No More Fun and Games
Don't worry, that title is a total lie. This post is actually sponsored by fun and games. I have recently spent a rediculous amount of time in one particular corner of the internet (and I'm not talking about Facebook right now). I'm talking bout TETRIS. So I figured since we haven't had one of these game challenges in a while (or any comments you jerks!) that I'd put up my high score and set the bar. Ready. Set. Tetris!!
Is it just me or did last night's episode of 24 kind of...ummm, suck ass? I'm sure that by the end of the season I'll have forgotten all about it, but the last 2 hours of Jack Bauer's life haven't lived up to his usual standards.
At this point in time I am willing to call the song Cordelia by The Tragically Hip one of the greatest and most underrated songs off all-time.
Angst on the planks, spittin' from a bridge / Just to see how far down it really is
What if the NHL went to a 76 game schedule? Playing 4 games a year against each team in your division, 3 games against the other teams in your conference (alternating 2 home vs. 1 away on a yearly basis) and 2 games against each team in the opposite conference. That way everyone is playing a balanced schedule and you're guaranteed to see every team in the league in your building at least once. That right there is just another reason why I am more awesome than Gary 'The Count' Bettman.
On Monday/Tuesday I worked a 22 1/2 hour shift. I actually volunteered for this, because as the selfproclaimed 'King of the All-nighter' I can't turn down a challenge. I knew I could stay up all night and still have my proformance unaffected in the morning. What I didn't expect was the bonus I recieved. You see because I slept as soon as I got home and then stayed up most of the night again it feels like I'm getting two days off from work instead of just the one day that appears on the calander. Jackpot!
Under "Bomb-diggity" in the dictionary there is a picture of Pringles Jalapeno flavoured chips.
Tonight on sportsnet is the Top Prospects Game featuring the best, undrafted players in the CHL. Unlike the NHL all-star game that doesn't mean anything (How does Jagr not get named to the team?!) these players have something to play for. According to a source that I just made up in my head, the Top Prospects Game and the World Junior tournament are the two biggest draws for NHL scouts. So tune in tonight and watch 40 of the best undrafted players fight for roster spots.
You should probably question the authority of any dictionary shady enough to have the word 'Bomb-diggity' in it. Especially if it's between 'Bomb' and 'Booyeah'.
Old School Joint of the Day: Do You Feel Like I Do (live) - Peter Frampton
His guitar freaking talks!
If you haven't watch the premiere episodes of 24 yet you probably don't know that Agent Curtis "Face punch" Manning got shot in the neck. Although if you just read that sentance there is an increased chance that you now know. Even though he delivered one of the greatest face punches in the history or televison I wasn't that sad to see him go. Not like the time they killed Tony "Cubs Mug" Almeida, I'm still bitter about that one. Like the crazy old man on the bus says: "Hey, if we're all gonna die sometime anyway, getting shot in the face by Jack Bauer isn't all that bad."
- posted by Mike @ 3:38 PM0 comments
Hi My Name Is Mike, And I Have A Problem...
Facebook. I can feel the addiction slowly extending its grubby paws and trying to take a hold of me. I've avoided it for so long and now in spite of my best efforts I find myself checking it multiple times a day. At the surface it seems so simple, yet there is still so much to learn and explore. For instance, what in the eff is the purpose of a 'poke'?
In completely unrelated news I finally finished re-adding all my CDs to my computer and the grand total is just over 1800 tracks. The best part about going through all those CDs again was finding the random burned and unlabeled ones that contain all the great songs that I had totally forgotten about (yes, they're so great that I forgot them). So for at least the next couple posts I'm gonna be signing off with my Old School Joints of the Day. Today's forgotten treasure: One Burbon, One Scotch, One Beer. It's a great song, and it makes me thirsty.
Lastly the other purpose of this post is to break up the potential 'Steve post trifecta'. It's kinda like tic-tac-toe for bloggers.
