Sententiae Draconis

Instead of working on my Roman aqueducts paper (which - at least aqueducts are super cool) I'm trolling around the internet looking at hockey blogs and being greatly amused.

Here are some things that deserve sharing because of awesomeness. :)

The Sedin Twins are different people (sort of)
This is an article from before the All Star game that's talking about the Twins and how they've played together their entire lives. How they are still different people despite their identicalness. And asking the other Canucks how to tell them apart.

Best quotes (ie almost all of it):
[if they're drafted to different All Star Teams]the mirror image Swedes always could consider punishing their antagonists with a switcheroo. They're both certain the only ones that could tell would be teammates.
"No," Henrik said definitively when asked if anyone other than fellow Canucks All-Stars Alexander Edler and Cody Hodgson would notice. "You're right, we should do that."
...
Defenseman Kevin Bieksa figured out one difference when he lived in the same building as Henrik and often would spot Daniel waiting for his brother in the parking lot.
Despite being the Canucks' captain, Henrik has a bad habit of running late.
"Danny's always on time," Edler said. "Henrik is always a couple minutes late."
It drives his punctual younger brother (by minutes) crazy.
"He hates when people are late," Henrik said. "I'm usually late."
Within that dynamic, Bieksa said Daniel emerges as the more "responsible" of these road-trip roommates, dictating their schedule and keeping Henrik "in line."
"Hank is going to say he's the one in charge, for sure," Bieksa has said of the differences. "And Danny might even say nobody is just because he's a humble kind of guy. But we all know Danny is the one in charge. And Hank still wants to retain that older-brother status, too, so he tries to boss Danny around sometimes and Danny takes it, which is the funny thing. But Danny is usually the one in charge when push comes to shove."
Edler, who knows them as well as anyone after being taken under their collective wing when he made the move from Sweden to Vancouver, seemed to agree with Bieksa.
"Danny might be in charge. He makes the more smart decisions," Edler said with a mischievous grin. "They are twins, but they are still two different people."
...
As for which twin really us in charge, it may not matter. Daniel may arrive first, but if he's the one waiting around, isn't Henrik really dictating the schedule?
"Well, he thinks he's in charge," Henrik said of Daniel.
"I am in charge," said Daniel, "but he doesn't care."

I love them. :)


Also there's a new campaign going around to help end Homophobia in sports and Hockey in particular. There's a pretty comprehensive article over at Puck Daddy, and a shorter one in the Toronto Sun which features my guy Tanner Glass, who is a former Canuck, a current Winnipeg Jet and an all around awesome guy (if only he were better at hockey and could have stayed on my team - I miss ya Tanner!).

The Campaign is call "You Can Play" and it's being spearheaded by Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager Brian Burke and his son Patrick who is a scout for the Flyers. They're trying to make the league a safer space for gay athletes starting by reducing homophobic language to begin with. And it's in memory of Brendan Burke (son and brother) who died in a car accident. He was a hockey player, he wasn't in the NHL, but he came out in 2009, which is awesome.

Anyway they're trying to get a lot of NHL players to speak out about it and they've already got over 30 who are going to be in various TV spots. It's really awesome to see some of these guys speaking up about it. Especially since considering the number of Canadians and Europeans in the League I've been expecting hockey to be a more accepting place than some of the other major sports (still not easy - but yeah).

I'm super happy that some of them are even calling guys on homophobic language in Games! From the Toronto Sun article:

If Glass hears an opposing player use a gay slur during a game, he’ll let him know he’s crossed the line.
“The language has got to be the first thing to go,” Glass told the Winnipeg Sun, Monday. “You hear it all the time.”
The reaction he gets tells him there’s hope, but still a ways to go in educating the rank-and-file in the macho world of pro hockey.
“Some guys will be, ‘Yeah, well, f--- you,’ or whatever,” Glass said. “But some guys are like, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have said that.’ ”

Tanner Glass, I love you! Please continue to be awesome!

Anyway here's a TV spot:


And sometimes looking at the comments section is not filled with sadness. Examples:
From the Puck Daddy Comments section

(It's still weird for me being in places on the internet where the assumed gender is male.)

