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Monday, October 16th, 2006
Warning signs for the cybermorphic future
Given that I haven’t managed to post anything else here for, um, forever, I thought I’d just link to this mildly amusing article on Warning Signs for Tomorrow. I believe the sign shown here accurately applies to this blog, that page, reality TV, cats wearing clothing, and maybe every blog everywhere. On a personal note, […]
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
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They say it’s my birthday. For my birthday, the CBC gave me the Canucks versus the Red Wings. In useless standard def! Argh! What next, a show that consists of nothing but Rick Mercer making fun of BC? At this point, it’s not that HDTV even looks really good, it’s just that standard def makes […]
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Canadian TV: just the ratings
The answer is here. The question is “where do I find weekly ratings data for Canadian television?” The reason is this engaging debate on the CBC blog. BBM is reasonably generous with its data, providing not only the current week, but also archives going back as far as 2003. Being who I am, the first […]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Escape Velocity Grand Prix of Cyclocross video
The EV GP of Cyclocross, right there at the West Point Grey Academy in the heart of Vancouver. I’d like to thank Stephen Cork for setting this up, and David Penner and Jeff Ain for doing a bunch of supplementary video, too. Once again, this is the Men’s A race, but there’s a pretty good […]
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Sunday, September 17th, 2006
Customary weekly note
Let’s do some follow-up and ruminations. Item: the Fort Langley CX video was one of the most popular things I’ve ever put here. Glad you all liked it. There will be another one after next weekend’s Grand Prix of Cyclocross. Item: my mother-in-law is so addicted to Brain Age that she’s going to get her […]
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
Cyclocross Video: Fort Langley Cyclocross Classic
For your delectation, the Men’s “A” race in just over 5 minutes: This is the Fort Langley Cyclocross Classic, race #1 of the BC CX Cup, which happened September 10, 2006. I rode in the B group just before filming this, and can assure you this course was as fun as it looks, though very […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Cheap NiMH batteries: I’m telling everyone!
This isn’t a shopping blog, but I actually found a deal so good I feel like using this space to endorse it. Or brag. Either way. My club-mate Johnny Cheung suggested an entirely gimcrack website called LED Shoppe as a source of a cheapo Bluetooth USB thingy. And he was right! The sucker cost me […]
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Ulturducken!
Ulturducken!. The logical extension of Turducken. Ernie took pictures. I’m hungry now.
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Two Nines of service: a Telus promise!
My click-through rate on online ads is somewhere around zero: maybe one every couple of months (but hey, advertisers, keep spending the ad dollars on the Internet: it’s the easiest way you can get impressions from me!) at best. But then a Telus ad made a promise so absurdly underachieving I couldn’t believe it: If […]
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
On Bike Interviews 2
Once again, in association with Team Escape Velocity, it’s time for On Bike Interviews. If you hated the last one, you might dislike this one less: tighter editing, funnier visual bits. I think I ought to get a better camera, though.