DVR’s are great, and hockey stuff

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Hockey, Technology
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Published on: February 15, 2006

I would have to say that DVR’s are great things to have. I wanted to watch the hockey games of the Olympic, but since they are on during the time that most people are at work, how can one watch them. Well I have setup the DVR to grab them for me (except for the ones that run during the 3:30pm to 4:30pm time periods, it is because of the bug in the comcast DVR bug) I do have a lot of stuff on the DVR to watch now, but it is going to be fun. I am right now watching Sweeden vs. Kazakhstan.
Also another thing I am looking forward to, a friend of mine, a friend of his, and I are going to go to the March 7 Penguins game.
Finally I have to say that the mens Olympic hockey game seems to flow a bit more like the NHL. I hope to see some good fights in this one, I will admit I like the hockey fights. I know there are some that don’t like the fights, but I love them. I am exicted about a site my friend told me about http://www.hockeyfights.com/ they have stuff about hockey fights, and videos, all I can say is sweet.

Hockey/Olympic warning

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, Hockey, Web Site
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Published on: February 13, 2006

I am going to try to watch as many of the Hockey games for the Olympic as I can, and I will probably blog about them. I am hoping that the US wins both the Women’s and Men’s ones. You will see at first a lot about the Woman’s hockey team since the Men are not playing now. Then after the 20 there will be no more Woman Hockey posting since their games will be over.
Women Olympic Hockey goes from Feb 11 to 20
Men Olympic Hockey goes from Feb 15 to 26
So you will probably see a mix between the 15th and the 20th, but until the 15th it will be only Women’s Hockey, from the 15th to the 20th there will be a mix, then after the 20 it will be only Men’s Hockey.
With thie Olympic’s it will be nice to chear for a team that has a better chance of winning unlike the Penguins this year. But since they are in the last place of the NHL, and if they stay there, they will get the first pick in the Draft for next year.

Canada vs. Russia woman’s Hockey:Olympic

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Hockey
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Published on: February 13, 2006

I am right now watching the Canada vs. Russia woman’s hockey game. I will have to say, I like how the Canadian’s play, they are aggressive and willing to attack the other team. They keep on getting penalties. In the second period one of the Canadians got a penalty, when she sat down in the sin bin it looked like she was laughing, now that is what call a good hockey player. I wonder what the game will be like if the US plays Canada; they seam to be good teams, but different playing styles. I will say that the woman’s Olympic hockey games flow differently then the NHL games. I wonder how the man’s games will flow? I am kind of thinking it might flow the same way that the NHL does, because to my understanding is that most of the players for the different countries are coming out of the NHL to play for their home countries.

The guy that the Vice President Shot

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Hay it is funny, News, Politics
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: February 13, 2006

I was watching Bill O’Reilly and he talked a bit about the guy that Dick Chaney shot. I first Read about this story on unspace and Rob predicted that many would use this as a way to attack the VP, no Rob is not a Republican he (I believe) is a Democrat (as far as I can tell) but I believed he was right when he said that it was going to be used to attack the VP, he made a good point that it is unrelated to what most attack him for, but Rob is right that Mr. Chaney needs to stand up and admit what he did was wrong.
But I am so sick that when I heard a bit more about it on O’Reilly’s show, and heard the guy was a lawyer, a new lawyer joke popped into my head. The joke I came up with is
What do you call it when Dick Chaney shots a lawyer and the lawyer lives?
A nice try but not close enough.
I must here put an apology to my friends that are lawyers I know you are good people but since there are so many lawyer jokes out there it is almost nature to come up with some bad jokes about lawyers. I am such a bad person, such an evil sinner.

Religion and marriage

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
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Published on: February 13, 2006

Rob over at UnSpace has an artical abuot some one that is doing a dissertation on Christian spirituality and marriage. She is has a Questionare up on the web and is asking Marred Christians to fill it out. I am not able to take it since I don’t meet the requierments. Rob as asked if I could post it here, so why not.

What will be said next year?

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff), Pittsburgh stuff
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Published on: February 13, 2006

I know in Pittsburgh we have been saying “One for the Tumb” for so long. Now what will we say next year when the Stealers go to the Super Bowl? Will we be saying “One for the other Tumb”? or what?

Sorry Seattle, we are sorry the Steelers won Super Bowl XL.

