It's just disgusting. Sometimes things can get out of hand and get real ugly, real fast. Vancouver Canucks star forward Todd Bertuzzi committed a nasty act on Colorado Avalanche's Steve Moore, who had a somewhat questionable hit on Markus Naslund two meetings ago. I was going to link to a video, but that link doesn't seem to be working anymore. Anyway, already down 8-2 on an already hideous hockey game, Big Bert grabbed Moore's jersey as they were skating down the ice and clocked him in the side of the head with a big right-hander. Moore's body seemed to slump right after, and I think Bert was trying to get on him after the punch. Moore's head tilted down, and his body followed suit, with Bertuzzi coming down on top of him from behind. Moore goes head-first into the ice, with most of Bert's weight on top; probably made worse by having another Avalanche player jump on Bertuzzi giving him a few shots. Blood spilled from Moore's head as he lay there unconscious and motionless. Then the medical staff poured onto the ice, and eventually wheeled him away on a stretcher. It was a sick thing to watch.

Bertuzzi's suspended indefinitely until the league gets a chance to review the event, and he's also being investigated by Vancouver RCMP for criminal assault. I hope he gets it. I know he didn't intend to do that much damage, but even a cheap-ass sucker punch from behind (when you're that big and that strong) is uncalled for. That shit's just not right. Anyway, he gets his NHL hearing on Wednesday.

Moore, on the other hand, is staying at the Vancouver General Hospital after suffering a concussion, 2 cracked vertebrae, and a broken jaw. I already felt sorry for him before this happened, because he was the target of the Vancouver bench since two games ago. I didn't even think the hit on Nazzy was really intentional, even though Naslund did miss 3 games with a concussion. Each shift he was on the ice, he had challenges. Takes the game to a whole new level, does it. Anyway, I hope he's able to recover quickly, and won't have to end his career this way.

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I've been dreaming a lot lately. Basically, dreams every night. I wonder what they mean. They aren't weird cryptic dreams of floating elephants, of falling, or of being chased. They situational. They involve people I know, or sometimes people I don't. Occasionally there are social gatherings, other times just other events or activities. The fact that I'm dreaming means that I haven't had a good deep sleep in some time, which is a little frustrating, because I know I'm tossing and turning through the night. I wonder if they are signals of the things my subconscious believes lacking in my life -- things my conscious mind aren't admitting to. Maybe it's time to take some drugs.

I went for an eye exam today, and decided to visit a new optometrist. Since it was my first visit there, I had a dilation done, which involved putting some drops in my eyes to relax the pupils, so that the optometrist could get a better look into my eye. Essentially, when your pupils are dilated, they are more or less in the state that they will be when you're 55 years old. It takes a while for the drops to take effect, and I was told I would have blurring and sensitivity to light. After 10 minutes, I didn't feel much different... until I noticed I couldn't read close up! I couldn't focus on letters closer than about 15 inches from my face. Totally trippy!! But it's different, farsightedness and nearsightedness. Nearsightedness has far objects blurred. Farsightedness doesn't blur close objects, but you can't focus properly on them. I guess I'll have something to look forward to when I'm older. Bifocals or reading glasses.

Now THIS is the most lop-sided highschool basketball game I've ever heard of. 96-point differential. Ouch. I thought school sports was supposed to be as much for fun as for competition.

Vancouver Sun, March 4th, 2004
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BROOKSWOOD 113 CALEDONIA 17

The No. 1-seeded Brookswood Bobcats of Langley established a tournament single-game scoring record with their victory over the No. 16-seeded Caledonia Kermodes of Terrace. The Bobcats connected on 51.2 per cent of their field goal shots and were 47.1 per cent from the three-point range as they eclipsed the scoring record of 104 points, set by the New Westminster Hyacks on March 4, 1987. Brookswood's Grade 12 post Danica Boyce led the scoring parade with a game-high 23 points despite playing only 18 minutes as head coach Scott Reeves went with his bench players most of the second half. Boyce was joined in double scoring figures by six teammates -- Candace Morisset (13), Kendra Carrie (12), Sasha McKinnon (11), Kelsey Adrian (11), Niki McKay (11) and Tara Watts (10).

