Alcatraz for the day with @thenxmeto, @donkadonk7 and the rest of the fam bam! (Taken with instagram)

“Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.”

After twenty years of service to the NHL and the Detroit Red Wings, Nicklas Lidström officially retired from the NHL this morning. In a career in which he won 4 Stanley Cups, seven Norris Trophies (three consecutive), a Conn Smythe, became a triple-gold member (winning Olympic Gold, World Championship Gold, and a Stanley Cup), he is an eleven time All-Star (voted in twelve times), and not once did he miss the playoffs in all 20 seasons.

One of the greatest to ever play the game. A sure bet Hall of Famer. Lidstrom will forever be known as one the the games finests.

Mr. Perfect has played 1,564 games (1,827 including playoffs) with Detroit (the most by any player who spent his entire career with only one franchise), second all-time in games played with one team (behind only Gordie Howe in Detroit), an NHL record for 937 career regular season wins with just one franchise. Named the “#1 European player of all time”, and “#2 defenseman of all time” by The Hockey News, and “Player of the Decade” by Sporting News and Sports Illustrated, Lidstrom has seemingly done it all.

Captaining the team from Hockey Town for the last six seasons, the man is a true legend in sports entertainment. Detroit has their work cut out for them now. Players having had the “C” stitched to their sweater include the likes of Howe, Yzerman, Delvecchio; all in the Hall of Fame. It is an exciting thing to know that a player you grew up watching, idolizing, can be there too in just three years. 

You ask most players if anything could have gone different for the great Nick Lidstrom, most would agree that he deserved to win the Lady Byng. And deservingly so. But Lidstrom hangs his skates with pride. And we thank him for twenty memorable seasons. 

As Pierre LeBrun put it, “His greatness wasn’t just measured by his incredible play on the ice, but just as much by his class off of it.”

The game of hockey will miss you terribly. But, the NHL is better today because of you. The ice will look a little different without #5 skating on it next season. The game will miss you. 

Thank you Lidstrom. 

Seriously? The amount of items that have been added to my Finder bar over the last week is absurd. We get a new Mac consultant at work, and I’m pretty sure he adds at least two every time he sits at my desk.

Check back next week. I’m going to see if I can get them to reach the left side of my monitor.

One of the most incredible fireworks shows I’ve ever seen. 

It’s kind of amazing, growing up and living in the Bay Area. You often forget how iconic and truly special something as awe-inspiring as the Golden Gate Bridge really is. You lose count of how many times you drive across it. You see it off in the distance, and it’s just another bridge. But, it is still one of the most known bridges and architectural feats in history.

75 years allowing us to cross the waters of the Golden Gate. It’s beautiful color, the gorgeous Art Deco details, the elegance it displays in every photograph it is captured in; this bridge is a legend. It is a legend, and it is one that I will appreciate each and every time I cross it.

Happy 75th, I can’t wait til 100.

hahaha Best thing I’ve seen the Canucks/Sedin’s do yet

(Source: eeames)

The cast of SNL hasn’t been the greatest in quite some time. There are obvious standouts each season, but nobody ever really grabs hold of the show and runs with it like past casts. Nobody, except Kristen Wiig.

Saturday marked her final episode of SNL. And on an episode that featured more musical power than we’ve seen over the last five years combined, and more guest stars than we could ever hope for, we were treated with one beautiful farewell sketch for Wiig.

While Wiig has some of the funniest sketches on the famous show, it was the simple way they said goodbye that made the final moments of the episode special. Just the pure emotion, watching the cast members fight back tears, and then having Lorn Michaels come out as well, made it something magical.

After seven hysterical years, Kristen will be seriously missed on the show. We can only hope that her movie career really takes off, and that we’ll be graced with her random pop-ups at Studio 8H. 

Absolutely beautiful design for this National Parks app. Full retina display support, the attention to detail put into this design just blows me away. Stunning.

Click for more pictures, or go here:
http://dribbble.com/letsgorally/projects/48223-National-Parks