1-2-3 Hockey: 17 of 39
One of my birthday presents was a remote for the camera, so that we can use the 100mm on the tripod without moving the camera depressing the shutter. Tonight I tried it out on the marigold seedpod I found in the garden the other day. Thanks to the remote, I was able to take a 100mm with a longer shutter speed! How exciting! — Pookie
Also, there’s still room available in the IPB Yahoo Fantasy Hockey Leagues (a.k.a the Amazingleague and the Superleague)! If you’re interested, please email Andrew at a_d_mattson [@] yahoo [dot] com before the deadline, September 16th. That’s only a week away! The leagues are open to everyone, so send those emails in! Remember, the only catch is that all teams must be comprised of players in the conference opposite form your favorite team, so make sure to tell Andrew which team is your favorite.
As told to me by one of the rugrats at work:
- Knock knock
- Who’s there?
- Why did the chicken cross the road?
HG, :^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Why did the chicken cross the playground?
To get to the other slide.
I’ve been wondering if I should get a remote. So far, I’ve just been using the timer on a tripod. So I’m away from it when it fires.
My old camera came with a remote, new camera.
For some reason the remote seems way easier than using the timer. I mean, a timer sounds so fancy! Meanwhile, you just take the remote out of the box, point it at the camera, and voila! What a fascinating modern age we live in!
To get to the other slide.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! That got a hearty laugh here, but that could be because we just watched five episodes of “Dick Van Dyke Show” in a row.
I remember back in the old days when I had a long wire with a button at one end and I screwed the other end into the camera. Then I just pushed the button to release the shutter.
And we LIKED it that way!
And we LIKED it that way!
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Hey! I’m back from Ottawa. It’s a really nice place to visit, and the weather was incredible. I actually got a sunburn in the neck. Unfortunately, there was no Heatley sighting. (and by the way, Sens fans must be really shy: in two days I only spotted one guy with a senators hat. In the same time, I saw at least 3 persons wearing bruins stuff.)
Oh, and I’ll be there to defend my Superleague championship belt this season! The Pronger Worshippers are gone, but here come the…
Fainting Goats!
I’m glad you liked Ottawa, Grrreg! As for the fantasy team, between the Fainting Goats (good one!) and the Beards of Bees, we’ll have quite the zoo!
Good morning, everyone! I have to say, the fantasy team names are awesome so far this year! Those of you who haven’t made the big reveal yet have a lot to live up to. Heh.
And unrelatedly, I have “White Christmas” stuck in my head on a vicious loop. I might have to knock myself out with a brick to get it to stop.
Oh, and Grrrreg, I am so glad you enjoyed Ottawa! It surprised me a lot when we were there too, how quiet the Sens-fan presence was there. It’s weird, man. Way weird.
I’d do Fantasy League this year, but between moving, holidays, planned family visits and the like, plus my usual normal laziness, I know I’ll fail massively at it.
But I am looking forward to seeing everyone’s mega-awesome team names. :D
And yay, Grrreg, that you had fun in Ottawa!
Aw, Caitlin, you’ll be missed. The Super and AmazingLeagues will be slightly less super and/or amazing without you. :D
Hi! Just popping in! I wanted to show everyone what I got at the baseball game last night!
http://twitpic.com/h0zzz
The Super and AmazingLeagues will be slightly less super and/or amazing without you. :D
Aww. :D
Pam, that is SO COOL that you got those Playmobil guys. They were just giving ‘em out, free?
The Two Eyed Pea Brains would like to be seated away from the Beards of Bees at the draft and the season ending awards banquet. They’re a little fearful of getting stung.
Seriously though, there are some great team names this year.
I read on Twitter this morning that Zach was one of the Longest Drive winners at the Devils Golf Tourney. Does this mean he gets a plastic golf club for his trophy case?
Yea, there was a whole Playmobil table set up there. Val and I were lingering around looking at the stuff and the lady there told us to make sure we each grabbed a keychain!
Good morning all!
Pam, I love your PlayMobil men! Argh!
