CanadianGuitarist

Roomate thing. On the other hand, I'll stick out like a sore thumb in Calgary with all the Tories - and we haven't even addressed that I'd be living with Manley. Are you staying in Fort Mac? When are you leaving? My tentative plan is to come home Canal Days/Mini-Masters/King of the Wing weekend, and stay if I'm miserable; if not, stay in Alberta till mid-fall. What will RB and CG plot next? Find out next time on Things we probably didn't need to discuss here theatre

Can someone explain to me, as I do my ProLine homework, why I'm struggling with the thought of picking a Leafs-Sens winner? No Sundin, and the Leafs play on back-to-back nights? CC, ball's clearly in your court.

Next question: If you could apply any one facet of the pros to your own game, what would it be? Any sport, and either the pros in general or a specific one. Example: Throwing a 90 mph fastball, the precision of a Tom Brady pass from 40 yards, etc.

I came around on both of those after years of just slathering it in hot sauce; It's much much better with the two peppers.

He should be the next "Let's get to know" (Are we still doing those?). To my knowledge, he's the only current poster in TCS purgatory. As such, he has a kind-of-fucked-up-Edge-circa'98 mystique to him.

Beat me to it. My real guitar work has suffered a bit since GH was introduced to me last April. There was discussion a few months ago whether I played, or my name was a gimmick. I genuinely have been playing since I was 9-1/2 (I'm currently 23). I have an Ibanez electric and a Bentley acoustic (yard sale, bay-bee!). I mostly play metal and power chord shit. For about 5 or 6 years, all I played was blues, which I still do pretty often on my acoustic. Interestingly, I wanted to play drums when I was 5 or 6.

What pisses me off about that clip was not only the match itself, but the first listed link to it: Rhino vs. Chris Daniels from ECW in '99. My two favourite big men in history, both criminally misused in the E.

Something to consider indeed, especially given how you answered my question (I didn't realise interest compounded the way, say, my credit card would, I thought it was all from the initial borrowing, like my example). I looked a little harder at mortgage rates over the last hour or so; I think I'm better off working in Calgary for another 3 months (or yecch, staying at home rent-free for a little while)and getting my list of things to buy from my own pocket instead of the banks. Cashback mortgages were 7.5% from PC and 8.05% from TD, compared to anywhere from 4.25 to 5.75 for ones that didn't have such a perk; Using a mortgage calculator again, it made accelerated bi-weekly at around 600 a month (for a house of $120). That I can do, especially since I had mis-added my monthly budget and was overcharging by 100. Thanks, all.

And says Bob McKenzie, roughly 2/3 of GM's don't want no-touch icing. Granted, I have nowhere near the hockey knowledge of any of them, but it's time to insititute NTI. The neckguard-rule suggestion that was tossed around after Zednik's horrific injury was fairly knee-jerk, and Zednik was a fluke (not that I'd be opposed to the introduction of neck guards). But the type of injuries like we saw on Wednesday are not one-of-a-kind, and not all that rare - it's time to bring it in.

My rent isn't going up at all, I just wanted to own a house for the sake of owning one. The place I was at for the last year and a half was 750 plus bills, so about 1200 a month. (As mentioned, I had roomates, which I don't want). The place was probably worth about 85,000. I thought if I paid 500 a month for mortgage and 350 or so for bills, it'd definitely be worth it. I don't particularly want to live in an apartment or condo/townhouse - with many condo fees covering utilities, it might work out to about the same as my budget.

Interesting changes in the standings. Philly moves ahead into 7th with their shootout win tonight. With a lead late in the third, looks like Toronto wil move to five back of Boston for eighth. This negates the ground Buffalo would have gained with a point. Instead, they go from one to two back, and Washington also loses ground, assuming Atlanta hangs on. Edit: The Isles win over the Devils, which drops New Jersey to fourth and moves Pittsburgh into second; Why is that? They both have identical records. I noticed that New Jersey had fewer goals, and it looked like, from a glance, Pittsburgh had a better goal differential. Is that what determines positioning in a tie? Or head-to-head results?

