Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Chavez Jumps Shark
South America’s favourite reality-TV show, the government of Venezuela, has granted President Hugo Chavez the power to enact laws by decree. I don’t post about politics [or anything else -Ed.] very often here. But some bright lines deserve to be noted. I can do no better than the prescient Mr. Cosh, who posted this just […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
Doctor Robocop
And it’s terrible make that sort of joke about Peter Weller, Ph.D. So let’s call him Professor Buckaroo Banzai instead.
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
The Cableland Manifesto
The Lovely One, having despaired over seeing my messy cable drawer (all nerds have a cable drawer; here’s an exploded view of a typical example), was inspired to conceive of “Cableland” as the place where lost, unloved cables go. Only a nerd would care, but the specific cable I was looking for was a mutant […]
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Daring Ads For Trendoids
First, let me say that I think the French Connection UK brand is beyond cheeky. I gotta wonder about why you would want to wear their logo on your body. Of course, given that it now seems okay for even teenagers to wear “TNA” clothing and all manner of other curious slogans, I think I’ve […]
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
The Prestige: a late and simplistic review
The important lesson to take from The Prestige is that magicians are evil and should all be destroyed. I liked it. The Lovely One and I went to see this movie on Friday night (it beat out Rocky Balboa because it was slightly cheaper, and slightly closer. I also guessed correctly that the cheap theatre […]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Snow is for fun
Read all about it. My snow bike My snow crank My snow face 25 km round trip, the tires worked astoundingly well, it was probably an advantage to have my brakes accidentally both set to “crappy,” because they didn’t lock up the wheels. Don’t let me tell you any differently: it was hilarious good fun, […]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
About those Canucks…
So there’s, roughly speaking, a 5-way tie for first in the Northwest division, where our beloved Canucks play. I think our division this season is the story of five rather good teams just tearing the crap out of each other. Every one of these teams is playoff-quality, but their points relative to the rest of […]
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
The Polar Bear Cyclocross Ride
I called a ‘cross ride for today, because I’m a nut. The ride turnout was dampened by lousy weather and hangovers, but five doughty souls showed up at Calhoun’s at 1300 this afternoon. Due to the disreputable outlaw nature of this ride, I will use pseudonyms to identify the participants. We grabbed some beers, filled […]