Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-01
- Heh @foroberge has had 4 doping checks since the Olympics have started. He's starting to feel a bit like @lancearmstrong #
- Heading out to catch our bus to Cypress Mountain to watch men's aerial quals tonight! #
- Well, crap none of my TwitPics from tonight's aerials came thru #
- Heading back from Cypress Mountain. No wait AT ALL to get on an OBN bus. Astonished. #
- http://twitpic.com/14uu8f – A few hundred people from the security checkpoint at Cypress Mtn #
- http://twitpic.com/14uu8v – In the standing room pen 1.5 hrs before aerials start! #
- http://twitpic.com/14uu97 – The view from the aerials mosh pit #
- http://twitpic.com/14uu9j – @LeftCoastMama at men's aerials on Cypress #van2010 #
- Congrats to Moir and Virtue! Canada strikes gold in ice dance! (sorry for the late update, just back from aerials!) #
- Two days off work and everything here goes to pot. Really? Where did that karma come from? #
- On the other hand, happy birthday Dad! @eastcoastgranpa #
- The Martin Mars waterbomber will fly over Vancouver and drop water on Coal Harbour today at 1pm! http://bit.ly/aqRdMV [via @twitcouver] #
- Another Canadian woman wins a gold medal: Ashleigh McIvor in women's ski cross! #
- "The video is not loading properly. This is a temporary problem." Hey CTV? I call BS. #Sigh #NoHockeyAtWorkForMe #
- RT @LeftCoastMama: Aidan chasing after Quinlan w/ a remote. "I am trying to turn him off!" No such luck, I have tried many times with Aidan. #
- Took my netbook apart tonight, put it back together, wiped it clean. Certain power connector was broken. Turns out plugging wrong cord in. #
- Time for another beer while I reinstall everything. Again. :facepalm: #
- Go Switzerland! 0-0 after 1. #
- Dear Cisco, We are trying to give you money. "V6T 1Z3" *is* a valid postal code no matter what your borked form validator is telling you. #
- RT @CTVOspdskating: Hughes sets an oval record…. skates a 6:55:73 – WOW! http://ow.ly/1aXv6 #
- Solved my "Olympics at work" prob. Installed Silverlight in WindowsXP VM. Works much better than Moonlight in Ubuntu. Smooth video in a VM! #
- And …. just as Groves gets started, the web feed dies. A.R.G.H. #
- RT @2010Tweets: Clara Hughes finishes a brilliant Olympic career with a bronze medal in 5000m. Congrats! #olympics #
- I take it back, the good things I said about SIlverlight in a VM. Won't show any more than about 2 mins of video before bailing. #frustrated #
- LOL, in latest geocaching.com site changelog "15191: Caches In Space Clarified cosmic geocaching guidelines" #
- Geocaching guidelines now say: "Make sure you can land or connect to the space station/planet for it to be acceptable as a listing." #
- They also note that the cache saturation rule applies (no caches within 161 m of each other) even on the ISS. #
- Got home with 30 mins left in the hockey game … but it was already all over. >Yawn< Bobsled and speedskating then, I guess. #
- W00t! Another bronze in speed skating! #
- RT @CTVOhockey: RT @CTVOlympics: Korea disqualified!?!?!? CANADA WINS SILVER IN SHORT TRACK! [OMG! The Koreans DOMINATED that race!] #
- RT @CTVOlympics: Okay, folks. Watch Sportsnet now for some bobsleigh hardware! http://ow.ly/1b1WW #
- Does anyone know why the GERMANY 1 women's 2-man bobsled is decorated with a half-dozen maple leaves filled in with German tricolours? #
- And guaranteed 1, maybe 2 medals for women's 2-man bobsled! #
- Canada goes 1-2 in women's 2-man bobsled! #
- RT @LeftCoastMama: Women Athletes in Canada Kick ASS! #Van2010 #
- RT @gmarkham: ummmm. Guys?! Olympic medals: Canadian women – 12; Canadian men – 4. #
- Why are the Australian ski-jump uniforms olive-green? @erinlouise? Bueller? #
- I guess it must have something to do with the Boxing Kangaroo. #
- I entered @vancouverdotcom’s contest to win 2 Olympic Closing Ceremony tickets http://bit.ly/auVEK3 Follow & RT gets you entered 2! #contest #
- The elves were hard at work overnight at UBC. All the Olympic-related traffic barricades have vanished! #
