Author: Ryan

This bird is smarter than I am.

As a contributing member of the blogosphere, it is incumbent upon me, upon discovering items on the internet which may be of general interest, to link to them. Through the magic of syndication, pings, aggregation, and myriad other HTTP-based sorcery, webloggers shine metaphorical flashlights on the dark corners of the internet, revealing their bounty to the world.

Herewith, then, is a video of cars sliding down an icy hill and crashing into each other. Enjoy.

Another exciting new feature on tweek.is-a-geek.com! Just click on the link below, and you can view my webcam! Take a look and tell me what you think!

View my webcam!

The Moonshine Revellers are reuniting to perform a show at Steamers Pub on January 13. Semi-Louise is opening up. Steamers is at 570 Yates St. Doors open at 9pm, cover is $5. This may be your last chance to see us live…

Update: Thanks to everyone who came out. We had a great time and we hope that you did too. Unfortunately Semi-Louise had to cancel due to illness, but One Less Felon did an excellent job of filling in. Photos from the event are here. There are none of our band in that collection since I forgot to get someone to take pictures, but there are a few of One Less Felon and some beautiful pictures of Chelsea.

I almost forgot, Jay Dunphy and David Chenery are going to be performing live on CFUV tomorrow at 3:30. I might poke my head in the door as well to sing some backup vocals.

CFUV is UVic’s student-run radio station, broadcasting to the Victoria area at 101.9 FM. If you’re not in the vicinity, you can stream it over the web as well.

The holidays were very kind to me. Fun parties with good friends, including people I hadn’t seen in ages. Good times spent with my family. My parents have a new Bichon Frise cross puppy named Poppy. Her hobbies include chewing things, barking loudly and running around in mad circles for no reason at all. Thankfully she didn’t chew any of my Christmas presents (she was too busy ripping apart the carpet in the basement, I guess). I took her over to Tracy’s house where she and Tracy’s dog Molly had a grand old time chasing each other around.

I got golf clubs for Christmas, fulfilling one of my Christmas wish list items. They belonged to my grandpa, but he’s slowing down a bit in his old age so he thought I could make good use of them. I also got a gift certificate for a couple golf lessons from my parents. So yeah, basically the only thing that’s gonna be keeping me out of the PGA is my lack of a weird name. If you want to be a pro you have to have a name like Tiger Woods or Fred Funk or Fuzzy Zoeller. Maybe I could get my name changed. Zippy Barglesmith, that has a nice ring to it.

If you haven’t donated to the tsunami relief effort yet, go do that. It’ll make you feel good, even if you’re an emotionally distant nihilist like myself.

My Christmas wish list:

• Lights for my bicycle. I really do want to start riding to work, but it’s dark out when I leave in the morning and when I come home at night. Also, a cycling jacket and some pants would be good too, what with all the rain and the mud.
• A set of golf clubs. I actually played a bit of golf last summer. I’d even go so far as to say I enjoyed it.
• An iPod. Obvious.
• Peace on earth
• A kitchen table. The table we’re using right now is a white plastic one meant for use on the patio, and it belongs to my parents.
• CDs. I’ve put a bunch that I want into my Amazon wish list.

Of course, I don’t actually expect anyone to buy me any of this stuff. This list is more for my personal reference, so I know what to buy myself on Boxing Day.

I thought of something good I could put up here the other day, but I forget what it was.

New feature on tweek.is-a-geek.com! If I’m listening to music on my computer, you can see what I’m listening to, thanks to the Now Playing plugin for Windows Media Player. It works by uploading a file with information about the song that’s playing to my web server. Then when someone visits the page, it goes and gets the album artwork from Amazon.com and displays it with the song title on my page. Clicking on the album artwork will bring you to the Amazon page where you can buy it.

The plugin was written by a guy named Brandon Fuller. It’s shareware, registration is US$10. And talk about service: after using the plugin for a bit, I found a bug in it, so I emailed him about it. Half an hour later, he’s emailed me back to let me know he’s fixed the bug and posted the updated plugin on his site.

Edited 2004-11-11 11:44pm: Apparently having a picture of what the sidebar looks like with the now playing feature has confused someone (a graduate student of computer science, no less.) I have altered the graphic to help prevent such a misunderstanding from occurring again.

Yeeeeehaw, it’s a party at Erik’s house! It’s party blogging, man. Beer and chicks, man. Um… beer and chick. There’s one chick. Charis says hi.
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