February 2005
2005-02-28T19:00
Holy crumb! Have you heard the new Garbage single? Album drops April 11 2005.2005-02-27T21:49
Growing up my favorite toy of all time had to be Lego. Those little Danish blocks were a source of hours after hours of fun. I grew up and all my Lego ended up where everyone's favorite toys end up. I still had fond memories of my Lego though. Then in 1997, Lego released the Mindstorms Robotics Invention System. A chance to build programmable robots out of Lego! Unfortunately, I didn't have a computer at the time which is a requirement of the system. Then I didn't have a job which meant I didn't have cash to exchange for goods and services. Well, now I have a computer and a job so I started saving my nickels and dimes in a piggy bank and today I finally had the cash to buy a toy that I've been wanting to buy for 8 long years. Welcome, to my Mindstorms page!2005-02-27T10:10
The Canadian Baseball League held its Fantasy Draft last night. How the Banana Splits got A Rod and Jeter I'll never know. It's a small league: Hamilton Hammerheads, Banana Splits, Ruby Tuesdays, and Bottle Rockets but it's going to be a blast. I'm in a public league too. I loaded up on pitchers and now I'm starting to think it was a mistake. But already the waiver wire is on fire and the season hasn't started. I'll hang on to my guys for now.2005-02-27T09:30
The Colt M1911. The best dang handgun ever made.2005-02-25T06:34
LMAO! What the heck is a "missle?" That's the Star for ya: Liberal Can't-Spellers.2005-02-24T18:40
Those sick pigs, the Boston Red Sox have chosen April 11th as the day to receive their World Series Rings. It also happens to be the day that New York visits Fenway for the first time this year. Jeter had this to say "I'm not helping hand them out." lol. How funny would it be if the Yanks win that game?2005-02-24T07:05
Canada is the only North American country other than Cuba to regulate--and ban--foreign broadcasts.
2005-02-23T22:08
"I'm in with one condition. You get me one of those yellow jumpsuits."2005-02-23T21:59
Baseball is the only game where the defense has the ball.2005-02-23T07:17
So busy lately. Anywho, I always wondered why the Brooklyn Dodgers took the name "Dodgers." What were they dodging? The ball? Nope. According to Ken Burns' Baseball--just scored all 9 innings from the HPL--the name was shortened from Trolley Dodgers. The fans used to have to dodge the streetcars around Ebbitt's Field.2005-02-20T09:33
I've updated the button panel to include a link to Firefox.2005-02-20T09:29
The Canadian Baseball League is ready to PLAY BALL! So far we've got the Hamilton Hammerheads, the Banana Splits, and the Ruby Tuesdays. If you want to join you know how to get hold of me. Live draft is this Saturday around 8pm.2005-02-20T09:20
I'm sick of looking at that ugly image so I guess I'll have to post to push it down a bit. Last night Sis, Stars, and I went to Chicago Style Pizza Shack. I've been hearing about this place for years and finally decided to check it out. We had to wait an hour for a table and they let you know that a Deep Dish takes 30 minutes to make but it was worth it overall. The Deep Dish is authentic Chicago style pizza and the fried raviolis were great too. Hope that's enough text to get that pic moved down.
2005-02-19T09:25
Apparently this is the first image ever posted to the WWW. The story at Wikipedia doesn't add up in my mind because the WWW predates the first graphical browser but maybe I'm just fuzzy on the details. Wouldn't the Mosaic crew have posted the first image to the Web?2005-02-18T18:41
So when I start my new job I'm told part of my job is scanning. Finally! An office trying to go paperless! There's no reason to have all these files around so let's scan 'em up and chuck 'em. Of course, after I saw how we were doing it I was pretty disappointed: 1. Receive e-mail. 2. Print out e-mail. 3. Scan e-mail into a TIFF. 4. Store TIFF on a network drive. 5. Affix a label to the hardcopy with the location of TIFF on the network. 6. File hardcopy. Hey guys, I can increase your productivity 900% with this simple plan: 1. Save e-mail to network. 2. Buy a Google Search Appliance.2005-02-18T07:00
Reality TV update! Once again the Streets makes the Books look dumb. Best moment: When Bren admits his team could really use a couple of guys from the Streets. lol.Then I watched the Survivor season opener. Why is it that every season the first thing the survivors do is rip off all their clothes? They're wearing pants and shirts and then out come the knives and they start cutting them into inch high skirts and bandanas. Then, at the end of it all, the people left are always covered in bites and burns. Not to mention that they freeze their butts off every night. If it were me I'd show up to the island with cargo pants, a long sleeve shirt and a hoodie and I'd keep 'em on the whole time. Clothing keeps you cooler by preventing the premature evaporation of perspiration and protecting you from direct sunlight. Not to mention that it also keeps your ass covered. The producers were working overtime last night blurring out everyone's junk.
