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Hank took a snarky shot at d4rk, d4rk took a shot back. I'm not sure why anyone would choose a side as it looks pretty equal to me.
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Lando's got some 'splainin to do. :)
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I realized something last night: when I used my PS3 to watch games, I had the scores turned off. In the NHL app on my phone, I don't, and I'm far less likely to put on a game late if I know they lost. This has happened with the Dallas, Nashville, and Moerayall game.
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I'm on it, don't worry.
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Personally, it's tough to waste time worrying about a substandard (but looking up) hockey team where there are so many other things to worry about. I'm toying with buying some tickets in Ottawa towards the end of the season so I have a good excuse to cross the border. You know, just in case. I hear some rumors that the US Marshalls are refusing to serve warrants to CBP because the US AG says not to. That's not how this works, I really hope there's still a functioning Judicial Branch in a week if that's true. Mostly for Eleven's sake. :)
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Wife.
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Bettman: Technology to determine puck location 'not ready for prime time'
MattPie replied to Stoner's topic in The Aud Club
Goal judge: Seems like watching an above-the-net feed of the goal is a better perspective for seeing the puck cross the line. If you play around with NHL.tv they usually have a multi-cam feed for games, where there are three camera feeds: broadcast feed (what you normally see), and the two over the net feeds. The strange thing is they're usually not in sync very well, but it's interesting. I'd bet there's still a goal judge somewhere in the building that just watches that feed. http://www.denverpost.com/2007/08/29/goal-judges-uprooted-seats-become-available/ -
Huh, my, er, rooster ring is too big to fall down the drain.
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Addendum: - Big Salad - Salmon with Pesto and Parmesan cheese - Almonds - Most of an Edmund Fitzgerald Porter - A moderate glass of Chardonnay
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Awesome! What are you writing in? I'm curious how the kids get on these days. The last thing I wrote was in Python2 using gedit on LInux. I just installed emacs on the Windows PC in a fit of nostailgia. I'm not sure I'd actually use it for real these days since I'm so rusty.
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- Bowl of leftover white rice with some Indian spice mix dumped in. - Cashews - Grapenuts with 2% - Whole Milk Greek Yogurt with a spoonful of Raspberry Jam - Lots of tea
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I've been learning Spanish via the Duolingo App on my phone. I was listening to a podcast the other day and when someone spoke in Spanish, I understood what he said. (Do you need a drink of water?) Don't get me wrong, my 2.5 year old has a *way* better handle on English than I have on Spanish, but it was a "waitaminute" moment.
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My interest is waning lately. I think there are a couple reasons: - I didn't watch much while I was in Buffalo for the Holidays; too much other stuff to do. - Shortly after returning home, my PS3 (the primary way I watched) stopped working. I still watch using the Android Client/Cast to TV, but that's a lot clunkier than the PS3 method. I can't start a game at 8:30 from the beginning, can't fast forward easily, etc. - I'm pretty busy. Even when I did watch a lot, I was working on the couch and paying attention when something happened. - More time for learning, less for watching hockey (or any other entertainment). I have this feeling my job (in the industry sense, not my position) is slowly fading. (See below). Also, I've been learning Spanish and a few programming languages. I can't learn while the game is on. For those that don't know, I do a hodgepodge of IT work, primarily Linux servers, with a helping of network engineering, virtualization, and other servery/datacenterish tasks. The automation stuff that's maturing (think Cloud) is moving a lot of that work to scripts. There's been a joke around (a version of which made it into an episode of the Big Bang Theory) that my job could be "reduced to a moderately sized shell script". While that's not entirely true, large portions of what my job likely will be automated. So I need to get in front of that before it's too late. I have a programming background, so I'm trying to learn the automation so I can be the one writing the scripts rather than being replaced by them. It's going fairly well, and I honestly find it really interesting for the architectures that it opens up.
