The Vancouver Canucks are playing the Colorado Avalanche tonight, and as I was sitting at my computer, I was wondering … is there any live broadcast of the game online?
CKNW, the local radio station that usually broadcasts the Canucks’ games, doesn’t have streaming.
So I checked out NHL.com (irritatingly part of the MSN network) and was […]

Well, it did snow last night, as I thought it might. (Although, true to West coast form, most of it melted today.)
However, during the night, we were visited by the deer that we often see around our house - and they left tracks up our driveway:

I snapped this pic early in the morning, almost in […]

OK, occasionally I post the odd completely off-the-wall story on my blog. And this one fits the bill:

People’s bottoms are getting so big they no longer make a suitable target for injections, a study in Ireland has shown.
Many are now so obese that the needles customarily used simply are not long enough to penetrate the […]

Saw a cool bumper sticker at the rink Saturday night:

Support your local hospital. Play hockey.

I believe this is the one right here. Certainly rings a bell with me!

It is capital-C cold today. (At least for the West coast - I think it went below 0 Celsius today.)
It feels like snow, looks like snow, and it even smells like snow. And guess what’s in the forecast? Snow. (Of course, when all these conditions are met, and kids’ expectations are high, it would be […]

Teresa and I have been considering what to do with our home stereo for quite some time, and I’m thinking an iPod-based solution might be the answer.
Once I got my iPod, I immediately felt that my music library was freed - in retrospect CDs and jewel cases seem like little plastic coffins that concealed our […]

Remember the big ugly foot?
Well.
Apparently playing hockey on a badly bruised foot is not quite the thing to do. Unless you want it to get worse:

Ah well. It goes nicely with the bump just over my left eye that I acquired today from yet another stick in the face.

Ice hockey is for masochists, as I believe I’ve mentioned before.
In addition to the 4 stitches that were inserted to hold my lip together about 3 weeks ago, and the cantaloupe-sized bruise just above my right knee that I got as a souvenir for stopping a puck a week after that, I’ve got an entirely […]

I thought I’d try out Google Analytics tonight, and went in to sign up, only to find this message:

Google Analytics has experienced extremely strong demand, and as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your name and email address and we will […]

I occasionally wander over to Technorati and weep at my woefully pitiful blog ranking: 103,499th.
Ouch.
But the other day, I had a slightly contrary thought. Sure, I’m part of the long tail of websites. Specifically, blogs.
But that long tail is really, really, really long. Incredibly long. In fact, mind-blowingly long. As Technorati now states, it is […]

I took most of the day off last week Friday - Teresa and I took the kids to Mount Baker, just across the border in Washington.
There’s a great little tubing area that ends in a flat run over a little lake. The ice seemed to hold, but I could kick my way through it if […]

I finished reading Cavalcade, by Alison Sinclair this past week. Good book!
It’s science fiction - a novel take on first contact, which is hard to do, as it’s been done and done and done. But not quite to death, as this book proves.
As usual in the best of science fiction, the times and technologies are […]

Please ignore this post. Nothing to see here, folks. Move right along.
Just claiming my feed at Feedster

Just finished watching Revenge of the Sith.
I finally rented it, and yes, it was JUST AS STUPID as I thought it would be. Unbelievable. Is every single character told to “follow your feelings?” Mine change from minute to minute. Following them would be like following a butterfly. Small wonder that Anakin “follows his feelings” to […]

Poor, misunderstood, and abused pop star Madonna is telling people to lay off Tom Cruise for being a Scientologist. As she says …

“We’re both in the take-a-lot-of-s— club together,” Madonna tells Rolling Stone magazine in its new issue. “I don’t really know what Scientology is, and because I don’t know, I’m not in a position […]

I am so tired of Americans talking about how horrible “clicks” are.
A click is a small noise, often caused by something hard tapping on, hitting, or sliding past something else that is also hard. A clique, on the other hand, is a small, inward-focused, exclusionary group of people.
The two words do not rhyme … the […]

I happened to be in our Langley office the other day, and noticed an odd dot on the urinal:

A little closer it appeared to take on some definition and shape. It was definitely something about Windows:

Even closer, it was readily discernable. Apparently, this urinal was designed for use with Windows XP. It’s amazing the things […]

Turns out that one of the kids picked up this while trick-or-treating a couple of weeks ago:

Brings back memories …. that’s exactly the kind of package of raisins I used to occasionally get way back in elementary school. Not that my mom ever bought them. But sometimes other kids would share, or I’d get them […]

How would you like to see Mare Imbrium in high def … just by looking up into the night sky?
You get a telescope in your eye, of course. I want one.
There are some problems, of course. I don’t think the focus or magnifying power is adjustable at this point, and I’m sure your field of […]