Sundries

• If it's going to snow, I wish it would just quit wasting my time.

• Last week we mourned the passing of the world's oldest person. The week before that we mourned the passing of the world's oldest person. The week before that we mourned the passing of the world's oldest person. The week before that we mourned the passing of the world's oldest person. The week before that we mourned...

• ESPN.com is reporting this week on the most novel use of the iPod to come along since it was discovered that iPods can cure cancer while solving world hunger. Apparently pitchers for the Colorado Rockies are using their video iPods between innings to study up on their upcoming opponents. Judging by some of the Rockies pitchers' WHIPs, perhaps they were actually catching up on episodes of "The Office."

• A little known fact about this year's "American Idol" is that it is being broadcast from Malebolge, with only a slight delay. Watch for it tonight at 8 p.m./7 p.m. Central/6:66 p.m. Eighth Circle.

• Hillary Clinton brought Cesar Borja to last week's State of the Union Address. She's trying to appeal to the Machiavellian voters.

• Pitchers & Catchers: 14 days.

My First Tag

Oh the silly things bloggers do to pass the time. For the uninitiated, to be tagged in the blogosphere is like receiving a chain letter in the mail (except without the baseless threats). As I have been tagged (and haven't posted anything in weeks), so will I do. The tag demands that I
1) Grab the book closest to me.
2) Open to page 123; go down to the fourth sentence.
3) Post the text of the following three sentences.
4) Name the author and book title.
5) Tag three people to do the same.

The dust hanging in the lights glistened like silica. The aguador stood by with his pail of water. He stepped over the parapet and walked toward the wolf and levered a shell into the chamber and halted ten feet from her and raised the rifle to his shoulder and took aim at the bloodied head and fired.
-Cormac McCarthy "The Crossing"

Just about every blogger I know has already been tagged, so I'll go ahead and tag no one three times. "The Crossing" is the second book of McCarthy's famed Border Trilogy. The first two books are definitely must reads.

Football On The Rocks

I've loved hockey ever since my parents wouldn't let me watch it. Recently my dad and I have made a point of going to Kings games whenever I'm home. In case you don't know enough about hockey to get psyched about it, watch this clip below.

A little background: The Oilers (Edmonton) were trashing the Stars (Dallas) 4-1 before the Stars scored four straight goals (that's roughly equivalent to an MLB team overcoming an 8-2 deficit to take a lead in the seventh inning). Up 5-4, Dallas had a shot at putting the game further out of reach with less than a minute remaining when the Stars' Patrik Stefan had a shot at an open goal (teams down by one goal will often/always pull their goalie in order to increase their offensive numbers in the closing minute (this gives them six players who can attack the opposing team's goal)).
This is what happened.

Whoops.

It's really a shame all the excellent football this week overshadowed this game. It may be the most fascinating hockey game of all time.

P.S. Dallas won in a shootout. If teams are tied at the end of regulation and one overtime period, they select three players per team to face the opposing team's goalie one on one. Whoever gets the most goals wins.