2005-02-17T18:27
"Stick a fork in 'er, it's done!" Don't you normally stick a fork in something to see if it's done, not when it's done? At any rate, the NHL most certainly is done. Maybe forever. Good riddance.2005-02-16T06:58
If the NHLPA was willing to accept a cap all along why didn't they accept it last summer? All those lost paycheques, all those lost fans, all that lost revenue and a crumby short season that doesn't mean anything and for what? According to Matthew Barnaby the whole thing was just a bluff anyway: ''We probably could've gotten this thing done in the summertime,'' he said. ''Am I mad? No. I want to get back to work. But at the same time, I'm just a little disappointed that it went this far to play poker and to have someone call your bluff.'' Ah well, at least they haven't called my bluff. I'm still on strike. Baseball has already started.
2005-02-15T19:04
I'll never know how Ruby reached the mailbox.2005-02-14T19:45 My birthday's coming up.
2005-02-14T21:44
Saint Valentine's Day.2005-02-12T20:08
"The formality of the dialogue is not essential one. The essential one is the US policy--whether it try to attack us or not." Han Sung Ryol of North Korea. He later added "You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time."
2005-02-12T15:29
New car! 2005 Ford Focus. Just picked it up today. Nothing beats that new car smell.
Not even a hundred clicks on
it.
Goodbye to the Big Tomato. Sniff.
2005-02-12T09:10
NHLers don't get more arrogant than Sean Avery.2005-02-12T08:16
Michael Coren: The United States is better than Canada. See that little dot at the end of the preceding sentence? It's a PERIOD.
2005-02-11T22:31
Look what Sis bought for Ruby! lol.
2005-02-11T17:36
The United States Postal Service unveiled a stamp honoring President Ronald Reagan. A fitting tribute to the Great Communicator.2005-02-11T17:24
Originally unions were meant to keep employers accountable to their employees. Modern unions are charged with keeping employees from being accountable to their employers.
2005-02-10T22:38
"Joe Tamargo, who runs a Web site LivingAdSpace.com, has started a new enterprise, selling advertisers the opportunity to permanently tattoo their messages on his body."2005-02-10T07:34 Sis sent me this list: The Best Names of Players Reporting to Spring Training This Year
1. Coco Crisp
2. Corey Hart
3. Choo Freeman
4. Wily Mo Pena
5. Terrmel Sledge
6. Milton Bradley
7. Jimmy Gobble
8. Boof Bonser
9. Huston Street
10. Shin-Soo Choo
2005-02-09T22:27
Jennifer Welsh is a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and a Canadian expatriate. She's been commissioned by the Canadian government to define the Canadian identity. Welsh says "Canada must grow up and stop defining itself in relation to the U.S., which will only lead to knee-jerk pro-or anti-Americanism that fails in both cases to serve this country well." "The low point came in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, when U.S. President George W. Bush touched off a furor by failing to mention Canada in an address to Congress. It was a raw and unattractive display of our national inferiority complex," she wrote. "How could we turn an international crisis, an impending war, into an opportunity to navel-gaze and wring our hands over our lack of influence with Washington? How small of Canada, I thought."2005-02-09T19:36
Have your credit card numbers been stolen?2005-02-09T19:26
"That Kris Draper, Chris Chelios and Derian Hatcher, all millionaires several times over, could rationalize taking roster positions from players working under a salary cap and earning as little as $500 a week left many in the game stunned. Don Cherry, who spent 16 years in the minors as a player and another three as a coach, could not believe that the three Wings made the move. "I just don't think they thought it through," Cherry said yesterday. "Hockey players are supposed to be brethren. They said they were going there to have fun. Have fun? For the guys in that league, it's not fun, it's their livelihood. "I've always been 100 per cent for the players. But to take another guy's job is just horsesh-t. Those guys are hypocrites. It's just not fair what they're doing. If, God forbid, the (NHL) goes to impasse and guys cross the line, they'd be crucified by the NHL guys. But for them, it's okay."
