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Vancouver Island Coffee

Posted February 25, 2011

Espresso

Like all north west coasters us Vancouver Islanders are obsessed with coffee. Why just yesterday I learnt that Nanaimo is getting another Starbucks in Port Place Mall when it is rebuilt. It is still remarkably hard to find good coffee here though, for the longest time if I wanted good coffee I was …

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1/2 Juan de Fuca Trail

Posted May 10, 2010

Phillips canceling one of its best beers

Posted April 29, 2010

My letter to Phillips, I encourage you to write one as well!

Dear Brewmaster,

I recently had the pleasure of trying the Hop Circle IPA and enjoyed it immensely, thank you for another fantastic beer. Now we come to the sad part of this communiqué, I have read that you are no longer going to produce t…

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Elk River

Posted September 23, 2009

This lovely map made possible with the Spots "Spot Adventure" site. Uploaded some pictures.

Elk River/Landslide Lake

Widget powered by Spot Adventures: GPS Geotagging

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Beer

Posted August 19, 2009

Local Business needs your help.  Right we all want to stay with in the 100mile (what is that in km) diet, so with that in mind I've set out to list local breweries on Vancouver Isl, BC.

  • Driftwood Brewery (Victoria) Farmhand Ale
  • Fat Cat (Nanaimo) IPA
  • Gulf Island Brewery AKA Salt Spring Brewery (Sal…

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Protecting Your Most Important Organ

Posted June 4, 2009

Over the last few years I've been picking up sports that have some inherent risk.  You can tell this by the sheer number of helmets you own. It feels like a small price to pay for the knowledge that when I bail my brain will stay relatively intact.

  • road cycle
  • cross country cycle
  • full face downhi…

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How Much TV is Getting in Your Way?

Posted May 5, 2009

How much is watching TV getting in the way of doing what you really want?

I don't watch a lot of shows, or so I thought but once you start adding them up in a list it becomes obvious I'm loosing hours to this passive form of entertainment. I'm not proud of this list and it doesn't even start to cut …

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More jPoddy goodness

Posted March 31, 2009

Short film based off the book.

An open letter to Rockport

Posted March 30, 2009

Dear Rockport,

I recently bought a pair of Rockport shoes.  Something similar to this (Rockport Tewksbury Mens), I have attached at actual photo of the shoes in question.  Within a few days of using these shoes the 'dynamic suspension' in the right shoe gave out and when I put my heel down it wou…

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How long will the current down trend continue?

Posted February 24, 2009

Looks like things are bad, but they could get worse.

* Thanks to dshort

 

IOUSA - Must see documentary about USA debt

Posted February 17, 2009

Movie about the history of American debt and what this problem will do to the country.

 

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What you didn't know about Credit Cards

Posted February 13, 2009

This article (offline copy) has plenty of information on credit cards and what the '80s deregulation has done.  It is a little dated now that the BAPCPA has been put in to effect.

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Music

Splitting the Atomby Massive AttackPlayed on 2012/02/22 at 12:10AM
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