May 2007
155 posts
Richard: I’d resent being left out of things, if only I didn’t quit the channels through which those things flow (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: so long Facebook, and thanks for all the email notifications (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: taking the opportunity to subscribe to just the feeds that matter, now that I mistakenly unsubscribed from everything (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: offline is the new away (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: too much refreshing, not enough reflecting (via Twitter / Richard)
Urban Vancouver: Richard's Week of Floorball:...
The 1st annual BC Floorball Federation Challenge this past Saturday was a major success! I was placed on Team Sweden, and despite claims of coincidence, I suspect conspiracy—I started participating in order to counter Swedish dominance with a surging Icelandic wave, and this is how they repay me?! Team Czech won the championship, which lasted all day at Mulgrave School in West Vancouver. ...
Richard: CBC, I love you but you’re bringing me down (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: decompressing: it’s almost as if my thighs and shoulders each have a .tar.gz extension (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: my head’s too big for my otherwise awesome “one size fits all” CBC hat (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: everything that needs recharging (iPod, phone, shaver, camera, computer, and myself) are recharging tonight (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: advice against apologizing is an affront to my Canadian heritage (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: something tells me I’m better off not involved with anything that has “swarm” in it (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: if it’s laminated, it must be true (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: thinking about first impressions and opportunities, future and missed (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: celebrating the life of Douglas Adams, a hoopy frood who really knew where his towel was http://www.towelday.kojv.net/ (via Twitter / Richard)
Urban Vancouver: Richard's Week of Floorball:...
Stewart already addressed the issue I had about floorball, that is that tricks have more value than fundamentals. This is true of all sports, really, but it’s also true that teams that best exploit the regime (the infrastructure of the sport, including the rules and how the refs call it) are the ones that dominate, not necessarily those that are the most skillful. Think the New Jersey...
Richard: @adamrg: SNPD has already been invented, except they called it FOAF (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: finding it difficult to develop personal initiative without resorting to self-help guides that don’t resonate (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: your sweat is salty (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: I go through all this / before you wake up / so I can feel happier (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: I thought I could organize freedom (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: attending the Björk concert in accordance with Icelandic law (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: if you’re going to drink and drive, don’t forget to bring your car (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: kicking someone out of an IRC channel makes me feel like a big man (via Twitter / Richard)
Urban Vancouver: Richard's Week of Floorball:...
As promised, some video of floorball in action. Izzard’s video gives you a sense of what it’s like to play pickup floorball in a gym, except we don’t play to a Chemical Brothers soundtrack. For tricks (which floorballers seem to prefer to call skills), go no further than video showing the “Zorro” performed during games. I’m not so fond of the tricks, they...
Richard: @leelefever: Twitter friend sustainability is un-American (via Twitter / Richard)
Richard: when I hear the phrase “SMS integration”, I release the safety-catch of my Browning! (via Twitter / Richard)
Urban Vancouver: Richard's Week of Floorball:...
Thanks to the fine folks at BC Floorball for the link back to yesterday’s introduction to the series. Referring to me, they say “as soon as he realised Sweden is a top nation in Floorball he knew he HAD to play. Nothing like a bit of Nordic rivalry!” That’s right, it took not Stewart’s gentle pleas to get me to try the sport, but rather looking at the Wikipedia page...
Richard: Social Rapid Transit is the new Personal Rapid Transit (via Twitter / Richard)
improvident lackwit: Too Crazy For Boys Town, Too...
At GungHaggisFatChoy, Todd Wong announces an event titled “Too Asian to be American, too American to be Asian”. That sentiment was already made fun of by The Simpsons. In one of the many Treehouse of Horror episodes, after separating Siamese twins—no wait, conjoined twins!—Bart and Hugo with a paper cutter, Dr. Hibbert reflects:
Hibbert: But what to do with poor Hugo? Too crazy for...
Urban Vancouver: Richard's Week of Floorball:...
As the 1st annual BC Floorball Federation Challenge, held at Mulgrave School in West Vancouver on Saturday May 26th, approaches, I wanted to write a little bit about my experiences playing the new-to-me sport. Not being the hockey player in the family (that title belongs to my brother), it’s been a little slow going, having to match what I know about basketball—positioning and moving around...
The most amazing—and disappointing—cultural events... →
"According to Sam Hamadeh [...] being an... →
Hamadeh: “Minorities, immigrants, gays and lesbians are all more likely to start businesses than other people.”
Terry Frei ranks the NHL hockey teams' jerseys →
Too bad there weren’t any photos adorning the list.
Schedule for Northern Voice 2007 →
I’m presenting an introduction to blogging in the morning.