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  • Bruins 2, Maple Leafs 0.

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    james

    What happens when you watch a game, get busy doing things of ageek nature, and don’t get around to blogging about the afore mentioned game until two days later? You wind up having to remind yourself just how bad the game was. What happens when your team pretends to try, then just falls over and dies? You end up having to write an entry like this, after reminding yourself two days later how bad it actually was. They scored in the first, scored in the third, we didn’t score at all. Got a crap ton of shots on goal, though. And hey, this one we can’t blame the official’s for. Okay, I’ll say it–Tim Thomas was solid. Okay, that wasn’t too painful. Now, can someone drop kick a couple of Montreal’s players so we can get ahead of them in the standings again? Oh, yeah. And, defense? Yeah, that thing. More of that. Thanks, guys.

    • Wins: 5
    • Losses: 4
    • Shootout Wins: 0
    • Shootout Losses: 0
    • Points: 11

  • A note to email spammers everywhere.

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    james

    I don’t think you need to be sending 15 emails to my phone in the span of 24 hours. Particularly when I had no idea this number translated to an email address. Thanks for pointing that out to me. Now kindly cease and desist.

    No love, Me

    PS: Every single one of the offending emails came via hotmail. And me without a blacklist option. Thanks for that, Rogers. Seriously.

  • Maple Leafs 3, Panthers 2.

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    james

    Okay, I’m big enough to admit when we didn’t suck. And during this last game, yeah, we didn’t suck. At least, not as bad as we’ve been known to. It took us two tries to keep a lead, but we never let them get one so that counts for something. Importantly, we actually woke up. I was wondering when that’d happen. Completely different atmosphere than even the game on Saturday. Hell, I actually enjoyed watching this one. Here’s praying it continues.

    Update: Twitter has very politely informed me I wasn’t exactly accurate on the score. That’s what I get for watching the game and messing about with Linux at the same time. We actually ended up winning 3 1–hey, even better! I also, apparently, fail at math. We do, in fact, stand on ground equal to that of those bastards from Montreal. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction, John.

    • Wins: 5
    • Losses: 3
    • Shootout Wins: 0
    • Shootout Losses: 0
    • Points: 11

  • Flyers 5, Maple Leafs 2.

    written by

    james

    That thing goes way beyond words. I have nothing to say.

    • Wins: 4
    • Losses: 3
    • Shootout Wins: 0
    • Shootout Losses: 0
    • Points: 9

  • Hey look, the damn Yankees are done!

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    james

    This’ll teach me to pay more attention to what goes on in the baseball world. While I was busy doing things of a geeky nature, which will make the blog in the near future, the Yankees were getting their asses handed to them by Texas. Nifty. Now, I can actually watch baseball-related news/whatever and not get this sick feeling in my stomach. Now, then, here’s hoping one Philadelphia team comes out on top in their game. Meanwhile I stare at another Philadelphia team currently doing exactly that, and hope like hell this one spontaneously catches fire. Congratulations, Yankees. For a change, you suck this year.

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  • rangers 2, maple Leafs 1.

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    james

    It took me two days to come up with this post, and all I can say is where were we for most of Thursday’s game? We weren’t there at all in the first period, and New York got both their goals a minute and 1 second apart as a result. Defense? Nuh uh. Offense? I don’t think it showed up. Same with half of the second pariod. And most of the third period. We got one back towards the end of the third, but really, by then I was considering just turning it off. I’d say here’s hoping for an improvement, but then, the Flyers just scored so well, unless you know something I don’t, I’ll just sit back and pray. Bright side: it could have been 6 nothing by now. Right? Right? … Right? Anyone?

    • Wins: 4
    • Losses: 2
    • Shootout Wins: 0
    • Shootout Losses: 0
    • Points: 9

  • Well. Hello, fall. Goodbye, fall. Hello, winter.

    written by

    james

    Ottawa and the valley is absolutely famous for getting snow usually before just about anyone else–particularly south of the border. It didn’t stick around, but we got our introduction to it today. And tonight, for perhaps the first time this year, we’re receiving an introduction to sub-zero temperatures. It surprised us earlier than last year, when I had the good sense to be in Rochester and therefore delay the introduction of *me* to winter. Not happening this time. Dammit. Well, we had our fall. It lasted about a week or two. Now, hello first signs of winter. Welcome back. Will you be leaving soon?