- posted by Mike @ 4:02 PM2 comments
what??... huh??
overheard at glendon:
high school tour kid - "man, all these girls here look like they could punch the baby"
WTF? what does that even mean? damn... i must be getting old.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
wow... a post!
since all my favourite shows went on hiatus during the christmas break i decided to download some. now because of this i'm obsessed with Entourage. this show is amazing. i definitely recommend it. also got the first (and only) season of freaks and geeks. i love this show. they actually cast nerdy kids as the geeks instead of some cute guy thats supposed to be a geek (ie the OC). i don't really have much to say, but i've been told i have to post at least once a week, so there it is :P maybe i'll post something interesting next week.
PS. the new episodes of 24 are FUCKING CRAZY. hehehe
- posted by steve @ 5:45 PM2 comments
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Once, Twice, Three Times Rediculous
Today was my first day off from work in a week. I had a pretty sweet day planned, with only three things on my to do list. 1- Laundry. 2- Build a bookshelf. 3- Stock up bookshelf. I got all those things done so I'm pretty happy with myself, but while I was doing all that my work called me 3 times! The best part of the three calls was that only one of them was even slightly necessary. The first call was to let me know that I was in fact off today. Like I'm gonna forget when I have a glorious day off and come in by mistake. Oh yeah, and that call actually woke me up from my glorious slumber. The third call was my favorite though. That call was from the receptionist asking me to call one of the bosses. So I call the boss and what did he want? He wanted me to call another employee that he hadn't been able to reach. I guess that's why they pay me so much.
- posted by Mike @ 11:23 PM0 comments
Monday, January 08, 2007
So this is what 2007 looks like...
I'll put this at the top so that maybe it will remind me that my new year's resolution is to write at least one post per week. I should be able to keep that up til at least February.
I had a solid holiday/vacation. I got a bunch of gift cards/certificates which I magically turned into a bunch of books/DVDs. So I'm planning on that keeping me occupied for a significant amount of the future.
When I was purchasing books I snagged what I'm calling The Evolutionary Triple-Pack. I got The Origin of Species by my homeboy as well as Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer and The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of The Human Animal by Jared Diamond. I haven't read any of them yet so I can't comment on at the moment, but you can be sure that I will at some point. Anyway, when I was buying the books the cashier asked me if I was a teacher and kinda pointed at the books. Like only teachers buy educational books? And it wasn't like I was even nicely dressed, I wasn't rocking the top hat/monocle combo or anything. I know I had my headphones still in, and I'm pretty sure that I was wearing trackpants (yeah I'm a classy motherfucker).
The Detroit Red Wings retired Steve Yzerman's #19 on January 2nd. I was thinking about 'live-blogging' the event but I decided to give it my complete undevided attention instead. The videos and speaches were are really good, and the Wings wore four different Yzerman jerseys during the warm-up to represent his time in the OHL, his all-star appearances, his Stanley Cups and his gold medals with Team Canada. If you know me then you know how I feel about Yzerman. He's at best the greatest player of all-time and at worst he's the league's all-time most underrated player
I learned how a weather vane works today. That was one of the random thoughts that I had on the way in to work this afternoon so I looked into it when I got home.
Speaking of things you probably don't care about: My two football pools are done for the season. The two teams I managed were pretty much mirror images of each other. In one pool I jumped out to a commanding lead with an 8-3 record and then promply went on a 5 week losing streak before turning it around in the consolation final to take third place (Although my team put up the most overall points on the season...kinda like Al Gore's popular vote). My other team pretty much sucked ass from day one. I finished the regular season 8th out of 10 teams, but my team started clicking for the last two weeks to make me the 5th place winner. I was kinda mad at my preformances in those pools until I realized something...
Baseball pools start soon!! I don't know when the official date is that Yahoo opens their pools up, but it's usually before spring training, and the first spring training game is on February 26th. I really want to run 3 auction-style pools this season. One AL-only, one NL-only and one with all of MLB. Although I'm pretty sure that it's going to be difficult to find support to just do one.
Thats enough outta me for now. Seeya in a week (or less).
- posted by Mike @ 10:35 PM0 comments