- RT @gmarkham: Canada into women's curling gold medal match vs. Sweden. [W00t!] #
- Does anybody have any good SQL syntax cheatsheets or mini-reference they can point me to? #
- And yes, you should be scared when an aerospace engineer is messing about with SQL databases. #
- And the Canadian women win hockey GOLD! #
- Hey @translink why did a 99 pass us by at Heather heading east only to let 20 ppl off at a not-stop across the intersection? #
- Due to inexplicable pass-bys of EB 99s going to be later to @jonathancoulton gig than we wanted :( #
- Intermission at the @jonathancoulton concert. @paulandstorm were teh awesome. #
- Yum! Someone brough cake for everyone! #joco #
- Back from AWESOME @jonathancoulton concert at the Rio. @paulandstorm were amazing too, as was @molly23. Absolutely a great show. #
- Too bad the concert went so long that we had to rush back to our babysitter and missed meeting up with @gnb @kevleviathan @kimli @elliomeg #
- How do they know? 12:30 when we went ot bed, Q wakes at 3, up until 5. A wakes at 6:30. Everytime we're up late, the kids have a bad sleep! #
- On the otherhand, I've taken today off so hopefully both @LeftCoastMama and I can work a nap into the day. >yawn< #
- Canada will skate for gold (silver guaranteed) in the men's speedskating pursuit! #
- Here's video of @paulandstorm keeping the #joco crowd in check last night as they sing "The Captain's Wife's Lament" http://bit.ly/c05oVR #
- At the Rio last night @molly23 joined @jonathancoulton and @paulandstorm on stage for a few numbers. Here's "My Monkey" http://bit.ly/b8CM0n #
- The CTV colour crew made the comment earlier that the Bernard rink was a strong second-half team. They're showing that now. Wowza. #
- Anyone else going to @thekerplunks concert tomorrow at Robson Sq? Weather looks bad, but we'll have our gumboots on. #
- I think I'd rather be up 1 w/ the hammer than up 2 w/o it. Ah well, let's see what the 10th end brings! #curling #van2010 #
- Doesn't matter how many they're sitting (4), they need to run the Swedes out of rocks! #
- Wow. Bernard messes up her last shot and Sweden will survive to see another end! #
- Time to start getting rid of those guards! #
- Oi, Sweden. That strategy is fine, but you need to raise yourself to shot with your last rock, eh? #
- High-pressure double to take it to a 12th end! Must-make… #
- Silver medal for Canada. Sadly responsibility lies squarely on Bernard's shoulders for the loss. Still, Silver! Yay! #
- The Slovak forechecking is incredible. A number of bad turnovers by the Canadian defence; somehow the Slovaks haven't been able to score! #
- And Canada scores first! Or … do they? #
- Goal! (whew) #
- Goal! 2-0 Canada! #
- Meanwhile, in speedskating, it seems we won a gold and silver! #
- Or was that gold and bronze? #
- Wow, just watched men's 500m short track race. Ohno brought down both the Canadian AND Korean? Wow. #
- Wow, after winning gold in the 500m, Hamelin is now skating in the 5000m? After a 30 min rest? Yikes. #
- RT @CTVOspdskating: Ohno told NBC after the race that he was unfairly DQd by a Cdn official to get 2 Cdns on the podium http://bit.ly/amWE61 #
- Really Ohno? Sour grapes much? Also, watch the playback. #ItsAllYourFault #CryMeARiver #
- RT @unmarketing: I like watchin sports with Twitter. Feels like everyone is in my living room but I don't have to buy more dip #van2010 #
- GOLD AGAIN! #
- And will the Koreans be DQ'd in this race too? #ManyUnhappyKoreans #
- RT @LeftCoastMama: The speed skating was very hard on my heart, and lungs. I think I am breathing now. #
- RT @jenzers: within the span of an hour, Charles Hamelin becomes the most successful canadian olympian at these games #
- Cool! The net-cam is completely gimballed. It remained perfectly parallel with the ice while tipping over Luongo #
- The hockey game's 3-2 Canada. This game should not be this close. Under 5 min remaining… #
- RT @jaypiddy: See man seriously we have our work cut out for us on Sunday. [Agreed. IF we make it by the ravenous Slovaks] #
