Tuesday, September 30
The Bruins just signed Nick Boynton, so they finally have a D-guy who can pass and play some offense. With Girard out for at least the season and Berard still looking for his 2 mil plus, this is great news. This takes the B's defense from shitty to almost respectable.
As of right now, our top four are looking like:
1. O'Donnel (big, bruising stay-at-homer who clears the crease)
2. Boynton (good transition game, good for ten goals a year and plays sound defense)
3. Dan McGillis (defensive stalwart, hits like a mofo)
4. Hal Gill (doesn't hit enough, but great D in the corners and good poke-check)
These guys are all monsters. After that, I think you can expect Jeff Jillson to play for the big club this year, and he's pretty good offensively. One of Rich Brennan (career AHLer, but played awesome for the B's last year before being hurt), Shaone Morrison (young D prospect who performed well in several call-ups), Ian Moran (signed from the Pens last season, vocal leader, but not so skilled) or the dark horse, Milan Jurcina, to step in on opening night.
I know this won't meet with a lot of agreement, but I really hope Berard comes back so that the B's can have three balanced D-pairings next year.
As of right now, our top four are looking like:
1. O'Donnel (big, bruising stay-at-homer who clears the crease)
2. Boynton (good transition game, good for ten goals a year and plays sound defense)
3. Dan McGillis (defensive stalwart, hits like a mofo)
4. Hal Gill (doesn't hit enough, but great D in the corners and good poke-check)
These guys are all monsters. After that, I think you can expect Jeff Jillson to play for the big club this year, and he's pretty good offensively. One of Rich Brennan (career AHLer, but played awesome for the B's last year before being hurt), Shaone Morrison (young D prospect who performed well in several call-ups), Ian Moran (signed from the Pens last season, vocal leader, but not so skilled) or the dark horse, Milan Jurcina, to step in on opening night.
I know this won't meet with a lot of agreement, but I really hope Berard comes back so that the B's can have three balanced D-pairings next year.
Kookin' Kidz - A little flash game. Also Fowl Words, which might be a better word game than bookworm. Found on Fat Buddha's blog.
Just duct it, part II. This one involving actual ducts and the fact that you should not use duct tape to seal them. What a weird world.
Monday, September 29
There's a superhero in London who you can call if your car is booted. Angle-Grinder Man to the rescue. I thought this was a joke until I saw it on CNN.
Sunday, September 28
Saturday, September 27
DJ Mike Awesome, go here. Lots of buttons to push - mess around until you find somthing good. You can play the keyboard by pressing numbers if you're so inclined.
Friday, September 26
Just duct it.
Tuesday, September 23
This is just heartbreaking. I'm not sure why papers publish stories with personal details like this, even if the woman is dead and her sister seems to think it's okay.
Monday, September 22
They still don't know what those gorilla/chimps are.
Friday, September 19
The Yokels blog or the Ramsey blog? More on The Man. One tough SOB.
Thursday, September 18
My old boss gave me a framed inspirational photo for my desk. The subject is Vision, and it showed a sunset over a boardwalk at the beach, and included the quote, "A leader's job is to look into the future, and to see the organization not as it is... but as it can become."
Riiight.
So I pried open the back of the frame yesterday, and pulled out the sunset picture (which actually turned out to a greeting card). Then I turned on our color printer, and replaced the card with this. So far no one has noticed.
Riiight.
So I pried open the back of the frame yesterday, and pulled out the sunset picture (which actually turned out to a greeting card). Then I turned on our color printer, and replaced the card with this. So far no one has noticed.
The Spanish Navy is being blamed for killing Giant Squid.
"There are times when you just have really strange conversations," Jim McKenzie says. "I had a fight with Stu Grimson once when I was in Winnipeg, and at the end of the fight, we were both huffing and puffing, and he says, 'Your wife Italian?' and I said 'Why yeah, she is.' And he said 'She cooks with a lot of garlic, doesn't she?' Obviously I needed a tic-tac"
From the Sporting News Hockey Preview (print-only)
From the Sporting News Hockey Preview (print-only)
Tuesday, September 16
J-dogg's erotic chat-room logs. Text only, but not safe for work. You have to read this stuff - it's hilarious.
Hippos have killed more people than lions. They're also kind of gross.
Cassowaries kill more people than polar bears.
Cassowaries kill more people than polar bears.
Governments can't do anything right.
Monday, September 15
Canadians aren't allowed to smile in passport photos. Americans, on the other hand, are free to smile in passport photos. USA! USA! USA!
By the way, Steve, how did you apply for a new social security card?
By the way, Steve, how did you apply for a new social security card?
Isabel's pissed. And heading our way?
"For a guy who's only been in the league two years, he showed a lot of composure," Falcons linebacker Keith Brooking said. "We put a lot of hits on him, but he kept picking himself up. I have a lot of respect for him." The Man.
