PolarLava::Blog

Once again, another SFFL season has come to a bitter end for the mighty THRAK.

It was a really wacky season (although not over for some yet), that was unlike anything I've seen in the previous 12 years.  I had high expectations —as always, but got off to a slow 1-3 start.  At that point things started to click and rolled off a good stretch going 7-1-1.  I lead the power rankings and scored more points than any other team.  Winning my final regular season game made me the #1 seed in the conference.  Things were so tight that had I lost, I would have been the forth and final seed.  I stumbled badly and lost 83-52 to the Young Guns in the first round of the playoffs.  In the end it really wouldn't have mattered as the other two teams both would have beaten me also.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised.  Just the week before the playoffs started I said I liked my chances, but it could just as easily be any one of the other three teams.  It was a good tough season, but in the end it was a failure to capitalize on a golden opportunity to get a shot an another SFFL title.

From the "Who really cares besides me" department…

I've updated the error page so when one enters a bad URL you can now correct it and redirect to what is hopefully a valid page.  And if you try to redirect anywhere but a PolarLava page, you wind up on the error page again.  Allowing redirections to outside locations would be ripe for abuse by spammers, phishers and similar treacherous cretins.

I'm guessing this is largely useful to me more than others, but basically if you fat finger a URL you can now easily fix it and get to where you were headed in the first place.

I was greatly saddened yesterday to hear that Evel Knievel had died.  Like millions of others kids tha grew up in the 70's, Evel was an idol.  One couldn't wait to find out what he was going to attempt to jump next.  And then, would he make it?  If not, how bad would he get busted up this time?  I recall Evel being a human rag doll in many of those crashes, most notably when he failed badly attempting jump the fountains at Caesars Palace.  But no matter how many times he crashed, and no matter badly he got busted up, he always came back for more.

I'll alway remember playing with my Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle.  I need go dig around in the basement, because I'm pretty sure I still have at least the cycle from that.  Hopefully I can find the Evel doll, but I'm not sure I have that.  I actually had two of them; the white outfitted one that came with this set and later one dressed in red.  I trashed this toy endlessly.  Because after all, Evel could always jump everything!

Ride on my friend, you'll be missed but fondly remembered by many.