ponies and puckers

Someday the Icehounds will win a game. I don’t know if that will be a season during which I’m actually on the team, but it will be someday. It can’t be possible to lose forever, can it? If hockey is like life, please don’t answer that question because I don’t want to hear it.

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luck

jess: wish me love jess: i mean luck jess: i mean both of those things jess: i would like love more jess: altho, if luck helps me find love, then that’s fine too dw74: i wish you love and luck

public and private

I have a public blog face. It’s that censored writing style that I normally wouldn’t have with friends but that is necessary when your potential audience is the whole world. While it would be flattering for about ten seconds to be that important, I know I couldn’t handle the pressure, as I can’t even deal [...]

why i don’t online date

What are some warning signs that you shouldn’t online date? When someone on the site mails you and says “What are you doing on this thing?” When your friends start forwarding you matches they so thoughtfully found for you by doing keyword searches on “hockey” and “beard”? When only 50 year old men respond to [...]

thursday

Came in from a rainy Thursday On the avenue Thought I heard you talking softly

I turned on the lights, the TV And the radio Still I can’t escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all? Crazy, some’d say Where is the life that I recognize? Gone away

Passion or coincidence Once [...]

geek life

Even our hockey team is a bunch of geeks. I saw them using this thing during the round 1 playoffs. Only on a team from Silicon Valley would this fly. According to an insightful non-hockey-playing friend, St. Louis wasn’t using it because they were still adapting to their new technology in Missouri — running water.

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the fine art of schmoozing a horse

Last week we were up at the Murieta Equine Complex, involved in that strange pastime we call horse showing. The tumbleweed and hay fever town of Rancho Murieta is about 130 miles northeast of where I live in the SF bay, and is a little known destination to even the natives, who would never venture [...]

nostalgic stupidity

Statistics at Cañada College, Redwood City, summer of 2002

Professor: So using the RAND function on my calculator, I get the number 8. Student: [Raises hand] I got a different number. Professor: Yes, that’s because it’s a random function. Student: But I don’t understand why my number is different from yours. Professor: [Snappy] That’s because [...]

friday free food

Too much wine at work. Going home now. I have to say the Valduero Crianza was good, if you’re interested in a Spanish red.

how about them sharks

On my ride down from the 10th floor today at noon, two guys got on at the 8th floor and were speculating wildly about the playoff schedule for round 2. Funny you should mention that, I almost said, I was just avoiding work ten minutes earlier by reading the playoff coverage at ESPN.com. I wanted [...]