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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
A Christmas Letter
The wonderful thing about being both lazy and a blogger is that I can write this Christmas letter to you on Christmas Eve, and you’ll still all get it in time for Christmas! This has been a weird year. I could easily write it off as something like “the cat died, grandpa died, and I […]
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
The Great Canadian Ludicrous Talking Polar Bear Adventure
So someone in my household picked The Great Canadian Polar Bear Adventure for our evening’s viewing. I’m not saying it was The Lovely One. It could have been me…. About 3 seconds in, I sense trouble brewing when I realize this is a live-action drama starring talking polar bears. About 3 minutes in, things take […]
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Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
He’s Everybody’s Second Choice
This is mostly an apolitical weblog, but since I was looking for some early juice on the new leader of the Liberals and found nothing, I thought I’d write it myself. Though some had already written this surprise scenario (candidate in fourth place in delegates going into the campaign wins), it was only written as […]
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Canadian Cyclocross championships 2006: Women’s Elite
I was asked to drop by Nanaimo and shoot some video a few weeks ago, since the Canadian national CX championship races were being held there. Far too late, here’s the first video output. Lynne Lyne Bessette versus Wendy Simms! An epic battle for the women’s Canadian Cyclocross Championship. The two of them were within […]
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
So, how was your weekend?
First, I should apologize to everyone in the hotel: that was our dog who decided, against all past history, that every thump in the night needed to be barked at. Thanks, dog. Second, the weekend was off the hook. You’re going to see film of Saturday’s cyclocross nationals shortly, but I’m here to tell you […]
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Funniest fake cycling news ever
From The Onion: Over-Competitive Lance Armstrong Challenges Cancer To Rematch. I often think the funniest thing about Onion articles is the headline, but in this case the article strikes a perfect balance between horribly tasteless and pitch-perfect hilarity. Of course, the meta-joke is that the over-competitive Armstrong is famously Blackberry-addicted to egosurfing himself. Unless he […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Stewed Thoughts
Somehow, I want to call the Web 2.0 era the Age of Refactoring. In many ways, I think what is going on, technologically, is that this is the era of stuff that mostly works, mostly correctly, most of the time. I theorize that mash-up culture is a lot about maximizing the value of the present […]
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
Training advice for the young novelist
I’ve liberated this from its original home in the comments on this post by Wyn. Most of the inside jokes are literary-exercise jokes. The only other useful bit of background info is that Wyn just ran her first marathon this year. Remember that writing a novel, the marathon of literature, is all about the training. […]
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Remembering Victor Cousineau, my grandfather
COUSINEAU – VICTOR (VIC) JOSEPHJanuary 5,1921 -October 21, 2006 Vic, a smiling presence in the lives of all who knew him, passed away peacefully at St. Michael’s Hospice in Burnaby. He is survived by his son Denis (Vivian) and daughter Gisele. Grandchildren Ryan (Rebecca), John, Michael (Marjie) and great-granddaughter Olivia. Adopted grand-daughter Tammy (Jeff) Chesman, […]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
An open letter to Dustin Sacks, creator of Lux
Dear Mr. Sacks: You horrible, horrible man. On October 14th, you sent me a copy of your Risk-y computer game, Lux (I say “Risk-y” because it is unabashedly inspired by Risk, but it is so expandable, networkable, re-mappable, re-skinnable, re-ruleable, and whatnot as to make cloning Risk the starting point, not the endpoint). You touted […]