We drove fifty miles last night to HP Pavilion in San Jose to watch the Canucks end their season in miserable fashion. They squandered three one-goal leads before the Sharks potted two in a row to go up 4-3, with the final goal being an empty netter to make it 5-3. [...] » Read more

I don’t know what it means either, but it’s the two words that popped, side by side, into my head while staring into the freezer before dinner. State of mind indicators? Caught “Wallace & Gromit – The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” at the Cinerama on Friday. It was good but ultimately unsatisfying, since I had [...] » Read more

Everyone’s getting their bathroom done these days, self included. I’ve been looking for contractors on and off for the last few months, and have finally signed both a contract and a large check. Remodelling starts on Monday and finishes in a week. Here’s the project description that I submitted to a few contractors, you’ll [...] » Read more

Inspired by Tom Duff’s list of MLB ball parks, and having nothing better to do while waiting for renders today, I compiled a list of satellite images of hockey stadiums – courtesy of Google Maps. I’ve been inside one of these (Vancouver, of course!), hang around the outside of another on a regular [...] » Read more

This was my score Sunday on Langara golf course, if you go by the double par maximum rule. I managed to bogey one 3-par hole, triple bogeyed another 3-par (which ended up being the only hole I beat Manh on – woohoo), and as for everything else, well let’s just not go into [...] » Read more

The NHL hockey season has been cancelled. This is sad to any Canadian no matter how unsurprising it was. In the final negotiations, it was just math – but a strange math from another planet which I don’t understand. Apparently the major stumbling block was salary caps since everything else had been conceded to. [...] » Read more

My sole interest in sports while at UBC was asking for my “recfac” fee back during the first week of school. Someone had the bright idea of funding the recreation centre by negative option billing: adding a “optional” fee to everyone’s tuition, and then obfuscating the fact that you could actually ask for that [...] » Read more

Life has been eventful; this blog has not reflected that. Random noteworthy happenings from the last few months: High school friends visited for a Sonics game a couple of months ago, and I was dragged out to the golf course for the first time in my life. On a beautiful Saturday morning, I shot 68 [...] » Read more

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Sunday I pushed the bike down Phinney to FreeRange Cycles, where the very nice people adjusted my rear derailleur (for free!) to stop the chain from popping off while in 7th gear. They also told me what was wrong with the hub gear: the front shift lever was broken and needed replacement. As they [...] » Read more