Triscribe

Well, the end of the Olympics.  Kudos for Canada’s men’s hockey team for winning gold.  Kudos to Team USA for putting the effort to try to beat Team Canada. Although, this meant that President Obama owed Prime Minister Harper a case of Molson’s beer for losing the friendly bet.  Oh well. The pictures on tv [...]

I’m probably watching too much or too little Olympics; or, rather, like everyone else, grumbling about why NBC’s coverage is so… schizophrenic (yeah, I know, it’s to get that casual viewer; but must you keep switching from ski jump to snowboarding and then back to figure skating in a three hour stretch?  The last 10 [...]

I’m still not sure of what to make of a lot of the Super Bowl commercials this year.  (check out the coverage by Time’s James Poniewozik reviewing of the stuff) – I mean, really – two consecutive commercials of guys in their underwear?  Has the economy gone that bad to give us this crap?… But, [...]

Seattle pics, Vancouver pics Some pics to tide you over until I can get a proper entry filed for the trip — finally got the Internet working in the hotel. This was the longest day, though — in British Columbia, dawn broke at about 5 am and dusk was at 10 pm. Saw the dragon [...]