Seriously .. check it out:  http://www.cjhl.org/sites/3333/page.asp?Site=9963&LeagueID=9963&SeasonID=33&DivisionID=29&page=Players&TeamID=49&PlayerID=4052&Section=Home I wonder what the odds are of there not only being another Brad Lazaruk anywhere, but in Alberta.  Only a few hundred kilometres from here. 

I have to leave a shout out to my buddy S.D. Rhodes who runs bushleaguefactor.com.   I honestly cannot help myself from laughing out loud when reading that site. The primary point of the site is the review and rating of the logos of various minor league sports teams, from hockey and baseball leagues.  But the true gems are in the “Other” section where all bets are off, and all topics are discussed. I just finished picking myself up off the floor from reading “11-11-11”, a comment on the absurdity of people trying to attach significance to November 11th, 2011.   A number of valid points in the post like:   Numerology, for those who don't know, was invented so that even people who believe in astrology would have someone to point and laugh at for being so gullible.   Another of my personal favourites from the site is “My Life of Crime” … My wife and I have embarked on a life of crime. ...

Well, as much as I’m not a fan of Saturday Night Live in recent years they do have moments of brilliance.  Last weekend was one of those for sure. I mean, everyone loves Christopher Nolan’s Batman, right?  And many people love to make fun of Christian Bale’s gravel voice for the Dark Knight, which personally I think is a great addition to the character.  It only makes sense to disguise one’s voice and to use a more intimidating one when one is a costumed crime fighter, no? Anyway, when you add one of my favourite actors, Steve Buscemi, to the mix then this is just comedy gold.  Well done.   Saturday Night Live’s fantastic digital short on Batman’s boundary issues   I have to wonder what the next interpretation of Batman will be like, since Nolan and Bale are finished with the character after 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises.  I’m not sure that anyone could successfully stray too far from this version of the character in the near term.  People who ...

Well I’m a bonehead.   So I’ve been rebuilding and fleshing out my search engine marketing site, http://snapfire.ca.  Recently I discovered some problems with the underlying database and rather than mess around with it too much I just built a new site and moved the sparse content over manually.  Since this site, http://lazaruk.com, is on the same database I had to do the same thing here. I discovered a number of interesting problems during the rebuild and I’ve been trying to post the technical details on Snapfire’s blog.  The emotional details are for here. What a mess I made. After I discovered that I had sitemap problems I took a look at Google and discovered that over the years I had amassed quite a collection of bad links in Google’s index.  Many of the “pages” that Google thought were on my site were old subdomains, like owa.snapfire.ca, or addresses that should never have had a web server answering them, like mail.snapfire.ca. So to clean all these out ...