Niagara. I have no qualms about my credit, it's 675; It's money I'm worried about.

Since TSM has now become my spot for financial advice, help me out with mortgages. I've got an idea of what rates mean, and how they would apply to each customer individually. I had a meeting at the bank, who told me to get out of debt beforehand. Fine, makes sense to me; but I'd like to know what I'm up against in the fall when I'm debt-free. They kinda shied away questions about ammortization and what not. Two things I need cleared up: 1) I was looking at saving up 7500 for a down payment. The mortgage I was looking at was 8.05%, I don't recall the length, but it was 7% cashback, which works out to somwhere around 7500 or 8000 for whatever, which I'd use for furniture, appliances, and to start an RRSP. Am I better off doing that, or using the 7500 I had intended as a down payment to buy the appliances, etc? The rate would obviously be lower, but the bank kept insisting it was the way to go, along with the down payment, which seems to be counterproductive. 2) Second, the question they mostly didn't answer. Here's my estimated formula: 150,000 (extremely liberal estimate) after down payment, plus 10% interest (extremely liberal estimate) = 165,000. 165,000/25 = $6600 per year. $6600/52 = $253 and change as a bi-weekly mortgage payment. Is that accurate/fair of me to come up with? Mortgage calculators, even with about a mortgage principal of about $20/25000 less (more likely), at about 8%, still come up with roughly $900 a month. If the mortgage calculators I used are more likely correct, equity schmequity, 300/400 month a more to a mortgage (as opposed to rent) doesn't seem worth it when I'm netting 16 or 1700 a month anyway.

Based on what Baron told me of the West Edmonton Mall, you'll be in the Mall of America for awhile. Also, I didn't know you were into hockey; if you're not, and you're going for a lark, you chose potentially one of the best games all year to see.

Edit: Have yourself a big, juicy, birthday.

In time for tomorrow night's back end of the home-and-home, no less.

Yes, hair dye does not exist in Japan. Dye or not, how many blonde Asian women have you seen, anywhere, ever?

Top right - is she blonde? This is huge!

Burnt to a crisp, or bloody as hell? I'll go with medium.

The LNT4061 is a great set, and a good price. 8ms is actually pretty good for an LCD. The set I decided on, however, was the 42LB5D. I'm not actually buying either until I buy my house in the fall, but I've spent about two months comparing them. The screen size isn't a stellar difference, and since I'm dreaming right now, the 200-dollar difference in price isn't a big deal, either. The 5ms response is what does the trick for me as a gamer, however - something to consider if you're going to do some gaming. But the 4061 is a great set. Samsung are, for my money, the best put-together sets. As I mentioned above, the DNIe processor does a great job on standard broadcasts. The specs on the 4061 are great (all of the LNT60/70 series, for that matter), along with full 1080p, QAM tuner, great contrast ratio, plenty of inputs - go for it.

That would have been interference any other time. My guess is they let it slide given the score and gametime.

And their team pitchers are only 29.95 on Clifton Hill, compared to 34 in town. This, of course, is good marketing, as food prices are about 30% higher. 2.50 drinks on Fridays at Big Bucks. Used to be 2 dollars. I guess they're trying harder to keep the high school kids out.

Remember my buddy Ian Shantz from college? Kicked my ass at crokinole second year. Haven't played since. My bro and I played it all the time as kids.

Careers! My grandmother has that game when I was about ten; I had never heard of it, and to this day, I'm the only one I know who has played it. That's awesome. My friend Adriana and I are in the midst of a best-of-seven Scrabble series. The winner gets lunch, including drink, dessert, and tip, at our favourite restaurant. I thought I was pretty good, I scored in the low 200's both games so far; she's hit 300 both times.

No, it is cheating. It is, however, delicious. I've always preferred Glosette peanuts to raisins.