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Quote from: Jim Hyla on August 27, 2026, 09:00:16 AM

Quote from: Weder on July 28, 2026, 05:51:07 PMDCA Terminal 1 is still a glorified bus station.

The walk to Metro at IAD is better than the walk to the L at ORD, much worse than the walk to the light rail at PDX (about 50 steps from baggage claim, if you've never been).

And as my daughter would say, the walk in any Japanese station is better than any walk here.

Come on and spend some money USA.

The walk from the Narita Express platform at Tokyo station to the surface is not exactly simple.  It's about a mile long and 5 levels deep.  For that matter, Tokyo Station is a maze.  And with almost a million people passing through it every day, it's basically semi-organized chaos.

Quote from: billhoward on August 21, 2026, 01:10:37 PM(One of the stories mentioned cocaine in quantities of "1000 grams," maybe there was no grams-to-kilos conversion table handy.)

Big numbers make headlines.  1 kg doesn't scream BIG like 1000 grams.

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Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 22, 2026, 05:16:57 PMTwo words:  Brock Tredway

Doug Ferguson

Doug, Brock - not bad company!  But how would a 20-something know?

7 is not a forward's number it's a defenseman's number no amount of counterexamples will make me change my mind

Let's go pro:

Phil Esposito
Bill Barber
Ted Lindsay
Brady Tkachuk
Rod Gilbert
Rick Martin
Lanny McDonald
Joe Mullen
Red Berenson

I rest my case.

Bro snuck Brady Tkachuk in there 💀

Yep.  One for you young bucks.   

Hahahaha. Fair.

I still maintain it's a bad look to be under 8 as a forward. And 8 is only acceptable because Ovechkin. I don't particularly like 9 on forwards either ngl. At least it's not 2, like a bunch of the young buck forwards are wearing nowadays. I want to throttle them.

D-men:      2-6, 26-29
Fwds:       7-25
Goalies:    1, 30-35

Quote from: stereax on August 23, 2026, 05:08:05 PMArizona State men's hockey player collapsed during outdoor exercise Thursday, remains hospitalized.

Outdoor exercise when the high temp is over 100ºF?  I wonder what happened.

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Quote from: stereax on August 23, 2026, 01:37:57 PM

Quote from: George64 on August 23, 2026, 08:42:36 AM

Quote from: Al DeFlorio on August 23, 2026, 04:51:49 AM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 22, 2026, 05:16:57 PMTwo words:  Brock Tredway

Doug Ferguson

Doug, Brock - not bad company!  But how would a 20-something know?

7 is not a forward's number it's a defenseman's number no amount of counterexamples will make me change my mind

Let's go pro:

Phil Esposito
Bill Barber
Ted Lindsay
Brady Tkachuk
Rod Gilbert
Rick Martin
Lanny McDonald
Joe Mullen
Red Berenson

I rest my case.

Bro snuck Brady Tkachuk in there 💀

Yep.  One for you young bucks.   

Quote from: stereax on August 23, 2026, 01:37:57 PM

Quote from: George64 on August 23, 2026, 08:42:36 AM

Quote from: Al DeFlorio on August 23, 2026, 04:51:49 AM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 22, 2026, 05:16:57 PMTwo words:  Brock Tredway

Doug Ferguson

Doug, Brock - not bad company!  But how would a 20-something know?

7 is not a forward's number it's a defenseman's number no amount of counterexamples will make me change my mind

Let's go pro:

Phil Esposito
Bill Barber
Ted Lindsay
Brady Tkachuk
Rod Gilbert
Rick Martin
Lanny McDonald
Joe Mullen
Red Berenson

I rest my case.

Quote from: stereax on August 22, 2026, 02:22:48 AM7 is a dman number which is why I'm annoyed a forward has it.

Two words:  Brock Tredway

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Quote from: stereax on August 11, 2026, 02:51:13 PMCut to me confirming the law school break period is October 12 to 16 - likely have to make the trip to Poland again (dentist stuff) in that timeframe... if I leave Ithaca on the 9th and NJ on the 10th... guh, it's gonna be a HARD sell for my mother to leave me in Ithaca by the 16th...

I don't remember having ever been to a scrimmage - I think it's usually scheduled over my fall break and I get dragged off back to Jersey for those. It's not on the Google calendar though. They are public admission like the other games, right?

Your dentist is in Poland?!?!?  I though I was nuts that mine is 10 miles away in Bethlehem.

A man goes

Quote from: scoop85 on August 11, 2026, 04:19:11 PM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 11, 2026, 03:48:41 PM

Quote from: stereax on August 11, 2026, 02:51:13 PMCut to me confirming the law school break period is October 12 to 16 - likely have to make the trip to Poland again (dentist stuff) in that timeframe... if I leave Ithaca on the 9th and NJ on the 10th... guh, it's gonna be a HARD sell for my mother to leave me in Ithaca by the 16th...

I don't remember having ever been to a scrimmage - I think it's usually scheduled over my fall break and I get dragged off back to Jersey for those. It's not on the Google calendar though. They are public admission like the other games, right?

Your dentist is in Poland?!?!?  I though I was nuts that mine is 10 miles away in Bethlehem.