Ok, I’m going to go ahead and take the plunge and reveal our team names and get it over with. If they are too lame, don’t tell me. :)
Mine is “The Pot Roasters” because, if y’all recall, I reward good play with pot roasts.
Hub’s is “The Broken Noses” in homage to Stephane Robidas, his favorite Star.
I gotta say Myra, I like the “Pot Roasters”.
If anyone has any suggestions for names for those two Playmobil guys, I’m all ears. I’m fairly certain that the guy on the right is French.
Aw, Caitlin, we’ll miss you in the fantasy leagues! Maybe next year things will be less busy?
Pam, I’m so jealous of your Playmobil keychains! So cool!
The Two Eyed Pea Brains would like to be seated away from the Beards of Bees at the draft and the season ending awards banquet.
Hee! The Craig Andersoxers aren’t going anywhere near the Beards of Bees without they’re bee suit and one of those cans emitting bee-repelling smoke.
Myra and Hub, I love your team names!
Mine is “The Pot Roasters” because, if y’all recall, I reward good play with pot roasts.
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Which reminds me, I’m pretty sure I owe you a pot roast or something. (At least a dinner. Heh.)
Hub’s is “The Broken Noses” in homage to Stephane Robidas, his favorite Star.
Awww. Robi is by default my favorite Star now, too, so I approve of Hub’s pick. :D
Maybe next year things will be less busy?
I hope so! This spinster isn’t used to this much socializing.
Dammit, I want a Playmobil keychain now, too! Maybe they sell them at Target.
if y’all recall, I reward good play with pot roasts.
You give them the pot roast before the rest of us take them behind the barn. Heh.
if y’all recall, I reward good play with pot roasts.
You give them the pot roast before the rest of us take them behind the barn. Heh.
Yes, I don’t think Hub would take to kindly to me saying the later!
Pot roast, “pot roast”, we get the idea. :D
(Shhh! Pookie! Hub hasn’t picked up on that!)
Pam, those playmobil keychains rawk! That’s awesome!
Myra, I love the team names!
You give them the pot roast before the rest of us take them behind the barn. Heh.
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Oh, and I just have to share my super-exciting news. I was going to have to attend the mandatory department picnic tomorrow afternoon, just me and my 250 closest coworkers for an afternoon of sports and forced fun. But thanks to the nor’easter heading our way, it’s been postponed until later in the month! I dodged a bullet! WOO HOOO! (I’ll worry about the fact that it was postponed and not canceled some other time.)
The picnic is mandatory? What kind of shit is that?
The picnic is mandatory? What kind of shit is that?
It’s the kind of shit that makes up life in corporate America. Heh. At least their original stance of “rain or shine” crumbled in the face of a 100% chance of rain and a predicted high of 66.
And I have to say, I am SO looking forward to watching the Too Oranges smack the Pot Roasters around.
(Shhh! Pookie! Hub hasn’t picked up on that!)
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It sucks that they force you to go. I thought the whole point of dept. picnics was that they were supposed to be fun!
I guess that’s so you don’t get an unexpected afternoon off! If you’re not working you will be at the picnic!
Some of the top players in the NHL were scheduled to be at Prudential Center’s practice rink today for a photo shoot for TSN in Canada. The group inlcudes two-time Hart Trophy winner Alex Ovechkin, Chris Pronger, Tim Thomas, Zdeno Chara, Patrick Kane, Jeff Carter and former Devil Scott Gomez.
from TG
I guess that’s so you don’t get an unexpected afternoon off! If you’re not working you will be at the picnic!
Yeah. They’d have pretty minimal attendance if it wasn’t mandatory. Heh.
