Month: October 2006
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Broken Trucks and Bottles in Toronto
I’m going with Linda to big ‘ole bad Toronto to help support some of her friends who will be putting on a great show…. “The United Steel Workers of Montreal…
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Mon oncle Antonie
We watched a movie last night that has been on my list for some time now. Actually, since I skipped the class in my Québec Cinema Course when it was…
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DS and WFC
Over the weekend I tried the Nintendo WFC service. I had tried to connect when I first got my DS but my old wireless router just wouldn’t give me an…
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The Black Box
Beautiful design for an idea who’s time has come. I’ve always hated the UI and language used by most small electronic devices, with the exception of my DS which has…
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From Russia With Love
For anyone who’s fallen asleep after a “bout of Tetris” and still watched the blocks fall, turn and snap into place… this is a great little piece. “Tetris – From…
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Natas Kaupas
It’s hard to describe the feeling of seeing this guy skate for the first time. I must have been around 13 and it would have probably been at Johan’s house…
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Home sweet home
I can see my house, my work, the routes we walk each day, the roads I drive, the spots I eat at and the stores I shop at. Beautiful. More…
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Heated wetsuit
This is kinda crazy, I was thinking about this on the way to work this AM — wondering when they’ll release some crazy new technology that will allow 1mm suits…
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Cold water and 06
This coming weekend, there will be swell. Swell of some kind, most probably HUGE rough wind swell. I’m tempted to drive down and check it out but have some other…
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Warning Signs from the future
Awesome idea .. although the graphics are a little sloppy. Self-replicating devices — “Self-replicating devices are potentially the most powerful technology of all, since they can increase their reach exponentially…
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Friends in Bali
Got text message that Jesse and Steph have arrived in Bali. They stopped over to meet up with Jes’s parents near Lombok and are headed to a spot right on…
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Hubba History
I often wonder if there’s ever any positive discussion of skateboarding among architects. I wonder if the guy who designed this simple walkway knew what he created. I’m sure the…
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Our surfing Gazette Article
Roji got her surfing piece published in Saturday’s Montreal Gazette. She ended up going down herself to do some first hand research. I helped her fill in some of the…
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Work
The past few weeks have a been a bit crazy. We’ve been pumping out so much work from plank that it’s getting to be a blur of sitemaps/comps/data-tables/code/testing and all…
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The squid and the whale
My mistake – Wes did not help write this movie – He produced it though Linda rented a movie that I had completely forgotten about and had wiggled it’s way…