Checking in

I know i haven't really been keeping up to date on these blogs, but i've been really busy with school and doing a lot of other writing. Hopefully i'll be back at this soon, i'm kinda starting to get into a routine again.

But just quickly i wanted to talk about a brilliant little gem of self important arrogant satisfaction i just had. One of my guilty pleasures is those internet opinion polls that are popping up on the side of most of my favorite websites. (almost all of them hockey or politics related) Simple little a,b,c or d questions.

I find them instant info input satisfaction.

Am i "normal"? Why does the public disagree with me? can i guess why other people said what hey said? can i predict the result?

For the most part i vote with the masses, people who visit and vote on hockey/political sites tend to know whats going on...and i like to think i do too. But recently i found myself in fairly drastic opposition to the populous.

The question was how many goals will be scored in the NHL all-star game? less then 10, 10 to 15, or 15 plus.

I thought this was a no brainier, obviously 15 plus. So i cast my vote and was mildly disturbed to see that only 15% agreed with me. 25% said 10-15, and a overwhelming 55% said less then 10.

Usually i'm pretty confident in my opinion and assume the masses to be blithering jack-asses if they disagree with my humble opinion. But 55% is a large number nd i haven't been following hockey for that long. Were the last two seasons anomalous? Was i out to lunch on this one? Had they changed the rules to make it more like a regular season game and i some how missed it? was there to be only 2 periods instead of 3? These are not pleasant thoughts for an egoist to have.

Well the radio broadcast just finished and the final score is 12-11 for he eastern team, 23 goals...i know it's a guilty pleasure, but boy oh boy do i feel vindicated.

Suck on that 55% of the hockey world.