An Antarctic glacier is bleeding. Pretty cool, no?
Here’s the full story.
Useless Historical Statistic of the Day: Playoff Futility March 7th, 2010 by Doogie2K
A few months back, when it first looked like the Coyotes were a legit team, I became curious about their current active playoff futility streak — no playoff series wins since 1987, when the Winnipeg Jets defeated the Calgary Flames in a six-game Smythe Division Semi-Final — and how it compared to other historical paragons of failure.
Turns out, it compares pretty favourably, in exactly the wrong way. More specifically, I’m pretty sure they currently hold the NHL record for most seasons played without a playoff series victory. These are the longest streaks I could find:
- Winnipeg Jets-Phoenix Coyotes: 1987-88 to 2003-04; 2005-06 to 2008-09 (21 seasons)
- Quebec Bulldogs-Hamilton Tigers-New York Americans: 1913-14 to 1916-17; 1919-20 to 1934-35 (20 seasons)
- New York Rangers: 1950-51 to 1969-70 (20 seasons)
Note that the Bulldogs-Tigers-Americans franchise streak includes their final four seasons in the NHL’s predecessor league, the National Hockey Association. Note also that all these years are inclusive, and that seasons in which a team did not play — 2004-05 for the Coyotes; 1917-18 and 1918-19 for the Bulldogs — are excluded for obvious reasons. This also means that while the Ottawa Senators did not win a playoff series between the old franchise’s last Stanley Cup in 1927 and the new franchise’s first series victory in 1998, only twelve seasons were completed during that stretch — six as the old Senators, one as the St. Louis Eagles, and five as the new Senators — which puts them down the list a bit.
This list should also give us Oilers fans a bit of perspective, for however bad things seem to be now, we’ve only missed the playoffs four seasons in a row: we have a long, long way to go before we’re as historically bad as these guys.
The Oilers Diaspora (Updated) February 20th, 2010 by Doogie2K
So a while back, I got to thinking, just how many former Oilers are out there in the NHL this year? With the way players move around these days, it seemed to me there’d be quite a few; when I looked into it, I discovered that the number is actually closer to “a fucking lot of them.” Restricting it just to players who were at one point Oilers property (no Chris Higgins or Milan Lucic) and who have played at least one game in the NHL this year (no Mike York or Krys Kolanos) still turned up 52 of them (Edit: Make that 55.), from farmhands on a cup of coffee (Guillaume Lefebvre) to future Hall of Famers (Chris Pronger). Here they are, broken down by current team. (Edit: Updated as of this year’s trade deadline, March 3.)
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Absent From The World… February 20th, 2010 by Matt
That’s been me. I don’t even really come today with anything all that great. I mean sure, I could through up a link to something ridiculous like “Happy In Paraguay”, but all that really proves is that some people can lipsync pointless lines to Star Trek episodes…
…okay, I did it anyways, so shoot me.
Besides work being hectic, accidentally eating shellfish, and a reawakening of my love for dill pickle sunflower seeds, I’ve been busy with a rental of Bioshock 2. I thoroughly enjoyed the game, but why the hell did they throw a multiplayer aspect in? It’s not needed for the Bioshock series. I do have to agree with the reviews who talk about the story not being as good as the first, but really, how could they have matched that story? They did a pretty damn good job though, and once again, you NEED to be collecting those diaries to truly appreciate it. I’m not going to rush out and buy it (since I beat it on this rental and need to get back to Mass Effect 2), but it’s definitely one I’ll be adding to my collection eventually.
Battlestar Galactica February 12th, 2010 by Gerard
So, I finally started watching Battlestar Galactica. I’d seen a few eps of the old series — enough to have some idea of what was going on. It seemed the plot’s changed somewhat.
The funny thing, for me, is that Starbuck is effectively the same character, but female. Everything else is the same.
It’s like Final Fantasy XIII. Rather than having the vaguely effeminate male lead, we now have the vaguely masculine female lead. Effectively the same character, but a different gender.
Oh, how far we’ve come with equality for all 
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God of War February 9th, 2010 by Gerard
So, I never got around to playing the God of War games on PS2. But today I saw God of War 1&2 as a collection for PS3 for $30. Not bad.
The entertaining thing, for me, is that the game is pretty easy yet I managed to have the game ask me if I wanted to switch to Easy Mode because I died so often. Why did I die that many times? Log walking. Had I switched to Easy Mode I would have died just as many times.
Oh well, failure apparently gets a trophy on this game anyway
Seaweed February 4th, 2010 by Gerard
I figured that I should actually post something that I do one of these days, right? Funny thing is that this image is actually part of an unfinished painting of a pond with an exclusion mask on it. I like the fact that a minor change (stumbled upon accidentally) turned it from the surface of a pond to something beneath the surface. Metaphoric and stuff.