Posts Tagged: Things that Happened
Throw a Disc for Charity
For the second year in a row, silverorange is organizing a frisbee golf tournament for charity! This year, our pals at GoodBasic are co-sponsoring the event and we appreciate their help. • The tournament is happening on July 10 at Strathgartney Provincial Park and is open to anyone. You honestly …
Itchy Feet Syndrome
A lot of people who know me might know this already, but I'm moving to Toronto in August. Mostly a case of itchy feet syndrome. I've visited Toronto on many occasions and I have family there, so I'm really looking forward to living in the city for a while. • From Toronto, I'll still be working …
Politics at 84 Fitzroy Street
With the upcoming Canadian federal election, Peter, our corporate roommate, has initiated a series of informal discussions with our local candidates at our headquarters at 84 Fitzroy Street. Today (Monday) at 2pm, Will MacFadden from the Green Party will be coming around and at 4pm tomorrow …
Bugging Your Aunts
At lunch today, our roommate Peter Rukavina made a point that it was a Maritime Canadian trait to pronouce 'aunt' with an O sound like 'want'. According to Peter, everyone else in North America pronounces the word insect-like as 'ant'. I've always thought that the pronounciation like 'ont' was a …
Swiftradius Design
Over the past few months, I've been working with a friend on the branding of his fledgling company. It's been a fun and challenging experience: one that refutes my earlier belief that working with people you know only leads to disaster. Although my expertise is certainly not in the skill of brand …
Modern Artillery Delivered
This morning the friendly Fedex man delivered The Living End's new disc Modern Artillery right to my desk. When I was living in New Zealand, I became aware of The Living End as they were played on the radio in Christchurch all of the time. They're a fantastic punk band from Australia who broke …
Reviewing the Disc
A bunch of silveroranges got out on Saturday to play a round of very breezy disc golf at Strathgartney Provincial Park. Upon our return to headquarters, I wrote a bit of a review of our Flathead Cyclone Discs over at silverorange stuff (our reviews site).
No Babies Thanks
The weirdest thing just happened fifteen seconds ago at work. The phone rings. I answer with my full name to distinguish myself from the other Dan at silverorange. The guy on the other end asks if I paged him. Confused, I tell him I haven't. Then, he introduces himself and he turns out to be …
Fantastic Flying Discs
It's getting warm outside, so maybe it's time to start planning another disc golf tournament for charity. One of my co-workers just brought to my attention an amazing collection of the art of the flying disc or frisbeetm. There are discs promoting world championships, tv shows, movies, tournaments …
Retracing "UHF"
Fifteen years after the original release of Weird Al Yankovic's incredible movie UHF, Rob "Flack" O'Hara went and retraced the steps of our wily hero George Newman and his unlikely sidekick Stanley Spadowski through Oklahoma City. Among other locations he visits Burger World, Channel 8 …