musing of a fevered mind

Sick in bed with a cold waxing nostalgic about game shows gone by. I sure do miss going to my grammy's house, having chicken noodle soup, and taking my most important medication- one game show per half hour as needed. Reality TV just doesn't compare.

Looking back I realize that I manged to juggle a healthy amount of playing outside with A LOT of TV game shows. Sick days, which I unfortunately had a lot of growing up, included at different times: Let's make a deal, The Joker's Wild, The Price is Right, Press Your Luck, Concentration, Double Dare, and later on Remote Control.

I love TPIR so much that I actually flew to LA for only 1.5 days in July 2006 to attend a taping of the show. Sadly my destiny was thwarted (by my unwholsome looking tattoos) and I never made it on stage. I did get to ask Bob a question (what kind of dog do you have?) then promptly forgot his answer in my excitement. I also scored an aisle seat so I got to Hi-Five all the lucky dogs as they ran down to contestants row. You can see me jumping up and down a few times during the show. I have a copy of it if anyone ever wants to see my game show glory days.

Concentration was my other favourite and in retrospect I can see why; it actually had an educational component. Contestants had to solve rebus puzzles, which are a type of word puzzle. They use pictures to represent words and pictograms for syllabic sounds, which are combined with letters to form codes. Here's one I made, a free beer goes to the first person who solves it:

Occupational hazards

Can't stop working, bear will eat me.

Catching up on sleep and work after an epic weekend adventure in Portland for Mini Bike Winter V. Stay tuned for details and photos.....

pittsburgh, I love you

Got the 'burgh on my mind lately. Here is my blog ode to Pittsburgh:

Why my transient heart is still black and gold:
*446 bridges in 151 km2
*raddest bridge name ever: Hot Metal Bridge
*aka:Roboburgh
*2nd steepest topography of a US city: 712 sets of stairs; many sidewalks are staircases and the steepest street has a 37% grade
*polka and pierogies: lots of 'em, which makes sense when we are the third largest Croat town, after Zagreb and Split
*pittsburghese, yinz jagoffs
*we don't take no shit dating back to 1776: Western PA lobbied to become the 14th state: Westsylvania (so piss off philly with you're pennsyltucky crap)
*regional alcoholism has a long history: the whiskey rebellion
*dean martin, george romero, andy warhol, flashdance
*Largest Zombie walk ever and birthplace of the Great Guinness Toast
*the city's got heart.....a blue-collar town with a soft spot for underdogs

this science is cool.

I don't want to sound like a queer or nothing but I think glaciers are kick ass.
My job is rad. I spent the day listening to music while looking at glaciers in 3D. I am currently mapping the extent of the Little Ice Age in Glacier National Park using aerial photos and will calculate volume loss + other stuff later as part of a project for the WC2N and CNHR.
Sweet jesus did I miss glaciers.
It feels good to be home again.

Hitler's Escape

The Effort:

• Walking 1/2 way down the mtn to my truck (parked at horizons) with 3 + the bean

• getting a jump b/c i'm a tard and left the lights on...again (I carry jumper cables for a reason)

• dealing with one douche bag whose battery was invisible. his penchant for sketchy donuts delayed jumping effort #2

• getting another dude to give us a jump

• chaining up 'cause my truck is shit in the snow
  

The Payoff:

Avoiding this: Snow strands hundreds at SFU

snow caused white-out conditions at the Burnaby campus and prevented TransLink buses from climbing the mountain.Between 1,500 and 2,000 students were still on campus at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, four hours after TransLink cancelled bus service to the Burnaby university.

bikesinside!

Hell of a bike weekend. I'm still tired.
This weekend featured the RAD ride and BikesInside! Several beloved bikers blew into town for it including Jake from pgh and Jeremy from MT. The Alley Clowns took to tall & mini tall bikes for a performance ride, which included the poetic prowess of the fossilosopher lee and a dancing to keep warm. Ended with cake, gang signs, beer, and beats at gallery gachet then a frosty ride home.

Missed most of the sunny saturday afternoon 'cause I was finishing my bear and clown costumes. This little clown couldn't have pulled it off without help from jake and robin. xoxoxoxo to you both.

The evening was so much fun that it passed in a blur. The Jakana fashion show was A-mazing. Rev Phil presided over several footdown derbies, which segued into a continuous circus maximus of minibikes. it's ridiculous how much fun it is to repeatedly ride/chase people on minibikes in a circle. The Alley Clowns debut was mayham, as it should have been. Dingo from portland made my night when he gave me his clown blessing and put my face on for me. Our secret bear-ninja-cowboy skit ended a bit prematurely due to crown participation/excitement, which was rad. Nix and I sleuthed out all the shit eaters with help from the poo bucket and maitland survived the minibike of death (cue 'oooohhhh' sound). Not as many attendees as velomutations but definitely more dance party action.
Like I said, a hell of a bike weekend.