• Archive for August, 2006

    The first VIFF 2006 films announced

    by  • 8/22/2006 • life, movies • 0 Comments

    I’m doing my Vancouver International Film Festival obsessing over at Beyond Robson already…  I’m pretty much sure that I’m going to be going fulltime for only one of the two weeks, and nights for the rest of it.  I’ll try to offset the disease known as “work” with screeners from the festival if they’ll do [...]

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    Wanted: RFID or similar

    by  • 8/14/2006 • geek, life • 0 Comments

    I was browsing around ThinkGeek, looking at the carnivorous plant terrarium and the glowing ant farm, and thought about things that go missing at home; wallets, CDs, TV remotes, cellphones, keys, etc. I’m a bit surprised that there isn’t a plug and play, consumer system that allows you to track things around the house. Loc8tor [...]

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    Former Peeping Tom Techie

    by  • 8/10/2006 • life, music • 0 Comments

    I originally posted this at Beyond Robson but the show has been seriously under-promoted, so I’m posting it in a couple additional places. Photo uncredited from Pat’s MySpace Pat MacDonald, known to children of the 80s best as half of one-hit-wonder Timbuk 3, is coming to town. The band that he and his now ex-wife [...]

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    Naked Airlines: Coming Soon

    by  • 8/10/2006 • angst, life • 3 Comments

    CNN: “Due to the nature of the threat revealed by this investigation, we are prohibiting any liquids, including beverages, hair gels, and lotions from being carried on the airplane,” a DHS statement said. Increased security means airline passengers around the country should show up at least two hours early for all flights, an official with [...]

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    Penguin hijack

    by  • 8/9/2006 • life • 0 Comments

    On first read, I thought that the penguins had caused the crash; that they had sent three suicide bombers into the middle of the road to cause the aquarium truck to slam on the brakes, rolling, and spilling fresh, juicy fish onto the road for the remaining penguins.  It took a second read to find [...]

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