• If only the NHL Heritage Classic didn't feature two shitty teams. Also, dear god those retro Flames jerseys are ugly. #
• Why are they singing The Star Spangled Banner at a game between Montreal and Calgary being played in Calgary? #
• Tonight's activity with Elizabeth: playing with pieces of broken glass.

  Sand-scoured smoothed seaglass, before you call Child Services. #

• I wish I could have seen Sam do this in Hawaii: http://flic.kr/p/sMoAe #
• If you live in Vancouver and you don't listen to The Peak, you hate your ears. #
• Thank you, Bahraini protestors. You have returned the Australian Grand Prix to its rightful place as the opening race of the F1 season. #
• Filing taxes is O(N^2), where N is the number of countries you have to file taxes in. #
• I hiked the Juan de Fuca Trail the day I wrote my last physics exam. I'd be very sad to see it concreted over. http://bit.ly/dUkYnE #
• There are too many people wearing Habs jerseys around town today. #
• Canucks down by one with 1:30 to go. Time for a series of mild heart attacks. #
• Welp. #
• Stupid Habs. #
• Georgia State Representative Bobby Franklin is DUMB AS FUCK http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/02/miscarriage-death-penalty-Georgia #
• RT @effteebee Dear #translink banks hawking credit cards at the #skytrain make me want to drive out of spite. | Amen. (cc @translink) #
• Hrm. I think I missed the 154. Damn. #
• Oh hey there's the 155, even better! #
• Filing taxes this year is going to suck. Two sets for both Canada and the US. Hopefully I'll only need to file one for Hawaii. #
• I ear-witnessed a pedestrian getting hit by a car today. Tip: LOOK BOTH WAYS. #
• RT @ajordens F-u Campbell, I've had enough — http://t.co/u9y58qN | I can't wait to vote the Liberals out of power. #
• Apparently raping nuns is a more effective way of preventing AIDS than using a condom. http://is.gd/1M58z9 #
• Damn you Hadoop xcievers, damn you! #
• Developing for the RIM Playbook sounds a real treat: http://blog.jamiemurai.com/2011/02/you-win-rim/ #
• Kudos to Williams: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89639 #f1 #
• Here comes the snow! #
• This is pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_USPTmYXM #
• Canucks/Bruins is a hell of a game. #
• NDP leadership candidates need to turn over social media passwords to the party? New Fascist Party, more like. http://bit.ly/gh6V9z #
• Does Chris Tanev have a hole in his stick? That's at least three times he's whiffed tonight. #
• I love Raffi Torres. That was a huge hit on Tomas Kaberle. Huge. #
• Ah hell. #
• If you took a bubble tea straw and extended it out from the top of the atmosphere to the end of the universe, you'd get 3 grams of matter. #

