Where can a big dude on a diet go for a breakfast buffet on a Sunday morning when he chooses to ignore said diet?

Decisions, decisions…

Back to the Sands Bridge to play with the new lens.

I took the new lens out around town today. I went back to the Sands Bridge and the Walnut Grove cemetery. I also went to the park along the Merrimack River that’s on Riverside Drive but I can’t remember the name and Google Maps only calls it the Walking Park.

This is the most interesting picture because that appears to be a canoe floating upside down in the Merrimack. Where oh where might that have come from, and please tell me there was no one in it when it flipped and floated away.

Today was the rematch of the Stanley Cup Finals and the Bruins lost to the Canucks 4-3.  How did they beat us?  They pissed us off, that’s how. 

Ooodles of penalties including game misconducts to Lucic and Marchant.  Five on three goals against.  Major power play goals against.

Crud.  I was really hoping we’d bitch slap those Canucks so badly that the citizens rioted again.

Oh well… we’ll just spank them in the finals again.

I received an email from a mailing list that I no longer wish to be a part of.  It related to a site I registered for over a year ago that I haven’t been back to since.  (The UK Syd Barrett artwork collections.  Even if I were interested in buying the books I wouldn’t be able to do it online without converting dollars to pounds.)  I have probably received maybe 2 or 3 emails from the mailing list in the year that I’ve been on it so it’s not like they were spamming me back to the stoned age or anything (pun intended… get it?… we are talking about Syd Barrett) but today I clicked the link to unsubscribe from the list.  I am never going to shell out 240 English pounds for a book of art work made by some one who my only interest is in his music.  Thanks, but no thanks.

Five seconds after I unsubscribed from the list I got an email telling me I had unsubscribed from the list.

Urgh…. really?

“Unsubscribe” is a polite way of saying “I DON’T WANT ANY MORE OF YOUR GOD DAMN EMAILS SO STOP SENDING THEM TO ME!!!”

It does not mean, “please send me more email.”

All people who run electronic mailing lists should consider this post a public service announcement.

You’re all welcome.

The Bruins played the Calgary Flames on my PS3 last night and dominated from start to finish before finally winning 9-0.  Calgary’s night can be summed up by Boston’s second goal.  Milan Lucic was along the wall just above the faceoff circle and he threw a pass out toward the middle of the ice.  The pass whacked into Olli Jokinen and deflected into the net… from about 40 feet away.  It was the single cheapest, cheesiest goal I’ve ever seen and things just went down hill from there for the Flames.

Of course, it was just a video game, right?  I mean no one scores nine goals in an NHL game, never mind win a game 9-0.  It just doesn’t happen.

What?

It was a real game?

Really?

The highlight of the evening may have been late in the third period where the Bruins faithful inside the Garden were chanting, “We want 10!” over and over again.  What a thing of beauty.  At this point the pessimist in me would normally prophesize that the B’s will lose their next game 1-0.  Not this time, for two reasons.  First, this team is more awesome than any other team I’ve ever had the good fortune to follow.  I am beginning to doubt that a 1-0 loss is even possible.  Second, their next game is a Saturday afternoon rematch of the 2011 Stanley Cup final match up between the Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks.  I somehow doubt that either team will settle for a 1-0 final.  It very well may be a blood bath.

On an unrelated note, today is going to be an interesting day.  I believe I got less than three hours of sleep last night.  It’s 9:09am and I already feel like I am seriously running out of gas.  Fun, Fun, Fun!

I’m sitting here watching the Bruins utterly annihilate the Calgary Flames. It’s 7-0 after two. Is a 10 goal game in the offering?

Anyway, here’s a sobering thought. The Bruins won the Cup in 1970. They won it again in 1972. I have heard some members of that organization say that the 1971 Bruins were actually better than either of the Cup winning team, but they were beaten in the playoffs by Montreal and Ken Dryden.

So they won the Stanley Cup in 1970 and then were better in 1971 but lost…

The Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 2011, and at least up until tonight they are clearly better in 2012…

I’m sure history won’t repeat itself. Nope.

Go Bruins!

The Bruins win streak ended on New Year’s Eve with a lackluster performance against Dallas.

Last night against New Jersey it was clear that they had learned their lesson from the loss.  Yet another blow out, this time 6-1 on the road.  Bergeron scored twice.  His first, the team’s third, was a thing of beauty.  Watch the highlights…