Best Christmas Quote Ever and it’s from Canada Post

I believe this may be my all-time-favourite quote from Canada Post…

We firmly believe there
is just one rogue elf out there…

Story here

And You Thought Canadian Musicians Had it Rough

Country music stars in Mexico are being killed at an alarming rate - 13 in the past year and a half, 3 already in December - in a trend that has gone hand in hand with the surge in violence between drug gangs here.

None of the cases have been solved. And all have borne the signs of Mexican underworld executions, sending a chill through the ranks of other “grupero” musicians, who sing to a country beat about love, violence and drugs in modern Mexico.

The full story in the IHT.

Lee Valley Tools Snowboarding Coolness

So you just spent a couple hundred bucks on some super cool Oakley goggles, eh?

You just know they’re going to spend more time bouncing around in the trunk getting scratched up than on your head, right ?

Time to put the DIY back in boarding, don’t you think ?

These babies MB is modeling have plenty of air vents, they don’t scratch easily, and if some random wood splinters came flying at you while you’re doing some sick moves on a double-black-diamond - no worries.

All that and more, for just $9.95 CAN at Lee Valley Tools.

Cypress Mountain Snow is Awesome

There’s a a ton of fresh snow on Cypress Mountain. Boarding this weekend was awesome.

The wind is really blowing this morning, but it’s staying cold up there (so far) so conditions should stay good.  A lot of runs still aren’t open, but another good dump of snow should solve that.

Coast Mountain Forced to Provide Service during Christmas Week

Looks like Coast Mountain has been forced to drop its controversial “holiday week” schedule. This update today in the comments section of my blog post from a driver:

We the drivers were against this from the beginning. Our union immediatly challenged this decision and put it to arbitration. The result is a good one. The holiday week has been canceled and should not rear its ugly head for the rest of our contract. This will probably become a heated issue during our next contract talks in 2010.

Just remember, they did NOT reverse their decision, they were denied from enforcing it. We. the drivers, and our union CAW111 had this thrown out.

All I can say is Horray ! and thanks to the drivers union for pushing this one off the Coast Mountain Table.

Flickr is Bringing On The Stats

We’ve always been able to get basic info on how many views photos receive, but now Flickr is introducing real stats reports. From the Flickr blog…

We’ve introduced a new feature for our pro members: stats!
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you — we’ve launched another of our most often requested features. Yay!

and from the Flickr faq…

[Stats are] designed to give you insight into the ways that people are finding your photos. There are stats available for people surfing on Flickr itself - where the referrer is flickr.com - and stats about people coming from other websites. We can show you the sorts of things people search for on search engines where your photos turn up, and tell you how many views your photos have in a week, or for all time.

Yah.  Can’t wait to start making graphs from the Flickr data.

Looks Like the Naked Dance Worked

I threatened (and anyone who knows me knows that means it’s as good as done) to do a snow dance naked in order to get some white stuff on the local ski hills.

Looks like it worked.

For anyone who was driving around Sunset Gardens earlier in the week and saw a pasty, pudgy, and damn cold blur go by their window - that was me.

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