My favorite time wasting site from 1995 is still around. Let’s have some T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S.!
The Turing test is my favorite part so read that even if you don’t read anything else.
Managing Expectations
I’ve always told everyone I know as a manager, all I manage is expectations. Today’s Dilbert hit a bit too close to home for me and many people I know in the tech industry.
Dog Friendly
Wanna take your dog along for a weekend vacation? How about the trip to Grandma’s house?
http://www.dogfriendly.com/ allows you to search for hotels and other places that are dog friendly. My wife and I found a hotel for a weekend in July in Pismo Beach on the ocean for under $100 through this site.
Woof.
Grab the Pebbles
The idea behind this blog is to present interesting and useful sites and stories to the reader. It is just that simple.
The first site is: htp://www.zipskinny.com which provides information on whatever zip code you type in. If you type in my hometown zip code of 91302, you find that 0% of citizens are farmers. This isn’t too surprising since the zip code is for a town in greater LA.
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Sharks Tonight
Well, the Kings didn’t win 3 in a row but they played a good game against the Oilers. The game was a low scoring, pre-lockout affair, tied 1-1 after regulation. The Kings goal was scored by Pushkarov, a 21 year old call up from Manchester. It was his first goal. He’s been on a line with Kopitar and Brown. Brown is the old man at 23 years old, with Kopi coming in at 19 years old. Anyway, the Kings lost in OT but Garon and the D looked good, the offense had many chances but just couldn’t find the back of the net, and Pushkarov looked good.
Tonight has a strange story with it. Annette and I decided to go to tonight’s game because it was College night and since we have IDs from our graduate work at Pepperdine, the tickets were only going to cost $10. To minimize our hassle, I decided to call our ticket rep so he could get the tickets for us and save me the effort to get my credit card authorize while standing at the box office. I wasn’t sure he could do this but I figured it was worth a try. Good thing I did. It turns out that college night, contrary to the Kings website and ads on Fox Sports Net, is next Thursday and continues for every Thursday for the rest of the season. Crap, I thought, no tickets for the game. Our rep could hear the disappointment in my voice, I guess, and he told me that he would see if you could find me some comp tickets for me. He wasn’t promising anything and that they would probably be upstairs. Upstairs was fine, especially if they were comp. Turns out he found us tickets downstairs, at about the same distance away from the ice as our normal seats. Sweet. My ticket rep rocks.
Going for Three
Nope, there’s not a three point shot in hockey yet. The Kings managed to beat the Red Wings for their second win in a row. The Kings hadn’t beat the Red Wings since the Frenzy on Figueroa. Ok, it wasn’t that long ago but it seemed like it. October 12, 2002 according to the Kings website. This means that many of the Kings had never beat Detroit.
Garon looked good. Anze went by all 5 Red Wings to draw the penalty that lead to Cammy’s game winner. Avery had a number of chances and finally converted on an empty netter. All-in-all, a good game.
Go Kings
Well, the Kings beat the Blue Jackets. It was a nice game, 3-0 shutout, Cammy a goal and assist, a nice give and go between Aves and Frolov, Garon in goal. Overall, a good game. The game was a bit chippy and there were some pretty marginal hits by both teams. It seemed that neither team held back on any hit, even when the other player was in a bad position.
Saturday is the dreaded Red Wings. Here’s hoping for some wins.
Spankings
So, the Kings lost two more and are well on their way to the bottom of the Western Conference. I doubt they’ll catch the Flyers for worst overall record. The fun part of this season has been watching the younger players grow. Kopitar, Frolov, Cammy. I wish O’Sullivan was still around.
The interesting news was the Alyn McCauley is back after a long stint on the disabled list. It should be interesting to see how well he plays.
More Ducks are injured. Pronger is out with a broken foot now. It should be fun to watch the Ducks boards after each loss. The Ducks will make the playoffs but how well they do could depend on how healthy they are going in.
Finally, there’s a cool Kings picture.
Back in Time
Ok, it seems that we’ve gone back to the future. Last night’s 7-4 Kings win of the Oilers was almost like a game from the 80’s where the Kings and Oilers in the playoffs scored 18 goals between them. Most of my comments are only from what I heard since my Center Ice package decided to blackout the game since I’m in the local area for the Kings. Of course, the Kings didn’t broadcast it but at least Versus did online.
The good – Garon back in goal, 7 goals, Alyn McCauley played for the first time this year, another solid effort by Armstrong
The bad – 4 goals given up, Garon rusty in the first half of the game, no local coverage
The ugly – Scott Thornton going nuts and whaling on one of the Oilers
Overall, a good win, two in a row, and going for three in Calgary tonight.
Go Kings Go!