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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
In Praise of Blowout Victories
Ah, TMQ, the great explainer of football. There’s a funny story about my current interest in the NFL: I started reading Easterbrook’s “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” column (this was back when it was part of Slate), and it was so interesting I began to watch the football games so I could keep up with the column. […]
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Monday, January 17th, 2005
a cold day in hello
Sure, Tweety could fly away. But he doesn’t because it is all the better to torment Sylvester! He’s actually a twisted, twisted individual. Hmmm. This may be the one time that Grant’s minor in abnormal and clincal psychology could prove useful! I still haven’t brought my wired cola mug into the lab. I will, but […]
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Sunday, January 16th, 2005
The Sublime and the Ridiculous – A Continuing Series
Hello, everyone. This blog is brought to you from my bed which is warm and comfy. Bed – the soft choice. I’m actually witnessing a really ridiculous cartoon right now. I am not generally a cartoon watcher, except for The Jetsons, but an insomniac like myself sometimes falls prey to Sylvester and Tweety. Tweety can […]
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Sunday, January 16th, 2005
Now that’s a sunset. One of the neat things about the specialty modes of the Coolpix (sunset, night scene, etc.) is that they tend to suggest certain pictures. After all, if you’re out wandering the streets and you turn to see a dramatic sunset, well then you just have to whip out the old camera […]
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Sunday, January 16th, 2005
Do not stare directly into the cat.Posted using scary magic-like technologies
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Sunday, January 16th, 2005
This is a shot of the Fraser river, taken from the Albion ferry. The river was filled with ice chunks as far as the eye could see. What was I doing crossing the Fraser so far from home, on a day when the temperature never got above freezing? I was in the middle of a […]
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Sunday, January 16th, 2005
This is the sister ship to the ferry I was riding. As you can see, more ice. The day was dry enough, and I did enjoy the ride after a fashion, though it was the kind of day wehre you really had to be interested in riding as its own reward.Posted using scary magic-like technologies
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
Best. News. Ever.
Bungie has released the wondrous Marathon Trilogy as a free download. Life is good. I’m going to go home, download this, and play through the whole thing at maximum difficulty! So, who’s up for a LAN party? Update: I went home, got Marathon, set the difficulty to “Total Carnage,” and died, repeatedly, about 10 feet […]
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
A New Velodrome in Ontario?
There’s a few crazies trying to build another indoor velodrome in Canada, this time in London, Ontario, something I found out thanks to Gord’s blog. The killer part? They’re proposing a 142m track with 50-degree banking! The Burnaby ‘drome is already one of the tightest, steepest tracks in the world, but it’s a comparatively roomy […]
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
The Aviator: a brief review
You know when the exact moment that Martin Scorsese lost me in The Aviator? As Hughes throttles up for his record speed run, the tachometer goes up to eleven (4500, I think), and then the needle falls off. You see that sort of thing, and the credibili-meter drops near zero. I know that anyone with […]