I wrote a piece for the “Fix it Friday” feature over at SportsLogos.Net but they decided not to run it, so I’m posting it here. The idea of that feature is to take the uniform set of a sports team and point out what’s wrong with it, then propose an alternative. My focus was the […]
The 25th season of the DetroitHockey.Net Fantasy Hockey League coincides with the 20th season of the main site itself (possible because DFHL seasons don’t typically last and entire year), so I’ve been working on a lot of commemorative logos of late. The logo, like DH.N’s 20th season logo, is based on the “promotional” version of […]
Today marks DetroitHockey.Net’s nineteenth birthday and over at the site, I’ve unveiled the 20th Season logo. The logo is based on the “promotional” DetroitHockey.Net logo featuring the site’s shied logo inside a roundel. This roundel is broken by a bar featuring the years 1996 and 2016. The top half of the roundel says “DetroitHockey.Net” in […]
Anyone who follows the DetroitHockey.Net Twitter account has probably seen me rant about jersey numbers more than once. Jersey numbers (in all sports, but especially hockey) are interesting to me – to the point that I once created a database of historical player jersey numbers (the now-defunct HockeySweaterNumbers.com). Today I was cataloging some hockey cards […]
I’ve ranted on DetroitHockey.Net (and related environs) in the past about my dislike of the “Hockeytown” name by the Detroit Red Wings. I think it was a cheesy slogan that would have been gone after a year had the Wings not happened to win the Stanley Cup that year. And the logo… What an awful […]
I Tweeted on Friday about futzing with Google Hangouts, something I hadn’t had to deal with in years. The link I sent out went to a blog post about lessons learned from that experience but I realized that I never bothered to actually write up the code I wrote in that project and figured it might […]
The Grand Rapids Griffins unveiled their 20th season logo today and my immediate reaction was of serious disappointment. Not like when I wasn’t happy about what choices they made for their “fan designed” jersey contest. This was professionally designed. There’s no excuse for this. The Griffins say the following about the design: The logo, designed by […]
A friend of mine who’s actively looking for a job pinged me yesterday morning looking for advice on what salary to request. My friend’s requested salary was a required field on the application form. I don’t like this, and I said as much via Twitter. Asking an applicant for a salary requirement before letting them meet […]
I’ve got a high school reunion coming up, which means I’ve been added to a group for it on Facebook, which has immediately been followed by a small avalanche of friend requests from people I haven’t spoken to in years. It got me thinking about the different terminology that social media sites use. On LinkedIn, […]
I was staring in anger at my car thermometer this morning when I had a little bit of a revelation. You think about the weather and, in general, people understand concepts. Hot and cold. Dry and wet. We’ve attached numbers to them and we know what they mean but only because we’ve made this association […]