Wednesday Links

by averagejoe on Jul 8, 2009 6:00 AM CDT

Witty thought here. Let's do it.

Blues news

Camp starts today. Here are the rosters and times. [STLtoday.com]
The kids have been in St. Louis for a bit. Nice. [STLtoday.com]
Erik Johnson and Alex Pietrangelo are skating together. Yes, please. [STLtoday.com]
Another draft pick, Tyler Shattock, is happy to be coming to the prospect camp. [Salmon Arm Observer]
Jeff Woywitka's new fans welcome him to the fold. It's funny: they call him an NHL defenseman. [Defending Big D]

Hockey news

TSN with some hefty coverage of the second wave of Free Agency. Lots of good stuff here. [TSN]
Joe Sakic looks like he's calling it a career. [The Denver Post]
Mile High Hockey pours out some internet 40 for Joe Sakic. [Mile High Hockey]
Brad touched on it Monday -- twitter is changing the game. Excellent piece by Wyshynski at Puck Daddy. [Puck Daddy]
The Leafs have a new goalie who is destined to fail. [TSN]
See ... even the "sane" minds at PPP think he's going to suck. [Pension Plan Puppets]
SYAK: Chris Pronger signed an extension with the Flyers. How long before he is traded again? [TSN]

Other links

From NatetheGreat: "This is the shit." It's not bad, but holy fuck NO ONE can do the Moonwalk. The sound also gets super annoying. [Eternal moonwalk]
Kumar has a real job now. [WaPo]
Some interesting movie/tv auditions. [Unreality]
This text had me laughing for minutes. The friend has the best response ever. [Pic]

Video

From DJ: "Holy shit." Watch the whole thing.

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HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

Don’t they have weather data on modern trains? If the dude/dudette knew there was severe weather in the area, wouldn’t you stop the train and wait it out? Yeesh. But that was fucking nuts.

"The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive." -- W.C. Fields

by Donut King on Jul 8, 2009 10:39 AM CDT reply actions

The dispatchers monitor the weather along train routes.

Apparently (from the story i found), the dispatcher stopped the wrong train…. and this one kept chuggin along.

I about freaked when I saw that tanker car comin down with sparks flying and shit….

"Brad Winchester playing on a line with Perron and Berglund is like the fat kid who you invite to play one day because you didn't have enough skaters, yet you don't have the heart to tell them to leave the next few times you play. Damn you Andy Murray." -Author Unknown

by -DJ- on Jul 8, 2009 12:30 PM CDT up reply actions

two things:
1) why is there even a camera sitting on top of the car filming nothing but the front of the car behind it?
2) it’s crazy you don’t even see the tornado on the video. there obviously IS one but you don’t see a whirlwind at all

"I'm sorry we hurt their feelings"
-Barret Jackman

by Dooks on Jul 8, 2009 1:45 PM CDT up reply actions

Locomotives built within the last 9 or 10 years or so now have one of them "event cameras"....

The camera was inside a locomotive, facing backwards (like you often see with multiple locomotives)

Kinda like in police cars, where it is always recording…. but saves it to a “black box” when a significant event happens (sudden air pressure loss, emergency brake, derail, etc.)

by -DJ- on Jul 8, 2009 3:03 PM CDT up reply actions

That text exchange is hysterical...

… of course, that probably would have been my reaction too. The moonwalk thing was kind of cool until you realized that the guy doing it with his fingers was better than probably 90 percent of the people doing it with their feet. Just leave that one to MJ, ok?

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Jul 8, 2009 11:51 AM CDT reply actions

there were only 6 or 7 good ones: two MJ full dressups and I think the rest wore socks
the fingers, dolls, pets, flipflops, animation, & pulling an object back with string = LAME!!

"I'm sorry we hurt their feelings"
-Barret Jackman

by Dooks on Jul 8, 2009 2:03 PM CDT up reply actions

If you can't do it...

… don’t put yourself on an internet video thinking you can. And if I tried to make my cat moonwalk, you are damned sure Lucy’d chomp me one in protest. Which, again, is probably funnier to watch than those videos. Cool concept, though.

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Jul 8, 2009 3:33 PM CDT up reply actions