- Holy crap. Lui's keeping us in these last 5 mins. Where did the rest of the team go? #
- OMG how did they miss that? It was a gimme! Should be a tied game right now! ZOMG. #
- RT @Vancouver: Dear world, Canada will be closed noon to 3pm on Sunday. #
- Tsunami of unknown (but probably small) height to hit BC coast btw 3-3:15pm this afternoon due to Santiago earthquake http://bit.ly/cKM1LQ #
- And by small, we're talking centimetres, not the 7 ft expected in Togo. #
- RT @DixonTam: Here is a great illustration of wave energy generated by the earthquake in Chile. http://bit.ly/aDQCtp /via @realreporter #
- RT @calgaryherald: Team Canada makes decision to not enter @brianmckeever in men's x-country 50K http://bit.ly/bNTMBW #yyc #van2010 [Boo!] #
- RT @buzzbishop There HAS to be a way to petition CDN XC team to do right thing. Let @brianmckeever race! #van2010 #blind #fail #letbrianrace #
- RT @realreporter: While Tsunami waves are not likely to be extreme in this region caution should be exercised by people close to the water. #
- Looks like authorities are advising ppl in Hawaiian hotels to go to at least the 3rd floor in hotels. Yikes. #tsunami #santiago #
- RT @brianmckeever: Olympic dream over. Don't think I've ever been so sad. #letbrianrace [Boo!] #
- First gold medal sighting! Whole men's speed skating team at Robson Sq! #
- http://twitpic.com/15ou7t – Toddler hockey. What could go wrong? #
- http://twitpic.com/15ou8d – Way off in the dist Charles Hamelin gets interviewed #
- For all those asking the toddler hockey is on the plaza at Robson Sq. NO lineup! #
- What a day! Saw CDN short-track team + gold medals AND the CDN women's curling team + silver medals up close and personal! #
- Saw Chris Hamilton (kids performer) perform and had a great chat with him! #
- AND we saw the awesome @thekerplunks perform, and Aidan won a signed CD from them too! #
- THEN we came home and saw that Jasey-Jay Anderson and the long-track speed skating team BOTH won gold! Whew. Now gold medal curling! #
- Wow. Canada (at the moment) 0.01 from the gold medal in 4-man bobsled. Oh well. #
- Bronze for Canada in 4-man bobsled, US takes gold by a mile! #
- OH: "Guess what? Canada won TRUCK SLEDDING!" Ah, the minds of 5 yr olds are something else :) #
- I just realized that Kevin Martin is really Uncle Travelling Matt! #FraggleRockOnIce #
- The #asshat with the airhorn should be removed from the curling venue #UnsportsmanlikeBehaviour #
- Dear CTV, I hate the fact that you don't show us all the lead shots. They're important rocks too, you know. #
- Un-be-lievable take-outs by the Canadian third. #
- Olympic curling is great. "Full 8" means "draw to the button for practice". #
- Does Harper do the wave when comes by #
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- Does Harper do the wave when it comes by, or does he just sit there, rocking back and forth? #curling #van2010 #
- (tweets previous to the last brought to you by the 16 month old) #
- The toddler failed to land his jump, but missed the piano bench by a few millimetres. His score is 81.75 with one jump remaining… #
- Now he jammed his finger in train track drawer. Amazing how poor his judgment gets when he's over-tired. Making notes for his perm record. #
- RT @CathyBrowne: C'mon Team Canada! I've been watching curling since Kevin Martin had hair… [And had real brooms. Me too.] #
- The Norwegian skip is smirking at the "O Canada" serenade. #
- And Norway is out of stones. The Martin rink wins Canada another gold medal! #
- Unbelievably, the Martin rink played the whole Olympic tournament without losing ANY games. That's domination, eh? #
- And now, with 13 gold medals, Canada ties the USSR and Norway for the most-ever golds at a Winter Olympics, with hockey yet to come! #
- With Martin's gold, Canada now has its biggest medal count at any Winter Olympics, which was 24 at Turin in 2006. I guess OTP wasn't so bad. #
- RT @eastcoastgranpa: Time to switch channels. PM Harper coming to bask in the glow of our athletes. #