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Hay it is funny, The odd, the funny, the weird
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Published on: February 13, 2006

pittsburghdish is running an artical that is a bit of a joke, on Pittsburgh apologizing for the Super Bowl win and “Dan Rooney, who promised to petition NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue to change the record books and indicate that the Seattle Seahawks had, in fact, romped over the Steelers, adding that a score along the lines of 52-10 would an appropriate one to place in the record books” and “Yeah, it’s been obvious to everybody, even myself, that NFL Offices and Commissioner Tagliabue really wanted the Steelers to win it all. I had that suspicion in September, but I wasn’t really certain of it until the playoff game in Indianapolis.”

Added a WPLUG blog Roll here

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, Technology, WPLUG
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Published on: February 13, 2006

For those of you that are WPLUG members, or mailling list members, or regulars at the meetings, etc. I have setup a blog roll, that I am going to list WPLUG people in. I have added any one that is already on Planet WPLUG I have already added you, if you don’t want to be on it, just contact me and I will remove you. If you are a WPLUG’er let me know, also I probably will want to add you.
If you want to add the blogroll to your own blog/web site the code is below
[code]
<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript” src=”http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?r=7f149f9dc0fc4b64a78a0da474252ae3″>&lt script>
[/code]
It will generate the following :

I am going to try it

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
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Published on: February 13, 2006

I am going to turn on comments that don’t have any HTML code in them, will go live, I will do a trial run for the next week or so. If i find that I get to many spam posts that are going live, I will shut down the test, if things go well I will leave it that way.

I have the following two methods going right now, 1) any posts older then 90 days will not permite comments to be posted to the, and 2) I have added a word filter, I have filtered out some of the words that most spam comments share in common. Lets see how this goes.

The US woman’s hockey game

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Hockey
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Published on: February 13, 2006

Well I just finished watching the US woman’s hockey game where they 5-0’ed the German team. Not a half bad game. The one thing I was disapointed in was I did not see any fights, I love fights in my hockey games, but it was still a good game. Next game for them is against Finland. I hope Finland puts up more of a fight then Germany did, I like to see a hard fought game and low scores. But I still enjoyed the game.

US vs Germany: Woman’s Hockey

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Hockey
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Published on: February 12, 2006

Right now I am watching the US woman’s hockey team play against Germany. I am right now in the 2nd period. I will have to say it not like watching the NHL, but it is still a good game to watch. It is nice that during the periods there are no comercials.

Holy Moly: 6 – 3

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Hockey
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Published on: February 12, 2006

This has got to hurt the Washington Capitals. Wow what a way to end this part of the time, I am going to miss hockey for the next few weeks, unless i figure out how to get the Olympic Hockey games. If you are in the Pittsburgh Area, could you let me know what station it is on I would love to watch the Olympic Hockey games (Go USA).
So does any one know what stations the Olympic games will be on? Do I need to order some stations for it, like I had to do for the NHL center ice package, or will it be on the Center Ice Package?
But it was great to see the Pens Finlay win a game.

The Hockey game today

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Hockey
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Published on: February 11, 2006

Right now I am watching the Hockey game, I recorded it on my DVR so I am watching it late. I am still in the first half of the first period, and wow, there was a great fight. I lasted though a drop puck. I am watching the game right now as I type this entry.
There seems to be alot of peanalties in the game.

Dinner with my family

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Family
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Published on: February 11, 2006

Tonight I had dinner with my family, My mother & father, my sister & her husband, and my Aunt Ellen. My sister and her husband are in town from Modling, Austria, and my aunt is also in town from Austin, TX. It was a lot of fun, we were in the restaurant for about 2 and a half hours. I have some pictures here is a picture of the whole gang also for a picture of a picture of my Sister and my Brother-in-law and for a picture of the people that are responsible for my existence (my parents) I think the 6 of us scared the heck out of our waitress. My brother-in-law and I started to crack some nasty geek jokes (about pointers), but unfortunately they are not fit to be posted here.

Kids will always find a way to kill themselfs in an attempt to get a “buzz”

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: February 10, 2006

KDKA is running story about how some kid killed themselves playing some stupid game where they try to chock themselves, in an attempt to get a “buzz”. This is one kid that deserves the Darwin award!!! I am just wondering what kind of brain failure you must have to think that strangling yourself can be fun, it is just idiotic. I feel sorry for the parents of the children that would do this.
This might be funny if it was not true, since it is true it is tragic.

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