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Soooo much to say

January 30th, 2008 by Max

Wow the stress here is incredible. Makes people do stupid things. But that’s for another day. It also make them indulge …

Today I went to the hotel bar and got a burger. A really good burger. It was 12 dollars Canadian, but that made it less than half the cost of the meal at the hotel restaurant.

I had the burger yesterday because of the 27 dollar dinner I had the night before. This burger had cheese and tomoto and back bacon, and onion and pickle and all the Heinze 57 I wanted provided I could open up the bottle, which I couldn’t and so had to ask the Guatamalan barmaid to open for me. Fortunately she needed to run it under hot water … but I digress.

Today, I wanted a beer with my burger. Two in fact. King’s Dark Lager is good.

Did I want dessert? No. Did I order dessert? Yes. And a coffee. Decaf of course. And a Chocolate Truffle. Oooooh. So light. So easy to eat. Sooooo chocolatey.

That’s $36 Canadian … before the tip. She was nice. 20%. And helpful too. And she’s from Guatamala.

So I go to the bar to get a cheap meal after my hard hard very really difficult day of saying no to the people that I’m here to help! While trying to get an inventory that I should have had 3 months ago AND getting three maybe two pc’s configured instead of the six that I did yesterday.

And now I have to pay 43 of my own American bucks for this cheap meal myself, because it was so expensive …

and mmmmm Chocolatey!

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Arrrrgghhhh!

January 29th, 2008 by Max

That’s it. Just AAAAaaarrrghhh! Isn’t there a St Argh’s in Cornwall?

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Travels in Toronto

January 28th, 2008 by Max

Well I made it. Pretty much drove straight through. 6 hours. Not bad. Actually found the hotel and work! But to me travel is stressful. Dinner was lovely. At the elevator on the way up I decided to take the empty one, instead of the one with the beautiful young woman. Leave her alone. Of course then 5 people with luggage follow me … into the other elevator. Of course we should have figured if we had to press AND HOLD the Close Door button, there might be something wrong. But no … we all got stuck together. One guy calls the front desk I guess, from the elevator phone. “We’re stuck.” I only hear his end of the conversation “Jump?” – He jumps!How about press and hold the Open Door button?

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Its worth repeating

January 27th, 2008 by Max

Lie to pollsters.

It makes politicians unsure what you want to hear.

That may make them say what they really think!

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One more prediction

January 26th, 2008 by Max

Fred Thompson will be asked to run for Vice President, by John McCain.

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Blogg oops!

January 25th, 2008 by Max

As you may have figured out, I was trying to blog each day. This week I had to travel to Penn’s Woods on business and by the time I got back to the Inn, and wrote my blog, it was 10:33. At that time, the blogmaker, and I don’t know if this is WordPress or whomever, took my post and called it the next day [the 23rd instead of the 22th which was when I was blogging]. My friend the Penguin has suggested that I post this blog, and suck it up and keep going … and so I will!

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Countless Screaming Argonauts (and more)

January 24th, 2008 by Max

Check out our podcast. As you may have heard … We take the high road! http://www.csapodcast.blogspot.com/ [Sidebar]As you may have figured out, I was trying to blog each day. This week I had to travel to Penn’s Woods on business and by the time I got back to the Inn, and wrote my blog, it was 10:33. At that time, the blogmaker, and I don’t know if this is WordPress or whomever, took my post and called it the next day [the 23rd instead of the 22th which ws when I was blogging.]My friend the Penguin has suggested that I post this blog, and suck it up and keep going … and so I will!

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I Predict!

January 24th, 2008 by Max

These are real predictions. Pick your favorite Pshycic and compare my success rate to the success rate of the Pyschic. I’ll bet I do as well or better!

The New York Giants will win the Super Bowl.
A Democrat will win the White House.
Britney Spears will do something outrageous in a desperate attempt to gain attention.
A famous actor will die suddenly and suprisingly – oh wait. That happened already! I predict it will happen again.
George Bush will do something stupid. Fox news will say its BRILLIANT!
An unknown person will capture the attention of the cable news channels, who will run stories about a tragic event including plenty of family pictures and background stories. Fox news will come up with a logo and music for the story.
There will be a new toy marketed, that everyone will want for Christmas.
Al Gore will be heard from again.
The most vulgar and vile TV show ever will begin this year. It will be on FOX tv.
The Hollywood Writer’s strike will end.
A new video sensation will appear on YouTube.
There will be a major natural disaster in the US. George Bush will visit the location. FOX News will show President Bush viewing the damage and saying compassionate things.
Elliot Spitzer will get caught in a scandal involving prostitution. He will leave office in shame.
A previously unknown scientist will discover a new source of energy. It will turn out to be a fraud.
Lou Dobbs will host a tv show about the troubling aspects of international trade.
Tornados will strike the midwest.
I will be declared the “Earthiest” person of the year.

17. Oh Yeah! And I will Marry Scarlett Johansson! (Its less unlikely than that We’ll be visited by space aliens!)

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Tunguska

January 23rd, 2008 by Max

Singularity – by Bill DeSmedt

http://www.vurdalak.com/

Black hole

In 1973, Albert A. Jackson and Michael P. Ryan, physicists at the University of Texas, proposed that the Tunguska event was caused by a “small” (around 10²⁰ g to 10²² g) black hole passing through the Earth.^[30] Unfortunately for this hypothesis, there is no evidence for a so-called “exit event” — a second explosion occurring as the black hole, having tunneled through the Earth, shot out the other side on its way back into space — and it has not gained acceptance in the scientific community. This hypothesis was used by Larry Niven in his science fiction story The Borderland of Sol, and by David Brin, in Earth.

www.podiobooks.com

I like the theory anyway.

