Sunday, November 21, 2004

Grey Cup prediction

Just so it is written down somewhere, this is what I think will be the night's outcome:

B.C. 30 Toronto 23

Too bad I won't get to see it.

Thursday, November 11, 2004

Stats

Today is my 100th day on European soil, and as good a time as any to share what I've been doing. And nothing tells a story like statistics. So here are a few.

Days in the Europe: 100
In the Netherlands: 97
In Belgium: 3

Kilometres cycled: roughly 811 (based on a fairly conservative estimate of the home-work commute)
Kilometres per day: 8.11

Of the Netherlands top 25 most populous cities, I have been in just over half.
The list: Amsterdam, Rotterdam*, 's Gravenhage (Den Haag or The Hague), Utrecht, Groningen, Apeldoorn, Nijmegen, Arnhem, Zaanstad*, Amersfoort**, Dordrecht*, Leiden*, Zwolle**.

* denotes I have only trained through
** denotes that I exited the train, but not the train station.

Clueless

I was watching Clueless (don't ask!) the other day, and to my surprise/dismay, there were not one, but two Radiohead songs in that movie. Fake Plastic Trees and My Iron Lung. And each made not one, but two appearances.

Needless to say, I am a bit confused and disillusioned. On the bright side, the movie wasn't as bad as I had remembered.

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Coincidence?

First year in the history of the university that I'm not on the men's soccer team and this happens.

Also from the coincidence(?) file, "Netherlands" and "Neanderthals" are one letter from being perfect anagrams of each other.