Showing posts with label picture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label picture. Show all posts
Concentra Urgent Care Facility & Bar
Only in Wisconsin can you find an urgent care health facility which is literally connected to a bar (click image to enlarge):
Meet your Blackhawks through Christmas Jingles
1:15 - Brent Seabrooke
1:40 - Joe Quinville
2:15 - Patrick Sharp
2:17 - Johnathan Toews
2:20 Dustin Byuglien
2:50 - Cam Barker
2:59 - Andrew Ladd
3:00 - Cristobal Huet
3:05 - Duncan Keith
3:50 - Brian Capbell
3:52 - Patrick Kane
Goodell Suspends Henry 4 Games For Being Dead
Football players dying while under contract with an NFL team cannot be a positive reflection on the football business. I'm sure Roger Goodell contemplated giving Henry a 4 game suspension for violating the player code of conduct agreement. You know, up until he realized that the dude is currently serving an eternal suspension from life.
I bring this up based on the video of Chris Henry's funeral proceedings featuring family, teammates, friends, and Roger Goodell. I find this overly hypocritical of him to show up. Goodell considered kicking Henry out of the NFL all together, and now he shows up to his funeral as a representative of the league. Clearly he had no relationship with Henry, outside of fining and suspending him out of loads of cash. His appearance is just for show, to give the impression that the NFL cares about it's players, which it does not.
They have manipulated the results of an "independent" study on the effects of football on neuronal degeneration in retired players that has lead to several embarrassing resignations from the committee. They also had that long lasting union fight with veterans of the league where the NFL refused to play pension and medical expenses of their retired athletes suffering from depression, dementia, and probably diarrhea. The 3 D's.
I doubt Henry would have wanted Goodell at his funeral. I can understand paying respect to someone you used to be close with, even if things went sour. But Goodell is a corporate supremacist, who in my opinion has levied unjustified punishments for minor violations. Never forget that rules and law is never right or wrong; they are just standards put in place by old geezers in suits to make their lives easier.
Google Chrome Goes Incognito
Today I stumbled on one of Google Chrome's features called "going incognito". Basically it allows you to open a new window that will not record your browser, search, or cookie history. No longer will you have to go to delete your viewing history, after doing whatever it is you do. This will certainly make my life easier. No longer will I have to feel self-conscious when I go on those freaky-deaky Japanese websites to look at those sexy, never before seen...cell phones. I admit it, I'm a cell phone degenerate. Those curves and the blond, brunette, and red exteriors drive me crazy. Although Google Chrome is by no means a perfect system. As stated on their info page, going incognito does not protect you from people standing behind you. Good luck deleting that
Smells Like Mascot (Color Version)
Sexy Rexy here. In the spirit of stealing comics from the very funny Carl Skanberg, author of the Smells Like Mascot blog (seen right), here's my favorite recent post.
Possibly the worst call in baseball history
There is no bigger proponent for an automated strike zone than I am. If we can develop a system to make every call on the baseball diamond automated, I would be in support of that as well. I just feel the quality and talent of major league baseball would be enhanced if the hitter and pitchers actually knew what the strike zone is on a daily basis, instead of having to guess what it will be mid-game. Baseball is the only major sports were there are no subjective calls. There are no fouls or penalties that need to be classified. Everything is binary. Ball/strike, safe/out, fair/foul. The only subjective thing umpires have to do is determine whether to eject the manager after making a horrendous call on the field. Why add extra variables to such a simple system?
In the ALDS series better the Yanks and the Twins, Joe Mauer hit a fly ball down the left field line, that clearly landed fair by a wide margin as seen on the still picture. I say this is the worst call because in the playoffs, there are 2 more umpires down each line to make sure calls like these are accurate. Nice job getting your only call of the entire day wrong.
