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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
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10:58 am - Solar System to Scale
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| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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11:23 am - Hurrah Sandra and Brett!
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Sandra Kasturi and Brett Savory (aka ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kelpqueen and jack_yoniga) were interviewed by the National Post about their small press ChiZine Publication. Also included in the roundtable were two of their authors, Robert Wiersema (Before I Wake and The World More Full of Weeping) and Dave Nickel (Monstrous Affections). Read the interview here.
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| Monday, November 23rd, 2009
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3:02 pm - Weekly Update
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A mostly film-filled week.
Last Monday went to Chalker's Pub to hear the Sisters of Sheynville play yiddish swing klezmer. The piano player is a friend of a friend, and the performance was a lot of fun.
Tuesday was the U of T East Asian Film Club, which was showing Three Kingdoms, yet another huge scale battle film about the "kingdom" period of China. This style of film has become very popular over the past few years, maybe because the Chinese government approves of the subtext that China was better off once it became a single country. The club is terrible at notifying people when they are putting on showings however, I usually only get an email two days beforehand. And they wonder why only a few people are turning up.
Wednesday was a Hot Docs night with Christian. This months film was October Country, one year out of the life of a, to be frank, trailer trash family. They're aren't really bad people, but they have no money in a poor part of the rural US with little opportunity to get out of the holes they are in. Bleak, but compelling in a "glad I'm not them" kind of way.
Thursday was Science Night. The U of T Space and Astronomy club had a lecture by Dr. Hilke Schlichting of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. She's looking for small (under 1 km in size) bodies in the Kuiper Belt, a collection of ice and rock out past the orbit of Neptune. Anything out that far under 10 km in size is too small and dim to see with telescopes, so she's been using transits. If you look at a star long enough, there's a tiny chance that such a body will past between it and you and then you can see the star's brightness change. These transits would take about 0.3 seconds, and the chances of seeing one are very small, so you need a vast amount of data to hope to find any.
That's where things get really clever. The Hubble Space Telescope uses what's called Fine Guidance Sensors to orient itself in space. The FGSs are little telescopes that lock onto stars and constantly monitor them (40 times a second) to fix the orientation of the telescope. There's 14 years worth of this data, and she managed to talk NASA into giving her access to it. So far she's discovered one body (less than a kilometer across), and continues to hunt for more. Got to talk to her and some of the club execs at the pub night afterwards, which was great.
Friday was Cinematheque, and Panic in the Street, a noir-ish thriller set in New Orleans about a discovery of a murdered man who happens to be carrying the plague, and the search for his killers before they infect the city. A young Jack Palance (who seems to be about eight feet tall) is the bad guy, and the film was directed by Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront). Ran into Charles there, and greatly enjoyed the film.
Saturday was the SF Book Club meeting, at which I was presenting Douglas Adams' Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. I figured that there would be plenty written up about this book, as Adams is such an influence on SF, but found that there is actually very little critical work on him (something that the librarians at the Merril Collection found surprising as well). Maybe because he's a "funny" author he's judged not worth serious attention. (I put "funny" in quotes there because as my brother points out, while Adams tells a lot of jokes one gets the impression that there's seriousness underlying what's he's doing). That evening it was over to Irwin and Lisa's for Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars, which is a lot better than the Easter bus-in-the-desert special.
Finally, yesterday was brunch at the Hot House with Paul and Susan and Rebecca (Charlene and Hayden and Wesley couldn't make it due to Wesley being ill), which was great as always. In the afternoon was a string quartet I like, and in the evening this month's Plasticine Poetry event at the Central.
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| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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9:42 pm - E-Books
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Well, the Kindle is finally going to be available in Canada. I'm really tempted, especially as its price has come down a lot (and the Canadian dollar is high). But I'm iffy about being "locked in" with Amazon so completely, and I like some of the features (and the look) of the Nook (touchscreen, ability to lend books to friends) but it's not available outside the US, and no word on when it will be.
Ebook readers are at the point now where there will be something better along in three months, so what I need to do is make a ist of what I want out of one, wait till it comes, and buy it then.
