If I had to give her a grade for her efforts, I’d give her a “B”.

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All hope seems to have been lost, but the Sharks rallied, and won in game 4 of the Dallas Stars vs San Jose Sharks playoff series.  Thanks to Patrick Marleau who scored a shorthanded breakway goal in not one game, but two games straight.

The puck doesn’t seem to be bouncing in the way of the Sharks, and even the Dallas Stars in interviews have been admitting that if the luck had went the Sharks went just a few times, that the series would probably be 3-1 for the Sharks.

I really hope the Sharks win, because i just bought a Sharks jersey, and I love it. =)  Go Sharks!

I became a fan of the show The Biggest Loser, and I began to take the tips that they shared on the show and use them in my nutrition and diet.  I also bought the Biggest Loser Cookbook.  It is a fantastic book for anyone wanting to still eat good food but still be able to watch their weight, and also be able tosee all of the nutritional facts in whole meals, instead of simply just one item, which you mix with multiple other items, so you can never get a true idea what your caloric intake, along with the protein and sodium intake.

It is written by a great lady who also wrote a book about fast food substitutes.  In that book, although the recipies she gives aren’t necessary healthy for every meal, if you are wanting to have fast food items and are craving them, they are healthier alternatives to creating the same type of taste, with less calories etc.

In the Biggest Loser Cookbook, she has complied some of her own recipies along with the recipies of contestants and trainers who have been on the shower.

One of my favorite recipies if the breakfast sausage that you make yourself.  It is really good, and can be used with eggs, in a sausage/egg muffin sandwich (better than mcdonald’s in my opinion) and many other great recipies.

If you are looking to diet or just begin to watch the foods you are eating, then I greatly recommend the Biggest Loser Cookbook.

Now that I live near San Jose, well not too close, but that’s the closest city with an NHL team, they are my favorite team. And I love their new logo. They did exactly what all teams should od when they have a successful logo. They shouldn’t drastically change everything about the logo. They should make minor tweaks here and there to the logo and make it have the desired effect (meaner looking, more bold, a few minor color changes, etc.) They don’t have to create a whole new design in order for it to look good.

The first thing they did was to change the triangle and start making it closer to an arrowhead. That was a great design change because it make it look more sharp. They also added gold to the shark’s eye, to match the color of the stick, and to also incorporate gold into the jerseys as an accent.

They also made the shark meaner looking. I also like the shoulder patch because it’s the same shark that is in the main logo, but it’s no longer inside the triangle but instead it just has it’s fin curved around.

All in all, the Shark’s new logo is fantastic, but still keeps the brand name very similar to all other merchandise. There are many teams in the NHL who have had 2-3 totally different logos in the past 8-10 years… this is a total shame and kills the brand recognition. The money that they pour into having logos designed could be used for something else, or at least demand a great, time-testable logo.

That’s just my opinion. Go Sharks!

Yahtzee came out in 1956. According to Wikipedia…

“The object of the game is to score the most points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. The dice can be rolled up to three times in a turn to try to make one of the thirteen possible scoring combinations. A game of Yahtzee consists of thirteen rounds during which the player chooses which scoring combination is to be used in that round. Once a combination has been used in the game, it cannot be used again.”

There are many different kinds of of hands that you can get with yahtzee. They are: 3 of a kind, 4 of a kind, full house,small straight, large straight, Yahtzee (5 of a kind) and you can take a random count of the dice known as a “Chance.”

You also want to get as many points as you can by getting a lot of one of the 6 numbers on the dice, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. If you get an average of three 1’s, three 2’s, three 3’s, three 4’s, three 5’s, and three 6’s, you get an extra 35 points added to your score.

Also, you can get more than 1 yahtzee per game, although you have to scratch out one of the other categories, but still, 100 extra points vs the maximum of 40 points from another area you’d have to scratch is well worth it, and very lucky if you get another yahtzee! One game my wife got 3 yahtzees! Needless to say she won, and continues to brag about it.

Overall, if you’ve never played Yahtzee, you definitely have to give it a try.

So, i resigned myself to looking into Google’s CSE, and sure enough, they had a great label system!  I was very happy.  As I continued to work with the Google Custom search engine, I fell even more and more in love with it.  They have an awesome method for adding websites either individually, in bulk, or they even have an option to add websites on the fly.  All you do is save a certain page as a bookmark, and then click it and click “add” and choose your labels, and the site is added to your custom search engine.

I also delved into the AJAX API for the Custom Search Engine, and I was very surprised at it’s ease of use.  I have no programming skill and very little markup skill for basic HTML, but I was able to work around, doing trial and error, figuring out how to get the custom search engine to have a great ajax feel, that could make my search engine stand apart from my competition.

They also have some great examples with the full source code visible, so you can copy and paste what you need, and then modify it to the type of search you want to do.

Because I didn’t need it for my project, I never really delved into the local search, the video search, the blog search and the map search APIs, but they had some really cool ideas and mashups, allowing you to search for “climbing equipment” and you could have your local stores listed, plotted on a map, and different blogs, videos, and websites all showing up that have to do with climbing equipment, all from one search.

If your site needs a custom search engine, definitely check out Google’s custom search engine.

I will be breaking down my ideas and comments and opinions on my different subjects, but there are probably a few different ones that I will write about often…

Games - Board games, video games, word games???

Food - I love food… i am a recovering fast food addict, but I still have setbacks and relapses, but I am working on eating healthy so I will be reviewing healthy foods that actually taste good.

Internet Websites and Services - There are tons of websites and services out there, and as I run across cool or really lame ones, I will let you know all about them and my opinion on them.

Sports - I like hockey and football, and I hate baseball and don’t really like basketball.  I also like lacrosse, and mixed martial arts… I will write about these awesome.

Politics - I am a moderate politically, registered as a Libertarian, and very small “l” libertarian in my views.  But, I am an Obama fan, so I will be writing about his campaign sometimes probably too.

Misc. - Whatever i see or whatever that I want to write on, I will be writing on….

Stay tuned, and I hope whether you agree with me or not, you find that I am funny.