- Oh noes! Worldcaching site has been hacked. @_CanadianBacon_ @curnew @TESKELLY @hollyburn Any of you guys can contact Nina and let her know? #
- It is much too early for such a rousing performance of "Yellow Combine" What? Don't know it? "We all live in a yellow combine…" #
- http://twitpic.com/15vons – On the last day of the Winter Olympics, the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. #
- Just switched to the game now. Didn't want to suffer through the inane pregame show. #
- Reminder: It's JUST A GAME. Win or lose, it's just a game. Try to keep some perspective in 3 hr's time. #
- RT @CoreyL: @AnthonyFloyd IT'S JUST GAME?!?! It's not JUST A GAME, it's OUR game =) #
- RT @ShireenJ: .@AnthonyFloyd Perspective in gold-medal hockey game on home soil?!! That's funny! #olympics #
- 5th, 18th, 32nd, 33rd. Good think they didn't let @brianmckeever ski, he might have embarrassed us #shouldhaveletbrianrace #notaboutwinning #
- Apparently there's an Olympic protest about to begin, w/ "dozens" of "protestors". Too bad there's no ppl or cameras to witness it. #
- Period 2 begins! Goodbye twitter, hello beer. #
- GORGEOUS! #
- God, Canada's been doing nothing but protecting this lead for the past 15 minutes. #GonnaBiteUs #
- After sitting on your heels for 20 mins, how do you get momentum now? #
- CROSBY!!!!! #
- That's 14 gold. Most Gold in a Winter Olympics. EVER. #
- Surprisingly no one has left the building before the presentation of the medals #
- One country, united by sport? #
- Man, the city's going to have SUCH a hangover next week… #
- At 1st, thought it was a stupid name, but SECONDED! RT @gnb: I move to keep the name Canada Hockey Place instead of GM Place. #
- RT @jianghomeshi: Smart bar positioning for Jack Layton – TV airtime all game. PM Harper only shown 1 (IN arena). And…where was Ignatieff? #
- Lots of horns and cheering coming from an absolutely ALIVE city! #
- RT @rhh: CTV: pls get your gum-flappers off the TV & put the cameras on the fans. [CTV awesome technically, embarrassing editorially] #
- RT @LeftCoastMama: New blog post: What an Ending!!! Go Canada Go! http://leftcoastmama.net/2010/02/28/what-an-ending-go-canada-go/ #
- RT @gmarkham: Harper sending Obama a case of Molson Canadian? Take about adding insult to injury. #
- RT @translink: Due to crowds, bus service temporarily suspended into and out of downtown Vancouver^BK #
- I suspect that when @LeftCoastMama and I are asked where we're from, "Cole Harbour, NS" will be met with fewer blank stares now #
- .@mikebrowne @Jasmin_Norris Buses being rerouted but traffic is still moving on the Granville St bridge (can see it right now!) #
- .@mikebrowne @Jasmin_Norris I take it back. Granville St bridge inbound is closed, taken over w/ swarms of pedestrians. #
- CTV showed shot of BC Place for closing ceremonies. Still only pillars for the flame, I wonder if they'll raise 4th pillar during closing? #
- RT @alexishinde: As traffic cops were putting up both hands to stop cars, people were running past them high-fiving their raised hands. #
- RT @ebertchicago: Notice: Canada will resume limited functions in about an hour. Full service is expected by sometime Tues #
- RT @twitcouver: Where I was cops trying to direct traffic couldn't because of the pace at which people kept running up and hugging them #
- Taking in all the festivities from our living room. Kids just aren't in the right state of mind to take out into the teeming masses #
- Hahahaha. Great comedic bit as they finally raise the 4th pillar of the indoor cauldron. AND THEY RAISED CATRINA LEMAY DOAN FROM THE FLOOR! #
- Seriously CTV? Showing ads in the middle of the closing ceremonies floor show SUCKS. Couldn't have held off just a little bit? #
- CTV announcers left to tell us how awesome the floor show was because CTV showed commercials during THE WHOLE THING. #BringBackTheCBC #
- Were there this many ads during the Opening Ceremonies too!? #CTVFail #
- And the Canadians enter the stadium while CTV is AT COMMERCIAL. CTV: You SUCK #
