Bucci says OLN logo has to go!

[ROCHitman]

OLN has to change its logo RIGHT NOW. It is the worst on television. Whenever I see it, I sprint to my local supermarket and start compulsively buying three months' worth of produce. When humans see red ovals, they instinctively want to buy squash. There have been hundreds of studies on this. If they don't want to overhaul the logo, some black borders should do the trick.

Again, hockey is a young player's game

[rmackman]

I don't know why but I found this really funny in that article:

Mr. Buccigross,

According to the data I was able to find, the NHL plus/minus mark for all 912 skaters from [the NHL's] last [season] was a minus 313. Now this made no sense, so I tried to figure out how that was possible. This is what I found out.

Plus/minus considers it an EVEN situation when, at the end of the game, the goalie is pulled (since technically this is NOT a special teams situation). I was able to find 189 empty-net goals that were scored last year.

Therefore, since it was technically a five-on-five situation, the regular plus/minus applies. But since the goalie was pulled, it would actually be a six-on-five situation, meaning that there would be an aggregate score of DEFENSE (minus-5) and OFFENSE (plus-6) for an overall total of plus-1. That means the 189 ENG would make the league's overall plus/minus a plus-189. However, if you simply add together the plus/minus numbers of all skaters from the 2003-04 season, their total for plus/minus is minus-313.

What gives? Can you help to answer this mystery? Thanks for your time.

Ray Flowers

My head just exploded.

I just found that funny because I saw a comedian on Conan O'Brien who was doing a skit and basically said in so many words:

"I tried to sit down and watch one of those specials on the Discovery Channel where they tell you some crap about the missing equation in Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The show started at 8, and by 8:03 my brain exploded."

What can I say I'm easily amused.