Grrrrrrrrr
My computer is mangled...I'm not gonna be around here for a while...try not to wreck the place.
- posted by Mike @ 8:48 PM 2 comments

 
Top 5 before Game 7
This top 5 list has nothing to do with hockey, other then the fact that I'm using it to kill time before the game starts tonight. So not only is this going to be a top 5 list, I'm also making it into a game. Fun for the whole family! I'm looking at the top 5 vehicular chase scenes in movies. However, instead of just listing them I'm only going to give you a picture from each scene, so it's up to you to identify them. Sounds like a fun time right? Right! So lets just get right to it with number 5:



The Transporter




4.



The Rock




3.



The Great Escape




2.



The Bourne Identity



1.



Ronin


How come most of the best chases happen in Europe? Just something to think about until the game starts. If Edmonton wins then at least I can say the Wings lost to the Champs. Go Oilers!
- posted by Mike @ 2:10 PM 3 comments

 
So close, yet so very far...
Right now I have 4 goals in my fantasy sports seasons:

1. Finish in the top 50 for a single golf tournament
2. Finish in the top 5% of the World Cup pool
3. Sweep a week in any baseball pool
4. Organize what will be the greatest hockey pool of all-time for next season

I was almost able to cross #3 off the list. Damn you Steve! Damn you and your Sunday Night Homerun-a-thon!

- posted by Mike @ 9:51 AM 4 comments

 
I didn't forget...I just got lazy


4 matchups remain. Vote or die!
- posted by Mike @ 11:41 PM 1 comments

 
Just something to keep you going til Monday night's game
"Okay, no fivehole, no fivehole, no fivehole...oops forgot about glove side"
- posted by Mike @ 1:45 PM 0 comments

 

Speaking of rap videos... have you seen Gabrielle Union in the new Busta Rhymes video? So hot right now. Gabrielle Union.

I finished that Fantasyland book this morning. I would like to recomend it because I really enjoyed it, but I don't think anyone that visits here would feel the same. You've either got to be a big time fantasy baseball player, or a hardcore baseball fan to get the full value out of the book. If names like Rocco Baldelli, Randy Winn and Tim Salmon mean nothing to you, this book is probably a good one to skip. However if your heartrate jumps up a couple beats when talk turns to a 5x5 Roto, you might want to look into scooping up this book. Overall I give it two thumbs up, but it's definitly not for everyone.

So, uh, I don't want to curse it or anything, but so far in this World Cup my team has been pretty dominant. In Yahoo's "North, Central American and Caribbean Zone" I was in 419th place. Okay so that sounds pretty shitty, but it's good enough to have me in the 98th percentile, and considering that I don't know half (three quarters?) of my team I am quite happy. Alright, that really makes me more lucky then good, but isn't that the kind of guy that always wins these pools?

- posted by Mike @ 6:00 PM 3 comments

 
The Way I Be Leanin'
Have you heard this new song by Juvenile et al.? I've listened to it a few times and there was one line that had me slightly confused. Y'see I thought it was "My rims be talkin too, they love the suduko". I assumed that because it was a rap song 'suduko' had to be some kind of new slang for either spinning rims or narcotics. I just couldn't figure out how the number logic puzzle game got into the realm of rap jargon. Then today I took my iPod to work so that I wouldn't go totally crazy and I listened to the song a couple times. Maybe it was because my focus was altered, or maybe I'm just a clown but I realized what the line is actually supposed to be, and it's not nearly as fun.



My rims be talkin' too, they love to seduce hos
- posted by Mike @ 6:36 PM 0 comments

 
Fuck Last Comic Standing!
I'm angry and I'm going to bed.
- posted by Mike @ 10:21 PM 1 comments

 
Odds and Ends
I figured I would be posting a lot more frequently this summer, but after work I'm just so tired and lazy that nothing gets posted. I've even cracked open blogger a couple times with the intention of writing something up and then I think a nap is a better idea. Or I just fall asleep without even planning it. So today I'm just gonna punch out as many things as I think I remember wanting to post about over the last week or so. This isn't going to be pretty, but it might be long. So feel free to read a bullet point per day and maybe I'll have something new up before you get to the end.

