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Monday, July 4th, 2005
The Good Thing explained; Good Eating
First things last: Supafamous is all over Kobayashi’s repeat at the hot dog eating contest. No record this year, but still utterly dominant. And now, “The Good Thing” explained. A surprising number of you took a guess, but nobody came close. Jak gets bonus points for referencing the VW Thing, a possibility which he argued […]
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Sunday, July 3rd, 2005
Stochastic Surfing at its best
According to the usually so-so Jalopnik This Honda UK ad won a Cannes ad award. It’s so happy! I’m going to go hate something now.
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
I Don’t Suck Much
I celebrated our nation’s birthday yesterday by pummeling myself in a bike race. To wit: the Yaletown Grand Prix. Results aren’t posted yet, but I didn’t finish in the money. But I still had a pretty good race. Suck level 3. Why so good? Well, with a big team in the Cat 4/5 race, we […]
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Best bike face ever
This is a pro-quality race face. That’s from this year’s Belgian National Championships. Baguet (left) ends up winning a very close photo-finish. Speaking of which, I haven’t blogged my glorious experience at the Norm Lowe Memorial Road Race this weekend, a serious piece of riding with a mean-spirited set of rolling hills in the course. […]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
The Good Thing
So, The Lovely One and I were discussing the used New Beetle we will soon be acquiring, and we agreed on the perfect name for the new car: The Good Thing. This is, of course, a very silly joke, and the usual prize (box of Timbits, to be delivered at my convenience within Greater Vancouver) […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
Beetlemania
Wednesday evening I saw a lady about a car, and some hours later, have tentatively contracted to buy it on The Lovely One’s behalf. So, the next time you see me, it should be rolling in The Lovely One’s pretty black 1998 Volkswagen New Beetle. That’s what VW calls them, leading to oxymoronic statements like […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
Catching up
Gloriously, a completely non-political posting! It’s partly personal, partly cycling-related, all the good things. There’s even some car ads, just for a change. Item the First: I’m selling Old Faithful, the eternal Tercel. It’s a 1992, it’s an automatic 4dr sedan, it’s blue, it’s Aircared until 2007, and it’s cheap: $3000, and trust me, you […]
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Monday, June 13th, 2005
Weekend Racing
On the weekend, I did two races, because I like extra pain. The Brockton Criterium in Stanley Park was my Saturday ride: I expected it to hurt, and it hurt. A Cat 3/4 crit on a technical course, in the rain. Me no like. I managed to hang in for about 30 minutes of a […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
Let the Lance-watch begin
Yes, I know. No matter how much I tell you that the Spring Classics are beautiful, no matter how much I tell you that the Giro D’Italia and Vuelta Espana are very important races, no matter how much I suggest that the ProTour really has changed pro cycling, you still really just want to hear […]
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
Erick says "MacIntel"
Personally, I pray for a better nickname. pMacs? IMacs? Er, that’s taken…IntelliMacs? Looks like it’s going to be MacIntel. For those of you don’t understand my inside jokes, an explanation: yesterday Apple dropped the (widely-predicted) bombshell that starting sometime in 2006, new Macs will ship with Intel CPUs inside instead of PowerPC chips. On one […]