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| Monday, November 16th, 2009
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4:25 pm - Busy Week
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High Culture was the theme of the past few days. Last week I attended the Tightrope Books launch of Best Canadian Poetry 2009, hosted by Myna Wallin. Readings, musical entertainment, and free food. Kudos to all involved in the event, and the Revival is much classier for poetry than the back room of Clinton's.
The next day, Cory Doctorow had a reading at the Merril, the start of his North American book tour for Makers. The place was literally packed, we had people in the hall and sitting under tables. Cory was his usual entertaining and interesting self, I really admire his ability to argue concisely and clearly on the spur of the moment (even on topics not related to copyrights). His big worry right now is Google's plan to scan and make available out-of-copyright books, not because he thinks it's a bad idea, but because Google has so far refused to sign onto any sort of privacy policy regarding people using the service, so they will know what titles you read, how many pages you read, how you linked to the service, where you were at the time (IP address) etc. etc. He also treated us with his parenting tips (rip all your Disney DVD, so when the kid crawls into your lap while you're at the computer, you can open up one of them in a window in the corner to distract her). And free copies of Linux were available from a friend of his. There was a long lineup for autographs, and as Cory likes talking to people, it was running a couple of minutes per person. I don't know what time he ended up getting out of there.
Right after that I caught up with Joel and Melanie for a bit down at the Rivoli, where a band Joe liked (Zeus) was playing. They were good, but I actually preferred one of the warm-up acts, Moby Dick, in full pirate/sailor garb, playing 60s-style stuff, which I think is due for a comeback.
Friday was the Reel Asian Film Festival, and a silent kung-fu film from 1927, Red Heroine. A young woman's village is attacked, grandmother killed, she's take prisoner as a concubine by the local warlord, is rescued by the local hermit called the White Monkey, he trains her, and she returns to save some friends. The film is pretty slow in the middle when our main character completely vanishes (they hadn't perfected the training montage yet), but there was live musical accompaniment thru the whole thing which was just top-notch (playing nonstop for 100 minutes must be a lot of work). I was late trying to get tickets and had to stand in the rush line, but managed to squeeze in.
Saturday got a little more cycling in (you knew that was coming), and dropped down to Bakka for the ChiZine Press event that day. Things with the press are going quite well for kelpqueen and jack_yoniga, which is great to see. Had the Penney's and my brother over in the evening for some dinner (repayment for them having us for Thanksgiving), and we watched the Harlen Ellison bio-doc Dreams with Sharp Teeth, which I can't recommend highly enough.
Sunday did a little necessary clothes shopping, had dinner with Nicolas, Eric, and Gillian, and returned to the Reel Asian Festival for there closing film Breathless, an utterly relentless film about a small time gangster, the demons which pursue him, and the people in his life. It's amazing how a huge disaster film like 2012 can have next to no effect on you, but something personal can keep you up at night. Not the year's feel good film, but an amazing piece of work. I just wish I knew beforehand that there was going to be a 40 minute awards ceremony right before it.
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| Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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11:44 am - Basic Instructions does it again!
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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5:02 pm - V - Where Genre Actors Live Again!
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Still not quite sure if I like V or not, so I'll finish watching the first four (and then we find out if we're getting any more). But boy, it's a second (or third) home for genre actors.
We've got Inana and Wash from Firefly (both playing Visitors), Juliet from Lost (FBI mom), Supergirl from Smallville (blond teen hot Visitor), Tom from The 4400 (the priest), and last night Tori from Battlestar Galactica (another FBI agent). Am I missing anyone?
So we need some guest spots from Star Trek and Stargate actors, and now that Dollhouse has been cancelled we can throw in a few from there as well.
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009
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4:12 pm - Great weekend!
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Wonderful warm, sunny weather on the weekend, so of course I got some cycling in. Saturday went up the Humber River valley, across the top of the city, and down the Don River. Sunday rode down to Oakville for brunch with marinav and ionelv. I'm still amazed with such perfect weather at this time of year.
Last week attended a great lecture at U of T, one of their regular public astronomy talks. This one was actually given by a particle physicist, and was on how modern cosmology can help out particle physics. Testing current theories requires experiments conducted at extremely high energies, so you need very expensive installations like the Large Hadron Collider. But string theories and the like require such vast energies to test we may never be able to do it. However, the very early state of the Universe (according to Big Bang theory) was in such a high energy state, and we are beginning to be able to test some of these theories by predicting what they would mean to the development of the Universe, and comparing these predictions to observations. Inflation theory has gotten a big boost from this work. it was a really good talk by a very animated speaker.
