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Sunday, March 20th, 2005
Spring Series: ups and downs
All bike racers are mental. Saturday: I crash just after the first lap, thanks to a really boring instance of pack stupidity. Casualties: hole in shorts, wheels de-trued, minor scrapes all over. Suck level 9. Sunday: I finish truing the wheels. On the first lap of a hilly, windy race, I get dropped off a […]
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
Things to do in Vancouver: Tojo’s
I promise, TtdiV won’t be all restaurant reviews, but I wanted in this case to call out a very specific experience you can have at Tojo’s, a restaurant routinely described as the best sushi joint in a city with a reputation for good sushi joints: Omakase. Here’s how it goes: you sit at the sushi […]
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
What to do in Vancouver
The Storyeum. Okay, I know I wrote about it before, and not even in very flattering terms. But it’s a thing to do, and it is interesting. What is the Storyeum? In short, a rather complicated multi-set stage show you walk through. The story covers the history of BC. Send your kids, send your visitors. […]
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
Things to do In Vancouver
Welcome to the series. Today’s entry has a special place in my heart, and mostly just bores The Lovely One. Oh well. But it’s awesome. The Trev Deeley Motorcycle Collection is the best Vancouver museum you’ve never heard of. It’s in the middle of Richmond, and it’s free, but you have to book the day […]
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
Another fine weekend
And as usual, I blew it all on cycling. And what a fine thing to do! Saturday was a slow training ride, which meant riding to UBC and back. Sunday, I went out to the latest lovely Spring Series race, and by virtue of retreating back to the C group, I didn’t get dropped. On […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2005
The Cyclism comes to Canada
OLN Canada has long been a morass of bull riding and trout fishing (fine things, I’m sure, but not of much interest to me), plus three weeks of Tour de France coverage. For cyclists, the galling thing was that the US version of this channel has had much more cycling coverage than that. In past […]
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
Things you find on the Slow Food website
BC GOLD. What is BC Gold? Why it’s a traditional native foodstuff much loved in Japan. But no, really, what is it? It’s herring spawn, naturally deposited on kelp. If you eat eggs, you have no right to be grossed out by that. Right? I have to try this.
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
Wine and Recovery
Strangely, those two topics are not really linked. On the weekend, I rode two more training races, again in a category higher than I would normally compete in. The one on Saturday was a pretty standard workout (rode hard, dropped early), but the Sunday race was something exquisite, in its own way. I managed to […]
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Sunday, March 6th, 2005
Death in Rochfort Bridge
I don’t have anything useful or profound to say about the tragic death of four Mounties in Alberta on Thursday. I direct you to Colby Cosh for a perspective somewhat closer to the ground.
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Saturday, March 5th, 2005
Golden Convergence
Item: Wired reports on a bill before the US Congress that would legitimize “censor services,” as they describe them. A panoply of movie-makers have previously opposed the various efforts to implement this stuff, both from the bully pulpit and also by joining lawsuits. A precis: you buy a DVD, and then you buy either a […]