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Everything You Know Is Wrong, Kind Of
July 02 2009
Firesign Theater once put out a comedy record called “Everything You Know Is Wrong” that paints contemporary culture in frankly bizarre comedic brush strokes. In some ways, that’s how I felt about 11pm last night, seeing Gionta going north, Madden going to the Second City, Clemmer heading south and Big… read moreFree Agency Bubble in Montreal
July 02 2009
Imagine this scenario: you buy a big house, because the market is hot and you had a good year over the past twelve months. And a year or two later, your income is down, the overall housing market is down, and you’re saddled with those mortgage and tax payments, and… read moreJune 30 2009
Gomez to Montreal. Bye, Scott. I had fleeting hopes that the Devils would bring him back to anchor the first line, but quite honestly, I don’t think he’s a first-line center. So now his “stay in the area” strategy has backfired, badly. He’s the next Alexei Kovalev. read moreJune 28 2009
Last Wednesday's opening session at the SIFMA technology management show covered three aspects of data center evolution in increasing order of abstraction: AMQP as a primary data management tool, the future of the NYSE data center as a virtual trading floor, and cloud computing (given by yours truly) as an incentive for building… read moreOne Step Closer, via ESPN News
June 21 2009
The regularity and quality of news reports out of Calgary are improving. Twitter searches for Sutter news yield a cornucopia of results and musings, and now ESPN News predicts word could come down today that the Flames exhaust the list of Sutter brothers-as-coaches. If the Flames are upset about a… read moreJune 20 2009
I’m not going to take credit for calling any shots, but TSN reports that former Devils coach Brent Sutter is talking to the Flames. Well, duh. He’s a head NHL coach who quit his job here to return home. And the Flames fired their own coach just days before that… read moreJune 19 2009
I adore Randall Munroe's xkcd comic, mostly for the math jokes. I define "geek" as someone who uses epsilon in a sentence, so anything that references irrational number or NP-completeness is good for several laughs. And here I thought I was the only one who made Erdos number jokes. Unfortunately, Erdos number… read moreJune 07 2009
Cory Doctorow was kind enough to give me an advanced reader's copy of his upcoming book Makers, which I read in about three sittings. Granted, I'm a Cory fanboy, and I devour his writings like Pop-Tarts (often simultaneously), but this one is, in my slightly biased opinion, his best yet. It's… read moreCammi Granato & Women’s Hockey
June 06 2009
Tip of the cage to Jennifer Tatnall, a former Sun Microsystems employee who is now active in women’s hockey. Jennifer has a nice piece on Cammi Granato’s induction to the US Hockey Hall of Fame in Ice Magazine, the only hockey magazine for the women’s game. She’s also involved with… read moreJune 04 2009
In case you haven’t noticed, I’m finding little to write about in the hockey world (and won’t have much to say until the draft and free agency roll around). At the same time, I’m moving more and more of my non-work related blogging, rambling and insanity here. Hence the new… read moreJune 02 2009
This weekend marked my 25th Reunion at Princeton University. Princeton Reunions are a beer-drenched spectacle that occur every year, rain or shine, and shine a spotlight on the 25th Reunion class. We got to lead the annual P-rade of alumni through campus; we had reserved seats in the reviewing stands… read moreMay 28 2009
I love when customers play "stump the geek" and ask really insightful, serious questions. It's partly what makes being a systems engineer at Sun challenging and fun (and yes, I consider myself an SE within my own group, but I'll pass on the is-a has-a polymorphism jokes, thank you). Yesterday's question scored an… read moreMay 22 2009
The Flames fired Mike Keenan today. Let’s see, do we know any NHL head coaches who live in Alberta and miss home? This is pure speculation, but I’d make a $2 bet that our own Coach Sutter gets a call about donning the other red and black (and yellow). read moreEight Days, Eight Nights in Outline Form
May 22 2009
The more I blog and mention “the book,” the more questions I get about it. So here’s a summary of the book, in outline form, based on current course and speed. This is completely serious, including my sidebar comments about content and tone. Your mileage may vary, the actual contents… read moreMay 22 2009
In t-shirt form, at least. After sitting shiva (electronically) for Jewish Fashion Conspiracy, the company that originated the “Jews For Jeter” t-shirt I was faced with a quandry about my favorite Yankees t-shirt: wear it and risk Premio sausage stains rendering it unfit for a trip outside, or retire it… read moreAlso find Hal on:
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