MattPie

You're a bastard. :)

Are you counting (as presumptive as it may be) Guhle and Nelson in there? Both seem to have some potential.

There's a Facebook group called Internet for RVers or something, there's a lot of good links in there. MrsPie was toying with the idea of doing that to home school RosePie and we'd ramble while I work remote 100%. It's very likely not going to happen, but I'm still in the group (I think). Might want to check in on that; reportedly our current administration's tax plan raises the standard deduction so far fewer people will need/want to write off. I suppose it's good in theory for me, but it means the owning a house has almost financial benefit for me. While I'm on tax policy, the people I know that have run the IRS' new withholding calculator have said the new rules mean that many aren't withholding enough and they'd end up with a nasty surprise next year without adjusting. In a few cases, their take-home is the same as it was before the tax cuts. This. I hate looking way up at a TV, too.

And those dastardly villains were smart enough to take fliers on 4-5 other guys before Johnsson since they knew he'd be that good and still be there! :)

Nope, I want the Leafs to be terrible and not ready. Frankly, I want this game to be a blowout which sends them into a tailspin.

Very cool, thanks. I read Ivanhoe a number of years ago, so this would be an interesting contrast.

I'm worried the Sabres blew it with Boston and Tampa. You know Babcock is saying, "these guys just took it to the best teams in the league; look past them at our own peril".

It'll be tough for NBCSN tonight, homer for the terrible American team without its star, or homer for Toronto whom no one south of Fort Erie cares about.

LOL. It auto-returns at the end of the loan, or you can (usually) return it early via the app. It's all just bits.

It's talked about some above, but the player had to be (on paper) on the Amerk's roster on Feb 26th to play in the playoffs. The Sabres did this with Criscuolo and Baptiste. The Sabres can send guys down after that, but they can't play in the playoffs, and they'd have to pass whatever waiver/no-movement checks.

It's pretty good; Overdrive or the newer (but sometimes slower) Libby apps work pretty well. Generally, you can download the books in epub or Kindle format to use in those readers (like an old-school nook or other phone app), but the books do expire after your loan is done.

The guy was an upstate/WNY guy, and later taught at SUNY Binghamton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardner_(American_writer) BTW, I ended up giving up on Tolkein's translation of Beowulf, instead finding an older prose version. Still fairly tough and disjointed, though. I just finished reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, so apparently I'm on an Old/Middle English kick. I found this person who apparently loves translating stuff from a bunch of languages into modern English, which is good for me. His Gawain was pretty good (at least I think), I wish I had found his Beowulf first. https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/English/GawainAndTheGreenKnight.php

I had no idea until I saw a picture of it after the fact.

I lucked out, that 2 hours was the only time power was out here. There are still people without power and there's another storm blowing in Wednesday.

Perhaps "catch" is the wrong word, but pucks seem to bounce off Lehner, where others the puck "sticks" to them. That's what I'm talking about. This is an interesting read: http://www.usahockeygoaltending.com/news_article/show/524951

I get the feeling the difference between the OK and the great GTs are the ones that are OK put that rebound where Lehner did, and the greats either "catch" the puck with their pad and can then trap it, or choose the angle of contact so the puck ends up in the corner.

It's almost like kicking out huge rebounds all the time is going to bite you.

Heh, found this on image search:

It's almost like playing net constantly on your knees doesn't work.

The whole house is rumbling in the wind here; I could see my monitor wiggle a little and feel the vibration in the desk a minute ago. Not a ton of snow, but the wind was been nearly 30 MPH for hours. Power was out for a couple hours this afternoon, but luckily not since. I just hope we get through the night with power since it doesn't mess RosePie up.

The power here went out right around then; maybe one of the big EC internet hubs got an ouchy. That's how I remember it too.

I just looked; EDM has 19 games remaining and 58 points. My patented Countdown Calculation says they need to win 18 of those 19 games to get to 94 points.

My wife cuts my hair. She's not bad at it, it's free, and she's the one who has to look at me anyway.

I can count using only the fingers on my left foot the number of times that's happened. It may the only player transaction used fewer times than offer sheets.

Awesome. I don't know if I could resist messing with people[0] in this situation. Oklivia Okposo (pronounced Olivia), Okwen, or even more evil, something like Oktavian in which you do pronounce the K. [0] I could resist, if only for my kid's mental health.