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As long as doesn't count against the cap, I don't care as long as they doesn't stop them from firing him when the time is right. (or not, if it isn't) Don't care, no shootouts in the playoffs. :)
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Next challenge: ready player one:
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Bettman: Technology to determine puck location 'not ready for prime time'
MattPie replied to Stoner's topic in The Aud Club
My guess is the tech good, but not as good as cameras and the mark one eyeball. Locating an object in 3D down to mm isn't as easy as it sounds. I read through the wiki article on goal-line tech (more informative than the FIFA article which relies on "magic happens"). I have a couple thoughts on how this affects hockey. One, the puck is not a sphere. The magnetic and electrical systems seem to use a sensor suspended in the center of the ball, which isn't going to work for a puck. Perhaps a system could be made with multiple sensors to detect the puck orientation, but I'm not sure if the detection systems would be able to tell the different sensors apart. The magnetic version almost certainly wouldn't. Also, none of the sports mentioned have pieces of steel skating around disturbing the precise magnetic/electrical fields; although I'm not sure that's enough to make an appreciable difference. The optical systems seem to rely on the puck being seen, which is an issue as the puck is small compared to a soccer ball and easily hidden by the players. You could use the magnetic/electrical system with pucks (assuming it works through pads and isn't disturbed by skates) to detect if a flat puck was in, but it would give false negatives (says the puck didn't cross the line but it did) when the pusk is on edge. Imagine this place when an on-edge puck isn't called a goal, or maybe worse, the sensor says no goal but the ref says it was on edge and crossed the line. It'd be fandimonium (and not the good kind). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal-line_technology -
That's nice and all, but if it turns into a rivalry where Buffalo keeps losing to Toronto in the playoffs it's not going to be much fun.
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Where in development are Murray's 2016 draft picks
MattPie replied to North Buffalo's topic in The Aud Club
One of those guys would have displaced Grant, so same difference. :)- 66 replies
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Knee-jerk Reactions. Got a note at work that Elastic Search (search engine software) got hit by Ransomware and everyone should uninstall it. I don't use it, so I don't care, but 30 seconds of Google reveals that Elastic Search on the public internet that no one set any security like the manual says to is getting hit with Ransomware. Some of it is on the elastic search guys (and MongoDB recently) for shipping software that's wildly insecure by default, but the users have to be more responsible too.
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Carrier needs to put up more points before we can legitimately call him an asset. I like his game, but 6 points in 33 games, even on the low-scoring Sabres, makes him JAG.
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Didn't eat the salad nor PB&J. Had a small plate of rice, greek-style Rutabega, and Drunken Noodle, and got back to work. Haven't had time to eat, not too hungry. I had a can of Coke earlier that I forgot. Greek Rutabaga: I bought one on a whim a couple weeks ago and finally cut it up. I found a recipe to make it like those Greek potatoes you get at diners in Buffalo, so I gave it a shot. The sauce base is Dijon mustard, thyme, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, and a few other things, mixed up on cubed rutabaga and cooked on a roasting pan in the oven. The recipe said 2" cubes, which was ridiculous but even the 1"-ish cubes took forever to cook. I wonder if the recipe really means 1/2" cubes.
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To a degree, you can treat Chessesteak like a hamburger as the base components are the same. That makes mayo OK, I guess. I usually get plain (meat and cheese) and then add some BBQ and/or hot sauce to it. Pizza steaks (meat, mozz, and red sauce) are good too. I rarely get cheesesteak hoagie (meat, cheese, lettuce, onion, tomato) and Buffalo (sauce) cheesesteak. Two things I'll mention that surpass all that: three-cheese garlic bread cheese steak: provolone, mozz, and parm cheesesteak on garlic bread long roll. OMG, I have to get one of those again soon. Also, Italian pork: sliced roast pork with juice, sharp provolone, and garlic sauteed broccoli rabe. *That* is the best sandwich in Philly (many places make them, I think Tony Luke's or Dinics have the best). That's Geno's, place is OK. Think Anchor Bar wings of cheesesteak. There are other local places to make them better IM non-native O.
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All with only 3 Sabres skaters on the ice! (M-x slanted-journalism-mode)
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Kind Jalapeno granola bar (I was in a rush) Leftover catered-meeting ham and cheese on sourdough sandwich Two kinda mush and small gala apples Banana (not too large, NS) 5oz by volume Habanero BBQ roasted almonds 16 oz cold matcha tea mug hot Earl Grey tea, nothing added On deck: salad, PB&J on multigrain, Chinese/Thai leftovers when I get home.
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He skated past 66% of the players on the ice and was in reach of the remaining 33% when he let it go. I stand by my point! :)