How To Beat The Devils
The Devils have gone from mildly upsetting to tragic. It’s Shakespeare on ice without the clever anachronistic puns. It hurts to watch, like the guy who wipes out on the ski jump slope during the intro to “Wide World of Sports” for those of you alive in the 1970s. Here is the young person’s guide [...]
Content Shuffle
I’m moving all of the non-work related content from my Sun Microsystems blog over to the Snowman, mostly to separate personal stuff and give it a long-term home. So you’ll see about 300 new blog entries show up, but none of them very recent — search, category results, tag results, and some cross-references will play [...]
Pain and No Gain
I haven’t written about the Devils since mid-November because frankly, there wasn’t much to write about through the end of 2009. They were playing well, scoring goals, coming up big on defense, and Niclas Bergfors was making a bid for the Calder Trophy. A short stint as the best team in the NHL, a nice [...]
Everybody Skates New Jersey Weekend
This weekend is a big one for USA hockey: it’s the annual Hockey Across America when USA Hockey stimulates interest in the sport, from youth to professional levels. With the Vancouver Olympics a mere two weeks away, there’s palpable excitement about hockey around the world. Next week also brings the beginning of February, the start [...]
Channeling Relief to Haiti
Local tragedies have a way of uniting us globally. I was first made aware of this when Roberto Clemente, much beloved Pittsburgh Pirate, was killed in a post-earthquake aid and goodwill ambassador role in his native Nicaragua. All of baseball mourned #21, who was just responding through the goodness of his heart. This week’s disaster [...]
Bagel Topography
I have often wondered why it’s impossible to find a good bagel west of Pittsburgh. Some argue it’s the water, and that only the Eastern seaboard has appropriate quantities of bacteria and minerals in the water to make a good, pluchy bagel (If you need a definition of pluchy, imagine a really chubby baby’s feet. [...]
Kosher But Imaginary
Those of us in the six-pointed faith love to argue. We argue about what we’ll eat, and when, and where, and sometimes even with whom we’ll break challah. The Old Testament is accompanied by sufficient volumes of discussion, debate, dialogue, dissection, dissent, and rabbinic dissin’ to make Jay-Z blush: It’s the Talmud, not to mention [...]
How Not To Do Yoga
About a month ago, I started going to yoga classes with my wonderful wife in an attempt to regain some flexibility, perhaps slowly get back into “skating shape” and just enjoy a little adult time with my spouse. It’s been fun, mostly because our yoga instructor is patient, tolerates my constant chatter, and will let [...]
Island Heat: B’s Chutneys
My nose has been running for nearly an hour. Too much information, and certainly not food-related, you think? The root cause of the gentle stinging, near numbness and heightened sense of individual molecules passing over my tongue is a mere teaspoonful of B’s Mango Chutney, direct from Orient Bay, St. Martin. Clockwise from upper left: [...]
The 2009 List
It’s that time of year again. And what a long, strange trip of a year it’s been. Some thoughts from 2009: Work moment.Trip to India in April, at the tail end of a tour that took me to Mexico City, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Bangalore. While meeting with the technical managers in the Bangalore office, someone [...]