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Bagels and bikes
Waking up on Sunday, the morning of the Tour de Blintz, my eyes met an intense downpour of rain. As I slid open the patio door, the sound of the rain was as heavy as a Tom Waits song. It was still early—5:30 am—and knowing Vancouver weather, a lot could happen by 9:30. I was [...]
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Tags: Tom Waits, Tour de Blintz
You never know when you might win something—and I was glad I had my panniers on my bike at the wrap-up party of the Bike to Work Week. I won a gift basket from Vancouver’s Yale Rhythm and Blues Club including a bottle of wine, VIP passes, CD and t-shirt. Thank you Yale Club.
Vancouver cyclists [...]
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Tags: B:C: Clettes, Bicycle Shed Ensemble, Bike to Work Week, The Yale Club
When presenting at SFU Business School on May 15, 2008, the cycling advocate from Rutgers University was so excited that several times he knocked off his clip-on mic. While John Pucher’s 1½ hour presentation was way too long, it contained a lot of good information for cycling commuter advocates to bring to city planners.
Most [...]
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Tags: Bike to Work, John Pucher, Katie Melua
A biketopian vision
In the June 2008 issue of Walrus, there’s a great article on cycling titled, Geared Up: On the road to two-wheeled transcendence. Reading the first sentence or two, trying to remember the streets of Toronto that were mentioned, I wondered how the writer got away with such a terrible lead. Another sentence or two and [...]
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Tags: Bill Reynolds, Cycling, Momentum magazine, Walrus magazine
Evangelizing InDesign
The first Vancouver Adobe InDesign Usergroup meeting was held at the Vancouver Film School with around 75 people attending. Jeff Kew of Fireboy Creative is the group representative and Seb—what a guy—Distefano, Adobe Systems Inc.’s all-things-Adobe guru, gave the audience a teaser in the zen of learning.
Door prizes included books on Adobe InDesign [...]
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Tags: Adobe InDesign user group, Vancouver Film School