A man goes to his dentist in Warsaw. The dentist sits him down, examines his teeth, and says, "Sir, you have a major cavity, and it's going to cost 700 Zloty to fix." The patient looks shocked, jumps up, and yells, "Seven Hundred Zloty for just five minutes of work?!" The dentist calmly replies, "You're right. If it makes you feel better, I can drill very, very slowly."

dentist in Warsaw. The dentist sits him down, examines his teeth, and says, "Sir, you have a major cavity, and it's going to cost 700 Zloty to fix." The patient looks shocked, jumps up, and yells, "Seven Hundred Zloty for just five minutes of work?!" The dentist calmly replies, "You're right. If it makes you feel better, I can drill very, very slowly."

When an undergrad my chemistry professor was so tight that after losing several lower molars he decided to have a removable bridge (or plate) made rather than spring for a cemented prosthetic.

His dentist built a standard dental plate and fitted it into his mouth and it worked acceptably.

In three months, prof was back at his dentist. The dentist looked in his mouth, and the plate he had just put in was so deteriorated it was beyond repair.

The dentist was shocked that it had only lasted three months, so he constructed a new plate and had stainless steel used as the structural framework.

But again in about three months prof returned to him as the stainless steel plate was corroded and failing.

This time he had the plate made with titanium, but once more it only lasted a matter of months before deteriorating beyond repair.

Totally baffled, he sent prof to a professor of metallurgical professor  who was also a patient to see if he could solve this puzzle.

The professor examined his plate (false tooth bridge) and quizzed the man about his dental hygiene and diet. "There must be something very acidic that you eat a lot of." I know a professor of Food Science and if anyone can figure it out it's her.

So prof went hat (and plate) in hand to visit Dr. Chompowski. He reluctantly handed the prosthetic to her and was peppered by a barrage of diet questions worthy of a moot court cross examination. Her persistence paid off when prof told her this:

"To tell the truth, my wife makes the absolute best hollandaise sauce in the world. I put it on everything."

"Aha!" Chompowski exclaimed, "Have your dentist make you a new plate out of chrome and you shouldn't have any more problems!"

"Chrome?" prof asked, "Why chrome?"

"Because," she replied, "There's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise!"

Wow.

Quote from: stereax on August 11, 2026, 02:51:13 PMCut to me confirming the law school break period is October 12 to 16 - likely have to make the trip to Poland again (dentist stuff) in that timeframe... if I leave Ithaca on the 9th and NJ on the 10th... guh, it's gonna be a HARD sell for my mother to leave me in Ithaca by the 16th...

I don't remember having ever been to a scrimmage - I think it's usually scheduled over my fall break and I get dragged off back to Jersey for those. It's not on the Google calendar though. They are public admission like the other games, right?

Your dentist is in Poland?!?!?  I though I was nuts that mine is 10 miles away in Bethlehem.

Quote from: stereax on August 09, 2026, 09:38:22 PMOh, and my mom has a flight back on Wednesday 😂

And I have a dentist appointment on Tuesday 😂

This is going great...

Fly to Warsaw instead and take the train to Krakow.  You'll have more flight options from Zurich and it's only a 2-1/2 hour train from Warsaw Airport to Krakow.

You'll get there sooner if you miss your connection to Krakow.

Quote from: dbilmes on August 05, 2026, 10:48:00 AMCornell is surprisingly picked to tie with Princeton for fifth place in the Ivy League preseason poll, with Brown just one point behind. There's a huge gap between the top half and the bottom half of the league. Yale is the heavy favorite to win the title.
I can't remember the last time Cornell was picked this high.

I can't remember the last time Princeton was picked that low.

Quote from: stereax on August 04, 2026, 08:32:20 PM

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Quote from: Trotsky on August 04, 2026, 12:19:50 PMDon't link to X.
Don't read the Sun.

Until such point as the three-to-five college hockey accounts all move to Bluesky or whatever the fuck, we're going to be using Twitter.

And stop calling it X. It's Twitter.

Actually, it's now Xitter.

Nope. I refuse to acknowledge that.

You do realize how to pronounce that, yes?

Isn't it the same?

Pronounced "shitter".

Quote from: stereax on August 04, 2026, 06:56:59 PM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 04, 2026, 03:50:10 PM

Quote from: stereax on August 04, 2026, 03:32:46 PM

Quote from: Trotsky on August 04, 2026, 12:19:50 PMDon't link to X.
Don't read the Sun.

Until such point as the three-to-five college hockey accounts all move to Bluesky or whatever the fuck, we're going to be using Twitter.

And stop calling it X. It's Twitter.

Actually, it's now Xitter.

Nope. I refuse to acknowledge that.

You do realize how to pronounce that, yes?

Quote from: stereax on August 04, 2026, 03:32:46 PM

Quote from: Trotsky on August 04, 2026, 12:19:50 PMDon't link to X.
Don't read the Sun.

Until such point as the three-to-five college hockey accounts all move to Bluesky or whatever the fuck, we're going to be using Twitter.

And stop calling it X. It's Twitter.

Actually, it's now Xitter.

Nice to see another Star Alliance flyer.  Newark is also my airport of choice since I live about 75 miles from there - a quick shot up I-78.

I have lifetime gold status on United/Star Alliance, thanks to all those flights to Asia when I was still working. That's good for eliminating bag fees when traveling domestically, and sometimes even internationally, which is worth 80-100 dollars on a given itinerary. I also get to hang out in the lounges when traveling internationally. Plus when you're flying to Asia, like I still occasionally do, having Singapore Air in your alliance is rather nice.  ANA and Thai are also quite pleasant.