January 27th, 2009, 6 Comments »
I was on the SkyTrain yesterday and snapped a photo of this box. The box’s owner was drinking one of those energy drinks in a tall boy can, so at first I assumed this was a box of beer. Then I looked closer (click for super-sizing):
Here’s something a little surprising: when do I a search for the exact phrase “Battery Operated Drinking Roulette”, I get zero results (well, until this blog post gets indexed). For a non-exact search, this London Drugs page (a steal at $19.99) is the first result. Here’s what the thing looks like (sorry, that’s as big a photo as I could find):
I’m a little unclear on how it works–any guesses (or, you know, experience with roulette-enabled drinking)?
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September 10th, 2008, 3 Comments »
Via Upcoming, I read about the SkyTrain Security unconference being organized by Karen Fung. From the very informative About page:
Between now and the unconference, we would like this website to host conversations on this topic. Part of it is just even learning about what questions to ask, and which questions are most important in making changes, big or small, to the existing system.
What comes out of the unconference will be brought forward to a future meeting with SkyTrain and TransLink. That’s about as much as we know right now, as the team is still working on the finer details, but we will keep you all updated on the blog.
They’re in the planning stages. I like Roland’s idea of running the unconference in a SkyTrain car as it moves around Vancouver.
I wouldn’t rank SkyTrain security as a bearing issue in need of my attention, but I’m happy that others are thinking about it in an open and relatively transparent way.
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December 18th, 2007, 2 Comments »
My friend Eric is working on the Skytrain the Canada Line tunnels that are slowly threading their way under our city. Yesterday he wrote about breaking through to Robson Station:
It was pretty cool to experience the cutting head break through. I was expecting a much more gentle crumbling of the earth than the explosive display I witnessed. In fact, there was so much force that much of the rock, concrete, sludge and water sprayed 100 feet right towards us. I was standing about 150 feet back and got a little spray on my helmet.
He also included this cool photo:
I’ve also been meaning to congratulate my friend Lesley (Eric’s wife and the editor of our ebook) on winning the 12th annual Vancouver Courier Fiction contest. She’s a terrific writer, and she should blog more often. The link to the story is currently missing from Canada.com–somebody from the Courier should get that fixed.
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