Archive for February, 2010
The Most Dangerous Coffee in Kingston
I’m in a transit planning class and our first assignment has us evaluating an intermodal journey. This basically means we have to walk, skip and jump our way to another city via the street, public transit and some sort of other non-car mode…then write about what we liked and didn’t. Grad School is tough (honestly […]
Moan the Podium
Day 10 and we stand in 5th place with 8 medals…even South Korea is ahead. I for one, place the blame squarely on these fellows. It is one thing to excessively fund the team, but it is something else to arrogantly predict them to win a huge chunk of the medals. I haven’t heard of […]
2010 Mogul Gold
One of the perks of winning some kind of Olympic hardware in Canada is a lifelong membership with either CBC or CTV as…well…a face on their coverage team. Jean-Luc Brassard showed up during the CTV interview with Alexandre Bilodeau musing of days past (read: man, I wish I was allowed to have big air like […]
Vancouver 2010 – Opening Ceremonies
Some bizarre scenes from the pre-shows running up to the opening ceremonies included MuchMusic making its first and probably last appearance in a supporting role to CTV’s Olympic media juggernaut. VJ’s, hot tubs and bikinis? Body shots? As a TV segment just before the Opening Ceremonies? Oh my… Showing the luge crash??? Bad taste. Off […]
Tremblant ‘10
I spent the last two days bombing around Quebec’s Mont Tremblant ski resort. I wanted to get the Eastern Canadian ski experience while I’m still out east and get a coffee mug to prove it. Tremblant is an IntraWest instant resort-in-a-can, with the standard pedestrian village, hot spring spa, tubing, skating and over-priced food stuffs. […]
Google Street View
Yeah, it has been out for awhile, but in my ignorance I had no idea its saturation level into some countries, notably the USA, Japan, Australia and Europe. I’m quite impressed. I’m going to use Cape Vincent as an example of some of the places Street View has documented. Cape Vincent is in the US, […]
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