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  • Another kid learns the hard way why *not* to call 911.

    written by

    james

    Neither the father nor son in this family dispute were identified. Nor do they need to be–it’s just as oopsish without that. A 10-year-old boy does pretty much what any 10-year-old boy would, and decides he doesn’t approve of the soup his father gave him for supper. For his troubles, the father escentially said eat what’s put in front of him. The kid’s answer? call the cops. Well, damn. When we were kids we only thought to get pissy and eventually end up in our rooms until we decided hey, maybe supper wasn’t so craptacular after all. Needless to say, he was appropriately informed–by dad and cop alike, even–that this is not, in fact, a reason to have the cops show up at your front door. And hey, would you look at that. This even went on in the same state as XBox kid from earlier this year. I’m thinking we need a state-wide education program on this stuff, y/n?

    Thanks to Jessica for firing this story at my mailbox yesterday, actually. I was wondering if the January story was the exception to the rule.

  • I called it. You’ll soon be renting your Mac, too.

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    james

    Remember when the iPad first came out, and there was all this talk of it escentially being the future of personal computers? Ever since then, and even before then, I’ve maintained a theory that a lot of what you’d see on the iPhone would find its way onto the Mac before too long. In my massive review of the iPad, I voiced some disagreement with Apple’s philosophy about what you should and shouldn’t be permitted to do with or install on their devices. In short, I’ve never been a fan of Apple’s app store, and in fact have sworn off buying an iPhone, iPad or iWhatever largely because of that. Well, plus the fact they’ve developed an alergy to the built-in keyboard but that’s neither here nor there. And, sure enough, the next version of Mac OS, to be released sometime in the summer of 2011, is said to include it’s very own app store. More details have been released throughout the day, which pretty much amount to the same thing you see on the iPhone/Pad making it into the next itteration of Mac OS.

    Roughly translated, starting in the next version of Mac OS, you may be required to jailbreak your Mac before you can do anything with it that Apple doesn’t directly approve of–like, for instance, that whole fiasco re: Google Voice not being welcome on the iPhone for a few forevers. Or the relatively minor little issue of Apple deciding flash doesn’t belong on its platform.

    Starting with the next version of Mac OS, you’ll more than likely be seeing the same restrictions placed on it that you do on your iPad. You may have bought the hardware, but you’ll still need Apple’s permission to do anything with it. In short, I called it. You escentially rent the iPad, and you’ll soon be renting your Mac to go with it. Welcome to the future, folks.

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  • Attention Sharron Angle: Canada hates you right now.

    written by

    james

    According to certain fragments of the US political system, Canada’s little more than a terrorist haven. The latest spokesperson of that line of thinking? Nevada senate candidate Sharron Angle. According to this lovely ray of sunshine, the border shared between the US and Canada is the most porous border America has. This, of course, all to further the claim that the 9/11 terrorists came into the US through Canada–a claim that’s been buried so many times since 9/11 I’m actually kind of surprised it’s still breathing.

    Hey, Sharron? Turn around. Yeah, that way. See that other border over there? You know, the one with all the “undocumented immigrants” casually jumping the fense? Yeah, there you go. bitch about that one. If you’re looking for porous borders, you can probably start there. Or is the fact George Bush pretty much twisted our arms to slap a requirement for passports to cross the border into the US not secure enough for you?

    PS: Canada has no control over border security going into the US, thank you kindly. If we took control of that, you’d still be throwing a fit. So, please, if you must blame the nonexistent Canada/US border problems on someone, throw it at your customs folks–you know, those guys who actually get to decide hey, you don’t get to step foot in the US.

    Canada’s not exactly very impressed with you right now. No, scratch that. At the moment, we hate you. Oh well, don’t feel too bad. We hate her too.

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