Posts Tagged: Things that Happened
830!
Earlier this month a Scrabble player named Michael Cresta, in Lexington, Mass., scored 830 points in a single game! He and his opponent scored 1,320 points, making it the highest individual score and the highest game total ever in regulation play. • Stefan Fatsis, the author of the greatest (and …
Trailer Park Boys... the Movie
This might be old news, but if you haven't seen it already check out the trailer for the Trailer Park Boys movie. I just watched it three times on loop. So good. Damn, this is going to be the one movie where living in California might actually mean it gets to theaters later than Atlantic Canada …
What's a TLA?
If you haven't seen it already, silverorange housemate Peter Rukavina has started an intriguing side project all about three letter acronyms. His new site 3LA.ca is a podcast/blog/dictionary where Peter endeavors to explain all kinds of three letter acronyms in a concise way for a wide audience …
Cough Cough
It's been a pretty dusty place around here, I can practically see the cobwebs. Over six months since I last posted anything. I've been debating starting things back up and then I thought that I needed a really good post to jumpstart the writing process. That didn't happen, so things sat idle even …
Google Maps Widget
Way back in June I upgraded my iBook to OSX Tiger and was playing around with widgets that were available for the whole new dashboard thing. Some guys had developed a Google Maps widget that had some nice functionality that I liked using. However, its rudimentary interface was pretty cumbersome …
Zak McKracken Two!
If the title to this post doesn't immediately make your toes tingle with anticipation, you clearly didn't spend enough days of your youth in front of a crappy EGA display trying to figure out the often reasonless riddles of Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. Oh, the days spent with my …
Paper Trail
As I suspect is the case for many people of my generation, I rarely subscribe to print publications. I most frequently do my periodical reading via a Salon subscription, CBC News, The Globe & Mail, Google News Canada, Digg, and a whole slew of weblogs I have in my RSS reader. I also grab free …
Mistaken Identity
One of the CBC's lead news stories this morning was B.C.'s mystery man ID'd as Colorado resident. Apparently a "mysterious young man who walked into a church in B.C. on Sunday claiming to have amnesia is from Colorado, West Vancouver police say. The man was carrying a hockey bag and had about …
Church Street Openings
After lamenting early this fall about the demise of two of Church Street's premier eating establishments, today I bring good news. • First, I had my first sandwich at the newly reopened Garage Sandwich Co. They're now at the back of Pusateri's Grocery just south of Wellesley and have replaced …
Football Philosophy
This might be old news, but I've just discovered PhilosophyFootball.com: sporting outfitters of intellectual distinction. They've got a decent-sized range of shirts with either clever soccer-related lines by philosophers or philosophical quips by footballers. • I especially like the Albert Camus …