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Nor do I. My concern was that this thread is strictly for descriptive discussion of one sharpening technology, and, in my experience, getting into a comparative discussion in the same space results in both being derailed. To be honest, I figured that because you'd raised the issue, you might have some info on BFD. I haven't so much as seen a shop with BFD here in Toronto; most Blademaster/Max Edge places are sticking with ROH, and everyone else is going FBV in a hurry. Then again, we are a very peculiar market.

Perhaps you should consult the title of the thread. It may resolve your confusion. Would you care to start a new thread which lays a rational groundwork for such a discussion?

Interesting... I wish I still had my set of Thrust blades to try it on; idiot sharpener ruined them.

What did omega have his done at?

This is from a while back, but it's really been bugging me. Cornell turned down my wife for her DMA in Composition - which in and of itself isn't surprising, since they weren't an ideal fit for a number of reasons, only take one or two people a year, and typically only wunderkindern with hundreds of scores and scores more performances at Carnegie Hall - but their reason for doing so defies, well, reason. After asking around, she found out that she was considered 'too academic.' That was not a description of the style of her music (which is anything but propeller-headed 12-tone abstraction), but of her resume. Apparently Cornell doesn't like its doctoral composers to have radical things like teaching experience, significant research, and peer-reviewed publications. She might still have turned them down, in the end - Toronto offered her a lot more money - but it just struck me as an absolutely idiotic reason to reject someone. She spent more on that one application in time and money - including the fee, a pile of printed scores, and the stupid GRE testing - and all for nought. It also sucks a little for me because I'd rather hit it off with a professor of theirs who is something of a star in the firmament of satiric scholarship. Oh well.

Those are lovely skates. Toe-cap's still too narrow. :P

Didn't get to see the game: who was Caputi paying with, and how'd he fit in?

Like I said, I think the world of Leights, but this is an incredible amount of pressure to put on him. Here's hoping he rises to the occasion as well as he has throughout the season.

I think this may be one of the weird schisms within Hawk hockey/Monkeysports. Goaliemonkey has absolutely no problem shipping USPS; Hockeymonkey seemingly won't, much the way they won't add items from goaliemonkey.com to a hockeymonkey.com order, even if you call in to place the order and the items are ten feet apart. :(

Etymology is the study of the structure and meaning of words - not what they've come to mean through misprision and misuse (connotation), but where they came from, how they're put together, and what they literally mean (denotation). In practise, it's about 10% English grammar, 10% common sense, and 80% foreign vocabulary (it is, after all, our fault for having such a spatchcocked language). For example, "etymology" is composed of the Greek etymos (truth) and logos (word) - so 'the study of the truth of words.' It has, over time, come to connote 'the study of the history of words', since "truth" is a word that is as close to banned as a word can get in academia - it died around the same time PhD's in philology went the way of the dinosaurs and Lily's Latin Grammar. In practise, etymology is about the diligent use of good resources and a strong memory. Very good dictionaries (OED) always contain more or less complete etymologies; poor ones will just list what language the word came from, or nothing at all. Truly complete etymologies can be enormous, essay-length studies; it's a wonderful but truly pedantic field. There are some words in our language that seem to have sprung from everywhere and nowhere. Your course sounds unusually well structured. I can only hope that, apart from F451, it's been a good experience. I have a whole potted state-of-the-language rant which will one day appear in The Venting Spot, but for here and now, I'll confine myself to saying good work and good luck in that course.

If I had my way, the first half of every freshman undergraduate course would be nothing but grammar, etymology, and rhetoric. I'm a prick, I know. I will not, however, defend Fahrenheit 451, which is an execrable piece of fabulation; like Rusty noted, it's not even the best of its sub-sub-species of that particular genre. It tends to get chosen because it's short and critical summaries are readily available, along with a film. It's the kind of book you don't have to read. Congrats, Chadd - I know it'll feel like relief, but that's something in which to feel genuine pride. Getting a celebratory room at a first-class Marriott for 75% off doesn't hurt either. :D

Call Scott Battram. :D

Enthusiasm got the better of me. :(

Oh, those were awesome. Can't find a pic at the moment myself. When the original owner tried to sell them on eBay (he was about to set sail around the world with his wife, and was selling all his earthly possessions), Warner Bros. had the auction pulled for copyright infringement!

Hahahaha Brian's does it again! Here are a couple of their other all-times greats: And a few more from Scott Battram: And the original version of the trapper, which I will admit to liking better:

Ask them to use USPS.

Hah, too much credit -- I was referring to this: Now, he *may* have hit 'C' instead of 'V', but his reply would suggest otherwise. I inferred that Blackstone had not simply widened the flat for the wider goalie blades, but actually had some new shape that involved a flat bottom with rounded sides, as opposed to the straight 'fangs' of FBV edges.

Ah, so he did give Thomas the new 'FBC'.

I don't think it has been, and I'm damned interested in that. The only thing Steve mentioned in the blog is that Tim Thomas is now on FBV - though he didn't say what cut, just that "it is a wicked edge we put him on." (Feb.18) I had understood that they were just intending to widen the FBV cut in proportion to the wider goalie steel (eg. 115/50) - I didn't realise they were actually looking at a different geometry. Who's using the 'FBC' at the Olympics? Personally, I don't think FBV needs to be modified for goalies. I've been using 100/50 and I love it. Oykib's on 100/75 and he's loving that too. The adaptation period was more or less in line with what others have posted: couple hours' hard skating.

Great shots - gotta love #83 cheering you on as you were finishing the guy off. I'm sure it's come up before, but are you a native or an import? edit: nm, looked it up for myself. One other question, though - where does the ENL fit in relative to the EPIHL?

The only other thing I wish they'd included is the full Revoke Pro Zone customisation guide. The only place that has them posted as pictures is Greatskate; otherwise, you need to go through the online customisers (Flash, ugh) and keep clicking on the Help tags to see how each feature works. Not many people have ever actually opened up a Premier Series pad to see what the guts look like, and it's good stuff to know.

We have a lot of problems with reality. I like to think it's charming - which is, in fact, a wish symptomatic of that very problem.

What can you do but admire Lefebvre's work? I'm really impressed with the level of detail in this catalogue. The insight into how the gloves in particular are evolving, the shape of the internals. the offsets and angles at which they're attached - great stuff. It's an incredibly helpful resource not only to sell Reebok gear, but to explain goalie equipment generally to people. I do find it interesting that for the first time in a long time, Reebok has two distinct goal lines: the Revokes with a two-piece cuff on the glove, a refined blocker, and a pad with deeper leg/boot channels, a calf-lock (the 'wing-wrap) and knee/thigh breaks in the vertical roll; and the Premiers with a one-piece glove-cuff, a more traditional Lefebvre blocker, and a stiffer pad (vertically speaking) with shallow leg/boot. This was present to an extent last year, but it wasn't quite so clearly differentiated nor so well explained. I'm almost 100% that my next pair of pads will be Reeboks, and I'm beginning to come around the gloves despite my TPS addiction. What I really need to do is borrow a set from somebody for a while to get a better feel for it; they really are unique in the market.

Remember the 10,000 hour rule: takes that long to become expert in anything. They all passed that years ago, and you're still working toward it.

If the Habs re-sign them at a total (for both) of $8M or less per season for a reasonable term (3-5 years), they could have the best goaltending situation in the NHL. It's hard to pay much less than that for one top-flight goalie and a capable backup, let alone two potential #1 goalies. Halak's stock has risen, Price's has dropped, but they could still both be afforded. Best case: someone throws a huge offer-sheet at one (or both), and the Habs walk away with a boatload of picks.