2005-01-27T18:26  Nicole Ritchie.  A two-face?

2005-01-26T22:12  Best news of the day:  According to a survey conducted by Rogers-Sportsnet 77% of Canadians don't miss the NHL.  Almost as good:  the Oilers have stated their intention to be the first NHL team in history to apply to cease operations if negotiations don't produce cost certainty.

2005-01-26T22:12  Well my head is ready to asplode.  The Ontario Government is gearing up to start installing "Smart" Hydro meters.  What makes them so smart?  Your Hydro company can turn your appliances off for you if you left them running.  Using the magic of WiFi!  I'm not making this up unfortunately.  I give it 3 weeks before 14 year old punks crack the encryption scheme and can turn on and off your appliances with nothing but a laptop in their backpack. Then again, there's no one I trust more than the government when it comes to IT and personal security.  lol.

August 14, 1972

2005-01-24T18:15   The famous SI cover featuring Bobby Fischer proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that chess is a sport.

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2005-01-23T14:58  Here's to an all-PA Super Bowl!  Go Eagles!

2005-01-23T08:25  "You got the toothpaste; loved it. You got the firepole; loved it. The hydraulics; him and Don Vito had a f'in blast. There's hamburgers on his ass of his jeans and he has hamburgers on his T-shirt. Phil's Hell Day is gonna be forever."  Finally got round to watching one of my better Christmas presents.  Thanks sis.

2005-01-22T13:03  How fun is that snowstorm?  Pretty damn fun.  So the big news is that I tracked down a former Sam's employee, Jay Marcy.  Marcy was our shipper/receiver and resident artist/merchandiser.   He's an old school punk and a destroyer of fanboys.  Our paths crossed before we even started working together.  He had a letter printed in the first issue of Lethargic Lad comics I ever bought.   Check out his web comic or his blog.  Or check 'em both out.  It ain't costing you nothing.  Better yet, buy some of his books.  That will cost you.

2005-01-22T09:48  Freeze turned me on to Free Stanley last summer when people were just starting to wake up to the fact there wasn't going to be any NHL hockey in 2005.  If you read their history page it becomes quite clear that the NHL has stolen the Stanley Cup.  I say lop off all that junk underneath the Cup and give it back to the NHL.  They can keep that.  It's all lies anyway.  Then put the Cup up for challenge just like old Stanley wanted.  And if one year it's the Dawson City Nuggets against the Detroit Red Wings, great.  If the NHL's million dollar players are so great why are they afraid to let others compete for the Cup?  It's because the Sundins and Jagrs don't want to get into the corners with some toothless hick from Moose Jaw and get beat a la Mystery, Alaska.

2005-01-22T09:22  A million dollars in jewels is hidden in the continental US.  Clues to their whereabouts hidden in a children's book.

They want a what now?

2005-01-21T17:38  Well with Trevor "Sherlock" Linden on the case it's hard to see what the problem is here.  "It's crystal clear what the owners want now."  lol.  Are you talking about a cap?  If you are, you're embarrassing yourself with your insight.  The crazy thing is that cap or no cap the players will still earn millions.  So what's the problem?

If someone came to me and said "Chess, I want you to play chess.  It'll be tough.  You'll be living out of a suitcase and you'll be travelling to cities like NYC, DC, Boston, St. Louis, LA.   It's going to be tiring; you'll have to play 500 matches a year and you'll be expected to practice.  The job will only last 3 years; after that you'll have to find another job.  But we'll pick up your meals, lodging, transportation and we'll pay you $25 large.  Will you do it?"  What Bone could say no to an offer like that?  Now remember these players are getting over a million dollars a year, an $80 meal allowance per diem, free trips across the country, medical care not available to the public and a pension for playing a damn game.  Gimme a break.  Take the cap.

Break out the replacement players.  You know, replacement players?  Ask the European hockey players who are out of work right now--replaced by NHLers.  They can tell you all about it.

Some will say "We won't watch hockey without the stars."  Who cares about the "stars"?  Besides, for all the stars we've got on the ice, why is hockey so damn boring?  GAA is down.  Draws are common.  So are snoring spectators.  I've got news for everyone: in five years all these so called stars will be gone anyway.  How long will it take to make new stars?  Not long.

2005-01-21T06:59  Street 1, Book 0.  Turns out the Streets make 3x as much as the Books.  I wonder why?  Street: "Let's kick their asses.  I wanna destroy these guys.  Kill 'em."  Book:  "Can we all have little titles?  I want to be Chief Morale Officer.  I wrote a song about it."  lmao.  Best. Apprentice. Ever.

