IKnowPhysics

Thanks for posting those. I tried to analyze the hit on youtube; sucked. The hit's not late, he doesn't leave his feet, and he keeps his elbow down. The head is the first point of contact, really because the opponent's momentum changes as he shoots. Kaleta's prevented from taking a more parallel angle by the other opponent (not that I think he would've tried to take that lesser angle). Just looks like Kaleta tried to run him, didn't have a good angle, missed his check, and happened to catch his head, mostly because he missed. No elbow, no leaving feet. edit: Despite his fast approach, Kaleta's also not charging, because he coasts into it. But it's Kaleta, so 75 games.

Still furloughed due to government shutdown. CNN reported last night that if a vote was held, a continuing resolution to end the shutdown would easily pass, but House Republicans wouldn't force Boehner to allow a vote. This morning, it's let's talk about passing a measure to extend the debt ceiling, but letting the shutdown continue.

Federal Shutdown Means No New Beer

I scored like that once. It should never, ever work, ever. It has no business working. At least not in a game. Biron had backed into the net probably expecting that playing out would've opened him up to some side-to-side deke, and he ended up giving the top corners away. Not sure why he didn't go butterfly and try to poke check. It's a big lead at that point.

Love the Staples slogan over Quick's shoulder in that vid.

######! Entire company, besides launch-critical folks, just got furloughed, likely until the government shutdown is over. This came as a surprise, as upper management swore up and down that we were unlikely to be affected; an Air Force General had other ideas. Time to start unwillingly burning the vacation time.

He brought this up today on SHH. On Sportsnet, he was surrounded by smaller guys, and he recognized that he had far and away the biggest head, but he joked that by coming back to Buffalo he'd only be 3rd or 4th on the rotation. Funny stuff.

Ahaha, Oilers have six alternate captains.

If the captaincy helps Vanek make up his mind sooner, then good. If we ship him out, we already have a replacement set up.

That's alright. I figure judging The Ron is sort of open to interpretation a little now, but, as you said, it will start to clear up as we get underway. Some people may judge his performance last season, considering that he got thrown into things a little, and that's ok. Some people won't. No wrong answers here. Definitely update your votes as you see fit.

http://ow.ly/pmuKg New signage around the arena. Eliminates the generic signage, gives it some blue and gold polish. Looks good so far.

It's probably fair that when considering Ron, we consider his contribution to the record while he's been here.

See poll. Keep it civil. Change your votes as often as you like, by "deleting vote" and voting again.

I've really been enjoying GTA V. If you guys were, and maybe some of you are, familiar with Los Angeles, you'd be shocked at how strikingly accurate much of that game is.

Hey, if it boosts his trade value.

Haha, there really are striking similarites between what I was doing last week .

Still better, much better, than Dollar Bill and Charles Wang.

So last week at Berkeley was great. Did some good science, worked in a neat, unique environment, irradiated the ###### out of some stuff, good times. Just found out yesterday that I'm headed to Cape Canaveral for two weeks in October for an rf engineering project. Should be a good bit of work and a lot of fun. There's a launch scheduled during the time I'm down there, so I should get to watch that, and I should have enough free time to screw around and check out the Space Center, Rocket Garden, etc.

I'm getting closer to my home.

Haha, they're getting pretty pissy today. Okay listening.

Mutiny!

I won't defend him, but I think he was trying to convey the concept that it'd be more of a slippery-slope for players to start using their sticks as weapons than it would be for everyone to start biting each other. I might agree with that. Keep in mind I had to paraphrase all of that.

I'm going by what Petey said on air. Take that with a grain of salt, however, he cited personal experience.

MUFF CABBAGE.

Phone calls are 0-10 games. In person could bring more than 10 games.