- Does that girl ever sing live? #LipSyncingSucksWhenYoureOutOfSync #
- RT @TSNBobMcKenzie: Team Canada had the traditional and (Oly unapproved) Hockey Canada leaf logo stitched INSIDE their sweaters. #
- And @MayorGregor enters wearing a Team Canada hockey jersey. Classy! #
- I have no idea what it means, but I've always liked the Russian national anthem. But I have a soft spot for Russian classical music… #
- I'm digging this Russian presentation. Zorbs FTW! #
- Ever-empathetic Aidan is extremely worried about how to get the people out of the zorbs. #
- RT @Dustanne: @AnthonyFloyd hmm no commercials during the Russian presentation..what are they being polite. Is CTV not CANADIAN?? How sad :( #
- Oh, John Furlong. I applaud your bravery at speaking French, but ZOMG your accent is … painful. #
- John Furlong: "Now do you know us, eh?" Too bad the "eh?" was as forced as his prior words in French. #
- RT @Clutton: Bus traffic had to be rerouted on W. Broadway in Kitsilano, after an impromptu dance party erupted btwn Alma and MacDonald. #
- "Blue jackets: 1, Cypress Mtn weather: 0" Too bad he didn't call them "Smurfs" :p #
- Jack Rug? Really, John, are you sure that's his name? #
- Now Aidan believes all these performers (incl Neil Young) live underneath the floor of BC Place. #
- Frickin Canada Geese are everywhere. That's going to be painful to clean up. #
- Bill Shatner! Slam poetry from Kirk! #
- Hahaha. Bill looked terrified at being dropped through the floor! #
- LOVE. Catherine O'Hara: "We're Sorry" #
- Hi Mike! #
- Michael Buble in a red serge. This is hitting all the right notes and NO COMMERCIALS. Thx CTV, good call. Riot avoided. #
- RT @RickMacMerc: "Lumberjack Song" please!! #
- This is straight out of Monty Python #van2010 #
- At least CTV has the rights to this song… #
- My only worry is that the rest of the world doesn't how tongue in cheek this act is! #
- Where did they find so many bearded men? #beardcore #
- Huh. Nickelback. Actually, I'd prefer the commercials. #
- RT @alexishinde: RT @arjunbasu: A: The Closing Ceremonies Q: What might a musical by SCTV look like? #
- RT @redneckmommy: Dying laughing at all of you who hate Nickelback. It's like it's REDNECKMOMMY NIGHT in CANADA!!! #
- Hmmm, how long has Avril been milking this song? Time for some new material methinks. #
- RT @Kimli: Why couldn't we have Glass Tiger, Corey Hart and Platinum Blonde? #van2010 #
- Well, the only thing that would make this Cancon cliche complete would be Celine Dion. Dear world: We're sorry. No, really. Sorry. #van2010 #
- Whew. Simple Plan. I can handle having them represent La Belle Province. #
- RT @thismason: Great, it's turning into the Junos #
- Sadly, I have to admit that I like Hedley. Yes, it's pop. There's something about it that hooks me, though. Sorry. #
- RT @jasonwagar: RT @agpt Too bad Gordon Lightfoot's dead. [hahahaha] #
- From Montreal, Quebec …. erm, who? #
- RT @GrantLCBCR3: @jianghomeshi Neil Young saw the line-up and said "uh… can I go on first?" #
- RT @mikebrowne: I am lost. Bring back the floating moose and giant beavers. #van2010 #
- RT @iPhoneinCanada: Celine Dion declined the chance to perform at Closing Ceremonies: http://bit.ly/brjfJU [YAY!] #
- RT @DixonTam: Boy, can't wait until Mitsou hits the stage! #vanoc2010 [Sorry, "Bye-bye mon cowboy" was more appropriate for Calgary 1988] #
- Grrrr, kids just got to sleep, fireworks mayhem from LiveCity Yaletown rocking the condo. #
- OK, the Vancouver 2010 Olympics are over. Do we all put the flags away now? And what to do with all these cowbells? #
- Ha! "I Believe" co-written by Alan Frew, formerly of Glass Tiger. He's making sure we don't forget him when he's gone. #
- RT @lynneux: Biggest take aways from the last 17 days? The power of collective experience + Twitter has changed the way I experience things. #
- Post-olympic note: Only military uniforms I saw in Vancouver during Olympics were the crew of the Russian Kruzenshtern wandering Robson St! #
