A weblog about stuff and junk by Jake Sutton
The NY Islanders have signed goalie Rick DiPietro to a 15-year, $67.5 million contract. One NHL GM calls the deal “Crazy. Just (expletive deleted) crazy.”
I have to agree. Rick (for whom I actually have a bit of fondness, since he played at BU) has yet to really prove himself in the NHL, and the protection a contract like this offers the team (against the growing salary of a star player) isn’t worth the risk of the player being a flop.
Just (expletive deleted) silly.
Good News: I’m on vacation for two weeks starting today. The Wife and I will be doing our annual road trip to LA to see her brother Chris. On the way, we will hook up with his S.O., Kate, who is in Vegas working on Ocean’s 13. We’ll be hanging out in Los Feliz for a week with no specific plans - just maxin’ and relaxin’.
Bad News: It seems like work always has some kind of upheaval when I go on vacation. Last time we were acquired by a major corporation and the deal was finalized and announced just as I was leaving. This time we (just our office, not the major corporation) had a “10% workforce reduction” yesterday. It’s a major hit to the psyche of the remaining workforce, I’ll tell you that much. On a personal (and professional) level, I’m super bummed they decided to eliminate Matt’s position in particular. I’m not worried about Brozo - he’ll land on his feet without a doubt, but I’m gonna miss having him around day to day for sure.
Holy crap! (The Waxy article is SFW, but the links thereafter are not.)
Don’t be an idiot on the intarweb, kids. That’s good advice for both the people who respond to “casual encounters” ads (never use real names, work emails, etc. dummies) and for those who would bait them — This Jason Fortuny guy’s just begging for a beating (at least).
It only took me 5 months to get to it (and through it) after Ed recommended that I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. (I had a couple books higher in the queue, and I read terribly slowly these days.)
It’s really a great book and really a great relief to me that, all-joking aside, I definitely have very little in common with the Autistic. 
Seriously, though, read the book. More diligent readers than myself can easily plow through it in a day or so.
… this is still the coolest video I’ve seen in a while.
“The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.”
These are the songs my iPod regaled me with on the way home today:
And somehow I feel less confused than these gals seemed to me.
(And yes, I am blessed with a very short commute.)
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