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We took a CanCar and went out to Whiterock to visit Grampa Brian and Gramma Donna

We all had a pretty good time, I think, and it was good to see Jason and Vicky (and their partners, Shannon & Ted).

We went down to the beach area and wandered out to the end of the pier (my dad, Ripley, and Donna)…

Ripley went digging for buried treasure…

…and Tate took over duties as “The Ovulator.”

…and now, after watching some Olympics on CBC and some sorta stress-inducing chocolate challange thing on the Food Network, I’m going to make some coffee…

Peace out, folks.

Someone here at work is looking for a directable female voice actor, who can “speak Mexican.” The right voice is more important that experience.

Anyone? It’s gotta be soon like, probably tomorrow.

Let me know via comment at my blog (or email/IM me, if you have that information handy).

Bit of a mutiny at Blenz Robson (I’m assuming it’s the one at Bute & Robson, but I don’t know for sure).

Let’s start at the beginning of this week:

Monday night.

Mad Professor with Aisha at Richard’s on Richards, 8pm.
I thought I was going to an “early/short” show (Doors at 8? Who goes to a club on a Monday at 8pm?) and turned out that I was going to a “full meal deal” with that started at 10:30 on the dot. Wandered around outside for a bit, watched two young guys smoke pot (doesn’t matter how far away you get from other people, if you’re tokin’ people a block away know about it), and talked to the second person in the “will call” line (an Asian lady with one of those little wool toques that makes me think about how itchy/sweaty wool would be on my scalp) who had an Australian accent and…

…wrap your head around that for a minute…
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WordPress 2.0.1 seems to have the same issue mentioned at this place…

So, I was talking to my mom on the phone tonight, and we were just catching up on how our collective weeks went, and after telling me about her trip to Florida (let’s just call a junket a junket, shall we?), and she mentioned that the live bookmark in this blog wasn’t working for her as of late.

My mom, the ultimate beta tester.

My mom is not one of those “bad computer mojo” types, who cause computers to throw themselves down flights of stairs, or spontaneously have bad sectors on hard drives in the middle of your dissertation, or just glitch out for not reason at all.

She’s one of those people that will push all the buttons, and fiddle with the knobs, and generally go wherever she can in a web site (or a network, or a conversation, or a job), just to see if she can. This is a very good thing, and means that she stumbles into things like the fact that my RSS feed has been broken on my blog for… uh, quite a while.

So, without further ado, you can all start reading my RSS feed again, now that I’m

So thanks mom, and maybe next time I won’t mention computers. :)

Was bumbering around tonight looking for “Thunder Snow” because The Colbert Report opened with a great little joke about it (and looking forward to Flood-Nado, Sleetsami, too), and stumbled across some links on there that pointed to this great 14 ways to turn your organization into a mess
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’cause we all know it’s wrong, and we’d never EVER do that.
Unless, of course, somebody told us we couldn’t.
Finger-wagging by groups like the RIAA directly increases the visibility of piracy.

RIAA: “Don’t download StarWars Episode III, or you’re bad!”
AverageJoe: “Dude, you can download movies?”
RIAA: “Yes, using BitTorrent, you can. So don’t.”
AverageJoe: “Let me get a pen, what’s it called again?”
AverageSteve: “What’re you doing?”
AverageJoe: “I’m gonna download movies!”
AverageSteve: “Awesome!”
RIAA: “Hey, cut that out! Don’t download new movies and music! Give that money to us!”
AverageJoe: “What money? I wasn’t going to see EP3 or buy the new Madonna album anyway – I was gonna wait for the DVD, and listen to the single on the radio 25 times a day if I want to.”
AverageSteve: “My nephew knows how to copy them DVD thingies.”
RIAA: “Cracking DECSS is evil and wrong, and using program like DVD Decrypter to make copies is immoral, so we shut them down, too.”
AverageJoe: “Wait, wait, let me get my pen again.”
AverageSteve: “What’re you doing now?”
AverageJoe: “After I download this movie, I’m gonna make copies of my Rogers rentals using some kinda DVDSS thing.”
RIAA: “STOP IT! Artists are starving in the streets! Look at poor Celine Dion! Bryan Adams!”
AverageJoe: “…”
AverageSteve: “…”
AverageJoe: “Do you have any blanks? I think it’ll only take a few more copies to kill off Celine…”
AverageSteve: “Here’s two, think we can take a chunk outta 50cent, too?”
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You can download the podcast manually here, if you’d like to hear what JV’s been up to. Should also be a valid podcast feed, so if you enter the RSS link (over on the right column somewhere), then your podcast downloader should just grab the mp3 and push it into whatever you use to play.

Oh yeah, and there’s the odd bit of swearing, so maybe wait until the kids are asleep before firing this one up. :)

We’ll see.

And no, that’s not me.

JohnnyVancouver and I will be doing something together in the near future, but he managed to get there before I did (good for him).

Quite some time ago, I noticed that there was a site out there somewhere called HumanClock, where instead of a normal wall or digital clock, they’ve got pictures with the time in them. Some are really cool, some are silly, but every day at 2:44pm, The Ruby Show starts…

As many of you noticed, at 2:44pm a little “story” starts on the clock site. Sometime around December 2004, three different people from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Virginia started sending in photos responding to the previous minute’s photo. This went on for the next six months. Much like an overpriced anthology book, all of the photos are collected here (sorry, no outtakes or previously unreleased photos) with each partipant talking about the photo. A big thanks to John, Camille, and Leanne for putting time and effort into this.

Even when things are supposed to be totally random, patterns emerge. Communities rise up where there’s no reason to, but arise they do. Gives us hope sometimes. The Ruby Show is an example of a tribeless tribe. People who work towards some sort of common goal, no matter how silly that goal may be. They share common beliefs, no matter how obscure those beliefs may be (that there’s something about 2:44pm that people should pay attention to).

That hey, people and time interact strangely.