CanadianGuitarist

I've probably lamented about this more than once, but screen size is pretty overrated. When I was in the market, I had my eye on 32", but wound up getting a 37", and it's often too much TV. Overrated might not be the right term, but I think there are a lot of factors that often go by the wayside instead. Despite sitting about eight feet away from his television, my stepdad sees no harm in watching a 63" screen, because "it was a good price for a screen that big". I told him that basing a price on size alone is like buying a car based entirely on year. I've been told that a good rule of thumb is measure the distance from where you sit to screen, and divide it by three. The result should be roughly the ideal screen size.

Old wive's tale. I've been having a beer and four Advil after anything strenous for as long as I can remember.

Loves this thread. (Good eyes, by the way).

Not related to Pink.* Or Pink Floyd. *Subsequently, probably isn't trouble now, yeah, trouble now, yeah, trouble now, yeah, trouble, trouble, now.

I read this as "My cat is buried in snow"

Bloodied the shit out of Andrew Ference.

Gaborik scores five in Minny's victory. I'm drunk - don't remember who (I worked nights this week, I'm allowed). First five goal performance since Fedorov 11 years ago. Leafs blow it in the third....again. And the Habs win 5-2 over the Caps, at the price of a nearly 20-shot difference....again.

TV's at work are divvied up into three sections: 1) 26"or higher flat-panels. All of these have an HD feed to them (component). Since they're all widescreen (and HD is always 16:9, as I learned). 2) 20-32" CRT's - all running off coax. Since they're all 4:3, there's black bars over the top and bottom of the image. 3) Tv's 19" or less, all running off coax; There's two CRT and four LCD. Every image on these TV's also have the black bars as well. Why is that? I've deduced it's one of two reasons: * The aspect ratio on both CRT's and one of the LCD are 4:3. Makes sense. The three other LCD's are all 16:10. The extra unit high is causing the black bar. * Since all all the LCD's are HD or HD-ready, but are running off coax, they're in essence being downgraded, and thus, are 4:3. I assume it's more than likely the first reason, and it's hardly life or death, I'm just intrigued.

Sucks at Jeopardy!

That sounds like a stripper. I'm also intrigued by this Milky Way hot chocolate.

Is the bundle sold out of a lot of places? I got the game from Wal-Mart last night, but didn't notice any of the bundles. Thanks for all of your input, I'll probably return the single game tomorrow and get the bundle instead. Yeah, I work at a Wal*Mart, and we've received, generally speaking, way more of just the discs than we have the bundles. Hammer-on - low to high Pull-off - high to low. I'm the same way; I can only pull off for some reason - and that long solo is killing me in CoP. There's an achievement for getting 200k without using Star Power, and I can get about 185,000. I briefly jumped to Expert earlier today, and there weren't many more notes, but the fret jumping killed me,

ahem...I have TMNT as well, Matthew... As do I...and I still have achievements to get. Let the boosting begin.

Yashin was the first I thought of. Rick DiPietro was next. Edit: Can we count Mike Milbury? I know he wasn't behind the DiPietro signing, but he made some of the worst moves ever, in any sport, anywhere. Completely unrelated trivia: I often call the aforementioned Isles goalie 'The Rock', as Baron and I had a high school teacher named Rocky DiPietro (yes, the former CFLer). A similar potential slip-up often comes around when AJ Burnett takes the mound, as a fellow student of ours named Kyle Burnett was nicknamed Gibbon.

Buddy of mine who works for Capital One got a call from a guy named Kurt Angle about a year ago.

I often briefly mistake PLAGARISM! for a new Czech name. Also, I'm due for a new avatar - thoughts?

You'll life?

I brought this up in TCS, oh, two months ago, but there's a drive-thru guy named Kane at the Tim Horton's near my house. No matter who is on the loudspeaker, if it's a guy, I invariably scream "KANE! THAT'S GOTTA BE KANE!" a la Badd Blood 97.

That was my first instinct. Late June, 27th or so... Edit: Monday the 25th.

A co-worker and I were discussing the forthcoming One Night Stand/ECW reunion two years ago, when had considered re-arranging some box sets so the different colours spelled ECW. Since then, we've been calling electronics 'ECW' - The Electronics Coalition of Wal*Mart.

^ Anyone wanna know who his favourite Simpsons character is? HOMER! I have underrated Markov and Huet, but come on, Koivu? Hadn't had a goal in 12 games until Saturday. I like Komisarek a lot, think he does a lot of the intangibles that don't make Sportscentre, but I don't see him as an all-star....this year. Anyway, East: Lecavalier, Kovalchuk, Crosby, Markov, Phillips, Huet West: Iginla, Zetterberg, Kopitar, Lidstrom, Ohlund, Luongo. I feel really badly about not putting Heatley on there. And to further the bitching about the voting system, why are Corey Perry and Christian Huselius write-ins?

(7.5) Pittsburgh @ St. Louis (10.5) Dallas @ Carolina (3.5) Cleveland @ Cincinnati - My 'that's it' for the week. (9.5) Green Bay @ Chicago Houston @ Indianapolis (7.5) - Houston hung tough for three quarters in week three, and Indy's got the division locked. Kansas City @ Detroit (4.5) Miami @ New England 100 22.5 (3.5) N.Y. Giants @ Buffalo Oakland @ Jacksonville (13.5) - My 'yeah, what the hell' for the week. Philadelphia @ New Orleans (3.5) Washington @ Minnesota (6.5) Atlanta @ Arizona (10.5) Baltimore @ Seattle (10.5) N.Y. Jets @ Tennessee (8.5) (6.5) Tampa Bay @ San Francisco Denver @ San Diego (8.5) St. Louis scores 17. Good luck, all.

What's the appeal to these ice hotels?

Fuck's sake. Even my emergency picks aren't any good.

There's a handful of interesting stats to come out of this game as well: - Keenan earns his 600th win. - With the five goals, Calgary moves into second in goals for in the West. Only Detroit have more. - Iginla's four points put him in second for the Ross trophy, and a tie for second for the Richard. He's two and three back in both categories. - I might be one game off on this, but this is the first five-game winning streak on the road for the Flames since 87-88. The best thing about that? Potentially lots of clips of Lanny MacDonald and his inspirational stache on SportsCentre.

"Hockey successful in Eastern Europe? How could it work? Didn't anyone watch Borat?" Al Strachan on the hotstove last night.