Vancouver weather is ridiculous. Yesterday, the sky was clear, the sun was out, and Vancouver was looking much like the pictures I look of SFU two days ago. Today, it was raining and dark. Up at SFU, it was foggy and there was a little bit of snow on the grass. Silliness.

I think the best way to live without regret is to not make any bad decisions. What do you mean, "it's not that easy"? Good decisions are made by taking a step back, thinking about the options carefully, and not letting your feelings get too much in the way. Small things are the least to worry about. You can make a bad decision there and not care about the consequences. I've made some bad stock purchases in my life, and those sucked. But I'll live and they don't affect me now. Small. Life decisions aren't so forgiving. How do you pick between your wants and needs when they conflict? Even more confusing are your needs and must haves. To me, there is always the obvious right choice and then the other choice, which is staged by sentiments and feelings. But with enough persuasion, your feelings will learn to accept the "right choice". Or not. But then again, I'm a cold person whose decisions are driven by my brain and not my heart. I don't care about the wishy-washy part.

Tim Horton's versus Krispy Kreme: The Hole Story on Donuts

Everything reminds me of Krispy Kreme donuts after wolfing down as many as I did, from the smell of the Chinese medicine on my friend's injured ankle (smells like the maple dip) to the Jones Cream Soda (which tasted like the original glaze). Sigh...

Since more than half of this blog's readers are SFU Alumni (a good number of them Engineers), I figure most people haven't been to SFU's Burnaby campus in a while. To continue with my posting earlier today on changes at SFU, I took some pictures of the on-going development. The first image is a map of SFU with arrows indicating the location and direction of the photos below (in numerical order). Here's a brief description of what I see driving around the top of The Hill:

• Last year, a through-road was paved from University Drive directly to B-Lot. This makes getting to B-Lot less round-about (photo 1). The end of the bottom lot, where most engineers parked, has a new flight of wooden stairs (photo 2), possibly temporary.


• The Pit was covered and excellent lighting installed (photo 7). There's no echo like we used to have, and it's more study conducive. The grad area is now a computer lab, housing 30 fairly new PCs (photo 8).


• With the Pit covered, offices are being built on the floor above (photo 6) -- a 3rd floor is being constructed on top of that (photos 3 - 5).


• A new building is going up above B-Lot (photos 9 - 11). I wonder if this is the new CMPT building.


• A couple large complex is being built for UniverCity, just down from the Water Tower (photos 12 - 15).


• A number of large residential buildings and a dining hall are under construction in SFU Res (photos 16 - 18). I wonder if they're going to have underground parking, because the buildings eat up some of the small parking lot already there.

The map.
B-Lot Parking [1 - 2]
The ASB [3 - 6]
The Pit [7 - 8]
Above B-Lot [9 - 11]
UniverCity [12 - 15]
Residence [16 - 18]

Looking for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts?

I noticed in my blog tracking that there's been a recent gush of hits referred by search engines... all with the same search keywords.

In google, try looking up: "krispy kreme delta bc" and see who's site is the first to return!

Okay, since most of you are probably trying to find the address to Krispy Kreme in Delta BC, I'll do you the favor and post it here:

Krispy Kreme, Scottsdale Centre
7153 120th Street (at 72nd)
Hours: ?? - 12am
[opened Tuesday Feb 24th,2004 at 5:30am]

There's a McDonald's nearby if it's any help. The KK store has a spotlight that points up in the sky. Very visible on cloudy days.

Now go stuff your face. ... and drop a comment if you actually came here looking for directions to KK. :)

It was a gorgeous day up at SFU today. The sun was shining, the clouds were few, the sky was solid blue, and everything was so perfect that you'd forget it was the first day or March. However, the smell of tar filled the air in certain areas of the campus, and it's hard to ignore the noise of construction, the unsightly construction vehicles, half-made buildings, and the butt crack of your nearest construction worker. SFU is getting a major upgrade. UniverCity is happening big time.

UniverCity: The Community at Simon Fraser promises to enrich the lives of SFU students and create a living society up on Burnaby Mountain. To be honest, it's pretty cool! I took a flip through the UniverCity Development Guildlines which will give UniverCity a clean and simplistic look and feel. I'd be pretty excited to see what the campus looks like between now and 2010. It will give SFU the kind of environment it's always lacked and that UBC has always had. Change is good.