More photos of attractive hockey players. Because it seemed like a good idea at the time. :)


Henrick Lundqvist - Goaltender, NY Rangers (also a Swedish twin, but his twin is not on the same team as him, and not a goalie)


Dreamy...


Swedes from the All Star Game! Lundqvist (Rangers), Henrik Sedin (Canucks), Eric Karlsson (Senators), Daniel Sedin (Canucks), Daniel Alfredsson (Senators - I love him too), Alex Edler (Canucks - my hockey boyfriend)


Jarome Iginla - Calgary Flames. When he smiles everything is right with the world.


Patrick Sharp - I should hate him because he's a Blackhawk... but look at that face!


Edler's spot for GQ...


I actually have this photo saved as "Cory Schneider looks into your soul.jpg" - Canucks, natch.


Harrison Mooney (Blogger, Pass it to Bulis) with trophy and Tanner Glass (then Canucks, now Jets) - okay, so Tanner's not actually that attractive, but I like his smile and I actually think that his mullet is kinda endearing. Plus it helps that he's an awesome person. :)


This is unrelated to attractiveness. I just have no idea what Alex Burrows is doing. But it's hilarious!

Quotation of the day:

"Science is going to roofie the hell out of you!"

I'm not going to explain this. Except that after this statement we figured out why so many frat boys major in chemistry.

That is all.

(it's like Batman Begins only without Christian Bale. Believe me no one is more disappointed about that than I am.)

At the request of jetfx this is the story of where Aderam came from. Coincidentally it's also the story of how Aderam got addicted to the internet (the first time).

Anyway I knew this girl, R, from doing pottery lessons (yes in Real Life *gasp*). And then I started talking to her at the Model UN at school when she was in grade nine and I in grade eight (we were so young). Anyway, turns out that we're both complete nerds (and wouldn't want it any other way) and we start hanging out and doing roleplay-type things with just the two of us. Then R does this program for high school kids at the local university and finds some other equally nerdy people to talk and hang out with. After returning from said program she tells me all about these people and how cool they are and then some cool rp stuff that they're doing online. A, one of said cool people, features the ost predominantly and eventually I heard enough awesomeness that I wanted to write to her. So R gave me her e-mail and I sent her a letter, in character and signed it The Dreaded Dragon. This was the moment that Aderam was born really, although at the time he didn't have a name yet. Anyway, A turned out to be pretty cool and she was in charge of a rp community over at (don't laugh... too much) neopets. A community that R had already joined. So I wanted to join in the fun (even though this was way back when the boards at neopets didn't automatically update when someone posted another comment and as such roleplaying involved a lot of hitting the refresh button) and I needed a username (let alone an actual name) because, to be honest, I knew even then that The Dreaded Dragon was not a very original name. So basically Aderam came to me while I was sitting at the computer with R signing up for an account at neopets. There was no long, drawn out process of finding the perfect name or anything like that. So then I became The Dreaded Dragon Aderam and we roleplayed quite a bit with a lot of crazy people and even played our own enemies for a while there.

Aderam is a large dragon, he's dark green and dark purple, and looks really impressive until he prooves just how clumsy he actualy is. He's a dear really. And he's me. Or at least a weird aspect of me that's stuck around for a good long while. So I kept the name even after all the teenaged angst and craziness ended most of the friendships (though not R and me). And the Dragonish parts of me don't come up as often as they used to but he's still in there.

Thn one day I was hanging around with my good friend D and we were fiddling a such-like and she said that Aderam sounded like a latin verb in the first person pluperfect (D is also a total language nerd like me!), and it turns out that it is. So before I started doing latin and became addicted to dead languages I gave myself a name which in latin means "I had undertaken". Something that I think is really cool.

Also the overheard sentence of the day is from walking down King St. W by Bay St. in Toronto (it was a very quick trip involving finances and being in a car for 6 hours of less than twelve).

Says Man in Suit #256 to Man in Suit #257 (there were a lot of men in suits) "... then the Palestinians would get two million dollars..."

I wonder what kind of Suits these to were. *thinks perhaps she's been watching too much X-files over her parents' shoulders.*