In about seven hours time, I hop on an airplane to Ottawa. Why? Well, my sister’s there. And apparently they’ve got some great museums. And we’ll be making a side trip to Montreal — where, I am told, I must crawl up the stairs of St. Joseph’s Oratory, and dress up really nice if I want to get into any of the nightclubs. Er, discothèques, rather.
See you on the other side.
tweek.is-a-geek.com? Old and busted. ryansteele.ca is the new hotness. The death of my old Linux box accelerated my plans to switch to WordPress and get a better domain name.
Things to do: set up a photo gallery of some description, repair the broken links in my old posts, create a custom theme… oh, and keep it updated.
News: I’m in a band again. I’m visiting eastern Canada for a couple weeks in August. I’m seeing how long I can go without a haircut.
I rode my bike to work for the first time on Monday, and every day this week. Not once did I die. I might even do it again next week.
Thanks to everyone who sent me birthday wishes this week. Twenty-six… yikes.
I’m heading back to Comox this weekend. Keep an eye on the fish while I’m gone, won’t you?
So I’m sitting here listening to The Tiger Is In The Window by Chet while completing my tax return, and thinking to myself, “I wonder what Chet is up to? I haven’t heard much from them lately.”
Chet, you see, is an amazing art-rock band from Victoria. When I was in the Moonshine Revellers we shared a jam space with them for a time. Anyhow, when I went and checked out their page on New Music Canada today I noticed today that they have a link to hivestudios.net, which is apparently a recording studio/record label based out of Vancouver. And on their site is the news I’ve been waiting months to hear… the release of Chet’s new album Kau’ai is imminent. Apparently they’re preparing for a cross-Canada tour as well.
Chet recorded this album back in the spring of 2004. They’ve just been waiting for a record label to get behind the project. Congrats to them for making it happen.
If you live in the Victoria, BC area and are looking for a car, my friend Jenny is selling her 1989 Dodge Shadow. Here are the specs:
Asking price: $989 obo
Get in touch with her at monkey@pacificcoast.net.
Update: Pictures! 1 2 3 4 5
Update 2: Sold.
Tweek: I always thought I could fly if I closed my eyes and jumped and believed hard enough that I could do it
Tweek: never had the balls to really try, though
DT: hehe
Tweek: i guess that's what drugs are for
I found my banjo!
It was in the closet!
I was approached by a couple of former coworkers a few months ago about setting up a website. They wanted to do a webcomic, loosely based on their lives, in a similar vein as Penny Arcade. I said sure, sounds like fun.
After much designing, emailing, redesigning, and cursing at CorelDraw, I give you… Mute City.
One of my all-time favorite movies, Spaceballs, is being turned into an animated series.
Also, a goofy spoof of the Rocky training montage.
(Via boingboing.net. Truly a directory of wonderful things.)