hockey

Here is some cool stuff, only some of which is tangentially related to American football. ;D

LED Football?!

Jon Weisman of Dodger Thoughts (now on ESPN LA) points to a nostalgia-inducing awesome thing: LED Football for iPhone, which is, as he puts it,

A replica of the greatest game ever, Mattel Handheld Electronic Football.

It’s also free for today only.

The more you know…

Speaking of tweeting and football, Bob Timmermann informs us,

Little known Super Bowl fact: Because New Orleans is playing in the game, the NFL rulebook will be replaced by the Napoleonic Code.

Yes, yes I am!

“Inside the Dodgers” asks the rhetorical yet vital question, “Are you ready for some baseball?”:

It’s the last official day of football season, so get it out of your system now and get ready to start watching America’s pastime.

Good gracious, yes!

Streaking Kings

The LA Kings have reached a franchise-record nine-game wins in a row and are going for 10 against crosstown rivals the Anaheim Ducks tomorrow. They’re currently in fourth place in the Western Conference.

Blaming the victims? ;)

bikecommutenews tweets,

Cyclists on busy roads a nuisance http://ow.ly/14NvT #bikenews

which prompted me to reply,

@bikecommutenews Yeah, to me, it seems like the *cars* are the nuisance on a busy road, not bicycles. :)

Noteworthy

Slashdot mentions a blog post by a computer science student who sticks with a pen and paper instead of a laptop for note-taking during class, “My Classmates Are Taking Their Notes Digitally, But I Can’t Fathom How They Keep Up”

I noticed today that as I frantically scribbled to keep up with my philosophy professor’s lecture, there was an audible hum of typing in the classroom. It was the first time I noticed that I could count more students using netbooks than notebooks to take notes in class.

Call me old-fashioned, but I like to take notes with a pen and paper. As I’ve discussed previously, the act of writing helps cement the lecture material in my mind better than passive listening does, and studies have shown that it’s not just me.[…] Still, I know that my old-fashioned ways are quickly going out of style.

Don Cherry begins the first of his dimension-rending, demon-summoning chants.

Note look of either concern or malevolence on the face of his cohort.

And no, to answer your question, this has not been photoshopped. :)

(Photo from Hans.)

Congratulations to the Anaheim Ducks, who have brought Lord Stanley’s Cup to Southern California.

The first hockey game I ever attended was Red Wings at Ducks. I found myself tearing up seeing the emotion on the guys’ faces as they hoisted the Cup over their heads, particularly Teemu Selanne.

Well done et félicitations!

The Ducks won game 4 last night and so are up 3-1 over the Senators; they could win the Cup on Wednesday. Wow.

Strange to think it’s been four years since their battle with the Devils in the finals. That year (2003) it was New Jersey taking two games at home, then the Ducks returning the favor, and back and forth till the Devils won Game 7 on their ice. Just like then, I’m divided about the Ducks winning.

As a Kings fan, I’d sure rather the Ducks wouldn’t win the Cup first, and with what I like to refer to as my Canadian-American heritage ;) I wouldn’t mind seeing the Sens win.

At the same time, how cool would it be for a California team to win?