Michael P. O'Connor archive
Date : October 2005

Paul Coffey retires

Categories: Hockey
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Published on: October 19, 2005

Fox Sports is running an article on Paul Coffey is retiring, and they retired his original Number (#7). Paul Coffey played for the Penguins I think when he played for the Penguins his number was 77. I remember being at the game where he got his 1000th point in the NHL. He was my favorite[…]

Tropical storm Wilma (will it be hurricane)

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Published on: October 17, 2005

The National Hurricane Center is now tracking Tropical storm Wilma I posted about this before when it was still Tropical Depression 24 The BBC is running a story on how this is already affecting Gas Prices. Now if we get another Tropical storm (or higher) we will be looking at using the name Alpha.

An odd bike tire blow out

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Published on: October 16, 2005

Last night I biked up to my friends game night. After I had been there for 1 or 2 hours, with the bike just sitting outside, we hear this loud popping noise. I bikes tire had just popped, and this tire was just put on last month, and had no patches on it. Well when[…]

Tropical Depression 24

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Published on: October 16, 2005

The NHC is now tracking tropical depression 24. If this turns into a Tropical Storm it will get the name of Wilma, which is the last name in the list of names for this year.

Game night at a friends house

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Published on: October 16, 2005

One of my friends from work, Patrick Wagstrom, had a game night at his house, with some of his friends from his church. He also invited me. It was a good time, played a few good games, and meet some new people. I should have a game night at my APT some time in the[…]

WPLUG Nominations Meeting

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Published on: October 15, 2005

WPLUG just had the nominations meeting today, we have 13 people running for office, there are 5 slots to fill on the board. I think it is nice we have that many people running for the board. The election is on Nov 5, 2005. If you are a member I would encourage you to be[…]

WPLUG Nominations Meeting, Saturday October 15

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Published on: October 14, 2005

Tomorrow is the First ever Nominations Meeting for WPLUG, we are going to be working under the new bylaws that the group has come up with. If you are a member of WPLUG, if you are you know who you are, I would say go, and run for the board.

The Penguins game

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Published on: October 14, 2005

What a game. Sadly I was wrong (When I said I think the Pens would win by 1 point) the Pens lost 5-6. But there was this goal that was just unbelievable, face off at center ice, Talbot won a face off (score was 4-5) he fired the puck to the other side of the[…]

I am not the only one that is hopeful for tonights game

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Published on: October 14, 2005

Igloo Dreams is running an article on how he thinks the Pens will win tonight. I will have to agree with him, the Pens have not won yet but they have fought hard so far, this could give them the one win to break their losing streak they are on. I hope Mario does not[…]

Predators vs Coyotes

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Published on: October 14, 2005

This game was a great game, the Coyotes were losing during the 3rd period, then on a 5 on 3 power play the make a goal that ties up the game. At the end of OT it was still tied at 4-4. It was a great game to watch, allot of good hockey being played[…]

The Pens game tomorrow

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Published on: October 14, 2005

Tomorrow the Penguins are playing the Fliers. As I look at the stats at this time, I am thinking it might be a close game. But (maybe this is just wishfully thinking) I am going to go with Pittsburgh with the win, but they will only win by 1 point. I am wondering what my[…]

Podcasts

Categories: Technology
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Published on: October 14, 2005

I am finally starting to get caught up on my podcasts listening. As of 3 days ago I had 2.4 days of audio to listen to. I am now down to 1.2 days of audio. I hope to have it down to less then a day by the end of the day tomorrow. I also[…]

Email Humor

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Published on: October 13, 2005

Reposted from the wplug mailling list (with a bit of editing to give credit to who wrote what.) But some what funny. Duncan Hutty wrote: >>Michael P. O’Connor wrote: >> What is wrong with sports? I will also admit when I was younger I >> played Hockey. > > Nothing, in the privacy of your[…]

Apple unveils video iPod

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Published on: October 12, 2005

I guess the rumors were right. I wonder will this mean that apple will be soon selling movies though the iTMS, if they do I guess they will have to rename it to iTS (iTunes store) I wonder what the prices will be, and will we be able to burn them to DVDs so we[…]

Nicknames

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Published on: October 12, 2005

A internet friend of mine, simdan has a post on nick names. So I think I will post a post on same thing. So here are nick names or handels I have been known by Computer related ones mpost4 mpo mpop PrgLnx mpoas Ones in real life CrazyMike kb3hcg There they are, not many in[…]

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