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• Strong words from the guy who employs Matt Cooke. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2011/02/13/sp-nhl-isles-snow-surprised.html #
• VD comes but once a year, but if you have the right partner, you can enjoy VD all year long. #therearedrugsforthat #
• Civ IV wins a Grammy: http://bit.ly/i7yuXw #
• The kids giving away free coffee and cookies at Columbia SkyTrain Station looked rabid, so I declined. #
• Listening to The Grey Album for the first time. #
• Alice's plotting is evil. #teamjeffie #
• Trying to figure out why I wouldn't go with Cloudera's CDH installation suite to get Hadoop et al on a cluster. #
• Why do people keep trying to invent SkyNet? Haven't they heard of Terminator? #
• Well, so much for that washing machine. Hopefully it's just a leaky hose. #
• Wow. RT @BenKuchera Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack http://t.co/lqloy38 via @arstechnica #
• Clearly I've been out of the NBA loop for a while. The Hornets aren't in Charlotte? #
• "It's pretty easy to make up fake quotes." – Benjamin Franklin #
• One of the Apple threat researchers here has a Macintosh (128K or 512K, don't know which) on his desk. #
• Watching Arsenal/Barca! (@ Malone's) http://4sq.com/htRdOO #
• Barcelona is just toying with Arsenal at this point. #
• I need to put Radiohead on my iPhone. #
• I studied and worked in science for 18 years and not once did I see a transparent whiteboard. #
• 18 years. Jesus, I'm old. #
• Oh hey, I see Nashville gets to get owned by the Canucks tonight. #
• What the fuck. Now Bieksa is injured. That's five defensemen on the injury list. Good thing most of them should be back for the playoffs. #
• RT @joesaward A sad day for all concerned… http://wp.me/ppB1o-1v8 | F1 drivers should boycott Bahrain like some did for South Africa. #
• It's always a little scary when Elizabeth takes off her diaper and runs around the house yelling "poo! poo!" #
• Related: something about a horse and a barn door. #
• I hope it's a coincidence that, a couple of minutes after a huge crack of thunder, the fire trucks keep rolling out. #NewWest #
• Today we've had sun, clouds, rain, hail, snow, wind, thunder, and lightning in #NewWest I'm looking forward to frogs next. #
• High up above aliens hover, making home movies for the folks back home. #
• Bloggers! You'll engage readers when you end articles with ultra-res ultraporn! http://bit.ly/et7cxz #
• Five free days? 60 days for $19.95? Damn you CCP! #
• I hope that if Formula One doesn't cancel the Bahrain Grand Prix, teams give serious consideration to a boycott. #
• Fuck around, I left my lunch at home. Good thing we have free fruit at work. #
• CBC News is in my office, interviewing Dmitry about the hacks on the Canadian government. #
• Hrm. If HUE is written in Django, and I'm going to be possibly extending HUE for our analysts, I might get to learn Django. Result! #
• Sunset in Vancouver: http://yfrog.com/h721nvoj #
• This read from @arstechnica about HBGary is incredible. http://bit.ly/fNBYko #
• Ken Jennings is *awesome* http://slate.me/hFDHAm #
• Y'know what? Fuck the Republicans. Seriously. Fuck them. http://bit.ly/ewT2Yx #
• I want to see every Republican who voted to defund Planned Parenthood adopt an unwanted child. #
• What the fuck the full Eve client is 3.7GB. #
• Elizabeth helps with laundry: http://yfrog.com/h6wsadj #
• Raffi Torres needs an assist for the Gordie Howe hat-trick. 33 minutes to make this happen. #
• This might be the stupidest thing I've heard today: http://bit.ly/emMBHh #
• Hey look at that, Daniel Sedin is now leading the league in points. #
• Holy shit. Sauve should be given that puck. Astonishing play to set up the three-on-one that resulted in Henrik's goal. #
• Your Vancouver Canucks, ladies and gentlemen. #

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• Kubica injured in rally shunt; might miss start of Formula 1 season: http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns22912.html #
• Who stalks you on Facebook? http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/02/06/facebook-stalkers-and-profile-creeps-rogue-apps-spread-virally/ #
• Practicing the special teams: http://yfrog.com/h0gtwwnj #canucks #
• Logistically, the Canucks Fan Club VIP practice kind of sucked. They really should have opened one or two more gates. #
• Oi. Kubica could be out six months or more. http://bit.ly/fkENqe #
• I'm rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers in today's game. #what #
• I just realized that the NHL is the only one of the four major NA sports where winning the trophy is the goal. #
• Football players win the Super Bowl, baseball players win the World Series. Hockey players win the Stanley Cup. #
• According to twitter, the score is Green Bay 7, Doritos 0. #superbowl #
• Two touchdowns in the Super Bowl by one team must be a record. #itsusuallyboring #
• Toddlers are fine examples of entropy increasing over time. Especially when a certain toddler scribbles in my thermodynamics textbook. #
• Hope everybody took the over. The over/under is apparently 44.5. #
• Congratulations to Sports Team for winning! #
• Hell yeah Puppy Bowl VII is on repeat! #
• Okay, I don't make films, but if I did they'd have a samurai. #
• Fuck Keith Ballard blew out his knee. Like the Canucks need to lose another defenseman. #
• Hey @aallan: "The telescope control left me with a vaguely SkyNet ish feeling" – from http://bit.ly/e62bLW (via @ajordens) #
• Sunset in #NewWest http://yfrog.com/h395506573j #
• http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/a-safe-drug-injection-site-in-vancouver/ #
• How not to divide by 100: http://stackoverflow.com/q/4937402/424509 #
• I can play Scrabble on my phone against a friend in another country who I haven't met in person. The future is awesome. #
• It's amazing how good Teemu Selanne still is. #
• Canucks' first regulation loss at home since December 5, and they lose Dan Hamhuis to a bit of a dirty hit by Getzlaf. Swell. #
• And it would seem my tweets aren't making it to Facebook again. #
• I wish Facebook had a "you're a dumbass" button. #
• Huh. I have HTTPS turned on at Facebook. I didn't have to turn it on manually. #
• Reading: http://yfrog.com/h7lbzwjj #
• NOTHING BUT CONSONANTS FUCK YOU WORDS WITH FRIENDS #
• Mubarak leaving Cairo isn't a big deal. He needs to leave office for true change to happen. #
• So either I'm going crazy or I'm not seeing any updates on Facebook via the Twitter app from anybody. #
• Modest Mouse stuck in my head after hearing it on the radio this morning. This is not a bad thing. ~float on~ #
• Let's see if this stupid Twitter-to-Facebook thing is working… #
• Try number two. #
• And third time's the charm (I hope). #
• People saying Egypt had a peaceful revolution do a disservice to the nearly 300 that died. It wasn't very violent, but not peaceful either. #
• Green Men spotted! http://yfrog.com/h2penpzj (cc @TheGreenMen) #

