Public Service

I may have piqued your interest in hockey, what with all my scribblings, rants, moans, groans, and magnificent videos of beautiful goals and bloody fights over the past six and a half years.  If I have stimulated your curiosity... and if you're not interested in following the Beloved Wings (you twisted, misguided, and wholly uninformed soul, you)... then here's just the thing for you: a handy flowchart titled "Which NHL team should I root for?"

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"Because we always win!"  Heh.  (Note:  Purists and other pickers o' nits will note this flowchart is out o' date, what with the inclusion of the Atlanta Thrashers now Winnipeg Jets.  But the attached legend is close enough.)

h/t: A tweet by JessicaRedfield ("I'm determined to make everyone an NHL fan," sez she), re-tweeted by GeorgeMalik.

The Deity At Hand

Longtime readers here at EIP know the post title is my way of referring to the Supreme Being, whose existence I acknowledge with the express caveat that I'm not sure what his or her name is.  I'm also fond o' sayin' that I hope the Supreme Being is a goddess and her name is Phoebe or Athena or something like that.  And I'm only half-joking... I'm pretty partial to the old gods and goddesses.  Thor would be in the running, too, for that matter.

But we digress.  I'm adding another candidate to the Deity Pool... this guy:

The 'toon came to me by way of a "special edition" of  Cigar Journal that was bundled along with this month's cigar re-supply.  Ya gotta like this deity's style.

Zut, Alors!

It made ME laugh.  Wait... I really mean Il m'a fait rire.

And Then There's This...

First... from yesterday's Shoebox blog:

Heh.

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I might be overdoing the indoor humidification program. 

It was a lot worse than this (as in the whole window was obscured by condensation) when I first got up this morning but I'm not seein' any mold anywhere, though.  Speaking o' indoor humidification... I found whole cloves at the commissary yesterday and McCormick is quite proud of their product, to the tune o' $2.07 for a .62 ounce package.  We paid the freight.

Fanboi Cat?

Yup.  They're freakin' EVERYwhere and even manage to cross the species line.  Jobs would be proud.

And then there's this, which I saw last week but neglected to post:

Yeah, I DO so wanna see where you can put your leg.  Really.  I do.  And I'm here to help, too.

A Miserable Excuse for a Post

Well, OK.  Only because Sunny ain't got any new stuff.

And there's this...

Coz it's that time o' year.

Slow

An update... Last week I posted a lil blurb and a photo about the last military flight out of Iraq and there was some discussion in comments about the troops on that aircraft... like "did they make it home for Christmas?"  Well, one of the guys or gals on that plane dropped by EIP last evening and left this comment:

said...

You will be happy to know, though we were delayed in Kuwait for a couple days, everyone on that last flight made it safely home for Christmas. Thank you all and I hope you had a very Merry Christmas.

 Welcome home, Sir or Madam... and thank you.

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It sure is a slow week... the Usual USAF Source is taking the week off, there aren't any new political cartoons at Townhall today, the Guardian didn't publish their favorite vids last Friday, and blog traffic is down.  But there's this, which you've prolly already seen since there were over a million Facebook shares and it was on Red Eye:

I think the ending is cool... poetic justice if there ever was such a thang.

From the In-Box

My Good Buddy Ed In Florida sends along the following photo essay...

Heh.  I wouldn't wanna be that 104 pilot.  Coal.  Lotsa coal.

Oh, Betty!

Another one from the in-box:

The cougar is my favorite big cat, but I'm not so sure Betty is my favorite cougar.  The vid is here, if'n you're curious.

Heh

From the Usual Source.

A Meme

There's no accounting for how these things start...

... but Fenton is sweeping the inner-tubes, especially in the UK.  From the Guardian:

Somewhere – probably in south-west London – lies a dog that this week took its rightful place in the Unofficial List of Famous Labradors.

The 47-second video of Fenton (Benton?) chasing deer across Richmond Park has now been viewed more than 1.5m times – And here's the man who shot the original video talking to Absolute Radio's Christian O'Connell. And then there are the mashups. Oh, the mashups!

From Alan Partridge to Alien, countless YouTube creations keep coming. 

And here's one such: 

There's more at the Guardian's PDA page.

Still Another Sign o' the Impending Apocalypse (An Ongoing Series)

More content than pr0n?  NO way.

OTOH... I could use more vids like this:



Coz dogs are inherently smarter than cats.  And some humans.

From the Outbox

I received one of those inspirational e-mails from an Occasional Correspondent this morning and replied like so (after selectively quoting the content of the note):

From: Buck Pennington 
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:59 AM
To: Occasional Correspondent
Cc: Another Occasional Correspondent
Subject: Re: Too Good not to Share

Buddha: “What we think we become. We are what we think."

Mahatma Gandhi: “A man is but the product of his thoughts.  What he thinks, he becomes.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

Jesus: “As you think, so shall ye be.”

OK... just for the record... I am NOT a pussy. 

The sender (who is female) replied "Now THAT really made me laugh out loud!"  I prolly should add I'm not a mo'sickle, either.

19,615,456 Views Before I Get Around to Posting It

EIP: Always a day late and a dollar short.  Always.  But cute.

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It's not a nice day here on The High Plains o' New Mexico:

Warm ain't everythang, yanno?  We've had gusts over 40 mph today, so I'm thinkin' it'll be an indoor Happy Hour.  But mebbe not.

Why I Smoke Cigars

For the female troglodytes, of course.  Just look at her melt.

Image from here, via the Shoebox blog.

Harley Riders...

...ain't too very smart.

(h/t to Occasional Reader Deb for this and other images)

Two Posts In One!

Politics and Halloween!

From the Usual Source.

Heh

"Leverage.  Portfolio.  Fiduciary."  Heh.

Teh Funny and Teh Not-So-Funny

From the Usual Source:

Heh.

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In other news...

Niklas Kronwall called the third period “a complete disaster.” ... “The final score is unacceptable,” Kronwall said. “They kept it simple, and we didn’t have any jump left in our legs. We can’t look like that.”

That's being VERY kind about the Wings' 7-1 loss debacle in Washington last night.  Early on in the game, before the Caps scored their first goal, SN1 and I discussed Babcock's decision to go with Ty Conklin, the Wings' number two goalie.  SN1 thought Jimmy Howard should have started such an important game and it looks like SN1 was right, in retrospect.  Conklin sucked, but he wasn't the only problem.  The Wings had way too many turn-overs and the Caps simply outplayed them for most of the second and third periods.  What a helluva outcome for Nick Lidstrom's 1,500th game!

Oh, well.  It's early days; every team has an off night every once in a while... but last night was truly an embarrassment.

Heh

From the Usual Source...

A hat-tip to one of the big stories in yesterday's news, of course.  EIP: a day late and a dollar short.  Always.