• With wings like eagles : a history of the Battle of Britain  by Michael Korda
• Satchel : the life and times of an American legend by Larry Tye
• This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
• True compass : a memoir by (the late) Edward M. Kennedy
• How to value players for rotisserie baseball by Art McGee
• THE BIG SHORT : INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE by Michael Lewis
• The Eastern stars : how baseball changed the Dominican town of San Pedro de Macorís by Mark Kurlansky
• Outside the limelight : basketball in the Ivy League by Kathy Orton

Any recommendations? Let me know via twitter @ryanarestivo

Michael Lewis’ first book, Liar’s Poker, I finally got to reading right before his most recent work, The Big Short, comes out in March.

This book captures the atmosphere of Wall Street in the 1980s and Lewis’ brief autobiography of his life at Salomon Brothers. As a young, out of college, he reached into some unusual connections and got a chance to join the training program. The training program really sounded like a placement class, or even, a college class where Lewis jokes about the front row and back row type of people when speakers enter to talk about the loyalty and the greatness of joining Salomon Brothers. Not only was there a class but each member of the class was not guaranteed a job and would have to impress the managers for a chance to work for them, and be treated lowly to start.

However I think this book is very much making the argument against the theme of loyalty. In Wall Street, at this point, Lewis talks about the structure of the Salomon bonus system and that it is based on loyalty and the prestige of working at Salomon Brothers. The newer classes of workers at Salomon Brothers began to learn that company loyalty didn’t have much value and once they drew big success, they began leaving for more lucrative offers from other companies.

Salomon Brothers created a way to sell mortgage bonds back in the 1980s and built up a huge profit, only to be outdone by junk bonds. I enjoyed this read and it gets into the heads of the top names and how people can be backstabbing in nature, even to save their own jobs or get rid of people.

I wrote a piece about position battles at RotoSavants. I’ve been diving back into draft prep again so I have been keeping a closer eye towards projections and depth charts as we get closer to spring training.

I also have coverage of the BracketBuster game between Siena and Butler over at SienaSaintsBlog.com from the past week which includes an interview and a scouting report on Butler’s best player.

Meanwhile, now is the time I’ll break down the CAA results and write my RushTheCourt piece for the week on the Colonial Athletic Association. Including all of the postseason tournaments, I wouldn’t be surprised if 5 teams reach postseason play for the conference.

So has it been me or have people stopped using AOL Instant Messenger? It seems like people are using less and less of it and that led to this:

AOL is integrating Facebook chat with AIM, which is actively used by 17 million people each month in the United States. People who download the new AIM software (here in beta) can use it to chat with their Facebook friends without logging into Facebook

It only looks like people use AIM at work now, even though that is a good thing for their business, but it means that its losing to google chat and all of the other IM clients out there.

Coraline is a definite technical achievement and deserving of Best Animated Feature Film. This is an interesting fantasy and horror film and I would say a better achievement, in stop-motion, than the Nightmare Before Christmas because of the many different set pieces and fantasies created in this horror.

It is a very imaginative story and very good but I don’t think it will be able to beat Up!

The surprise of the animated features, The Secret of Kells, is getting a brief theatrical run but it’s not expected to beat Up! either. However, you never know with awards shows and since I’ve now seen two of the five, I’m going to try to watch them all.

I wrote a piece on Tuesday for RushTheCourt.net on the CAA. I’m working on those writing troubles I might have but this keeps me active in College Basketball season! Plus I tweet the piece @CAAZone, which draws a lot of views. Check it out here!

Another snowy week struck the CAA schedule. This is not a bold prediction but I guarantee we’re going to get games in the conference tournament that are the caliber of George Mason’s 82-77 overtime win over VCU on Tuesday night. Anyone who caught that game on ESPNU saw a real treat. Despite the snow, Hofstra drew a modest 893 in their game against Drexel Wednesday night. CAA Rookie and co-Player of the Week Drexel’s Chris Fouch left with an injury. Will he miss the rest of the season? Towson postponed their Wednesday night game to Thursday afternoon and gave interim-coach Brooks Lee his first career win as coach of UNC Wilmington. Meanwhile, James Madison walk-on redshirt freshman Ryan Knight was arrested for allegedly throwing snowballs at vehicles that were described as “missiles.” Meanwhile Old Dominion turned in another 20-win season, their fifth in the last six years. Unless there is more snow, the entire league will play on Tuesday night before heading into their weekend BracketBuster matchups to boost the league RPI.