Hi Folks
Welcome to my blog! Perhaps the least-read blog in the history of blogging, it was created for one of the PSE courses (Educational Media) and I used it to post a blog about my dog eating a tube of blue oil paint on Thanksgiving weekend. The dog is still with us, almost a year later, which is a testament to our love for him and the strength of his insides.
But I digress... almost immediately...
The purpose of this initial blog is to introduce me, and my course topic area of interest. Accordingly, here I go:
Rod French, Program Developer (Business) with the School of Business & IT, College of the North Atlantic. I am a married father of a 14 year-old boy (man-child) who lives with his family in Kippens NL with our two dogs Keltie (a 7 year-old Bearded Collie with a host of mental issues), and Sherlock, the aforementioned paint-eating Old English Sheepdog of 19 months (yes, 19 months). In a subsequent blog I will post a picture or two.
My area of interest is business studies, mainly marketing and human resources. My undergrad degree is in Business Admin (major in Marketing) from Acadia (1990), and I received my MBA from MUN in 1992 (Marketing and HR). I am not the typical "business nerd" - I don't follow the stock markets, I couldn't explain to my son what the DOW Jones was, and I could care less about the Business section of the Globe and Mail. However, I am a bit of social demography geek - I have read malcolm Gladwell's four books twice each, and "Outliers" is one of my favourite all-time books.
I worked in community economic development for about 15 of my 16 years of my career, prior to coming to the College in 2009. Earlier this year I developed a new course for our Marketing diploma programs - EP2150 Entrepreneurship - which has not yet been offered at the College, but will be starting in January. This course will be the focus of my COS.
Enough for now. More to come!
Rod
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Picking a Playoff Hockey Pool
Anyone looking for great pearls of hockey pool wisdom should be advised that this blog is counter-intuitive - it is more about how NOT to pick a winning hockey pool team, and should therefore be taken with a very large grain of salt. In fact, take the ten points and do just the opposite and you will be far better off (you may even win your pool!).
Two further pieces of caution:
1. In my 42 years on this planet, I have won exactly 1 hockey pool (regular season, 2009-10, office pool of 9 teams).
2. In a university residence playoff pool in the late 1980's, I finished second with a guy on my team who broke his leg before the regular season ended ( I managed to score a lot of Oilers and Bruins in that pool, when the Oilers won the 1990 Cup). Afterward, and probably even to this day, there are guys around North America who live by the "Pat Flatley Rule" - full disclosure on injuries before a pick is finalized.
Now, for your reading enjoyment, I present to you
Top 10 Signs Your Playoff Hockey Pool Team Will Not Win
10. You didn't check the injury report (see aforementioned "Pat Flatley Rule")
9. You don't know the names of the teams (the Pirates play in Portland in the AHL, and in Pittsburgh in the MLB, but not in Pittsburgh in the NHL)
8. You have a bunch of guys named "Kessel", "Lupul" and "Phaneuf" (this holds true for just about any year)
7. You pick your team based on availability for the World Hockey Championships (those points don't count)
6. Your team was picked in February (the season ends on Sunday, April 10)
5. Your team could be featured on "What Not to Wear" (great show on TLC, but nothing to do with hockey)
4. You picked only siblings for your team (great if you manage to wrangle a coupld of Sedins; not so great if you drafted a couple of Sutters)
3. Your first overall pick was Pittsburgh Center "Bill" Crosby
2. You chose guys based on how much their names sounded like Saturday morning cartoon characters (like "Teemu" and "Tootoo")
And the number one Sign that Your Playoff Hockey Pool Team Will Not Win
1. It is exactly like mine.
Good luck and have fun (Go Oilers Go!)
Two further pieces of caution:
1. In my 42 years on this planet, I have won exactly 1 hockey pool (regular season, 2009-10, office pool of 9 teams).
2. In a university residence playoff pool in the late 1980's, I finished second with a guy on my team who broke his leg before the regular season ended ( I managed to score a lot of Oilers and Bruins in that pool, when the Oilers won the 1990 Cup). Afterward, and probably even to this day, there are guys around North America who live by the "Pat Flatley Rule" - full disclosure on injuries before a pick is finalized.
Now, for your reading enjoyment, I present to you
Top 10 Signs Your Playoff Hockey Pool Team Will Not Win
10. You didn't check the injury report (see aforementioned "Pat Flatley Rule")
9. You don't know the names of the teams (the Pirates play in Portland in the AHL, and in Pittsburgh in the MLB, but not in Pittsburgh in the NHL)
8. You have a bunch of guys named "Kessel", "Lupul" and "Phaneuf" (this holds true for just about any year)
7. You pick your team based on availability for the World Hockey Championships (those points don't count)
6. Your team was picked in February (the season ends on Sunday, April 10)
5. Your team could be featured on "What Not to Wear" (great show on TLC, but nothing to do with hockey)
4. You picked only siblings for your team (great if you manage to wrangle a coupld of Sedins; not so great if you drafted a couple of Sutters)
3. Your first overall pick was Pittsburgh Center "Bill" Crosby
2. You chose guys based on how much their names sounded like Saturday morning cartoon characters (like "Teemu" and "Tootoo")
And the number one Sign that Your Playoff Hockey Pool Team Will Not Win
1. It is exactly like mine.
Good luck and have fun (Go Oilers Go!)
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