Month: November 2006

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I’ve drank a lot of orange juice today

All Greater Vancouver residents urged to boil water

By Kent Spencer, The Province

Published: Thursday, November 16, 2006

A boil water advisory has been issued for the entire Greater Vancouver Area.

Vancouver Coastal Health spokesman Viviana Zanocco said Thursday the warning was issued because Wednesday’s storm dumped large amounts of dirt and mud in the region’s three reservoirs.

“We’ve never seen turbidity this high,” she said.

The entire region is affected, but the problem is worst on the North Shore.

The health region is advising hospitals, care facilities and restaurants to change the way they prepare food.

Water should be boiled for one minute, then cooled thoroughly before drinking. Or persons should drink bottled water.

The ban applies to brushing teeth and washing food. Showers are okay.

Zanocco said she doesn’t know how long the ban will last.

Persons drinking water are at risk of suffering diarrhea and vomiting because bacteria is present in the water. [theprovince]

There might be some people who would look at this as a cheap way to lose weight.

I did go running today through Stanley Park. For the most part, everything looked pretty ok. Trails seemed to not be over run with any fallen trees, and leaves were actually very sparse. Water is gushing out of Beaver Lake though. Was neat to see peaks of snow up on the mountains.

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RadioZoom Episode #119 – Six Song Donut Spectacular: November 2006

I recorded this month’s six song with very little problem, and the more I use Ubercaster, especially for episodes like this one, the more I love it. And the power is still on, so that’s even better. The latest episode is up and ready, just for you.

Rain and electronic music almost seem to go hand in hand. Here is the six song from this month. A sampling of some electronic music that I enjoy, giving you more of a taste of the various types of music that I enjoy. The weather might be a little awful today, but I assure you that the music is good. Some thanks goes to the Podsafe Music Network for allowing me to find some of these selections and play them for you.

44:55 minutes
radiozoom.net

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Storms of a different kind

KatKam.ca

A view from the good ol’ KatKam, but this is nearly a carbon copy of what you see when you look out the windows of the apartment. The wind is amazing once it starts going. Round about 40 MPH winds through most of the day, but I’ve heard reports of up to 60. You can bet that those will be more sustained on the coast. If it’s not the wind, then it’s sheets of rain.

I plan on hitting record for a six song of RadioZoom in just a little while, but the brown outs make me a little worried about getting it completed. I’ve already noticed some problems getting into various sites, but I can’t be sure that it’s storm related.

As saturated as the ground is already, I look at these trees out the window and pray that the roots hold. It’s a departure from the storms I grew up with in the midwest. This stuff just keeps coming and coming. It’s not too horrible from where I am, but areas around here will be telling a different story tonight on the news.

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Long lost brother from Middle Earth

Lord Naslund, King of GM PlaceWe watched all of the extended editions of Lord of the Rings recently. I can’t help but see this similarity. Markus Naslund[wiki], especially with his longer hair this season and a bit of facial hair, is oddly similar in appearance to Aragorn from the films. Only if there was some elvish magic or wizardry to make pucks go into the goal.

By the way, check out the recently, redesigned Canucks website. It looks slick, and they did something to really improve the load time. The players looking at you in the upper right portion of the screen still weirds me out a little bit, but what a great way to showcase all the guys on the team. My question is how well they will update it when new guys come up or players get traded.

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The strange fate of Shoeless Joe Jackson

I was raised within an easy drive of where the Field of Dreams[imdb] was filmed, and the ballpark in the middle of a cornfield is still there, albeit a tad bit of a tourist trap.  This post on BlogCritics addresses one of the key characters of the film.  It’s an interesting background about why Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball for life.

We all remember the movie Field of Dreams. Shoeless Joe Jackson comes back from the dead to stroll around in a cornfield and play a little ball. He’d been banned from the sport in the infamous 1919 Black Sox scandal, but was now being portrayed by Ray Liotta as representing the heart and soul of our national pastime. In reality, the 1919 Chicago White Sox were one of the greatest baseball teams ever to take the field, and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was their superstar left fielder. But when the team made it to the World Series, two gamblers — “Sleepy Bill” Burns and Billy Maharg — backed by gangster Arnold Rothstein, bribed eight players with $100,000 to throw the championship.

The fix was a success: the Sox lost, and nobody really suspected a thing until late in the next season, whereupon the eight players were indicted. Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis suspended them all from baseball for life — a justified punishment, as they were all guilty. All but one, that is. Shoeless Joe, for his part, did all he could to avoid being involved He told Sox owner Charles Comiskey about the scam, but was ignored; he asked to be benched for the Series, but was refused; he even batted .375 for the Series, with the only homerun and 12 base hits (then a Series record), but was still considered guilty. The official judgment against Jackson has never been overturned and he’s still barred from the Baseball Hall of Fame — a sad fate for a player who could hit the dickens out of a Kevin Costner curveball.  [blogcritics]

Lifetime ban from baseball means lifetime.  Even after death, you can still be a star on the big screen.

