Random Stuff

Link from digg.com with some Amazing Photos of China. A little over-saturated IMHO, yet still beautiful. So anyone know anyone there I can stay with? 🙂

This post is for my good buddy Fred…. a tour of the Transparent Factory in Dresden, where they build nifty VW stuff.

Not as cute as the previously posted kitten, this video of a Russian climbing is nuts. The guy is ripped, strong, agile like Jackie Chan, and pretty nuts. Urban bouldering at it’s best. Most impressive. Via Darren Barefoot. This is actually called Parkour, which is basically the art of running and jumping over and around

More snow last night, and this morning the street was basically a skating rink. Took me about 5 tries to get out of the driveway, just working up the speed and momentum to get up the hill from the bottom to get up to the street. This of course avoiding any of the kiddies walking

First Snow of 2005 Originally uploaded by abailward. Last night I was told by a couple of people that we were getting snow… since my spidey senses didn’t detect incoming snow, I scoffed. However, come the evening, lo and behold a few dots of white were falling. Not more than a sprinkling, hardly enough to

Randomly went to amazon today and clicked on the ‘Alan’s store’ link, where they put in books that their algorithms think that you would like. So is there some subtle message here that I should be getting?

This post is for Firefly, a pointer to this cute picture (with a subtle commentary on interracial dating as well, but mostly cuteness). Here’s the link where I originally got the image (a discussion on fark.com on interracial dating). Did I say it made sense? 😛

Well, Google‘s gone and done it again with a web-based RSS News Aggregator. Simple and easy, sexy and fast. Just when I was going to check out something like Bloglines or Feedlounge (not open to the public yet though). The Google reader will get a full workout from me in the next couple of days,

A link for my buddy Brad, who was wondering the other day Whatever Happened To… Steve Fonyo. Sounds like he’s on a bit of a roller coaster, though he lives just down the road from me (well, figuratively speaking…. more like just down the road from Dana).

Today I ran 5km and raised $70 for cancer research for the Terry Fox Run, and it felt great.