Some fun stats involving Montreal teams from the first 23 games of the year (borrowed from SportsCenter):

Canadiens: 49 goals (2.13 G/game)
Expos: 41 runs (1.78 R/game)

Scored 3+ times in one game:
Canadiens: 9
Expos: 6

Times they've been shutout:
Canadiens: 3
Expos: 6

And lastly:
Barry Bonds: 10 HR, 36 BB
Expos: 10 HR, 45 BB

Most of us probably don't have TiVo, but I learned at work today that they are one of the many companies that sell data. TiVo knows what people watch, what they rewind, how many times they watch something, and they sell data about when people skip commercials.

According to TiVo, 75 percent of users who watched the Grammys also watched the commercials, while only 39 percent watched commercials during Friends.

Man... I drove by the Ben & Jerry's on Shattuck today... it was 6:30, but the line was still 200 people long.

Maybe I'll check out Baskin Robbins tomorrow night, but I don't think I'm gonna wait half an hour for a scoop of ice cream.

Allen's getting a Honda Accord today, so now all 3 of us at Emery Bay 6120 will have Accords. And Sammy Sohn has a Civic, which I suppose is fitting, since he lives in our apartment on weekends.

Now that manager Felipe Alou wants 3B Pedro Feliz to play everyday, this is the 2004 San Francisco Giants "optimal" lineup:

Position, Name, projected 2004 Value Over Replacement Player
2B Durham 28.8
1B Snow 4.0
CF Grissom 6.1
LF Bonds 105.9
3B Feliz 4.7
RF Tucker 0.3
C Pierzynski 22.5
SS Perez -2.6

You'd think that a team with The Best Hitter Ever, In His Prime would be better than average. But it isn't, because it'd be better to start 6 average players than Bonds and the 5 replacement players named Grissom, Feliz, Snow, Tucker, and Perez.

Put another way, if you replaced Bonds with an average player you'd have about the same production as the 2003 LA Dodgers.

Some of the songs included in Blender's "Worst 50 Songs Ever" (all of which had to be considered a hit at the time):

1. We Built This City Starship 1985
2. Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus 1992
3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung 1986
5. Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice 1990
7. Don't Worry, Be Happy Bobby McFerrin 1988
9. American Life Madonna 2003
11. Invisible Clay Aiken
33. Barbie Girl Aqua
39. She Bangs Ricky Martin
41. We Didn't Start the Fire Billy Joel
48. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da The Beatles
49. I'm Too Sexy Right Said Fred
50. My Heart Will Go On Celine Dion
Your Body Is a Wonderland John Mayer

More Google pranks:

The following are found after typing in the phrase and hitting the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button:

anti-war peace protesters
weapons of mass destruction
miserable failure
Elmer Fudd
elgoog

Too bad we don't live in Maine or Massachusetts... if we did, we'd have the day off school or work because it's Patriots Day, which recognizes Paul Revere's ride of April 18th, 1775, and the subsequent battle of Lexington and Concord.

Some of today's Patriots Day sporting events:
-Boston Marathon
-Yankees/Red Sox afternoon game in Fenway Park
-Game 7 of the Canadiens/Bruins series (first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs)

Thanks to James Song:



You'll need to hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button for this to actually work.

I'm home right now because I'm using one of my sick days (and yes, I'm actually sick.)

Anyway, our apartment got the scare of the century when Allen noticed that we weren't getting some of our cable channels... no ESPN, no MTV, not even ABC or FOX.

WHAT ARE WE TO DO? How is it possible to live without quality programming such as the 1,000,000th rerun of Seinfeld, the 1000th rerun of the 2003 World Series of Poker or the 50th rerun of The Real World - San Diego?

Well, fortunately for us this didn't last too long... our cable came back within the hour...

Search phrases that direct you to my blog (it's within the first 10 links of a Google search):

"portality"
"tommylee blog"
"tommylee xanga"
"ficb blogs"
"ficb pictures"
"ficb websites"

Some phrases that don't:

"tommy lee blog"
"tommy lee xanga"
"ficb links"
"ficb xangas"

Top 10 finishers at the 2003 World Series of Poker:

1) Chris Moneymaker, $2.5M
2) Sam Farha, $1.3M
3) Dan Harrington, $650K
4) Jason Lester, $440K
5) Tomer Benvisitsi, $320K
6) Amir Vahedi, $250K
7) Young Pak, $200K
8) David Grey, $160K
9) David Singer, $120K
10) Phil Ivey, probably around $100K

Books written about The Simpsons:

The Simpsons and Society: An Analysis of Our Favorite Family and Its Influence in Contemporary Society
The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family
The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh of Homer
Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture

Line of the day:

-- -1 9- -- -- -1 7- 1- -4 6-

So you're asking, "What the heck is this? The visiting and road inning-by-inning scores of a game at Coors field? Some weird programming language that uses dashes and numbers?"

Nope. Believe it or not, these were the first 10 frames of my bowling performance last night, for a score of 29.

Twenty-nine. And scary enough, I was actually trying for all 10 frames. I wasn't experimenting throughout the game and trying to put a weird spin on the ball. And it's not like this is the first time I've ever bowled in my life. I've gone at least 30 times, and 5 times within the last 4 months. I'm not very good, but I usually average about 85.

What happened was that I was hitting the right gutter with remarkable precision. Maybe I was celebrating the start of baseball season, subconsciously living out my dream of being a side-armed major league pitcher, and trying to hit the right corner. I don't know. But this plague followed me into the next game, too, because I followed up the 29 with a 47.

Maybe I contracted Steve Blass disease.

If you're in the Thursday night YAG small group, you'll know why Ben and Connie's engagement story is the link of the day.

All I can say is that I'm far, far away from that point in my life.

Another CNN headline:

Punk'd is returning for another season

Is this just an April Fool's day prank? We'll found out...