Played great racquetball yesterday. I was playing singles with Chris, and made 30 straight points. I could hardly believe it while it was happening.
Won the first game 15-12, then took the second 15-0, and was up 13-0 in the third before Chris got another point. I also won a fourth game.
It might be the best I've ever played.
January 31, 2006
January 26, 2006
Sports Trivia I
I've been doing sports trivia questions modeled on the Stump the Schwab quiz show from ESPN (shown on The Score in Canada) with the racquetball guys after we play our Premier League games. It's fun.
I ask the whole table a question that has multiple answers, and each person gives one answer in turn. If the person is incorrect, they are out for that question.
So, here's one of the questions:
14 players have scored over 600 regular season goals in the NHL coming into the 2005-06 season. Name them.
You can enter your answers as a comment. I'll post the answer in a couple of days as a comment. (yeah, of course, you could look the answer up on the internet, but what fun would that be?)
I ask the whole table a question that has multiple answers, and each person gives one answer in turn. If the person is incorrect, they are out for that question.
So, here's one of the questions:
14 players have scored over 600 regular season goals in the NHL coming into the 2005-06 season. Name them.
You can enter your answers as a comment. I'll post the answer in a couple of days as a comment. (yeah, of course, you could look the answer up on the internet, but what fun would that be?)
January 23, 2006
What's it going to be?
Well, it's election day here in the Great White North, and the weather is fine all across the nation, so no one should have that as an excuse for not getting out to the poll.
Who will win? Going it, it looked like the Liberals would get back in again, but probably with another minority. However, the Conservatives have remarkably run an error free campaign, and look like they could be poised to win either a minority or a majority.
The latter should occur if Quebec gets on the Conservative bandwagon, and there were signs of that during the campaigning. The Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe (sp?) went from saying they would take over 50 seats in Quebec to we'll just do our best. Holy backing off, Batman!
Personally, I'm happy to see a change at this point, although the Conservatives are still a question mark for me. I'm not fond of populist politics, which is rather like fundamentalist religion if you ask me, and the Conservatives developed out of the Reform/Canadian Alliance parties that were populist.
Should make for interesting TV viewing tonight.
After I watch 24.
Who will win? Going it, it looked like the Liberals would get back in again, but probably with another minority. However, the Conservatives have remarkably run an error free campaign, and look like they could be poised to win either a minority or a majority.
The latter should occur if Quebec gets on the Conservative bandwagon, and there were signs of that during the campaigning. The Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe (sp?) went from saying they would take over 50 seats in Quebec to we'll just do our best. Holy backing off, Batman!
Personally, I'm happy to see a change at this point, although the Conservatives are still a question mark for me. I'm not fond of populist politics, which is rather like fundamentalist religion if you ask me, and the Conservatives developed out of the Reform/Canadian Alliance parties that were populist.
Should make for interesting TV viewing tonight.
After I watch 24.
January 17, 2006
Sk8er Boi on the program?
Avril Lavigne will be headlining a special production designed to celebrate Canada and to capture the spirit of the 2010 Host City. according to a press release on the
SIRC site.
What song could better capture the spirit of Vancouver than Sk8er Boi?
SIRC site.
What song could better capture the spirit of Vancouver than Sk8er Boi?
January 16, 2006
January 15, 2006
Raps win! Raps win!
It's funny, but I think the team that I'm most interested these days is the Toronto Raptors. No one had anything good to say about them to start the year, and they lived up to that billing by not winning until their 10th game or so.
So, they are a big underdog, and I was interested in whether they could actually win a game. They did, and in fact, they have done rather well of late, winning something like 6 of their last 7 games, including a thrashing of the NY Knicks today.
So, the Raptors may have replaced the Montreal Expos - a moment of silence please - as my favorite team. NBA basketball isn't my favorite sport. Neither was baseball when the Expos were my favorite team. Still the Raps have an appeal to me that I'm don't find in any other team.
Well, aside from Newcastle United.
So, they are a big underdog, and I was interested in whether they could actually win a game. They did, and in fact, they have done rather well of late, winning something like 6 of their last 7 games, including a thrashing of the NY Knicks today.
So, the Raptors may have replaced the Montreal Expos - a moment of silence please - as my favorite team. NBA basketball isn't my favorite sport. Neither was baseball when the Expos were my favorite team. Still the Raps have an appeal to me that I'm don't find in any other team.
Well, aside from Newcastle United.
January 5, 2006
Epic Film
Saw the second half of the Italian film Best of Youth last night. It's an epic story of a family from the mid '60s to the '90s. It focuses on two brothers, who are the middle two children of four kids; their siblings are girls. A trip to Norway planned with two other guys gets sidetracked, and things are never quite the same.
Well worth seeing, although it is over 6 hours total, with each part about 3 hours.
Well worth seeing, although it is over 6 hours total, with each part about 3 hours.
January 3, 2006
What a question!
"When does the hope stop and the bitterness begin?"
Reportedly asked by Barbara Frum, former host for CBC Television's The Journal, during early reporting on the Ocean Ranger disaster.
The Ocean Ranger was an oil rig that sank off the coast of Newfoundland resulting in one of the largest losses of life at sea ever.
Reportedly asked by Barbara Frum, former host for CBC Television's The Journal, during early reporting on the Ocean Ranger disaster.
The Ocean Ranger was an oil rig that sank off the coast of Newfoundland resulting in one of the largest losses of life at sea ever.
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