October 2007
310 posts
Just a Gwai Lo: Karen reviews How to Cook Your...
Relating Buddhism to cooking, she watched the movie in the newly refurbished Ridge Theatre as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival.
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sillygwailo: theatres should also remind the audience to turn their pagers (people still use those?) and cell phones back on after the movie’s over (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
September 2007
217 posts
Just a Gwai Lo: Critical Mass September 28th, 2007...
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See also my blog post at Urban Vancouver. (via Richard Eriksson aggregator)
Just a Gwai Lo: Critical Mass September 28th, 2007...
sillygwailo posted a photo:
See also my blog post at Urban Vancouver. (via Richard Eriksson aggregator)
Just a Gwai Lo: Critical Mass September 28th, 2007...
sillygwailo posted a photo:
See also my blog post at Urban Vancouver. (via Richard Eriksson aggregator)
Just a Gwai Lo: Critical Mass September 28th, 2007...
sillygwailo posted a photo:
See also my blog post at Urban Vancouver. (via Richard Eriksson aggregator)
Urban Vancouver: We Are Traffic: My First Critical...
Last night I biked from work over to the lions side of the Vancouver Art Gallery and participated in my first Critical Mass. Billed as a decentralized large group bike ride with no pre-determined route featuring anybody with self-propelled commuting, Critical Mass enjoys a 15 year existence, starting in the streets of San Francisco. My bike, a few months old and newly tuned up, performed...
sillygwailo: unsubscribing from the Urban Vancouver firehose feed and instead subscribing directly to individual Vancouver blogs (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Urban Vancouver: BC Floorball Announces League,...
Last night floorball started back up again at Mulgrave School in West Vancouver, this time with a twist on the original drop-ins I was participating in earlier in the year. Now they have full session sign-ups, and each drop-in begins with 15-20 minutes of drills. Perfect! I’m still a floorball newbie, and having some practice time with long-time players watching over should add some...
sillygwailo: on this day in 2003 I wrote about the state of my blog http://justagwailo.com/filter/2003/09/28/omnibus Its current state is ‘inactive’. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: on this day last year I reviewed the Nokia N80 phone, which I got to use for a week http://tinyurl.com/yu3jtf (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: Future Shop’s HDTV debate: yet another well-documented Vancouver event not attended without regrets (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: TrainBus at Waterfront Station...
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Just a Gwai Lo: Two West Coast Express Buses at...
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sillygwailo: on this day last year I wondered whether Body Worlds 3 was art or science http://tinyurl.com/ynjsfb (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: on this day in 2003 I wrote about the opportunity costs of downloading “free” music http://justagwailo.com/filter/2003/09/27/piracy (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: Trike to perform on Vancouver's...
Which happens to be Canadian Thanksgiving.
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Just a Gwai Lo: Angel for Mayor Van [Flickr]
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Just a Gwai Lo: Angel for Mayor [Flickr]
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“For police accountability & external investigations.” Also a “bonded & certified refrigeration mechanic”. (via Richard Eriksson aggregator)
Just a Gwai Lo: Seul Fido vous récompense autant....
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“Avec plein de truc pour votre sans-fil.”
Main & Hastings in Vancouver either has a large enough French-speaking population or they put up the wrong posters. Pointed out by Karen. (via Richard Eriksson aggregator)
sillygwailo: giving up on weekly reviews: I gave them an honest try, but I couldn’t stick with it (story of my life) (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: I’m declaring bankruptcy declaration bankruptcy: I can’t keep up with the statements people make saying that they can’t keep up anymore (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: on this day in 2003 I quoted extensively from Pliny the Younger http://tinyurl.com/26dv76 (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: on this day in 2004 I wrote about a conversation I overheard that started with “what was the last book you read?” http://tinyurl.com/299pjy (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: somebody spotted a cougar on Granville Island early this morning, but I thought their natural environment was New Westminster bars (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: Carole Browne met Vancouver's...
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Just a Gwai Lo: Six Apart is opening up the Social...
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Just a Gwai Lo: Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir’s Tips For...
Interact with people, comment on other people’s photos, and upload selectively.
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Just a Gwai Lo: Piles [ma.gnolia]
Having piles around the house means never having to worry about running out of things to do.
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Just a Gwai Lo: The ethics of buying and selling...
I’m trying to wrap my head around the issues, as some personal bloggers I read are directly selling link advertising on their sites, which I actually support. TextLinkBrokers’ Jarrod Hunt in the comments is up front that it’s mostly about buying search engine ranking.
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Just a Gwai Lo: Flickr photos tagged with...
Most are from a 2006 Vandigicam photowalk.
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Just a Gwai Lo: SPEC held a design contest for...
Includes some awesome aerial and historical shots of the now unused rail line.
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Just a Gwai Lo: Interview with Florence Chee on...
“Single player games aren’t going away, and it would be silly to assume that one genre is going to win out. They serve completely different purposes, and we’re starting to target different demographics for different genres.”
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sillygwailo: no historic trolley coach ride for me today: prudence dictates cleaning my apartment and pondering the future (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: Weegee, aka Arthur Fellig,...
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sillygwailo: twice now I’ve forgotten that my Ikea sofa bed is blocking the doorway to my kitchen, which reminds me to read Dirk Gently again (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: The Trouble with Paradise...
Charles Campbell covers the September 7th lecture with Mike Harcourt, Ken Cameron and Sean Rossiter that I attended as well as their book City Making in Paradise, which I just finished reading.
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sillygwailo: I sometimes wish my blog got dozens of comments on each post, but then I remember I barely even read them on other people’s blogs (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: @al3x: I woke up at 1:30 PM too, but only because I wanted to keep dreaming that I was playing in the NBA All-Star Game (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: considering “switching” to WordPress (if I could figure out where to host it) or even Movable Type (if I could get it working on my VPS) (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: The many ways you can carry stuff...
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