Archive for September 30th, 2004
Thursday, September 30th, 2004
Serenepia
Andrew’s Serenepia is in the midst of a discussion about the difference between good exploitation and bad exploitation as regards Indian coir-mat workers. Andrew is completely wrong, of course, but the post and comments (my own being by far the best) are quite interesting. Read it if only for my great review of Greg Costikyan’s […]
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Thursday, September 30th, 2004
Other news
My hair is about 3mm long now. The long-threatened buzz-cut finally happened. You can’t go bald if you shave your head, right? Amusing side-effect: I could now very easily win a Jacques Villeneuve (left) look-alike contest.
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Thursday, September 30th, 2004
Velodrama
Last night I went to the Burnaby Velodrome, the only, er, oldest indoor velodrome on the continent. I had only ridden the velodrome once before, two years ago during an open-house event. But I have ridden just enough fixed-gear to have familiarity with the idea (never stop pedaling). So I paid my drop-in fee, rented […]