This collection of entries is from March 2007.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Wolves 5 - Moose 2
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Ok... 7 penalties all game, making for a nice intense struggle throughout the game. It was still strange though...
Why?
The first 6 penalties were all Hooking calls. We were convince the ref (Dean Morton) only knew the one infraction, and couldn't call anything else. It tool until 7:40 in the 3rd to get a different penalty (Cross-checking).
Oh.. and we didn't know if our last goal counted, since it happened right at the final horn...green light no red light... then the red light came on later... sure enough, looking at the game summary, they scored at at 19:59 in the 3rd (scored by Darren Haydar, his 38th of the season)
(Game Summary - Gamesheet)
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posted at 10:17 PM | Link | Wolves | Care to comment? | § |
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Ides of MarchSoothsayer Caesar!
CAESAR Ha! who calls?
CASCA Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!
CAESAR Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry 'Caesar!' Speak; Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Soothsayer Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR What man is that?
BRUTUS A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
CAESAR Set him before me; let me see his face.
CASSIUS Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
CAESAR What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.
Soothsayer Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.
Julius Caesar Act I Scene II
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Wolves 4 - Rivermen 3
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In my twisted sort of way, I like it when there are only 3,918 in attendance, compared to Saturday when there was 12,829 against the Admirals
Highlight: Brett Sterling's hat trick
Oh... and when we left the game, it was sleeting, and the cars had piles of ice on them... this after the 73°... I knew that was going to be short lived...
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posted at 10:31 PM | Link | Wolves | § |
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
SPRING IS HERE!!!! ... oh wait... no it's not...OH MY!!!!!
It was a record high temperature for this date today... 73°F (for you people outside the US... it's about 22°C)
This was exquisite! It wasn't just a warm breeze that still had that cold bite behind it after the breeze was gone... no... I felt... warmth... it smelled different.. .oh, such a tease... it's going away, I know... but... now I just want days like this when baseball starts next month...
posted at 01:29 PM | Link | Mundane | § |
Monday, March 12, 2007
OK... this is a dumb move...Woke up at my normal time... but it was dark outside. Pitch black. It was that damn Daylight Saving thing. It was cloudy... and dark. this is going to be hell for a few weeks... my body feels like it's just not supposed to be up right now, feeling awfully groggy... So, we get more time of sunlight in the evening. I'm starting to think "big deal" and what goos is that when you don't have sun to wake you up in the morning...
...though I have to admit, traffic didn't feel all that bad this morning...
posted at 08:28 AM | Link | Mundane | § |
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Time TravelYes.. I Time Traveled last night. Well, actually this morning.
I was a bad boy an stayed up way too late, playing in Second Life, talking on Skype with some friends... before i knew it, it was 2am... but wait... suddenly I time traveled! I went ... to the future!
OK, not exactly, but I can't remember the last time I was awake for this event, when it is 2am, but, suddenly ... it's actually 3am! That's when I knew that it was a mistake staying up late...
Yes, it was the magic of Daylight Saving, under the new laws... all of my Windows XP machines made the transition just fine... for the first time, none of my Windows 2000 machines did not. are there patches available? I'll need to see... even my TiVo's transitioned correctly... my Treo 700wx was fine... then there's all the clocks, both in the home and in the car, watches, the microwave, the stove, the DVD recorder, the VCR... which, I come to find out, won't even listen to the remote...I can't get it to change the time! Perhaps it's time for the VCR to be pitched... the Infoglobe needed a phone call to pick up the new time from the caller ID...
What makes today so much nicer, is that it's getting warm outside... in the 50's... and having the patio door open was just so refreshing...
posted at 10:34 AM | Link | Mundane | § |
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Wolves 4 - Admirals 6
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What an odd, strange game... and not in a good way...
The Wolves scored at 4:13 into the period - it was the first shot of the game for both teams. Milwaukee didn't have a shot on goal until 15:45 into the period! We were up 3-0 until 18:24 in the first. Now, this is important, because after being up 3-0, Milwaukee had 5 unanswered goals through 17:32 in the 3rd.. .how do you lose a 3 goal lead? Now, I've complained about our goalie situation all year... they are inept and we will never get through the playoffs without a good netminder... only thing worse that this team does, is pulling the goalie when down by a goal. the defense just can't support that. Sure enough, we let them into the zone and they scored at 19:57 in the third.
It's all about the net, people...
