Archive for December, 2004
Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
Boxing Day Postmortem
I spent about $150 at Sports Junkies. Highlights: a set of RX100 brakes (nice dual-pivots) for $10. A beautiful Easton handlebar for $14, and a nice seatpost for $17. Complete TT bar for $5, and a non-fancy but sturdy rear mountain bike wheel for $14. Maybe the fanciest find was a light set for $5, […]
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Monday, December 27th, 2004
The Sublime and the Ridiculous 6
Today, I prepared a Boxing Day brunch for my family. The brunch went well, but in the process of making the salad I cut one of my fingers. Later, in the course of a series of pathetic attempts to detach the counter top dishwasher from the sink I injured another part of my hand. So, […]
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Saturday, December 25th, 2004
Local Boxing Day deal roundup
This list is somewhat random, and very heavily electronics-skewed, except for one item: Sports Junkies Port Moody Boxing Day sale, which is the only sale I expect to attend. I’m planning to be there at 0800, and if you snake the road shifters from me, I’ll stick a bike pump in yer spokes! Ahem. Come […]
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Saturday, December 25th, 2004
This day in David’s city a savior has been born to you
Merry Christmas. I got the Star Wars Trilogy, some shirts, and a Sports Junkies gift certificate, among other things. If all goes well, I will post a summary of the better local Boxing Day deals today. Upcoming items I need to post: my WiFi antenna build, detailed instructions on how to make fenders just as […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2004
My family. You’ll have to trust me on this, but not one of these people is mugging for the camera.Posted using scary magic-like technologies
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2004
Bumper sticker seen on the back of a Dodge Ram pickup. Note perfect match of the typeface, colour, and size of the original “ONE LESS CAR” sticker. Nicely done.Posted using scary magic-like technologies
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2004
Local Politics (for reasonably large values of local)
Hum, hrm. Several local items that deserve assessment, and since this week, I’ve been laid up with a shoulder injury (which means that in the last few days all I have done is build a WiFi antenna, overhaul the discs on my parents’ truck, crafted some extremely tidy bicycle fender extensions, worked on the damnable […]
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2004
Pain, Agony!
Somehow I’ve managed to avoid posting about this so far, but it’s time to share: my shoulder, which has been doing some sort of strange muscle-injury thing for a week, is driving me nuts. I’m in a fair amount of pain and discomfort all the time, and Tylenol-3s taken two at a time just barely […]
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2004
Brands: cars as a microcosm
Wired Cola was created as a branding exercise, and I still flatter myself that, along with the co-conspirators, I have a certain understanding of how to name a product. Today, let’s talk about car branding. There are car model names that have persisted for a very, very long time. Chevrolet Corvette. Sixty years, and a […]
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Sunday, December 19th, 2004
The Sublime and the Ridiculous 5
We ‘re back! Yes, we’ve returned from The Great White North to greener pastures. I’m very happy to be back, but my thoughts are still full of our Ottawa experiences. So, I will hearken back to them for my sublime and ridiculous entry this week. Two encounters with the sublime occurred last week and I […]