Archive - 2005

Things to Do in Vancouver: 6-Day Race

December 12-17, 1900-2200 (doors open at 1800) each night, it's a Six-Day race at the Burnaby Velodrome. The (PDF) schedule. The signature event each night is the Madison, a wild team event which Gord describes in a 4-star blog entry, complete with pictures.

Danger Laboratories presents: The Cane!

Danger Laboratories

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Bad judgment. That's why I have such good judgment.

Ahem.

Monday morning it took me three tries to get to work.

Try #1: same bike I used Saturday morning has a flat rear tire. Oops. Investigation reveals an explosive blow-out at some point, caused by a failed tire sidewall on a tire bought earlier this year. Either the tire was defective or I have to check my brake positioning.

Weird, wild linkage

Normally, I don't go in for link posts, because I doubt I can tell you anything new: I don't think a pointer to a big-league aggregation site is value-added, and I care about value for my 20 readers.

But I make an exception tonight, as I collect a few things that are fun.

Warmer, colder, either way it's bad.

So, since I rode the bus to work today (part of my ongoing commitment to not commuting by bicycle while there is snow on the roads), I read one of the free commuter papers, and they had this article on how some activists staged a mock hockey game of the future in Montreal, showing that the grand tradition of pond hockey was threatened by warmer temperatures. They did this outside of a U.N. climate change conference.

Federal Playoffs!

Oh, I'm such a political junkie.

It fills me with something like shame to admit how much I enjoy a good election campaign, especially a federal one. And this after all my bold words about the importance of local politics. But I love local politics like I love amateur sports: the important, useful end of the entity, where all that tasty subsidiarity happens that I so love.

Attack spider

Smiling Meatball

Buy Something

So, how did I celebrate Kalle Lassn's favourite day? With the payment of an auto repair bill in excess of $500, topped off by some Christmas shopping, a couple of slices of pizza, and the weekly grocery run.

I wouldn't have minded paying less.

PS: I've made a mild administrative change to comments: no registration is necessary to comment now. I'm praying that Blogger's word verification will reduce comment spam, and the fact that I have 23 readers will take care of the rest of the potential problems.

The Rider

Gord gave his passing approval to Tim Krabbé's The Rider, and having read it, I'm shocked.

I'm not shocked that Gord approved. I'm shocked at how good the novel (we'll discuss that designation in a moment) is.