Friday, September 12
The guys at somethingawful.com have made a horror movie and it rocks. Watch it at home - it's about 15 minutes long.
This week's football picks at McSweeneys is weirder than last week.
Just in case you don't think to check it, today's Photoshop Phriday is one of the best I've seen.
Bruins finally signed Samsonov. Makes being hungover that much easier.
Sammy was the 1998 Calder Trophy winner as the league's best rookie. Patrick Elias and Mattias Ohlund were the other candidates.
Sammy was the 1998 Calder Trophy winner as the league's best rookie. Patrick Elias and Mattias Ohlund were the other candidates.
Thursday, September 11
I'm not sure when and why I started hating Pavel again, but I'm not that upset about this one. Leetch, on the other hand, still has me crying myself to sleep at night.
Nothing too sappy here, but since it's 9/11, check out the speech on McSweeneys today. Poigniant, and with a very nice bacon metaphor.
If you check this tomorrow, you'll have to look in "recent articles"
If you check this tomorrow, you'll have to look in "recent articles"
What do you mean, bears don't bounce? Watch the video.
Tuesday, September 9
What a terrible way to start my morning. I'm no longer excited about hockey.
Monday, September 8
Beer is good for you?
Sunday, September 7
You guys know I'm an atheist with a healthy curiousity for the numinous. Here's the throwaways from an article in Wired magazine, in which they ask prominent scientists about their beliefs in God. Before you skim over this post, read an excerpt:
I see religion in an evolutionary context, as something necessary for human happiness or existence. You need to get a large enough group of people together to bring down a woolly mammoth or a large buck. What's our religion today? Rock concerts. Of course there are spiritual phenomena, but I think you can examine them with science, with the limited tools of our senses and extensions of our senses.
The tendency to complexify in the universe is a consequence of thermodynamics. When you have an immense flow of energy, as you have with sunlight streaming into cold space, systems to dispel that energy will emerge and evolve spontaneously.
I'm from a Jewish family, but my personal religion is what I practiced today: I swam nude across a pond.
Fuck yeah, pondswimmer. There are billions of ways of looking at the world, and sometimes I think they're all perfectly correct.
FYI- There are lots of pro-religion views in the article too.
I see religion in an evolutionary context, as something necessary for human happiness or existence. You need to get a large enough group of people together to bring down a woolly mammoth or a large buck. What's our religion today? Rock concerts. Of course there are spiritual phenomena, but I think you can examine them with science, with the limited tools of our senses and extensions of our senses.
The tendency to complexify in the universe is a consequence of thermodynamics. When you have an immense flow of energy, as you have with sunlight streaming into cold space, systems to dispel that energy will emerge and evolve spontaneously.
I'm from a Jewish family, but my personal religion is what I practiced today: I swam nude across a pond.
Fuck yeah, pondswimmer. There are billions of ways of looking at the world, and sometimes I think they're all perfectly correct.
FYI- There are lots of pro-religion views in the article too.
Thursday, September 4
Big Blue
Going down the tubes? Or will they just file bankruptcy like DOW Chemical?
"Go, Yellow! Go, Yellow," shouted Hope Rohr, 5. "It's a parade. I like it because the thing is pointy and it's big."
I'm not sure I get it, but I like it. Check the link in the article as well. Go, Yellow!
(From metafilter, yesterday).
I'm not sure I get it, but I like it. Check the link in the article as well. Go, Yellow!
(From metafilter, yesterday).
calling mr. bio-evolution
how bad could tigers in africa be?
retard quote of the day:
""I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that."
""I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that."
No shit, Sherlock
With government official's choppers disappearing, and bombings that echo attacks on Western interests, I was beginning to wonder when mother russia would step up and join the team of the besieged. That's right, -Istan muslims are pissed at you too!
Good news on Iraq!
We need more of this, and fast.
Wednesday, September 3
The Bruins just signed Felix Potvin. Feh.
An interesting, though slightly amateurish article written by a guy who used to play with Dale Purinton.
Let's put a pair of bumpernuts on Sullivan's car.
He was just a stocky, little dude from Abington , Pennsylvania, but over the years he's won a silver medal, a world championship, an All Star game MVP and oh yeah, a Stanley Cup.
The announcement of his retirement will be followed shortly by the raising of his jersey to the rafters of MSG. Here's to a career spent entirely in the red, white and blue.
The announcement of his retirement will be followed shortly by the raising of his jersey to the rafters of MSG. Here's to a career spent entirely in the red, white and blue.
El Senor has company.
Tuesday, September 2
This sort of thing restores your faith in the beauty and versatility of the internet. It's like a poem on a webpage.
i just wanted to brag and say 'Hey look, I added a link. I'm the best, or at least capable of copy/paste/edit!'
Steve, I know you don't like this guy, but he makes a great point about press release timing. I'm just hope the same shit doesn't end up happening on the east coast.
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