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| Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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4:55 pm - Cirque du Soleil
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Saw the new Cirque du Soleil show Ovo last night with my brother. Stunning as usual, with one of the best soundtracks I think of the past several shows. I knew nothing about this show going in, so was surprised to find it was insect-themed. For once Dave and I didn't have a pillar in the way of our sightlines of the stage.
It does really bug me (no pun intended) that the only program for the show you have to purchase, and it's not cheap. It's the only way to find out the names of the performers, and you have to ante up extra for it, so I'm sure most don't do it (I don't). It really does seem unfair to the performers.
Been managing to squeeze in a little more cycling, usually on the weekends now, as it gets dark by the time I leave work. Cracked 3000 km, and think I can add to it some more this coming weekend, which is supposed to be quite warm.
Last weekend was the Anime North Halloween Dance at the JCCC. It's actually turning into a mini-con event, as besides the dance we had a horror-themed video room, one-hour costume contest, some comic displays, and a haunted house courtesy of a student association at York which was the hit of the evening. I went thru it and it was quite good, especially for a week's work. Eileen is thinking of asking them to do something for the con in 2010. The taiko drummers turned up for a short performance (on the request of the head of the JCCC) as well, and we had a lot of costumes of course, so it was a fun evening.
Planning is slowly underway for Anime North 2010. Had a big meeting recently to get things rolling, but all really seems well. Hope I didn't just jinx myself.
Saw Zombieland, which was a lot of fun. Also saw A Serious Man, which, like Inglorious Basterds, has many brilliant bits, but may not add up to a complete film. Requires more thought.
Just before Halloween saw Bride of Frankenstein at the Revue, which hopes to have a regular Creature Feature night. Never saw the whole thing thru from beginning to end before, and it really is an amazing piece of work. Loved Dr. Pretorius. Don't know why he went thru the trouble of kidnapping Dr. Frankenstein's wife to force him to work with him, as Dr. Frank was so sniveling a few good bitch slaps would have been all that was required. Karloff didn't want the Creature to speak, but it really worked. Only if you have a lever that blows up your castle you need a safety lock on it or something.
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| Friday, October 16th, 2009
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1:35 pm - Yay! My job is safe.
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There were some layoffs today, but I wasn't one of them, and my boss called to say my job is safe.
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| Thursday, October 15th, 2009
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5:23 pm - Recently...
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Because you can't get enough of what I've been up to.
Hung out with davemerrill and dwinghy and watched the awesome J-Men Forever, an edited-together-and-redubbed collection of various old movie serials (in which Captain Marvel becomes the Caped Madman). Completely hilarious, and I could not believe afterwards that it was from 1979, something that good could have only come from the personal computer age.
As part of my resolution to hear more classical music, went to a performance at Trinity College of the Cecilia String Quartet, which was awesome in a completely different way. An hour and a half of amazing strings, that the audience was so small was criminal.
Last weekend managed to get some riding as as the weather finally improved. Made it out to Oshawa (70 km) for also certainly the last time this year on the Saturday. Dave came over in the evening and we watched Speed Racer, which was great, and undeservedly panned by the critics. The only thing the DVD lacked was an actual old episode for the show as an extra.
Sunday was busy. Rode the bike into work first thing in the morning for an hour or so, as I needed to get a report to the Americans for Monday morning (Thanksgiving holiday here) and I just couldn't finish it on Friday. It let me get some extra riding in at least. In the afternoon went to a meeting of a board game meetup group I had just found out about. They meet once a month at the Foxes Den and play (complicated) (German) board games all day. Had a go at Thurns and Taxis, which is about the establishment of the German postal system, and a lot of fun regardless.
In the evening went over to the Penney's for some Thanksgiving dinner. Thanks guys!
Monday sat around playing Runescape on the computer until the evening, when my brother and I (and Janet, making a surprise visit) met with Aaron for a farewell dinner before he heads off to a new life in Costa Rica. With his four cats.
