I had to test a standard-size, landscape-oriented photo blogged from Flickr in my new layout. There’s some minor tweaking to be done - like the overlap at the top of the sidebar and making a new banner - but my designer is currently AWOL.
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Rudy giuliani is a true American hero, and we know this because he does all the things we expect of heroes these days — like make $16 million a year, and lobby for Hugo Chávez and Rupert Murdoch, and promote wars without ever having served in the military, and hire a lawyer to call his second wife a “stuck pig,” and organize absurd, grandstanding pogroms against minor foreign artists, and generally drift through life being a shameless opportunist with an outsize ego who doesn’t even bother to conceal the fact that he’s had a hard-on for the presidency since he was in diapers. In the media age, we can’t have a hero humble enough to actually be one; what is needed is a tireless scoundrel, a cad willing to pose all day long for photos, who’ll accept $100,000 to talk about heroism for an hour, who has the balls to take a $2.7 million advance to write a book about himself called Leadership. That’s Rudy Giuliani. Our hero. And a perfect choice to uphold the legacy of George W. Bush.
via Rolling Stone
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I noted the set list on my BlackBerry:
Message in a Bottle
Synchronicity II
Spirits in the Material World
Voices Inside My Head
(segue into)
When the World is Running Down
Don’t Stand So Close to Me
Driven to Tears
Walking on the Moon
Truth Hits Everybody
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
Wrapped Around Your Finger
The Bed’s Too Big Without You
Murder By Numbers
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Invisible Sun
Walking in Your Footsteps
Can’t Stand Losing You
Roxanne
1st encore:
King of Pain
So Lonely
Every Breath You Take
2nd encore:
Next To You
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Just back from Van (and I HATED to leave on such a gorgeous day) and finally have a connection again (for my own PC, that is), so uploaded a dozen of the best pics.
The show was FANTASTIC, and I’m seriously thinking of moving to Vancouver.
Seriously.
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We only spent half an hour - tops - on this bit of the Deep Cove shore (I wasn’t driving), but I’m totally jealous of Kristin now. I’d move there in a second, too.
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I’m posting from a Mac. An iMac, actually. We’re staying at Kato’s in Langley, and he has ADSL and no wireless, which would necessitate registering my wireless router with his ISP to get it working. Since he’s not technical at all by his own admission, I figure I’ll just live with it. Or without it, as the case may be.
IE on a Mac breaks my site in a different way than on a PC. So it’s really cross-platform suckage. Safari it is.
I got in to Van very early yesterday (landed at 8:20 AM) and stowed my suitcase in storage at the airport. Since my brother wasn’t arriving for nine hours, I headed downtown to try and hook up with Mike and Krista, who landed an hour ahead of me. Since they couldn’t check in to their hotel until 3, we all had time to kill for the day.
While trying to track them down, I gave Matt a call from a Starbucks on Robson. You Vancouverites will know the one. It has another Starbucks kitty-corner across the street. Diagonally opposite Stabucks. Matt and his wife Erin (I hope it’s the standard spelling) were literally four blocks from me, so we met up and headed to Stanley Park to meet Mike and Krista.
As it turned out, Damian and his wife Tiffany had made the trip from Calgary, too, so when we finally tracked them down in the park, I wasn’t just the third or fifth wheel, I was the seventh wheel. All four of us guys had worked at Shaw together, but only one does now. Matt and his pregnant wife had to head to a birthday party, and the rest of us decided to walk around the park.
It’s a big park, especially when you’re carrying a laptop bag containing the laptop, camera equipment and other assorted geek goodies to weigh you down. We checked out some of the damage from the windstorm a while back, I got a few photos, then we made our way to a waterfront bar to enjoy some refreshments.
Three drinks and some delicious seafood appetizers later, we walked to the hotel everyone (else) is staying at. Even at 3:50, the room wasn’t ready, but I had to get back out to the airport to be there when Don and Kato picked up my brother. My timing was pretty good, since I got to the airport bar about half an hour before my brother landed. Thankfully Don hasn’t changed his cell phone number from the last time I hooked up with him at Indy last year. Or was it Indy in here 2001 that I would’ve called him?
Out to Langley by the scenic route, and straight to the sushi restaurant. Don only gets to have it when he comes into Van since his wife doesn’t like it, so he makes up for it. Big time. Almost $100 worth of sushi later, we made it to Kato’s place, where my brother and I promptly started fighting to stay awake in the recliners since we were both up before 6 AM.
We did manage to watch all of the UFC fights (Kato has “free to air” satellite), and I was the only one not pounding back the drinks. Being the wild bunch we are, though, we were pretty much all in bed by midnight, earlier if you count the hour I dozed in the recliner before I pulled the plug.
It appears to be a little ugly out today - grey and windy, but no rain so far, which is good since I left my rain jacket in Matt and Erin’s car. Don might want to rethink his plan to golf today, but I think my brother and I might try and do some shopping.
Right now, though, I NEED COFFEE.
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A&E has the Monty Python’s Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset on sale for $34.98 USD, with $1 (yes, ONE DOLLAR) shipping to Canada.
Buy it here.
UPDATE 1:40 PM: Strangely, the price is now $49.98. Still a good deal, but it makes me think this morning’s price was an error. Regardless, I got my order in at the cheaper price.
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Whatever. It had better be nice on the coast this weekend. I talked to my mom tonight, and there is even snow forecast for Moose Jaw overnight.
I’ve said it before, and I’m going to keep saying it. Brienne Hurlburt is spectacular - gorgeous, with a great voice for the news. I may have to lobby Global TV to have her bio added to their sparse personalities page.
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Now, before you all go getting as excited as I did just typing that title, the kind of head I’m talking about is my tripod head. It was in the mail when I got home from work, so now I have a fully functional, compact and lightweight tripod that will make the trip to Vancouver with me.
I’m very happy, but not as happy as I’d be if what you were thinking when you read the title actually happened.
I’m referring to the head on a mug of beer, of course.
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