All games on Sunday, December 29th, 2013In the final week of the NFL regular season, all teams play, all play is on Sunday, and all contests are intra-divisional. This year, as many as thirteen of the sixteen games may have playoff implications. In the interest of simplicity, I'm going to focus mostly on what the teams in these games can get if ( Read more... )

So a few words about the big game. The Moncton Wildcats beat the Halifax Mooseheads 4-3. Well, in all seriousness, as I was driving to Amy's house in Dartmouth from our rehearsal (after which we had a painfully long list of notes from our assistant director! j/k), I turned on the radio and they actually carried that game to completion and joined ( Read more... )

I "saw" the first few minutes of the new show Undercover Boss when I was ostensibly finishing my astronomy homework. It happened to come on after the SuperBowl, and I hadn't yet changed the channel ( Read more... )

CBC invited the party leaders to come in and sit with Peter Mansbridge for an hour to answer questions sent in by citizens across the country.

Jack Layton came on two weeks ago:
Your Turn with Jack Layton

Instead of being more impressed with the NDP, I became more skeptical. Of course, I had just seen a CBC feature on his association with 9/11 " ( Read more... )

Guess who's watching Boston at Montreal right now, while he's cooking some eggs and getting ready for Japanese lessons.

ME.

Yes, the Slingbox is finally working! Well, the Slingbox always worked; it was the home network that was a pain. We had a very old Netgear router that we'd got for maybe $30 or $40 five years ago. Things like me watching the ( Read more... )

16. Lazy Sunday

January 27thSo I was having a pretty good Sunday, but as I was cleaning up the kitchen, “probably going to vacuum” turned into “had to vacuum” as a wire-rack shelf above the sink for drip-drying dishes became detached and spilled its contents over the sink and floor. A few plates and glasses did not survive this descent. That was ( Read more... )

15. Exploring

January 26th

Right now I’m watching a hilarious high school soap opera on NHK. Most of the time I have no idea what people are saying, except for the odd one or two-word canned phrase, but it’s still quite enthralling. There’s this teacher - the most annoying character in the show, because all she can do is walk around with her head ( Read more... )

Well, the Red Sox are pummelling the Rockies tonight. I'm rooting for the Rockies - the Sox have had their day, and they don't get sympathy cheering out of me. (I suppose they're the closest MLB team to me geographically, but since I've only visited Boston once, when I was six, they might as well be on Neptune. (But after Hurricane Juan, when we ( Read more... )

I can't believe I'm just hearing about this now, and, well, I suppose you probably know all about it already, but here it is anyway:

Slingbox Tuner
$150, Future ShopHello Stanley Cup Playoffs in Japan! CBC, TSN, Rogers SportsNet, they'll all be there ( Read more... )

One thing that's not so funny about getting my parchment is that now that we think of it, we can't find the other one, for my B.A. from 2004. It must be around here somewhere. It should have been where it always was, in a cardboard cylinder on top of the organ, but I had to photocopy it in order to "prove my highest level of education" to TeleTech ( Read more... )