But Tuesday I was at the TRL for one of the first events in the new Bram and Bluma Appel Salon series. They've recently completed new large meeting and event space at the TRL, and have a whole pile of author events and the like planned for it. Tuesday was Anne Marie Tremonti interviewing Tim Flannery, an Australian author on The Weather Makers, his book on climate change. Excellent turnout and a good evening.
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| Friday, October 9th, 2009
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1:58 pm - I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords...
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It's official. My company, MSC Software, has just been bought out by the Symphony Technology Group. What does this mean? Danged if I know, but one way or another i should find out in the next few weeks.
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| Monday, October 5th, 2009
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4:13 pm - Nuit Blanche
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Had a pretty good time this year. Cool but the rain held off. I wandered around till about 2:30 AM. Yes, I'm not hardcore for not going till daylight but that's just me
I stuck to roaming between the Bloor/University and Bay/King areas. There was a lot of decent stuff going on over in Liberty Village, but that was too far to head to on foot.
On Bloor checked out the Shoe Museum (NB is the only time I ever visit it) and the ne wposter exhibit at the Japan Foundation. Tried to get into the new Music Conservatory, but a) couldn't figure out how to get in, the main entrance on Bloor was an Exit Only, and b) once I did figure it out (off of Philosophers Walk) there was too long a line. My brother managed it and said it was pretty cool, loads of musicians playing single notes all throughout the building.
Dropped by St. Andrew's on Huron as the Windermare String Quartet was going to play there (I like string quartets) and they had some sort of Galileo/science display going, which was kind of weird. There was a telescope which it you looked thru, all you saw was Marx (?) and a collection of stamps with dead astronauts. There were images of the planets as recorded by Galiloe, which was cool, and the music was good. They even had snacks.
Walked down to Cinematheque (seeing a few inconsequental things on the way) as they were showing George Melies' A Trip to the Moon all night, plus some of his other shorts. There was a short line to get in, but they were letting people in constantly as other people left. Melies really invented movie special effects, and the shorts, which I had never seen before, were a lot of fun. A Trip to the Moon is his masterpiece, and I could watch it all day. Butthere was other stuff to see.
The Music Gallery featured the Bouncing Bride, a 3 metre wedding cake with a women in a bridal dress jumping on a trampoline at the top while they played 70s dance music. You could climb up and jump with here. Way more amusing than it had any right to be.
Bay Street was money themed. On Bay itself were two midway rides that they claimed were being operated by recently downsized financial company employees. They were all wearing suits at least. Also checked out Monopoly with Real Money, which is exactly as it sounds, as played by various Toronto celebrities (none of which I knew). And there was an all night-seminar on how to pick winning lottery numbers.
Last think I checked out was a series of bicycles linked to generators around a fountain. You could pedal and either run the fountain or light a light bulb, to demonstrate just how much power it takes to do either (which is a lot!).
There was good crowds around everywhere, restaurants were all open and there were food vendors, and the TTC was running all night! I wasn't impressed last year, but thought the energy was much better this year, and I saw better stuff overall as well.
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| Friday, October 2nd, 2009
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11:09 am - Yay, Insurance!
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Well, I heard from my insurance company, and I've getting the full cost of my stolen bike back (before taxes) along with the accessories I had receipts for minus the $200 deductible, which is honestly more than I thought I'd get back. Since my new bike didn't cost as much (and bikes are now GST exempt), I don't quite break even but I'm not that far from it. So yay insurance industry.
Of course, when I renew the policy my stolen bike deductible will likely have gone up, but I hope that won't become an issue again.
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| Thursday, October 1st, 2009
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4:52 pm - No cycling, but other stuff...
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Geez it's been a gloomy week, with more to come apparently.
Saturday I was going to lead a ride with my bike club for the first time, but the dreary weather forecast lead me to postpone it to this coming Saturday, which promises to be no better. i got in some cycling anyway. But the end of my cycling season seems to be nigh.
But Saturday was livened up with a talk at U of T on finding planets around other stars using the transit method (watching the star for a dip in brightness when the planet moves across its face). The guy giving the talk (argh can't remember his name) is involved with an automated observatory called MEarth currently observing nearby stars, and hinted that they are going to have some real announcements to make in a few more months. He gave a great talk and handled some of the really stupid questions that followed with much more patience than i would have been capable of.
