Livingston’s own Dale Reinhardt is going pro – specifically, he’s been signed to a contract wth the Bakersfield Condors of the ECHL, and has been invited to camp starting next week with the Ducks’ AHL affiliate, the Iowa Chops (talk about lipstick on a pig….). As youth hockey gets underway once again, inevitably [...]
Archive of entries posted on September 2008
National Talk Like a Pirate Day
September 19th is semi-officially National Talk Like A Pirate Day. I’m seriously considering answering all of my email in pirate slang, but nothing will top my daughter’s friend who came to school in a fully dress-code compliant pirate outfit (we’d be checking if swords are compliant or not, but we’re still laughing two years [...]
Intractability and Incomprehensibility
I attended the (sometimes semi) annual Princeton University Computer Science department affiliates seminar this week, and got to hear a variety of short talks on topics ranging from data management in computational biology to how students infer trust in search results. Professor Andrew Appel opened the day with some statistics about the department, including a [...]
Last Shift For Jack Falla
The night after the Devils played the last game of their 2007-2008 season, I ordered the pile of sports books that had collected on my nightstand and began devoting former hockey-watching hours to reading. I had picked up Jack Falla’s Home Ice based on a blurb for it in some other hockey-related reading, and [...]
Mistaken For A Different Elias Sports Bureau
I’ve had some bizarre cases of mistaken identity over the years, but never one involving the player on a team jersey. Until Labor Day weekend, that is. Growing up, Labor Day was a Really Bad Day; it was the terminator between light of summer and the impending darkness of school, marching band [...]
Newest Snowman Redux
Thanks to Tom Gulitti’s blog, word of Danius Zubrus’ roster rotation is received with much joy around these parts. Zubrus is not only the newest snowman, but I think he epitomizes the spirit, the joie de vivre, the very essence of wearing the red and black 8: big, strong, forceful, not necessarily speedy (unless a [...]
Haiku for 9/11
Autumn sunlight streams Through unblocked western window Where two towers stood.
I originally wrote that in September 2001 for my sister, whose former office faced the World Trade Center site. Found it while consolidating half-written blog entries and various random files.
Amateur Season
Another youth hockey season is upon us – schedules are done, the kids are on the ice, we’re looking around to see who put on a few more inches and pounds (the kids; the adults always put on a few more pounds) and once again, Labor Day demarcates the summer from the next seven [...]
Freecycle Economics
It took all of 24 hours for me to become a fan of freecycle. I have been moving a four by five foot plate glass mirror around my basement, cautiously leaning, bracing and sliding it so that it doesn’t give me personal experience in massive sharding. Now that the bathroom originally intended to [...]
Changing Traffic Patterns
For the past 15 years, I’ve driven into New York City the same way: up the New Jersey Turnpike, off at Exit 16E, a stop and go skip-hop from the Turnpike tolls through the Route 3, US 1 & 9 and southbound ramp merge, and then through the Lincoln Tunnel. I park in [...]