Does anyone know the origin of the word 'odd'? Were things that are strange called odd before numbers were even and odd? What is so odd about every other number anyway? How many question marks can I fit into this bullet point? If numbers were even and odd before strange things were odd who decided that odd was the right word to use? After reading the word 'odd' this many times in one paragraph does it even seem like a real word anymore? Isn't that odd?

All you guys that didn't join the World Cup pool are missing out. Unless of course you were soccer fans before. Then it won't have the same effect, but this pool has made me even more interested in these games. Since I don't actually know who half of the guys on my team are it makes watching the games more fun, because now I have someone to yell at. If it wasn't for this pool would I care that Zlatan Ibrahimovic just missed scoring a goal? Of course not. But since I've got him in my pool I just yelled a string of obscenities at the television. That my friends is what sports are all about.

I went to Chapters yesterday, and in addition to picking up a few of John Sandford's 'Prey' books I also grabbed Fantasyland by Sam Walker. I hadn't heard about it before, but it's all about the insanity that is fantasy sports. So y'know, it's the perfect book for me. Plus I bought Deception Point by Dan Brown a couple of days ago so I should be covered for decent reading material for a while.

Is all the flopping and diving in soccer just 'a part of the game', or do real soccer fans find it as rediculous as I do?

Seriously, who is in charge of Mr. Sub's marketing department? Their commercials are past the point of just being bad. They don't even make sense in any logical mindset. If their idea was to just throw the most rediculous idea they had on television to get people talking about it and get the old word of mouth thing going I guess it's kind of working. Unfortunatly they must've forgotten that Mr. Sub tastes like rotten ass so no one is going to be intrigued enough to actually eat their food.

Now I'll leave you with a top 5 of sorts. In no particular order, here are the 5 funniest musically themed videos I can find on YouTube:

Rollin' With Saget
Hooked On A Feeling
Evolution of Dance
Secret Agent Man

Okay so it turns out I only had four of them. Mad? Go play this game then.

- posted by Mike @ 12:04 PM 1 comments

 
So dark the con of man

I know the new Chamillionaire song is brutal (is there an 'old' Chamillionaire song?). But I love it. It kinda reminds me of when 50 Cent came out with Wanksta. That's another really bad song, but I love it just the same. They're like the Exit Wounds of music.

My work had an employee appreciation day on friday in Toronto. We got $50, all the BBQ we could eat and played some ultimate frisbee, touch football, soccer, basketball and tug of war. It was all fun and games at the time, but oh man I was hurting the next day. I haven't run around like a fool that much since...ummm...a long damned time ago. Then there was a poker tournament at night, but I didn't stick around for it cause I had to get back to Guelph for...

The Da Vinci Code. I won't give away any plot points of the movie or the book so if you haven't seen or read either it's safe to continue. Overall I liked the movie. The stuff they took from the book translated well onto the screen. But like all movies based on a book, the book is way better. Everything that got cut I assume was done for time constraints but it also changes the flow of the story which kinda takes away from the overall adventure that the book brings out. Tom Hanks was okay in the staring role, somehow I pictured Robert Langdon to be both scruffier and nerdier then the way it was played though. But don't ask me to explain that further cause I really don't even know what I'm talking about. Oh and the very ending of the movie made me mad, but I won't write about it here so e-mail me or hit MSN if you wanna bitch about it too.

Before The Code started I got to see a preview for Casino Royale. I still don't know how I feel about Daniel Craig, but if the preview is any indication, I won't care. Hot women and stuff blowing up, that's what James Bond is all about.

The World Cup of soccer starts on friday (I think) and I'm actually starting to get kind of excited about it. Plus yahoo has a pool so at least I'll be following it. Since there are only 2 of us in my golf pool I didn't bother making a soccer one, but if anyone is interested we could throw one together quickly enough.

- posted by Mike @ 11:43 AM 4 comments