And that list of guys visiting The Rawk for a photo shoot is awfully heinous. I hope they don’t leave too many cooties behind. Seriously, that’s like a grab-bag of vileness, with a little Zdeno Chara and Farts tossed in to make it seem less like they were specifically seeking out all the guys in the league who give me the willies. :P
Oh, and speaking of visiting The Rawk, all of y’all have been all excited for your season tickets arriving in the mail and all, but we just ordered our tickets for the one game we’re attending in person this season! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I’m ready for hockey! Single-game tickets! WOOOOOOOOOOO! :D
Schnookie, I’m sooo glad you dodged that rather nasty bullet of the company picnic! I believe my thoughts on being forced to do anything outdoors and related to sports have been voiced here quite often and I still think it is just plain wrong of Corporate America to do that. Ugh. Hopefully, something else will come up and they will have to cancel it all together!
And the Pot Roasters are soo going to make orange juice out of the Too Oranges!
SPLATT!
**heavy pot being smashed on oranges**
Schnookie, what game?
**heavy pot being smashed on oranges**
Ouch. Of course, the Too Oranges get the last laugh, because now the heavy pot has orange goo all over the bottom of it, and it’s going to be terrible to clean up, and the whole house is going to stink of burning fruitmeats while that roast is roasting. MWA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Pam, I have no idea what the date of the game is (I’m not the social planner at stately IPB Manor), but it’s the Canes. I want to say October 17? Does that sound right?
Yes that’s correct.
WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! FOR GAME TICKETS!!!!
HaH! The acidity of the oranges will only make my pot shine that much more! So there!
(I love IPB trash talk.)
Can anyone tell I really don’t want to do what I need to be doing at work today?!?
The acidity of the oranges will only make my pot shine that much more! So there!
Maybe so, but all that orange pulp and juice and goo has now dripped into the bottom of your oven. The stench will be pervasive! (That’s the Too Oranges tag line this year. Our marketing team thought long and hard about it, and decided “Our stench will be pervasive” was hard to beat.) (Pookie suggested that our ticket-sales marketing scheme should be a poster of an orange pointing at the viewer like Uncle Sam with the tag line “Et Too?” I laughed and laughed and laughed.)
Can anyone tell I really don’t want to do what I need to be doing at work today?!?
Et too? :P
“Our stench will be pervasive”
I like it!
Well, just not all over my pot. Pot Roast a la Orange?
Good grief, I’m bored.
Well, just not all over my pot. Pot Roast a la Orange?
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I don’t know what to recommend for boredom, though. I’m currently doing that thing where there’s a stack of easy, not-at-all-annoying tasks you have to do, but you just keep making up other things to do instead. I’m so focused. Heh.
But thanks to the nor’easter heading our way, it’s been postponed until later in the month! I dodged a bullet! WOO HOOO! (I’ll worry about the fact that it was postponed and not canceled some other time.)
Hey, at least your company doesn’t do what my company does and just move the company picnic indoors if the weather is bad. It’s all the fun of the outdoor picnic–with added karaoke.
“Our stench will be pervasive”
Your 2009-2010 NJ Devils!
It’s all the fun of the outdoor picnic–with added karaoke.
Okay, that’s just a nightmare. I’m feeling super-grateful now for the limitations of my company picnic. (Of course, my department is big enough that they’d have to pay to find some party-appropriate indoor space. So it’s cheap-and-easy outdoor picnicking or bust! Heh.)
(Of course, my department is big enough that they’d have to pay to find some party-appropriate indoor space. So it’s cheap-and-easy outdoor picnicking or bust! Heh.)
Yeah, one would think that about my company as well but no, they were like: “Have fun sitting in the halls of the office!”
Yeah, one would think that about my company as well but no, they were like: “Have fun sitting in the halls of the office!”
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That is just sad, Meg.
Heh…in their defense the regular picnic (which did go smoothly this year) is usually pretty nice. They hold it in Central Park and if you don’t want to participate in the sports, etc. and would rather just sit there, or if you want to cut out early, that’s just fine.
Yeah, one would think that about my company as well but no, they were like: “Have fun sitting in the halls of the office!”
:^::::::::::::::::: That reminds me of tornado drills in elementary school. :D
Tornado drills? Geez, where did you live that made this necessary?
