The post in which I have a bit of a nutty about Google

I was wondering something to myself about Robert "The Chief" Parish, and went to Google to look him up.  I then saw this:

I'm sorry, but what?!  Why oh why did they post THE WRONG KEVIN MCHALE??  I realize that this Kevin McHale is perhaps a bit more popular and in the news but Google... in an article about basketball players from the 80's why in holy hell would you link to an article about the kid from Glee.  Whyyyyy?

So to sum up, Google, when I'm looking for this:

I don't want this:

And end rant.

Day 2 of the 30 Day Song Challenge

I have this whole week off, so I'm hoping to bang out a few of these before going back to work.

Day 2: Your Least Favorite Song

This was also difficult because just like there are so many shitty, awful songs out there. I had even written a note on Facebook a few years back highlighting my top 10 least favorite songs. I reviewed it to see if any stood out for this... and they did. But the question was: which one to choose??

I decided on Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline, for a host of reasons. I've found the simple tune annoying for years. There was all this hype about revealing who the song's about... and it was Caroline Kennedy, which is kind of lame. It's overplayed at Sox games and has NOTHING TO DO WITH SPORTS OR BOSTON. I could go on and on.

So Neil, enjoy this brief moment in the sun and on my blog, because I don't see it happening again in the foreseeable future.

A physics lesson thanks to the Home Run Derby

Whoa...


Bowling was postponed until the middle of the week, since everyone was pretty busy, so I had a night to myself out of the blue. I watched part of the Home Run Derby tonight -- rest day for The Tour, so I had to settle on the oh so lame HRD -- and the science nerd in me got a little annoyed. Okay, really annoyed and might have swore.

One of the commentators at the beginning said the key to winning the Home Run Derby was velocity... but then proceeded to describe speed. This is wrong on so many levels. Let's break it down, shall we?

1. Velocity is a vector.
2. Speed is a rate of motion.
3. Velocity and Speed are not the same thing. At all.
4. Don't confuse science terms in a failed effort to appear smarter than you actually are.

Sigh...

Manny being Manny... and dumb

I'm pretty sure every member of Red Sox nation is feeling large amounts of schadenfreude for this bit-o-news. I can't say I'm particularly surprised by the latest news on Manny. I'd check out the Mass Hysteria blog later on today for some good opinions on it.

What was that, Montreal?

Yeah... thought so.

Things I like from Canada

I'll be honest, for awhile even Arcade Fire couldn't make me stop hating Canada for 20 minutes...


So the near and dear know that for the last week I've been struggling through a huge work project that came out of Canada. I've already worked many long hours to get it done, and today I worked 13 hours. Sufficed to say, I'm not a happy camper right now, especially since I know I'll have several more days of this nonsense ahead of me.

On one of my breaks, I was trying to think of things I like that are from Canada. I don't want to write off an entire country, though I'm very close. I came up with the following list:

--My friend Crystal, of the Knit Freak blog
--Bobby Orr (duh!)
--Arcade Fire
--Kids in the Hall
--My mom's side of the family that lives in Nova Scotia
--Andrew Ference
--Degrassi High School
--SCTV
--Hockey
--Tim Horton's coffee and doughnuts
--Seth Rogen
--Michael J. Fox

(Somewhat unrelated, Back to the Future is definitely a movie I could watch at any time and never get sick of it. While some of the cultural references fall flat, that movie does hold up surprisingly well over the years. And is there anyone cuter than a young Michael J. Fox? I think not.)


And that's literally everything I could think of. And some of those things in that list are a bit of a stretch. If this work project get any more stressful, things might get pulled from that list. I'm looking at you, SCTV.


So yeah... stay tuned for some probably even more disgruntled blog posts in the coming days.

UPDATE!
I just got off the phone with my friend Michnya, who informed me that many good things come out of Canada, including our former college professor/Boston Pheonix writer/one of the greatest mustaches ever, Steve Vineberg. So my bad in forgetting to include Vineberg in my initial post. Here's a photo of the man and his (now shaved off) 'stache.