Enjoyed Word on the Street Sunday. Weather was decent, and i picked up a knapsack full of stuff, more than I have done in recent years. Among them was a memoir written by a Lancaster pilot in WWII. He was selling the book himself with a sign saying "Yes, I bombed the Third Reich". I figured I owed him $20 for that. kelpqueen and jack_yoniga was selling ChiZine Press books as well, and looked to be having a good day. Saw a whole bunch of people I knew. The Friends of the Merril were selling bags of books for $5, and we sold enough to make back the table costs (which was all we wanted to do, besides having the outreach opportunity). Having been fresh off of the Flea Market I organized for them, I got to sit out working at the table this year.
Rob Sawyer was doing well selling copies of FlashForward, what with the premier of the show it's based on just a few days before. Quick story, there was a random kangaroo in the pilot episode. According to Rob the CGI guy said it would be easy to add a fake one in, but the producer insisted on getting a real one. But the real one had such a bad temper that its handler had to be at its side the whole time, and they then had to CGI the handler away, such it was a CGI shot regardless. BTW, I did like the pilot, we'll have to see if they can sustain a whole series.
Tuesday Richard Dawkins was in town to promote his new book on evolution The Greatest Show on Earth. Was there with Charlene, Hayden, Jeff, and other friends of them. The book is Dawkins presenting to the layman the mountain of evidence that PROVES that evolution is a FACT. One very interesting thing he talks about in the book is that he doesn't consider the fossil record necessary to prove evolution. It's a nice bonus, but the comparative anatomy studies, among others, clinch the case without them. In fact, finding fossils out of sequence (the classic example is rabbits in the PreCambrian) would be the only real way to disprove evolution at this point, so the creationists should be digging up all they can find (not that they would find any).
Dawkins is also a very outspoken atheist. The Torontoist has a whiny little piece about his talk saying why does he have to be so mean to all the "people of faith" out there. The answer is that there are enough "people of faith" out there who don't believe other people have a right to their own opinions or have a right to question them. Because they are willing to shout at the tops of their lungs ALL THE TIME to influence public debate, we have to shout right back, or they'll walk all over us.
Charlene stampeded out of there the moment the Q&A was done to get in the line for autographs, and managed to get near the front of the line. I don't bother with autographs much anymore, although I'm certainly getting the book.
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| Monday, September 21st, 2009
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5:48 pm - Weekend update
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A fun weekend. Got my new bike from Curbside and went on some rides Friday and Saturday. I'm pretty pleased with it. It's a Devinci St. Tropaz, which isn't quite a nice as my old Specialized, but I got a really good price for it. Picked up all the little extras i needed (bell, water bottle holder, new bracket for my speedometer, etc) and it's fully kitted out now.
Sunday was the 20th anniversary of the Space-Time Continuum, my SF book club. We had brunch to celebrate down at the Hot House (which is one of the best buffets in the city). We unfortunately overlapped with Aaron Yorgason's farewell Dim Sun, organized by some other friends, but as they started earlier than we did, Aaron came by ours for the latter half. Aaron is moving down to Costa Rica to work on his writing. He's been down a few times already to arrange for a place to live and the like, and will be going for good mid-October or so. All the best to him.
Janet had come into town for Aaron's Farewell and to see Ong Bak 2 at Midnight Madness (more on the Film Festival shortly), and stayed at my place for two nights, which required some furniture re-arranging so I could get the couch/bed fully open.
Yesterday evening Joel and Melanie came over with Joel's Criterion Collection copy of Melville's Le Samourai with Alain Delon, which I have somehow never seen. Delon plays a perfectionist hired killer, who's plans go awry due to some bad luck, resulting in both the cops and his employers chasing after him. The movie was a huge influence on John Woo, although it has rather fewer shots fired and dead bodies than a typical Woo film. Afterwards we all headed out to Clinton's for a while.
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10:12 am - Canadian Provincial Mottos
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| Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
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4:00 pm - Alas My Bike...
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Well, I'm now on my second stolen bike. Sigh...