“Our stench will be pervasive”
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That reminds me of tornado drills in elementary school. :D
I was thinking similarly. We both grew up in Texas, Pam.
When I worked in Waco, whenever there was a tornado warning, we had to go sit in the stairwells. Waco was hit pretty hard by a tornado in the 50′s and they were still pretty paranoid about it in the 80′s.
Wow that’s scary. I was in HS when the Columbine shooting happened, so the next year they had installed a plan for us in case our school was overrun with gunmen. The pricipal would come on the PA and say: “The superintendent is in the building…” We were supposed to hide under the desks, shut the lights, and lock the classroom doors. The only time I ever remember practicing the drill, I was in band, so we got stuck stuffing tons of people into the big closets with all the instrument cases. It’s serious stuff, but at that moment, praticing it was kinda funny.
Wow, Pam, that is the exact same plan they still use in my daughter’s school. I’m thinking that is probably not such a good thing. Wouldn’t high school gunmen know this by now?
Tornado drills? Geez, where did you live that made this necessary?
Texas and Oklahoma. I was usually in the city, and my schools were usually just one sprawling floor. We filed out of the room and sat cross-legged on the floor along the hallways and covered our heads. Kind of a variation on the duck-and-cover drills, which were before my time.
Once, we were visting my grandparents in Oklahoma and we were thrilled to be able to go to Grandma’s school out in the country. It was a rural school with probably 50 kids in 12 grades and she taught 3rd thru 5th grade. We went 2 different years and one year, they had a tornado drill. Theirs was hard-core. All the kids had to walk single-file out across the dirt playground and climb down into the tornado shelter in the ground. I was about seven years old and I was SO scared. I think I would have preferred to take on the tornado rather than go down in that dark, scary, spider-infested shelter. And that’s my story.
Good morning (or afternoon) everyone!
Loving the team names! That’s always the best part of the IPB leagues. Well that and winning them…both. Oh yeah, I said it!
I hope you’re all prepared to face the wrath of the First Round Rioters! It makes fun of the Habs and also serves as a little hat tip to the Sharks. As in, it’s what I’m gonna do if they flame out again this year…the name really has it all.
My other team’s gonna be The Velour Fog, which probably will make sense to no one except Frisby. But it’s cool. Can’t worry about shit like that, y’know?
I was in HS when the Columbine shooting happened, so the next year they had installed a plan for us in case our school was overrun with gunmen.
Yikes! I had no idea! I wonder if my sister’s school does that.
So 10 years and it’s still going strong? I suppose if the gunmen were actual students in the school, then they would be well aware of this. It’s unsettling, that’s for sure.
The pricipal would come on the PA and say: “The superintendent is in the building…” We were supposed to hide under the desks, shut the lights, and lock the classroom doors.
So, what would he say when the actual superintendent was there? ‘Cause he/she would probably be disappointed to come for a visit and have all the dang kids hiding.
The thought of First Round Rioters actually puts the fear into !!
Fortunately when I’m in round two, I won’t have to worry any more! :D
I like Velour Fog, too, although I don’t know your inside joke on it. I just know of the Velvet Fog.
Andrew, funny, I remember laughing about that at the time. I’m guessing that if he really was there, they wouldn’t bother announcing it anyway, since none of the students would give a shit!
I was in HS when the Columbine shooting happened, so the next year they had installed a plan for us in case our school was overrun with gunmen.
Yikes! I had no idea! I wonder if my sister’s school does that.
Yeah, try explaining that to your Kindergartener.
the First Round Rioters
I love it, andrew! It just says it all! As to the Velour Fog, if only Frisby will understand this then I think it best I not ask. :P
Speaking of Frisby, does anyone know if he has found a new job? Hub was asking about him the other day. Misery loves company, don’t you know.
Oh, dang it! WordPress deleted my phrase that I accidentally put between chevrons.
It was supposed to say “The thought of First Round Rioters actually puts the fear into (team to be named later)!!”
I thought you were just loopy from the cold medicine, Patty.
Yeah, try explaining that to your Kindergartener.
