Archive for December, 2005
Monday, December 12th, 2005
I Go Places and Take Pictures
Chinatown Originally uploaded by rcousine. It was the usual story: take a bunch of pictures Sunday night, come back with one pretty presentable one. This is the Cheng Fung Herb shop on Keefer Street in Chinatown. I’m shooting from the 5th floor of a parking garage across the street.
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
Things to Do in Vancouver: 6-Day Race
December 12-17, 1900-2200 (doors open at 1800) each night, it’s a Six-Day race at the Burnaby Velodrome. The (PDF) schedule. The signature event each night is the Madison, a wild team event which Gord describes in a 4-star blog entry, complete with pictures. I intend to be there for every night I can. I recommend […]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
Danger Laboratories presents: The Cane!
The Cane Originally uploaded by rcousine. I was going to write this up as a how-to article, but it’s ridiculous. The first line would be, “start by digging a 30-year-old touring frame out of your parts collection, then…” and you can imagine how useful that would be to the cyclists of the world. This project […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
Danger Laboratories
Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Bad judgment. That’s why I have such good judgment. Ahem. Monday morning it took me three tries to get to work. Try #1: same bike I used Saturday morning has a flat rear tire. Oops. Investigation reveals an explosive blow-out at some point, caused […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
Weird, wild linkage
Normally, I don’t go in for link posts, because I doubt I can tell you anything new: I don’t think a pointer to a big-league aggregation site is value-added, and I care about value for my 20 readers. But I make an exception tonight, as I collect a few things that are fun. A Demolition […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2005
Warmer, colder, either way it’s bad.
So, since I rode the bus to work today (part of my ongoing commitment to not commuting by bicycle while there is snow on the roads), I read one of the free commuter papers, and they had this article on how some activists staged a mock hockey game of the future in Montreal, showing that […]