On Sunday I had been biking around for the day, and was heading for my Film Festival film at the Paramount. I was running late, and when I got to the corner of John and Wellington (the Paramount is two blocks north) I saw a bike rack in front of this building. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find a spot for my bike at the Paramount itself and I'd waste a lot of time trying to find a place, so I thought it would be best to use the rack right there. Now, this wasn't a hugely traveled corner on a Sunday evening, and I was a little worried about this, but figured it would be all right. My first mistake.
My second and biggest mistake is that I had gotten careless with how I locked my bike up. I have a U-lock and a Kryptonite cable, and I had gotten in the habit of threading the cable thru the post and each wheel, and then using the U-Lock to connect the two ends of the cable. This I found was often a lot easier then trying to maneuver the U-Lock so it got the post, frame, and a wheel. However, it means that all you would have to do is cut the cable, and the whole bike comes away, and that's just what happened. I found the cable (and it was a pretty good one!) neatly cut in two and my bike gone.
On my way home, I looked at every bike locked up that I passed, and every one of them was using the U-lock to connect the bike frame to the post, so you've have to cut thru solid steel bar to get the bike loose. Obviously the thief was looking for bikes just using a cable, and he found one with mine.
So the lesson here is always use your U-lock between the post and your frame.
I had gotten paranoid about people stealing my bike wheels (I have the quick release wheels), which is one of the reasons I started using the cable, it lets you secure both wheels with one lock. But almost none of the bikes I passed locked up seemed to be worried about this, a lot were just securing the frame to the post and bypassing the wheels altogether. I guess walking down the street carrying a bike wheel is a lot more conspicuous than riding an entire bike.
Anyway, I filed a report with the cops, and talking to my insurance company. My home policy lets me claim up to $1000 for a stolen bike, with a $200 deductible. And they'll take 2 years of depreciation into account, but I should get a few hundred bucks out of it.
And rather than let the days of fall slip away, I stopped into a couple of bike stores yesterday, and found a nice Devinci hybrid on sale. I should be able to pick it up Friday, and I'll use TWO U-locks on it!
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| Thursday, September 10th, 2009
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10:41 am - Happy Galaxy Express Day!
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| Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
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11:54 pm - Labour Day Weekend: A Cycling Odyssey
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With three days of great weather and not much else planned, i turned most of the long weekend over to riding, and covered a total of 234 km! And at the same time I exceed my total distance covered in 2008.
Started on Saturday by taking the Waterfront Trail out to Oshawa (actually a bit beyond Oshawa), one of my favourite rides as you spend a lot of time riding right on the lakeshore on the bike trails or on quiet streets. Now that I've found a Timmy's in Pickering the ride had gotten even better. In Oshawa I got on the GO train to come back into the city (after covering about 70 km), but I was feeling pretty good and the weather was still great, so I ended up getting off at Danforth station (instead of Exhibition, the closest to my place) and rode south to the Beach boardwalk, and home from there, another 19 km.
On Sunday my brother and I caught the GO train down to Niagara Falls for the day, a ride I've done once before. I think they had more water going over the Falls for the holiday weekend compared to the last time I was there (they divert some for hydropower) as there was a lot of spray coming from the Falls that day. After passing the Falls we rode down the Niagara River Trail to Fort Erie, which we spent about an hour checking out. It's a classic star fort design. It got blown up twice in the War of 1812 (first time by accident, second time the Americans did it deliberating before leaving it) but was restored in 1938/39. On the way back we stopped off at the site of the Battle of Chippawa, the first time the Americans managed to defeat an equal number of British regulars. That was another great day and I covered about 82 km total.
Monday the plan was to bike down to Oakville and see marinav and ionelv. The original plan was brunch, but they had a hurt dog so we spent the afternoon playing some games at their place instead, so they could keep an eye on him. I was going to bike back, but even though i had a tail wind on the way down I was kind of pooped when I got there, and the thought of going back against a head wind did not appeal. So I wimped out and took the GO train back, but I did manage to stop into the Film Festival Box Office and get my film tickets. That was another 60 km.
That's the most cycling I've ever done in three days by along shot, and I doubt I'll break that record any time soon.
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