Both kids have their first experience playing EA Sports NHL 2012 on the PS3 today. They both managed to score goals in their very first game. Is this yet another one of my annoying habits/obsessions that I have passed on to these poor unsuspecting children?

I just heard a yell from the other room, “Yeah! Robba, I scored!”

I think so.

We are a one pet family once again. The fish tank has been removed from the premises. The cat has the complete run of the place.

RIP fishies.

The kids got their report cards today. The first time in the new school.

Now their teachers know what we already knew:

The kids are Wicked Smaht!

If this turns out to be some bullshit advertising campaign centered around a bullshit super bowl commercial I am going to be so incredibly pissed off!

I mentioned last night that I didn’t watch any of the NHL all-star fantasy draft ridiculousness.  After this morning’s commute I am so glad that I skipped it.  On the radio this morning I heard some audio clips of the event and… well… oh my god was it awful.  Just… Awful.

Every time a player was selected they blared music as said player walked up to the stage, or whatever it was, to join the team he was selected for.  The music was straight out of a 1980’s techno porn movie.  It was terrifying.  That was lame enough, but the audience (which in the clips I heard sounded like about 30 people) were mic’d in such a way that you could hear everything they said… and… well… imagine an audience full of Bob and Doug McKenzie’s.  You get the idea.  Stereotype is the word that comes to mind.  I did clearly hear one person refer to a pick as “a beauty.”  It was straight out of Strange Brew.  Imagine each pick being woohoo’d by 50% of the crowd, and vehemently heckled by the other 50% of the crowd.  Really… just… wow.

I’m so glad I had better things to do.

My love is the hardest working human in the software business. You can’t even believe how hard she works. I’m in awe.

So the NHL all-star lame fantasy draft stupid thing happened tonight. I didn’t watch. I chose to watch paint drying instead as it offers a higher entertainment value.

The upside of the results is Zdeno Chara picked both of the other Bruins. The downside (beyond the obvious insult of Patrice Bergeron not being on the all-star roster) is that he waited until the second to last round to take Tyler Seguin, 10 rounds after he took that snotty little brat Phil Kessel. He took Tim Thomas in the second round, but Thomas will probably boycott the event due to some tea party horse shit.

Why can’t we just have a couple of normal Bruins games this weekend?

This post is probably going to break all over the place, but I’ll give it a shot.

NASA released a hi def image of the Earth taken by a satellite.  The resolution is 8000×8000.  It’s humongous… and it’s from space.  I’m going to link the full sized image here, which means I am going to have to shrink it to display it and it’s probably going to load slooooooowly.  Once it’s there you’re going to have to click on it to see the full image.  If you use Firefox, the image displayed after you click is also going to be resized to fit the screen, so you will have to click it again.  I’ll also add a link to the Flickr page I am taking the image from.

Coooool!

Here is the link to the image’s Flickr page.

This is one of those terrible Thursday kinda days.  You know the ones I’m talking about… the Thursdays that feel like Fridays.

This week is NHL All-Star week.  The lamest week of the year.  The All-Star game is… how shall I describe it… stupid.  Yeah, that’s what it is.  Stupid.  The fan balloting is a joke.  Four of the starters play for Ottawa.  Four of them.  Ottawa’s decent this year, but to have four starters in the all-star game is insulting.  Obviously the only people who give a crap about the game are those in Ottawa who actually have a chance to go.

The fantasy draft?  Lame.  The skills competition?  That would be cool if they just did it without all of the constant bullshit surrounding it.  Of course, if they eliminated the commercials and the in “game” interviews the event would only last about 10 minutes.  The game itself?  It bears no resemblance to actual NHL hockey.  None.

The worst part?  No Bruins games for a whole week.  A Whole Week.  They played (poorly) against Washington this past Tuesday.  They don’t play again until next Tuesday.  Awful.  Truly awful.

I’ll say it again:  I hate the NHL All-Star game.