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A broken dream haunting in your sleep
Dec. 5th, 2006 11:21 pm
Currently at UW: -5. High today: -2.8. Supposed to be snow tonight; it's looking like a rip-off so far--first band dissolved when it hit the southwestern Ontario peninsula.
Here's a hockey curiosity for y'all, which I know you've been missing since I ended my fantasy hockey career as undisputed champion of the universe. In tonight's Toronto-Atlanta game, the shots, by period, were as follows: 12-7 Atlanta; 17-3 Atlanta; 9-8 Toronto. Atlanta, unsurprisingly, won 5-2--but scored all five of its goals in the period in which it got outshot.
And also from the department of statistical curiosities: at dinner time tonight, I happened to pick up, off the floor of the library's little cafe thingy, a bit of yesterday's K-W Record, which had a column by a guy who was claiming that "a half dozen" of Kennedy's ex officio supporters (i.e., the ones who hadn't been elected to vote for him, and so were free to vote for whoever they felt like on the first ballot) decided that they would vote for Martha Hall Findlay on the first ballot to try to get her ahead of Joe Volpe (maybe because they didn't want to see the one woman finish last; maybe because they don't like Volpe--who knows). That, this story goes, made the difference between third place and fourth place between Kennedy and Dion, since Dion was ahead of Kennedy by four votes on the first ballot. And if Kennedy had been third, and Dion fourth, Dion would have much less likely won, and Kennedy would've kept his outside shot alive.
Here's a hockey curiosity for y'all, which I know you've been missing since I ended my fantasy hockey career as undisputed champion of the universe. In tonight's Toronto-Atlanta game, the shots, by period, were as follows: 12-7 Atlanta; 17-3 Atlanta; 9-8 Toronto. Atlanta, unsurprisingly, won 5-2--but scored all five of its goals in the period in which it got outshot.
And also from the department of statistical curiosities: at dinner time tonight, I happened to pick up, off the floor of the library's little cafe thingy, a bit of yesterday's K-W Record, which had a column by a guy who was claiming that "a half dozen" of Kennedy's ex officio supporters (i.e., the ones who hadn't been elected to vote for him, and so were free to vote for whoever they felt like on the first ballot) decided that they would vote for Martha Hall Findlay on the first ballot to try to get her ahead of Joe Volpe (maybe because they didn't want to see the one woman finish last; maybe because they don't like Volpe--who knows). That, this story goes, made the difference between third place and fourth place between Kennedy and Dion, since Dion was ahead of Kennedy by four votes on the first ballot. And if Kennedy had been third, and Dion fourth, Dion would have much less likely won, and Kennedy would've kept his outside shot alive.
