Tony’s Journal

Over the past 4 days there was a blog spam explosion. I was getting 25 or so “comments” a day from spam bots advertising various desirable items such as “bulling accusation skulk:multiplexes!marina.stealthily online viagra”. You never saw them because I have it set up so that I have to approve messages the first time a given individual makes a comment; it just sends me an email asking for me to moderate the comments.

So I went and installed a security feature which means that you now have to type in a security code when making comments. If it doesn’t work right, let me know. OK, installed Jason’s idea, the security should be transparent.

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Finally it makes the press. Sabres fans are pretty bad. The funny thing is that they call us rednecks. Yet they are the ones who are hammered, sporting hockey hair that would make Barry Melrose laugh, talking junk to women and children, trying to goad anyone into a fight. They fought, too, and got arrested, some of them at least. There is a fine line between being an enthusiastic fan, and being the kind of guy who will get out of his car and take a leak in the parking lot 20 feet from a damned Port-a-John.

They act like they have any sort of sports reputation to back up. When I think Buffalo sports, I think:

1) OJ the murderin’ running back
2) Wide Right
3) Skins beat them in the Super Bowl (who didn’t?)
4) Kasparaitis beating Hasek to win the series in OT for the Penguins in 2000 (?)

There was actually a message on the JumboTron at the game yesterday:

The Carolina Hurricanes have won as many Super Bowls as the Buffalo Bills

They could have said Stanley Cups, too.

The Sabres are a talented, clean team, but their fans are idiots. I’m glad to see them go home. Unfortunately, half of them live in Cary, and the other half live in their cars. They’re probably still at “home” in their Trans Ams, in the RBC parking lot, wearing wife beaters and shotgunning tallboys of Beast.

Bottom line: Canes won last night.

newsobserver.com | Canes, Sabres fans face off; 6 arrested, 1 hurt

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Played with the new MacBook Pro today at work, and it is pretty nice. Of course, I quickly had to go and install Boot Camp on there, and Windows. Windows actually installed. Drivers work and everything. Even got a BSOD within 10 minutes (tried to use the webcam, guess that’s a no go).

But wow.

This is pretty nice. This is the sort of thing that could sell me a Mac.

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Canes actually just won a series AT HOME.

It was fun. Sat among the high rollers with my brother for half the game, which seemed to be good luck, as we went from 1-1 to up 3-1 during that time. That section is pretty quiet, and there was a guy a few feet from me who was berating the rest of the section for being too quiet. Interesting. I let fly with some WOOOO WOOOOOOs, a few monocles dropped into cocktails, Canes scored a couple goals and everyone went home happy.

So!

WOOOOOOOOO!

WOOOO! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Devils score with 24 seconds left to go up 2-1.

Canes score with 3 seconds left after pulling the goalie to tie it and force OT.

Niclas Wallin scores in OT to win it.

Wooooooooooooooooooooo!

Wooo Woooooooooooooo!

In the ensuing celebration some fat oaf 2 rows behind us fell on the guy one row behind us and broke the dude’s leg like a twig. Not pretty.

But Woooooooooooooooo!

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Raw egg: not good to eat unless you are some Guido who wants to be like Rocky.

Fried egg: delicious.

Scrambled egg: see fried. This is the “oh man being careful with eggs is not my specialty” style of “fried.”

Hard boiled egg: shiny and delicious.

Hard boiled egg a la Tony: done with impatience and the yolk looks raw but is hard and the white is hard on the outside and runny near the yolk and just a terrible disappointment and in fact if this snack was a country it would likely be Iraq especially in light of my decision to keep the rest of them in the fridge hoping that by some crazy-ass unlikely miracle they will cook more in the Frigidaire and my approval rating will go up.

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