Lots of excellent advice here, especially the “don’t give medical advice when you’re not an expert” point. Between family members and friends, I’ve been involved in numerous instances of gravely ill people, and I’ve always been horrified by the number of people who think that one sorta-kinda-almost the same illness in…

I’ve been very happily married and off the market for a looooong time.

Swedish Chef or GTFO.

I think there’s now a ton of pressure on Seattle. Wasn’t part of their entry deal that they would get the same expansion draft rules that Vegas did? If so, and if they turn in the more typical expansion team performance, the Vegas mythos will hit warp speed.

This is about as clear an example as one could imagine of an organization that is faced with a very serious issue they [1] have no clue how to handle, and [2] didn’t do nearly enough to reach outside the org to get help in handling. One of the worst things individuals or organizations can do is fail to recognize and…

I’m in a weird place right now with hockey. The teams I hate all either missed the playoffs or have been eliminated, and none of the teams I like are still alive, either. So I have no real emotional investment in last three matchups. But the one thing I’m rooting for is Vegas to make the finals just so we can see what…

I’m a big fan of on-demand water heaters (even when they’re not on sale), but for anyone considering buying one of these: PLEASE make sure you can have it installed without costly electrical work, and that you have access to a first-rate electrician. The larger unit listed above pulls 112.5 AMPS, which is, in…

I’m a big fan of on-demand water heaters (even when they’re not on sale), but for anyone considering buying one of…

I confess that I expected “furiously” in the title to be hyperbole, but I was both delighted and horrified to find out it was appropriate.

And this, right here, is why I come to this site.

Keep it up, NHL. This is exactly the kind of BS that helps you slide from 4th to 5th among US sports quicker than you can say, “he should have kept his head up.”

Of all the “major” sports, hockey is more ruled and ruined by its “traditions” than any other. Lack of rules about head/face protection is just the most obvious example. It’s almost hard to find an NHL game without at least one player or official getting slammed in the face with a stick or the puck. Why??? They could…

Twelve hours? How about shortening it to: “Dial it WAAAAY back you bunch of morons, or you’re fired. Now get the hell out of my sight.”

Speaking as a lover of red wine, let me add one more point: Make sure you let the wine breathe. This varies greatly with the exact type of wine, but reds need more time than whites, and some reds need WAY more time than other reds. In particular, many of the cheaper reds I’ve had benefit the most from at least 15…

Let me add the usual caveat: Please Google around and find a signal map that tells you how far away/strong various transmitters are. And even then, you can be in a dead zone for transmitters that are, say, to the west thanks to hills.

Let me add the usual caveat: Please Google around and find a signal map that tells you how far away/strong various…

I very often have to haul my “data bag” to another location, so I wrestled with this before coming to a reasonable compromise. My current setup aside from laptop, eyeglasses, etc., is a pair of 2TB bare drives. One travels with me and gets plugged into a drive dock which stays at location 2. The other stays home and…

I will now spend 8 to 10 hours online trying to find something better than that comment, and I will fail.

Seriously, who expects better than this from the NHL? I don’t.

We are headed toward hockey journalism armageddon. Specifically:

The NHL (and other major leagues) will do something substantive and positive on this front when they are forced, and not a moment sooner. The NHL is held hostage by the Old Guys who worship the way the game was played decades ago. Until there’s a change of leadership or they lose one hell of a lawsuit, they will…

I’m a hockey fan, and about the only thing I hate more than this kind of “code” and “grit” BS in games is the endless debates about it. I think it’s blatantly obvious that the NHL will never push this idiocy completely out of the league, simply because they’re too scared of the loss of fan support in the short run.…