To my American friends, I’m very sorry for posting this comedy clip from the brilliant Canadian TV show This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
That’s Colin Mochrie from 2003.
Month: January 2010
Olympic Torch photos
Waldorf School at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary.
The torch descended by Bobsled and Snowboard. Came up on the chair lift.
book review – Born to Run
On the insistence of my Adventure Racing buddy, Dave Adlard, I bought a book.
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
A fantastic read, even for non-runners. The author, Christopher McDougall, (video) is a master story teller. I was gripped by this true life story.
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong. …
It’s available on Audible.com, as well as in a Kindle edition.
Get it!
I listened to this book immediately after Dan Brown’s entertaining The Lost Symbol (my review).
It was crystal clear that Dan Brown is a hack compared with by Christopher Mcdougall.
Why is that?
I believe Brown is an old school author. Mcdougall an author of the future,
Mcdougall is a journalist, writing primarily magazine articles. This is his first book.
A magazine article must be instantly engaging. Otherwise the reader will flip ahead to the next story.
Christopher Mcdougall reminds me of Jon Krakauer, another magazine scribe turned author.
Bottom line: get Born to Run.
Chess World #1 – age 19
Have you heard about this kid?
Magnus Carlsen (born Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen on 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy currently ranked number one in the world.
renting a movie from iTunes
I downloaded a rental movie online for the first time. It worked perfectly US$3.99.
The Bourne Trilogy is fantastic. Why aren’t more Hollywood movies put together like this?
Click PLAY or watch a trailer for the Bourne Ultimatum on YouTube.
Video tutorial … How to Rent Movies With iTunes.
Amazon Video on Demand for the same film was only $2.99, but could not be downloaded to Canada for some reason. Amazon is usually cheaper than iTunes, but doesn’t work quite as well.
I’ll rent more from iTunes.
Craig Ferguson on Rush Limbaugh
This late night talk show host resolves the Limbaugh controversy PERFECTLY.
Watch a clip from his show on YouTube.
Limbaugh makes about $33 million / year.
Perhaps we need to get rid of Leno and Conan. And put Craig Ferguson in that spot.
Keith Olbermann damns both Limbaugh and Pat Robertson to Hell. That was more my first reaction. …
big, fat idiot – Rush Limbaugh on Haiti
Rush Limbaugh on Haiti relief donations:
‘We’ve already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax’
Of all the over-paid right wing radio talk show nobs, I like Rush the best. He’s got some sort of folksy appeal. Once in a while he talks some common sense.
That said, he’s a bald-faced liar, at times, distorting facts to serve his own political biases. That he’d use the suffering of innocents in Haiti just to bolster ratings … and bash Obama. That’s the last straw.
Rush Limbaugh is dead to me. I’ll never listen to the Big Fat Idiot again.
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That’s my decision. Read other reactions on the L.A. Times Comments blog.
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… a career in organized crime?
Thanks Dana.
RonCon 2010
Rockin’ Ronnie is putting on two conventions in his speciality of Business Communication.
for EXECUTIVES, MANAGERS and PROFESSIONALS working in:
• Employee Communications
• Public Relations
• Human Resources
• Change Management
• Training and Organizational Development
• Web and Publication Design
Click on the logo for details (PDF).
Vancouver March 22-24
Calgary March 24-26
Google tasks
Like most people, I don’t stick with any system of To Do Lists for very long.
But the Google method is so simple and easy, it just might be the one I’ve always wanted.
You need to be online to make changes, but I can check my list while offline from my iTouch.
Click PLAY or watch a short introduction on YouTube.
You don’t need to be a Gmail user to use Tasks.
Rick McCharles 