The energy of the Tunguska asteroid impact would have been equivalent to 10 to 40 Megatons of TNT. Had this happened over a populated area it would constitute one of the greatest natural disasters of all time.

In 1908 a small asteroid (perhaps 50 meters across) hit Tunguska, Siberia and flattened 60 million trees. That asteroid was so small it never even hit the ground, just exploded in mid-air. If it had arrived four hours and fifty-two minutes later it could have hit St. Petersburg [3]. At the time St. Petersburg was the capital of Russia with a population of a few hundred thousand. The city would have ceased to exist. As it was, dust from the blast lit up the skies of Europe for days.

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I know, but it was an amazing weekend for eagles!

January 21st, 2008 by Max

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Eagle Porn

January 20th, 2008 by Max

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Fly

January 19th, 2008 by Max

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The first of Michigan

January 18th, 2008 by Max

Hopefully, I’ll have more to say about Michigan when I get it completely understood myself.

WTF?

Ok. Michigan had a primary. Like Tuesday this week. On the Republican side Mitt Romney won. BTW did you see his deliberately imperfect hair? People kept bugging him to muss up his hair so he did. But like 1 strand, dangling on his forhead. He looked like Elvis. His imperfection was perfect!

Ok. Now back to the fun stuff.

Lemme see if I have this right. The Michigan Democrats wanted to move their primary up to this week (with the Republicans).

The National Democratic Party said “Don’t do it”.

Michigan Democrats said “We’re going to do it anyway”.

The National Democratic Party said “We won’t count your votes!!!”

Michigan held their primary anyway. The Democrats didn’t campaign there … but they visited a little.

Hillary was on the ballot but nobody else was.

“Undecided” won more black votes than Hillary did!

None of it matters anyway because the Michigan votes won’t count at the convention!

I swear!

I think. ??? Can this be right? Can the Democrats be more vindictive than the Republicans?

Why isn’t anyone on TV talking about this? Aren’t we disenfranchising a whole state? At least on the Democratic side. Isn’t less power in the hands of the people bad?

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A conversation with John about hockey

January 17th, 2008 by Max

John: There is a line that you don’t cross. We love players that flirt with that line and occasionally crossing over is ok. When guys blatantly cross that line with intent to seriously injure someone they need to be severely punished.

If we say we don’t want to players to try and hurt each other…we’re kidding ourselves. Checking is intent to injure, but on a small scale. Violence is part of hockey and we like it. Hockey needs to stop policing with the instigator penalty and instead throw the book at head shots. There is room for fighting, checking, and skill in the game.

Top 4 hockey videos on Youtube…fights.
Top 2 Spezza videos…fights.

As for Chris Simon..he cross a line, but the 30 games wasn’t about what he did it was about who he was. NHL used him as an example. He was an easy scapegoat. Unpopular player on a small market US team playing for a blacklisted coach and a GM with no NHL ties. Wouldn’t be missed so they threw the book at him. Like suspending Bertuzzi indefinitely before a lockout or throwing the book at McSorley before he retires, giving 20 games to Downey who was getting cut anyway. Simon was stupid, but he got the NHL’s longest suspension when the other guy wasn’t even injured. In comparison Bertuzzi served 20 games for breaking a guys neck.

Yes, I loved all the talk about old time hockey. If only there was a fight in front of 70,000 people. Milbury even commented that if someone did what he did now they’d get banned for life. It’s a tough call…on the one hand you don’t want to support such blatant goonism, on the other I think the game is better with characters like that. Pro sports need[] a serving of hate for opposing players to make casual fans become diehard fans. Minimum salary is over $500k. They’ve got huge insurance policies. I’m starting to become much more forgiving of what I’d allow in hockey.

I think the problem is the league is relying too much on the ‘Gretzkys’ to market the game. They’re worried that losing a marquee player like that to injury will hurt their bottom line so they try to eliminate the goonism. Instead, they should start promoting the goons. They’re cheaper, just as marketable, and much more replaceable. Look at all the money that used to be involved in boxing matches. That sport is dying, but the money is still out there. People won’t admit it, but there is a market for a little whoop a$$. Hockey has an advantage that baseball and basketball doesn’t…a fight in a hockey game is not only tolerated…but expected!

Me: I don’t know if I agree with you completely. I’m still kind of leaning the other way. I think the speed and finesse is the game. The skills have it. Having said that. I watched an Islanders vs Devils game the other day. Bill Guerin got in a fight, and Andy Sutton did later. I forget which one fought Clarkson. But the announcers, including Howie Rose, were almost beside themselves with how much this was “old time” hockey. Their point was that there had been a lot of banging and heavy board work and the fights naturally flowed out of the style of the game.

If they’re right, then we don’t need Oggie Olgethorpe.

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Too Many TLA’s

January 16th, 2008 by Max

I think acronyms are like foreign languages. I speak an incredibly small bit of college French. I speak a tiny bit of HS Spanish. If I hear “Mis aprietan muchos los zapatos” I think “My shoes are squeezing me!”

If I hear TLA, I think Three Letter Acronym.

In each case I have to translate it in my head.

Somehow I like it in geekspeak, but in business – please, lets just say the words!

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