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posted at 10:44 PM | Link | Wolves | § |
Friday, March 09, 2007
Daylight Saving HellThank you so much, Congress... moving Daylight Saving just makes no friggin' sense... how much is this going to cost businesses, let alone how much this is going screw up home life.. I am NOT looking forward to being in my house on Sunday... there's just too many gadgets in the house, and I've just got this feeling that the next few weeks will be hell trying to get everything to sync-up correctly..
Y2K again? Daylight time may baffle computers
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
You're fired...No, not me...
Astronaut Lisa Nowak gets fired.
(My blog entry about this is here) Because Nowak is a naval officer on assignment to NASA, rather than a NASA civil servant, she is not subject to administrative action by NASA Nowak's firing marked the first time NASA has publicly dismissed an astronaut, said space historian Roger Launius of the Smithsonian Institution. She is also the first active astronaut to be charged with a felony, he said.
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An invasion force of 170Turns out this is old news, but I just heard about this...
Back on the morning of March 1st, around 170 Swiss infantry soldiers - armed with their Swiss Army Knives and rifles (but no ammunition), while on a training exercise, wandered more than a mile across the unmarked border with the tiny principality of Liechtenstein.
OK, that's bad, and they turned around when they figured out what they did.
Here's some quick stats - Liechtenstein is only 62 square miles big. The last estimate of the population - 33,987. The Swiss army is 220,000 strong. Liechtenstein? No military.
I suppose that these guys shouldn't be confused with the Swiss Guard at the Vatican...
So, which is worse - that the Swiss invaded, or that nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers.
posted at 09:01 AM | Link | Odd | § |
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
What is wrong with the world?OK... what the hell is going on with the world around us?
Here are articles from CNN just posted today:
Police say father told toddler, 'Now you stab Mommy' Police say a man repeatedly stabbed his teenage wife, then gave the knife to his toddler son and told him: "Now you stab Mommy." Here's another stat from this article that , to me, stood out and sounds awfully illegal: Husband: 21 Wife:17 Son: 2
Mom pleads guilty to using baby as a weapon A woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to swinging her 4-week-old son like a bat to hit her boyfriend during a fight, fracturing the infant's skull in the process.
Pilot told ex-wife she wouldn't get daughter, in-law says The man whose small plane slammed into his former mother-in-law's house, killing him and his 8-year-old daughter, had told his ex-wife before the crash he had the girl "and you're not going to get her," the mother-in-law said Tuesday. Eric Johnson, a student pilot who had soloed before, strapped daughter Emily into the passenger seat of a leased, single-engine Cessna on Monday morning. Less than two hours later, officials said, the plane smashed into the home of Vivian Pace, the girl's grandmother.
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$370 MillionMega Millions. Who will win it? Someone has to in it tonight... otherwise, it's going to get a little crazy around here...
Mega Millions jackpot swells to record $370 million
Update: Lottery waiting to hear from $370 million winners
Winning numbers were 16-22-29-39-42; Mega Ball number was 20
Two winning tickets: one sold at Campark Liquors in Woodbine, New Jersey and the other at Favorite Market in Dalton, Georgia. The largest previous multistate lottery jackpot was $365 million in 2006, when eight workers at a Nebraska meat processing plant hit the Powerball lotto. The Big Game lotto, the forerunner of Mega Millions, paid out a $363 million jackpot in 2000.
posted at 01:52 PM | Link | Mundane | § |
Monday, March 05, 2007
25 years removed from the funnyIt was 25 years ago today that John Belushi was found dead at age 33, in a hotel room at the Château Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.
I loved his Saturday Night Live characters, especially the Samurai character (my favorite - "Samurai Delicatessen" and "Samurai Stockbroker" where he accidentally hits Buck Henry in the forehead), his Joe Cocker impersonation - even in a duet with him - is priceless.
And, if you grew-up in Chicago at that time, "The Blues Brothers" is the pinnacle of Chicago films.
posted at 12:48 PM | Link | Mundane | § |
Casimir Pulaski DayAre we the only city that celebrates a Polish Revolutionary War hero?
Chicagoland still boasts the 2nd largest population of residents of Polish descent (behind only Warsaw) in the world!
posted at 11:12 AM | Link | Mundane | § |
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Making of a Legend?We did something totally out of the ordinary/mundane today... We drove into the city and picked-up B&B and drove downtown (South Loop) to Buddy Guy's Legend’s.
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Now, there is so many reasons to do this and I'll tell you the primary one in a little bit. But a major contributing reason is that this is a very important blues club in Chicago since 1989, the most famous, I think, and it's the club of blues legendary Buddy Guy.