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• I want to see the Sedins get into a fake fight in the NHL All-Star Game. #
• Arizona is fucked up. http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/arizona-birther-bill-deny-obama-reelection #
• Damn you Safeway bakery for venting outside and smelling so good. #
• Pushing a stroller full of groceries does not entitle you to a seat on the bus. #
• The co-op I live in got mobbed by their contractors. They installed timers for bathroom fans that are meant for lights. #
• These light timers allow you to set the longitude and latitude so your lights can turn on or off with sunrise or sunset. #
• Useless for a bathroom fan, where what you want is "turn off in X minutes." Which you can't do with these timers. #
• There's 49 units in this complex and at ~$40 per timer, that's about $2000 down the tubes. Well done. #
• Happy February 1, everybody! Don't forget to pay your rent! #
• One of the best views of Vancouver is from the Nanaimo SkyTrain platform. Here's an iPhone pic http://yfrog.com/h5z1hbupzfpj (cc @translink) #
• Undoubtedly the best views of downtown Vancouver are from the front of the SkyTrain between Commercial-Broadway and Main Street. #
• My favourite vim command when refactoring code is 'dd'. #
• Kyle just invented the word "lookupability". #
• Cats are jerks. #
• RT @VanCanucks Watch this first #NHL career goal by #Canuck Cody Hodgson. Congrats, Cody! http://t.co/UbbFYTn #
• YESSSSSSSS. RT @thevowel Ottawa to reverse CRTC decision on Internet billing: http://j.mp/hlPN0h #
• I am listening to a song about Gump Worsley. #
• *sets up cron jobs*

  Fly, my pretties! #

• Turns out when a switch breaks, servers become unaccessible. #
• Does Apple seriously think I'm going to read 61 pages of an agreement on my phone? #
• Signs winter is leaving: the East Van cross isn't lit up at 5:10. #
• Follow your past self on Twitter: twitshift.com. Haven't tried it yet, but it looks interesting. #
• "DEBATING VIDEO GAMES IS NOT AN ARENA THAT ADMITS SHADES OF GREY THINGS ARE EITHER TOTALLY AWESOME OR INCREDIBLY TERRIBLE" – qwantz.com #
• This, this is awesome: RT @BadAstronomer Once again, with details: @ZachWeiner, Destroyer of Homophobes: http://is.gd/Cms9Lt #
• Shockingly, the liquor store is crowded. #
• Typical Canucks fan: http://su.pr/2hKBqt #
• The advantage of going to the liquor store is I get a seat on the SkyTrain. #nonsequitur #
• Is football doomed by head injuries? http://thetyee.ca/Life/2011/02/04/SuperBowlVow/ #
• Privatizing BC Ferries? Nice fucking plan, Liberals. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/02/04/bc-ferry-fares.html #
• Canucks fans at Rogers Arena are jackasses. Don't taunt the opposition goaltender when it's 1-0 Canucks in the first. Christ. #
• As a Willie Mitchell fan, I won't shed any tears over Evgeni Malkin's knee. #
• "The people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts — they kill children." – Bill Gates – http://bit.ly/fvIkRw #
• AIDS was pretty funny in Ronald Reagan's White House in 1982. http://bit.ly/gKopbi #reaganslegacy #

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