2005-02-09T18:58
Ever since 9/11 it's been fashionable to criticize the United States government no matter what they do. But you know what really burns my ass? It's when people compare President Bush to Hitler. You know what that tells me? It tells me you have no sense of history. You don't who Hitler was or what he did or what it took to get rid of him. It tells me you've probably never left the country and don't have a sense of the world. I've stood on the beaches of Normandy. I've stood in the graveyards in France and at Arlington. I know what the Nazis did to my grandmother in Austria; how they took her farm, destroyed everything she had, kicked her out of her own country. I know what my grandfather went through to get rid of the Nazis. How he spent four years in the mud earning a dollar a day getting shot at; how he was wounded at Falaise. I've been to the Imperial War Museum and stood in a roomfull of suitcases taken from Auschwitz. Comparing the President to Hitler isn't cute and it certainly isn't clever; it's dumb.
2005-02-09T18:17
Ash Wednesday. Lent begins.2005-02-09T11:17
Wired's take on outsourcing: Let all the Left Brain jobs leave. Our future is in Right Brain thinking. A view which mirrors my own.2005-02-09T09:34
Star Trek: Enterprise has been cancelled and a bunch of nerds are trying to save the show with a letter writing campaign. Ideally these campaigns should let the studio know that there are fans of the show. Fans that the studio didn't know exist. Are you telling me that Paramount is unaware that there are Star Trek fans? I've participated in one campaign to stop the cancellation of a show. Then I was involved in another campaign to get it on DVD. We won the DVD but lost the show. But my point is that I tried to save the show because obviously the studio had no idea how popular it really was and there was a chance that if they did they'd keep it on their roster. And the studio hadn't even let it run a full season; it was too soon to tell if it would be a hit or not. But everyone knows about Star Trek and its fans and it's been given several seasons to find its audience. The studio cancelled it anyway. So give it up you nerds. Just wait a couple weeks and I'm sure Paramount will announce a new series anyway. Star Trek: Time Cops or Star Trek: Pirates or something.2005-02-09T09:12
Apparently, the NHL is set to announce the "Drop Dead" Date on the season. Personally, I'd rather see them set the Drop Dead date on the players. At any rate, looks like March 1 is D-Day. But when you factor in the rolling 45 day cancellation period that each arena has set under the instruction of the NHL that would mean the puck would drop April 15th. Ridiculous. Forget Drop Dead dates and just cancel the thing already.2005-0208T15:51
I like to argue.2005-02-07TT10:21
New article: Baseball vs. Hockey. Which sport comes out on top? I'll give you a clue: it's baseball.2005-02-06T10:59
Watch for the NHL to officially cancel the season today. They know their press release will be lost in all the Super Bowl hoopla.
2005-02-06T10:57
Super Sunday! Go Eagles! You know how some sports teams don't indicate their home city in their name? Like the Florida Panthers. Where do they play? Florida. Then you've got the Carolina Hurricanes. Doesn't even say if it's North or South Carolina. So you've got two states there. But the New England Patriots win the prize for the most ambiguous location name. New England could mean any of 13 states if the historical meaning of New England is applied. But even if you use the modern meaning, that's six states: CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT. How do you root for a team that could be from anywhere? Going the other way, you have the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Borough of Brooklyn is, for all intents and purposes, a neighbourhood in NYC.2005-02-05T09:28
The Juno Beach Centre goes above and beyond.2005-02-05T07:56
If the Americans define themselves by Patriotism; the English, Ceremony; the French, History; then how do Canadians define themselves? According to Gen. MacKenzie it's by an ailing public health care system. It's really quite funny when you think of it.2005-02-04T23:17
The secret of the federal Liberals in a nutshell: "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul." George Bernard Shaw
2005-02-04T19:07
Well I don't think anyone saw that coming! Just finished watching Vince McMahon's press conference wherein he announced the creation of his new hockey league: The XHL. I have to admit I love some of what he's come up with: no more penalties for fighting, no helmets or visors, a standard across-the-board ticket fee schedule, bigger nets, smaller pads, four-on-four hockey, cheerleaders, cameras in the ice and miked players. If this lasts, it'll be brutal! I was surprised though that he was able to sign 250 NHLers. Well, that's what he's claiming anyway. I just hope this doesn't turn into another WHA or whatever the Hell it's called. But leave it to Vince to spot an opportunity.
2005-02-02T09:27
Groundhog Day. He saw his shadow. Six more weeks of winter.
2005-02-01T10:00
So I rented this movie last night thinking, Hey! A movie starring Tie Domi! It was only after the monkey started scoring that I realized it wasn't Domi at all but in fact a small ape of some sort.