He's a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a chief guitar influence to rock titans like Hendrix, Clapton, Beck and Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago's fabled West Side sound, and a living link to that city's halcyon days of electric blues. Another contributing factor is that the club is being evicted - Columbia College owns the building and it's turning it into a student center and the lease expires on May 31.
Now, the real reason that we went is because Buffy has a coworker that is singing tonight. Old Town School of Folk Music has classes - Blues Band - Live!. Work out the blues with your own Old Town School band. The first meeting will include a jam session, ensemble selection and band placement. Eight weeks of practice will land your band a gig! Final performances will be at Buddy Guy's Legends or another Chicago blues club. Class time depends on student's ensemble designation. They serve very good food there, so we were there early to eat. We were all VERY pleased with our food.
We had to sit through 3 bands before we saw the band that had the singer we were there to see. At times, it was painful... no, really painful, that we were actually checking our ears to see if they were bleeding... 1st band (Lady and the Tramps), very capable, but the lead singer had... ummm... a very poor choice of clothing - she was heavy, and wore a spangly red tube top, and... you know, we really didn't need to see her belly roll actually move as she gyrated on stage, not to mention she had to keep pulling the top up. (I wound up listening, but not watching - I just couldn't do it). Second band (The Rubber Duckies), all guys, keyboard was lead vocalist, a very good sound. Third band (The Carrie Yoko Blues Machine?), female lead much larger than the first, though she dressed so much better. Problem with her - she yelled her vocals. She was the one we had to check our ears for blood.
Two obvious thing taught in class - you must name your group, and you must introduce the bad during a song.
Then came the the fourth group - The Taildraggers, with the person that we came to see - Becki Gartner. OK, now, I'm not saying this cause she's a co-worker of a friend, but... she was definitely the best of the evening. Great voice, good quality, not overpowering. The group was good, too... they even had a guy playing a dobro lap slide guitar, which adds a lot to the sound.
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Saturday, March 03, 2007
Wolves 3 - Bulldogs 6
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Wow... the start of the game was great... hardly a whistle... for a penalty OR offsides... and the energy and intensity were through the roof... and then the rest of the game happened...
On the plus side, Jason Krog is back with the team and scored two goals...
On the negative side, we just don't have a reliable goalie... tonight was Freddie Brathwaite's turn to suck, imitating a sieve for a piece of time on the ice tonight...
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posted at 10:07 PM | Link | Wolves | § |
Friday, March 02, 2007
Yes! No Paris Hilton!I saw this today and I have to personally congratulate the Associated Press for the stand it took...
The editors at AP actually put an experimental weeklong embargo on any stories about Paris Hilton
AP: We ignored Paris Hilton
What happened? None of the thousands of media outlets that depend on AP called in asking for a Paris Hilton story.
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He can be worth how much?Have you heard about this story about a minor league pitcher?
Matt White. 29 years old. Only pitched 9 2/3 innings in the majors, over 9 professional seasons in just 7 games. Journeyman. He's a non-roster invitee to Dodgers spring training. Can he make the team? Doubtful, I think. But, I think he'll do OK...
Flash back 3 years ago. His great aunt was going into a nursing home and needed to raise some cash. He bought a 50-acre mountain-top lot of hers for $50,000.
He starts to clear 4 acres of the land to build a house, but had problems because they kept hitting these large flat rocks. There was so much rock, that he called a local geologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to find out what it was.
It's mica schist, a slate-like shiny metamorphic stone used for patio decks and other construction.
OK, cool... you can sell it. It sells for $100 a ton. Now, it's gonna cost money to get the rock removed.
But... let's do some quick calculations...
$100 per ton... The geologist estimated there were 24 million tons of the stone on his land.
This journeyman pitcher, that didn't make more than $300,000 in his entire career... is sitting on... potentially...
$2.4 BILLION of rock.
posted at 08:48 AM | Link | Baseball | § |
Thursday, March 01, 2007
It's that time again to mark the date...
I feel that I still have to mark this day... know where I used to work years ago? During the Great Internet Boom?
Yes, marchFIRST.
Those were the days. So long ago...
I felt this year that I had to mark this day, because on February 2nd, Bob Bernard the CEO and founder of the original company - Whittman-Hart - died of a heart attack. He was 45.
posted at 10:08 AM | Link | Work | § |
*nose wiggle* *nose wiggle*How can it be the First Day of the Month already? Again according to meme tradition..., you better say "Rabbit, Rabbit!" as your first words of the day to have good luck! (Now, if you blew it, before you go to sleep tonight, to still try to gain luck, your last words have to be "Tibbar! Tibbar!")..
And for other derivitives to this meme, check out the alternatives: "White Rabbit" or Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!.
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