Merry Holidays!!!!! OH I mean HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!

Christmas time is here.Happiness and cheer. Fun for all that children call, that favorite time of year!


That's right, [despite/according to] what you may see on television, hear on the radio, or read on the internet, it's [Christmas/Holiday]!! [December 25/Four days after winter equinox], the celebration of [the birth of Jesus Christ/a day].

So what better way to voice your celebration of this joyful celebration than a post on Twitter.

(please keep in mind that it was technically Dec 25 EST [Buffalo time]
when this was tweeted before midnight CST [my time]

Seriously. If you're gonna make an effort to tweet something (anything) 24 hours into a 2-day league-wide shutdown (a shutdown for what you might ask?? Oh yeah, [Christmas/Holiday]), the first thing you tweet after the clock strikes midnight on Christmas had better include "Christmas" and not "Holiday".

And hey. Nobody knows more about the true meaning of Christmas than the big man himself, Mr. Donald Cherry. (Grapes.. which to make this even more "[Christmas/Holiday]-y"as scientists can tell you, is probably the juice Christ made from water [as opposed to a fermented "wine"])

December 25th. Baby Jesus. Born. That is what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.

Personal note: I wish all of those out there a Merry Christmas. For those that don't celebrate it, have a good Sunday.

I totally twitter-jinxed this game: Minnesota @ San Jose, Nov 10, 2011

Twitter is a very useful and powerful tool. A single tweet can set off a chain reaction of events that could (hypotheticaly) destroy the universe!! (in a "butterfly effect" sort of way, minus Ashton Kutcher [@aplusk]). I was blissfully ignorant of its actual power and I'm sorry for that, but I totally jinxed it on Twitter today.

Perhaps it was when I first tweeted the photo of my impulse buy at Target today:

Hey! I bought a baseball cap of a hockey team!!

Not only was I shirtless (and not in a Fabio attractive kind of way), but I was totally jinxing it. Introducing a new piece to my game-day outfit while the Wild are on a hot streak?? WHAT WAS I THINKING?! (If they say that players don't wash their jock straps when they're on a hot streak, well you can call it a half jinx because I changed my underwear every day during the 5-game streak)

Exhibit two:

Late in the 2nd period, the Wild were down 2-0. The frame was winding down, and I thought "nothing better than a goal to spark up this team!!" You know, momentum going into an intermission. (and by intermission I mean where the players sit in the locker-room for 17 minutes not playing hockey)

I tweeted this ambiguous cry for action:

Oh I got my wish, alright.

Not sure exactly how much time passed between that tweet and Torrey Mitchell blasting a one-timer off a faceoff that surprised Backstrom... but it was less than your average Looney Tunes short. It wasn't until I saw that puck cross the goal line that it hit me: I had totally jinxed it.

I'm not gonna go as far as to tweet sweet nothings in the Los Angeles Kings' ear, but I should start using these powers for good, and not evil.

Flyers strategy for facing 1-3-1 worse for hockey than the 1-3-1 itself

So today's Philadelphia Flyers @ Tampa Bay Lightning game featured the famous (or perhaps notorious) 1-3-1 defensive zone trap that got the Bolts to the Eastern Conference Finals. However, the Flyers brought a strategy to the table that was a little interesting..



Basicly, just skate around in a circle with the puck in your defensive zone for 30+ seconds.

Yea, okay guys, we know you do not like the 1-3-1. WE GET IT. And guess what? The people that hate it are numerous and in the majority. But PLEASE don't pull this stupid boring fucking shit.

This is a nationally broadcast game on Versus in the United States, a country that does not have as many hockey fans per mile² than Canada does per km² (so less hockey fans in a larger area). During the NBA lockout, there are people who might decide to flip on a hockey game, looking for something to keep entertained while waiting for the return of Lebron James. Or a casual sports fan might tune in after seeing that the Flyers are the #1-ranked goal scoring team in the league.

And I have a feeling a lot of those "Casual Sports Fan"-type and "Potential new NHL Fan"-type people tuned out 10 seconds in. Thanks to a message the Flyers wanted to send about the 1-3-1 trap. Message received.

New beginnings

My blog is now powered by blogger. This serves a couple important purposes:

1) No longer share my blog with my MySQL server, which probably doesn't like a webserver running along side it [also, less connections to MySQLd without requests from my blog]; and

B) Larger audience being on Blogger than some obscure unknown website, more people reading/commenting/stroking my ego;

See? This is a total win!! [I guess you could also include point Gamma]

Γ) Hopefully I will be more inclined to update this with a new platform.. I'm a superfan of new things.

Ignore the very vanilla design while I roll out a new layout for both this blog and my website. And judging my my procrastinationness, that could be a while.

Out with the old, in with the new.