I hadn’t thought about that. I mean, kids can understand the concept of tornados and hurricanes as really big storms, but how do you explain to them a school shooting?
Patty, clearly your team name should be !!. Heh.
First Round Rioters
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AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! The First Round Rioters! That’s AWESOME! (As is, I’m sure, the Velour Fog, but I can’t be certain. :P)
And all these hardcore school disaster-preparedness drills! I’m so impressed! We never had anything like that. And that’s my story.
Ok, it’s not even 2pm here and I’m already going for the Dr Pepper and Cheetos.
This is not good.
I have about a millions emails out to people waiting for answers. How much you want to bet they all wait to 4:55 to respond. :(
Pookie, how about a name like “The game is not over when there are 0.2 seconds still on the clock,” or you can change that to 80 seconds, depending on which of those miserable games you consider the worse.
all these hardcore school disaster-preparedness drills!
In colleges now they send out a mass text warning you of potential dangers on campus. Val got one a few months ago when they thought there was a gunman at Princeton. (There wasn’t.)
As to the Velour Fog, if only Frisby will understand this then I think it best I not ask.
Ha! Yeah, it’s nothing outrageous. Just a Futurama reference. I’m a big fan, same with Frisby. I think Genna was a fan too, but we haven’t seen her around in a while.
It was supposed to say “The thought of First Round Rioters actually puts the fear into (team to be named later)!!”
I figured that’s where you were goin’ with that. No sweat, I always jack up comments with random errors and omittde words. I really should start proof reading my comments.
Five IPBucks to any Devils fan who names their team The First Round Choke Artists Again and Again and Again.
Ha!
random errors and omittde words.
See?
random errors and omittde words.
See?
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random errors and omittde words.
See?
Don’t you hate how there always seems to be a typo in a comment about typos?
Maybe I’ll name mine “Loopy from the Cold Medicine.”
That’s not too many letters, is it?
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I wish! I’m not that clever.
Don’t you hate how there always seems to be a typo in a comment about typos?
Seriously! I just avoid the issue all together by trying for typos in every comment.
Maybe I’ll name mine “Loopy from the Cold Medicine.”
That’s not too many letters, is it?
It would be especially apt if it was cut off!
It would be especially apt if it was cut off!
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“Loopy from the…huh?”
“Loopy from the…huh?”
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I love it!
On the radio right now, the midday dorks and their friends are about to have the first round draft of their fantasy football team. Two of their “friends” are Brad Richards and Brenden Morrow.
I REALLY want to be in that league. Even though I hate football.
Hey, speaking of football (sorry, Patty), NFL kick off is TOMORROW! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Real sports again! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Real sports again! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay for real sports! Boo for the trainwreck that is the Bills potentially getting killed by New England on Monday Night Football next week.
Well, at least it’ll be nice for the Bills to get that out of the way early?
Hi guys! President of the Beards of Bees Team here. All I have to say is that the mandatory company picnic = a Staphylococcus meeting outdoors with fried chicken.
Not much else to report.
All I have to say is that the mandatory company picnic = a Staphylococcus meeting outdoors with fried chicken.
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I’m watching the US Open right now, and they’re showing these giant, unhappy throngs of people waiting for the arena to be opened up after the afternoon session went long. And I’m looking at that unhappy crowd and thinking, “Dude, I would be SO miserable if I was there.” And then I remember, “Oh, right. That’s what happened when we went to a night session two years ago. And that SUCKED.” Ah, memories.
And that’s my story.
Good evening, IPB! I’m having severe creativity block thinking of a team name. And, no, I still have not found a job yet. In fact, I had to go to the unenjoyment office yesterday for an “eligibility review”. This town is just plain fucking dead. I’ve been having a lot of thoughts lately about selling the house and moving back east.
Oh man, Frisby, I am SO sorry about the employment situation. I really hope it doesn’t come to having to move.
And, um, equally pressing, that’s quite a drag that you’re having a team name block. Man, it’s just not going easily for you, is it?