For a while it didn't feel like this day would ever come. Yet here we are, and time to celebrate another posting milestone. Unlike last time, the dreaded "I hate you Blogger Beta" timeframe, there have been practically no changes made to the blog over the past 100 posts. What we have had are lots of posts, and I'll crunch the numbers as has become the tradition. Again, the monthly auto-counting saves me lots of time.
In April, I made 31 posts in 27 days, 3 hours, 13 minutes, for a posting rate of one post every 0.8573 days (ie every 21 hours, 0 minutes, 25 seconds). In May, 38 posts in the 31 days for a rate of one post every 0.8158 days (ie every 19 hours, 34 minutes, 44 seconds). In June, so far I've made 30 posts in 27 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes for a posting rate of one post every 0.9157 days (ie every 21 hours, 58 minutes, 40 seconds). In total, we are looking at 99 posts in 85.60 days, for a total posting rate of one post every 0.86 days (ie every 20 hours, 45 minutes, 10.91 seconds). Not bad not bad.
Anyways, now for a look at what exciting posts you could have read here over the past couple three months:Best reads:
- Hockey
- The Oilers had a lousy 2006/2007 season. Even more lousy when they decided to be good at an inopportune moment.
- Whenever an Ontario team suffers, I sing a merry tune.
- I noticed at the start of the postseason how Detroit was poised to make history, by for the first time in their franchise defeating an Alberta team in the playoffs. Calgary sucks.
- Only Harry Neale could make a Greg Louganis joke and bomb. I do the first of many Neale dissections. Here is my second, longer version.
- Schadenfreude is a bitch, which is why I came up with two pie-in-the-sky dreams about how the 2007 NHL playoffs would wind down.
- When the playoffs seemed set to feature two of Edmonton's most hated former players, I tried bringing in a new way to look at it.
- When Ottawa lost, I was happy. I'm sticking to the argument that got me in so much trouble at left-leaning Oilers blogs: I refuse to cheer for Ottawa a month after paying 40% of my income in taxation.
- A Chris Pronger joke, ripping on Bob Cole, and me being right. All things you've seen before, but its always nice for them to all happen at once like this.
- Crime
- I predict the ethnic component of the Virginia Tech shooting. I was close, but not spot on. I also took the time to compare to an incident in Calgary a week earlier.
- I had some further thoughts on Virginia Tech, including a shocking difference between Americans and Canadians...and its not the one you expected.
- Spree-shooters of Korean descent, the ire of privacy laws, and more. A Virginia Tech pot pourri as it were.
- I'm surprised nobody commented on the title for this entry, moreso than tearing apart a memorial to the deceased gunman.
- Sudanese refugees find themselves at the front of another Edmonton double-murder. Why couldn't they escape by coming to a safe city like ours? I take them to task for bringing their own tribal hatreds onto our front lawns.
- Not really hockey related, but Oilers blogger mudcrutch79 takes on the EPS's abuse of power in the Oilers playoff run. I make some comments that are not well received.
- Chris Benoits death occured a few days before Post #800, and a local blogger is found expressing sympathies that after-the-fact seem misplaced.
- Unenvironmental politics
- Why is a Fido ad campaign (which seems now to have ended) feature a relapsed sodomite?
- Belinda's retirement harkened me back to a happier time in days gone by...literally, since just days before I got excited when Toronto was eliminated.
- Another lousy politican who sleeps with questionable men retired in April, and again I celebrate.
- When somebody dies, you sometimes feel bad. When a person responsible for mass genocide dies, only liberals would shed a tear.
- PPolitical bias in our schools? I'll buy that. What I won't buy is the story that I'm on the winning side.
- President Bush is taking a lot of flack this year. But one man is giving him lots of flack with no moral leg to stand on. None. Whatsoever.
- Frank Miller dares to defy the media's inherent left-wing bias, and pays a Bat-price for his Bat-misdeed.
- With the Great Satan (America) being relatively quiet, and the Secondary Satan (Britain) paying a price, and their terror cells in Fifth Cousin to Satan Thrice Removed (Canada) broken up, Muslim terrorists have concentrated on the next Jew-led government trying to bring on a new crusades. Problem is, their choice makes no sense. Lebanon?
- The Great Satan isn't sitting idle though. Are Lutherans going to be the next al Quaida? If not, why?
- A CNN moment in the Republican candidates debate left me feeling a little soured.
- With al Quaida's Lebanon incursions, Palestine seems on the bring of war. Some feel President Bush should do something, and I am inclined to agree.
- Along with Chris Pronger, George W. Bush can apparently be evil and a duck simultaneously.
- Canada's Senate is dealing with an urgent local matter. Sounds about right, no?
- Alberta's liquor laws are soon to be...made worse? I try to stem the tide.
- A dispute over where to put high-voltage power lines has been making big news in Alberta lately. Possible violence at hearings, threats to board members, secret hiring of Private Investigators, angry protests being bussed in from the city...sounds like a great time for a pun.
- Stupid environment
- Allowing vehicles to idle for more than 3 minutes is a crime, according to Edmonton City Council. Forcing dozens of vehicles to drive 50-60 kilometres a trip dead-empty? That's a sensible civic policy. (Both simultaneously is the sort of thing that makes you cry).
- "Canadians willing to pay the price of Kyoto" was a popular headline back in April and May. It's too bad that at the same time the NDP make huge political hay demanding gas price inquiries, and nobody pieces the two together.
- The City of Edmonton sent out a little newspaper to people encouraging them to recycle. It didn't work on me.
- A new blog inspired by CalgaryGrit (who turns out to be from Edmonton) was formed a couple months ago. I had the first comment on it, taking apart some Kyoto-related nonsense.
- Edmonton Transit got new Hybrid busses to help reduce emissions. Unfortunately, retraining some drivers may have helped even more.
- Everybody, with the possible exception of high-profile global warming activists, must pay the costs of reducing our standard of living.
- Comedy & Entertainment
- Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott has left Spacedock for the last time...
- The wrong person won this year's French elections. Not because of policy, or ideology, or personality, but for the humour.
- Cheri O'Teri has a new movie coming out. There's only one reason for me to care.
- As an avid lover of Gwen Stacey, I felt it necessary to criticize her role in Spider-Man 3...for being too large.
- As many of you know, I did mini-reviews for most (soon to be all) episodes of Day Break, despite its mid-season cancellation. The granddaddy of them all, however, was this "live" weblog of the 13th and final episode.
- 'Hip-ster TV' was a bit of a fad in the 60s, and I begrudge what it does to otherwise decent nostalgia-TV.
- While re-watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series) on DVD, I come across a reminder of why the musical episode fell flat.
- There's a new Ramones tribute album out. I
boughter...downloaded it, and nicely graph the impression it leaves up me. - Why do a test with a pop-culture figure when said figure makes such a good pop-culture test already?
- Baseball & other sports
- Women's tennis, as many of you know, is a passion of mine. Mainly because the women are gorgeous.
- Roland-garros' French Open this year had some quality tennis action. Of course, what we really cared about was how the finals failed to compete with the semis when it came to sex appeal.
- The Olympics are coming to London in 2012, and the logo sucks. Especially compared to my idea for Vancouver-Whistler 2010.
- "What inhabits the secondary position"...if Shakespeare wrote the script to "Major Leage 2" it probably would have sucked even more.
- The Cubs have had a wild ride this season. Last week it got even more wild.
- Interleague play is always a treat, because shitty AL teams *cough cough* Blue Jays *cough cough* find they get a sudden boost to their W-L record.
