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Haha, it's pretty funny this morning. Paraphrase, but I'm pretty close:

Is that what that was? Because it looked like running into the boards to me.

You got cabbage in yo muff. MUFF CABBAGE.

Five games for Kassian.

Yep. I'll say it again, Eli Manning (picked 1st overall, traded for a 4th overall, a 65th overall, and what ends up being a 12th overall) sucked a fat dick for a good bit of his first years. Don't bother starting to drink the Hatorade until there's at least something in the cup. "OMG he isn't progressing faster than every other QB in history. Shank him." Heh, stop that. Ha, yeah. They won, but Jets fans will still be happy to find a way to be pissy with their team. http://www.rantsport...ork-jets-a-win/

I suppose we're always hopeful that the power plant finally runs out of fuel powering that electrified queso. Besides, what are we going to do, give up on them? No chance in hell. That's one of the reasons why the Patriots fanbase is so awful, 90% of them did give up on their team, then bandwagoned the shits out of it when they started winning again. That's no way to be.

Depending upon how the season goes, that is pertinent information for this thread.

It's game two. Lots of positive things here, lots of hope, but still plenty of room for both doubt and improvement. If it eases the jitters, it's handy to remember that Eli Manning sucked a fat dick his first year(s), and that a QB's career will be defined more by how well he overcomes his weaknesses rather than the magnitude of his initial successes. This game cemented my thoughts about game one: the Bills are fun to watch again.

Kinda cool. Good practice. I'd like to see what he can do with his head up.

50 MeV protons from the 88 Inch Cyclotron.

Headed up to Berkeley for work next week. Radiation effects studies at LBNL. I'll make overtime and most likely have an entirely free day to run around and do whatev. My first time up there, should be fun.

Lot of Brits watch Golf on TV maybe? Lot of Brits sure as ###### don't go to Islanders games. Not sure what's up with their marketing. US FERC just fined the ###### out of them for gaming the energy markets though using new regulations that came as a result of the Enron energy market gaming-induced blackouts.

It gets better. Barclays was originally going to pay $400M dollars for the naming rights for 20 years (a world record for an indoor arena), but renegotiated down to more than $200M dollars. Barclays does not have or even plan to have any retail bank branches in the US and did not put any of its own ATMs in the building. Zany.

Heh, 14,500 is still more than their league-worst average attendance last year of 13,306. 13,306, by the way, is way up from their '10-'11 average attendance of 11,059.

So, the Islanders were on the front page of NHL.com because they visited the Barclay Center, which, I didn't realize until now, was retrofitted from basketball-only. So it's weird. And pretty laughable. Keep in mind that this cost $1 billion to build. That's 5.3 times what it would cost to build the FNC today. And because it wasn't designed for hockey, the atrocious sightlines eliminate seats. It seats "14,500" for hockey, which is the smallest venue in the NHL and a move down from the 16,170 of the (dilapidated) Coliseum. It's like the team is skating in a world class college hockey rink- three NCAA venues have higher capacity. More pics here, including a pic of the scoreboard that's over there. I'm not knocking it that hard. I'm sure for the dollars-per-seat spent, it's a nice lavish place to catch a game, and everyone knows it'll be better than the Coliseum, but damned if it isn't funny looking. WANG'D.

Work is doing a remote upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 next week. I'm backing up all of my files, and I expect total and utter failure that will result in about a week's worth of computerlessness. Actually, just putting a GPS transceiver on the truck (they may already have them) and then putting that location with the planned route on a map online wouldn't bee all that hard. Could probably give estimates of arrival within a two hour window pretty easily.

I like it as well.

They should try that out in the AHL first to see if it actually increases scoring rates or non-shootout finish rates, and to see how exactly insanely gimmick-y that will look. Not saying it wouldn't be fun, but if it doesn't decrease the chance of going to SO, or it doesn't correlate at all to team ability, it's all for show.

As we've all figured out by now, "Hockey Heaven" was a probably a bit presumptuous, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the ambition on and off the ice. I miss "hardest working team in hockey."

Don't backpedal on your verbs. Your original statement is incorrect, and there's no way around it. As is a series of videos of preseason interviews with players. (Ugh, I hope it's not Hodger, but knowing this team... Hodgsy? Blech.) I'm not trying to be a dick with this nitpickery, but getting uppity over the use of a particular word used as the hashtag title of a video series... Anyways, what's up with marketing?

Got it. So, anyone who calls anything a blue print needs to be a licensed professional, because to call something a blue print necessarily requires accredited professionalism with regard to the project being planned. :w00t: Petey and Hodgson were chilling with sick kids at a Niagara hospital the other day and someone took pictures. What self-congratulating thing did they call that?

Semantics. I can draw blue print for a house that falls down when built because I designed it wrong. Blue prints are far, far from foolproof. Calling something a blue print isn't self congratulating. It just indicates that somebody put a plan on paper; it's no guarantee of success. It perhaps carries a connotation that there's some aspect that's attempted to have been well-thought out, but that's still not self-congratulating. Maybe they went with that because they're blue chip prospects.

Maybe they want to show videos of the new guys, maybe because they think fans will be interested and will want to learn about all of the new faces on the team, since there are quite a few. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and not a penis. Also, neat, a thread devoted to keeping PR discussion focused and out of other threads immediately gets trampled by anti-DR discussion that invades all threads. #Dwight######sUpAgain

Might have to wait to get Chris Pronger's roster spot and cap hit to LTIR?

Dolla Dolla Bill, Y'all was all like And then he's all like And the Blackhawks are all like