Wired Cola

I love Craigslist. It's like the garage sale I can get to at any time of the day. It feeds directly into my addiction for buying cheap stuff.

Alas, it isn't without its nonsense. I don't know if it's worse in other groups, but the bikes listings, at least in Vancouver, are subject to frequent bouts of nonsense.

Recently, I was asked to do a video conversion which involved taking a YouTube video and turning it into a DVD (surprisingly, this was entirely legal). As an aid to my memory, and possibly a help for you, I have written out the toolchain I used.

Short version? Read my review of dinner at Zen in Richmond. It's astounding, and the $50 tasting menu was a great dinner. Go there.

TLO and I shop at Zellers, because cleaning supplies are cheap there. We do this every week. The clerk, an amiable enough sort, took three tries to ring in the total correctly (forgetting a small Kleenex pack and a coupon on the first two tries), but by heaven, she remembered the HBC Rewards Credit Card Spiel!

Of course, we have an HBC Rewards credit card. They offer something like 10% off your first purchase, so you wait until you have to buy something big at Zellers or the Bay, and you go for it.

Tonight I rode my bike up to Lougheed Skytrain Station. Then I took the train to VCC-Clark. Then I rode to the WTNC, where my friends and rivals collaborated in kicking me to death.

What followed was a death-ride home, which means the training worked. I was dizzy, a little delirious, and I drank most of a 700 mL bottle of Coke in about 2 minutes.

This, mind you, is what I do for fun. "Fun" in the modern era is pretty hilariously baroque in its manifestations.

TLO looking through the Ben Moss catalogue: "'faux eternity'? If you got me one of those, I'd be with you for a faux eternity."

It is mostly finished.

Urbi et Orbi, my nonsensical idea for a city bicycle with very, very long legs.