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The royal treatment of college radio

Let’s be honest. The greatness that was once college radio is wanning. I have this deep, passionate feeling that it will rise up once again to be a driving force to make the rest of the world take notice. It might also be safe to say that it’s never been a spectrum of the medium to really be noticed in the first place. The brilliance gets harvested for its potential and profit.

I’m still a firm believer in the sanctity of college radio. Like it or not, it has an important role to play, and that mantra was my driving force during the years I put into KRUI.

I find the following story really funny, and I’ll explain why after the excerpt.

UI officials hope to raze an old laundry building that is adjacent to where a new campus recreation and wellness center’s future home on the southwest corner of Burlington and Madison streets.

Currently used as storage for campus landscaping and maintenance equipment, that space could be used for parking and holding materials and equipment during the construction of the recreation center, and could save the university money. It is not immediately clear how much it would save.

Regents gave approval for UI to look into the feasibility of relocating the equipment currently stored there. [presscitizen]

The KRUI that I came to know and love started out in a house that was tucked away on campus. But the university kinda saw it as a bastard child, pushing it into a handful of various locations in its just under twenty years of existence. Within just a few months of my three years of being a director, the news came that the station would be forced into another relocation. Continue reading “The royal treatment of college radio”

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All a guy wants is some entertainment

Rebecca had to work late tonight, and I had hoped to catch something on TV to entertain me. I didn’t want to watch Hereos or Studio 60 tonight so that we could catch those together later. I did catch some Corner Gas tonight, but that was only a half hour of wackiness.

Hockey on TV!What I didn’t get was hockey. The Canucks don’t play until tomorrow night, but I thought, at the very least, that some other game would be shown. Out of what we do get on our cable package, there wasn’t a single game on the tube. There was Monday Night Football, but out of the six games played in the NHL tonight, none of them were televised in our area. All I could get was Sportscentre recaps.

Geez. I live in Canada, right?

Speaking of the Canucks, we have got to beat the pants off of Detroit tomorrow night. The last game against Calgary was painful. I would nearly say embarassing, but it was one of those nights that make you sick from the collapse we saw on the ice. The Flames are making me eat my words from the last episode of The Crazy Canucks.

Luongo is still my boy, but if it takes pulling a J.J. and calling him out to start playing better, then let this be it, loud and freaking clear.

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Remembering veterans on both sides

I’ve always grown up with Memorial Day[wiki] being the one day of the year where we take a moment to remember those who have fallen in various conflicts. Believe it or not, it was marching band in high school that taught me the impact of observing that day. It wasn’t the marching in the parade we had to do. It was the one football game where a handful of us started playing Taps when our team was blowing out the opposition in the second half of the game. A stupid thing to do, but we were young. That didn’t stop Mr. Russel from, politely, chewing a few of us out. Thankfully I got this information second hand.

Here in B.C., November 11th isn’t just a bank holiday. The mail still doesn’t arrive, much like Veterans Day[wiki] in the states. However, there is heart felt observance of what is called Remembrance Day[wiki] here. Most of the province gets the day off work, and there are numerous events that take notice for those who this day is reserved for.

Other than the standards I already mentioned, there isn’t much more that observes veterans from conflicts past in the states. I think that’s why I find the observance here somewhat intriguing. That’s not to say that the political debate doesn’t get in the way of everything, and trying to do something to this extent would get the stiff arm in today’s contentious climate for the U.S., at least on a national scale.

I know I’m late to the post here, but Rebecca has been so busy lately that we just did our best to enjoy her down time over the weekend. I will say that I have a lot of veterans of various conflicts in my family. My grandfather, uncle, great uncle, cousins, and even my brother, and some of them are still active(two extended family members caught up in Iraq right now). You always remember.

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RadioZoom Episode #118 – Interview with Jim Ward of Sparta at Richards on Richards

I realize that I never blogged about this night, but listen to episode #118 and you’ll get exactly what I thought about this show. This was also a great test of Levelator, and the entire episode was edited together using Ubercaster.

Another adventure with the podcasting project, RadioZoom gets the opportunity to hang out with Jim Ward, front man for the band Sparta, during their one night visit on their current tour. Richards on Richards was the venue for this evening, and both Rebecca and I had a really great time.

We discuss a variety of topics, ranging from what life on the road is like, the making of the latest album, Jim’s prior experiences with Vancouver, a little bit of politics, and we discover a little more of what life is like in Jim’s hometown of El Paso, Texas. (Note: explicit language)

It was an amazing opportunity for the interview, and the performance that night was nothing short of being absolutely stellar. We take a moment back in “the studio” to reflect on the overall experience and review what we saw on stage that night.

59:48 minutes
radiozoom.net