2005-01-20T18:38  A moving and historic inaugural speech.

2005-01-19T21:25 

From Corner Gas:

Damn.  They must have an intern working on the show or something.  What else can account for the crack research?  I wonder how many angry letters CTV will receive "correcting" them saying it's the Prime Minister.  lol. 

2005-01-15T08:55  Nina Gordon's cover of NWA's Straight Outta Compton.

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2005-01-14T18:23  Look what I found when looking for some coupons.  lol.  Who's their webmaster?  Eshkoo?

2005-01-14T07:09  Want some laughs?  Read what Star readers have to say (Bugmenot required.) about the Ontario government's proposed changes to liquor laws. A large majority of the respondees are worried about how the minimum drinking age can be enforced if the government doesn't handle sales of booze.  Yeah because everyone knows it's impossible for teenagers to drink within the current system.  Won't somebody think of the children?

2005-01-13T18:24  Google's got a branded Nalgene water bottle if you like.  They're also selling a Wifi Hotspot finder.

2005-01-12T20:02  "For days before the match he had the whole world wondering if he would show up.  Plane after plane waited on the runway while he napped, took walks and ate sandwiches.  Henry Kissinger called and asked him to go for his country's honor. 

Soon after arriving, he offended the Icelanders by calling the country inadequate because it had no bowling alleys.  He complained about the TV cameras, the table and chair, and the contrast of the squares on the board.  His hotel room, he said, had too nice a view.  None of this had anything to do with chess.  Or maybe it did. 

If he won, he'd be the first American world champion in history.  If he lost, just another patzer from Brooklyn.  On the 40th move of the 12th game he countered Spassky's Bishop to King 6 with a Pawn to Rook 4 and it was all over.

He came home an American hero.  He bragged to the world he'd beat the Russians and he delivered.  He could now command the same money as a heavyweight prize fighter.  He was invited to dinner by statesmen and kings. 

Then Bobby Fischer played the most original, unexpected move of all; he disappeared."

Searching for Bobby Fischer

2005-01-11T18:09   There are some brands that invoke a certain feeling.  They're more than category killers. They're the very definition of the category:  Zippo, Marlboro, iPod, Leatherman, Timex, Google, Manhattan Portage, Starbucks, Crayola, Budweiser, Coca-Cola, Colt.  I'm bringing this up because I bought a Nalgene water bottle and it's so awesome I need to post about it.  What makes this water bottle the Cadillac of water bottles?  First, it's got a nice wide mouth.  It's also got a unique loop top that allows the lid to spin open and closed without twisting the loop.  It holds a litre of water (32oz) and has handy-dandy graduations on the side.  It's made from a super-tough bacteria-resistant plastic and they look super awesome to boot.  It sounds crazy but this water bottle has changed my life.  I'm sorry but that's just how I feel.

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2005-01-10T17:30  Changed the layout a bit.  Cleaned it up.  Now you can read more posts on the tag-board at once.  All the buttons were moved to the left sidebar along with some quick internal links.  Can't be bothered to get this to work in Moz or Firefox.  But if anyone knows how to use CSS to customize the form fields for Moz or Firefox I'd like to know.  I know those browsers can't handle customized scrollbars at all tho' so that's a big strike against them for me.  Then there's the mess around the way 'Fox handles ALT tags and Tooltips.  I'll just wait for IE7 thanks.  Also seems that Firefox doesn't want to render the line between the first and second column.  Meh.

2005-01-10T09:20  As I was saying, it was real high point being crowned Golden Bomber even if I had to pull a Napoleon and coronate myself.  No controversy.  It's like if you start playing Monopoly and everyone agrees to the Free Parking rule and then after the game someone complains that it's not in the book.

2005-01-09T10:02  The NYT printed some photographs of people cleaning up after the Tsunami.  Guess they didn't notice the image on the man's t-shirt.  So mister, is America still your worst enemy?

2005-01-08T00:30  I can't believe I did it.  I can't believe I won.  I'm the Golden Bomberman for the week!  I've won chess tourneys and things like that before but nothing could prepare me for the feeling of winning the Golden Belt!

2005-01-05T20:53  Help me with my Tsunami Relief fund:   I'm looking for relief from hearing about the Tsunami.  Can we move on people?  I'm so sick of hearing updated death tolls.  50,000.  88,000.  120,000.  140,000.  148,468.  That's what I heard today.  Where are they pulling these numbers from and why are they within 100,000?  Can't they nail this number down yet?  Let's just say 200,000 and end it here.

Congrats to the Canadian Juniors who spanked those pesky Reds last night.  Hey Russkies, how's it feel to have your ass handed to you?  lol.