snoop's playstation is VERY IMPORTANT
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/snoop/snoop1.html I'm surprised Sony hasn't leapt on the marketing potential of the fact that ensuring a Playstation is placed in Snoop's dressing room is VERY IMPORTANT: "Snoop's dressing room should have one (1) complete Sony Playstation with miscellaneous 1999 sport video cartridges... and an appropriate video screen. This must be rented and should be included in hospitality as a minimum show cost but will not be allowed as a showcost if purchased. Please trust that this will be some of the most important money you spend."

posted by Tina on 3/27/2006 | 0 comments | #

flute summit in two seasons

Summer


Winter (yesterday)

I don't even want to go into why we didn't hike to the top of Flute Summit and get fresh tracks yesterday. We ended up hiking for an hour and a half, all for naught. Nonetheless, it was an amazing Whistler day, with blue skies and fresh powder. The two photos are of the same summit - the first is from the Musical Bumps hike I did in July 2005, and the other is from almost the same spot yesterday (except covered in about 3.5 metres of snow).

posted by Tina on 3/26/2006 | 0 comments | #

triumph of the fembots
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/060320crbo_books I remember a few years ago coming across a website with scans of every Playboy centrefold since the magazine was founded. It was fascinating to see how body ideals changed over the years, from the natural-looking, curvy women of the 60s through to the ultra-airbrushed, constructed Fembots of recent years. This story chronicles it quite well. If the site still exists, please tell me where! Plus, Hugh Hefner turns 80.

posted by Tina on 3/24/2006 | 1 comments | #

100 years old
75 years in public transit - I am a sucker for this kind of story. He doesn't look 100 years old. " He plans to keep busy in his retirement by doing charity work and taking advantage of his free bus pass to explore the city."

posted by Tina on 3/22/2006 | 0 comments | #

the lost cosmonauts
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030117.html
I found this story when doing a search for the book Lost Cosmonaut, by Daniel Calder. Although the story of lost Russian cosmonauts is not true, it still makes an interesting idea for a story.

posted by Tina on 3/17/2006 | 0 comments | #

fastest human, under construction
http://thetyee.ca/News/2006/03/16/FastestHuman/ A short, interesting story about what is happening in the world of disability sport.

Also, I finally got around to watching Murderball the other night, which was excellent. The recreation complex they use for the 2004 Canada Cup is my old recreation centre (Bonsor). A lot of quad rugby tournaments take place there and I once watched a game after a fitness class, and had the concept of quadriplegic explained to me properly by one of the athletes.

posted by Tina on 3/17/2006 | 0 comments | #

crazy bike lanes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4794198.stm Ah, yes, urban planning at its best.

posted by Tina on 3/16/2006 | 0 comments | #

david gray
On Friday, I was listening to David Gray at work and his voice brought me back four years to Beijing. I found myself thinking about my birthday that year, drinking deadly blue martinis with Canadian military police, playing darts in a seedy bar, and thinking 26 was old and what the hell was I still doing there without a real job and a real life? And listening to that music, I miss those times, I miss that freedom, the freedom of four in the morning with nobody around who knew me well or who could talk about me later to others who knew me well. At the time, the thing that made me feel most lonely was not having history with anyone there but now, four years down the road, in Vancouver where I sometimes feel drowned in the ties that surround me, I feel only nostalgia for those times. I think about how I learned how easily women can betray other women because of the power it momentarily grants. I think about how I felt listening to a guy play guitar and sing songs in his huge empty grey apartment, badly-lit, cold and impersonal, feeling free and talking bullshit late into the night, eating imported cheeses, olives, prosciutto, and spilling expensive French wine on my shirt. And I remember the tepid sun of the dawn when sneaking out quietly, subject to stares from the Chinese guards who thought I was a local, probably loose and immoral.

posted by Tina on 3/12/2006 | 0 comments | #

yuki and pet rescue
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14049-1988513,00.html Oh my god, is this for real? I haven't bothered to look it up to check because it's just too good. People like this exist and survive in the real world? HOW?

Picky, picky. I'm not going to name names or anything, but the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back for a friend of mine was that he took the last prawn off her plate without asking first. I would have done the same.

posted by Tina on 3/09/2006 | 2 comments | #

rafe mair speaks
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/03/06/DamTruth/ I am often surprised by Rafe Mair's articles in The Tyee. I always though we were at different ends of the ideological spectrum, but it seems that on environmental issues, we are the same.

posted by Tina on 3/06/2006 | 0 comments | #