• Good deal: Dell Canada is selling Flip MinoHD's for $170 today only http://bit.ly/4br66k #
• Do any of the local mountains have a kid+parents "learn to snowboard" program? #
• You say you want a revolution // Well, you know // We all want to change the world #
• Too bad Aidan doesn't like Crispy Crunch. Nom, nom, nom. #StealingCandyFromABaby #
• RT @DadGoneMad: My son is the boy I always wanted to be when I was a kid. If I was nine, I'd want to be his friend. #dadcamp #
• An awesome use of Twitter lists: http://www.conversationlist.com #
• Owl.ly is refusing to hide that god damn bar again. Once more I will refuse to click owl.ly links. #StopHijackingMyBrowser #
• The smooth jazz of the toddler playing the piano is actually kinda relaxing… #
• My 4 yr old and I just finished making a batch of the best chocolate chip cookies you've never had. Awesome. #dadcamp #
• Cream 2/3c short 2/3c marg 1c br sgr 1c sgr. Add 2 egg+orang extr+mint extr. Add 1c flour 1tsp salt 1tsp b soda. Add choc chips. 12min @ 325 #
• Oops, error in recipe! Reposting…. #
• Cream 2/3c short 2/3c marg 1c br sgr 1c sgr. Add 2 egg+orang extr+mint extr. Add 3c flour 1tsp salt 1tsp b soda. Add choc chips. 12min @ 325 #
• All that sugar requires 3 cups of flour, not 1, lol #
• v,gzl; <'lg; #
• v,gzl; <'l #
• The last two tweets brought to you by my 1 yr old, Q. Loves typing, but his error rate is excessive. #
• While making cookies Aidan (4 yrs old, recall) and I watched 2 DVR'd episodes of the RMR. He loves the stuff @RickMercer does, good CDN fun! #
• Took a look at Google's "GO" programming language. Neat, but why? We need *another* c-style language? Solves a problem that doesn't exist. #
• Damnit, FOX kills another awesome scifi show: Dollhouse is dead. http://bit.ly/4KSk2 Why do they even bother? #
• Rocking out with the family on Rock Band 2. Aidan's on lead guitar, Quinlan on drums. I don't think we'll be getting Grammys anytime soon. #
• RT @hummingbird604: NEW BLOG POST, Win tickets to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (theatre) – http://tinyurl.com/y9gah6p #
• Deleting 6 months of AMC from our Mythbox. Sometimes PVRs can be terrible things. #
• I've been finding out all sorts of interesting things from my wife's blog. Apparently she's abandoning me on Nov 20th for a while. #NewMoon #
• The rising sun reveals that the North Shore mountains got a huge dumping of snow yesterday. It's beginning to feel like Olympics. #
• RT @buzzbishop: DadCAMP 3 is on Sunday at the Giants game. you coming? http://bit.ly/1zTG3U #dadcamp #
• RT @Anna_Cook: I am ON FIRE today. Probably b/c I'm working in Mt Pleasant [Heh. There're some arson investigators looking to talk to you.] #
• Really? #Glee portrays everyone (except cheerleaders) in such a pos light esp. GLBT + disabled yet still ppl complain http://bit.ly/2VBcjr #
• Just upgraded my workstation to Karmic. Flash broke again. Went to Adobe's site, no 64 bit Ubuntu d/l. Seriously? #Fail #
• .@kabutar Well, that's a pretty misleading. They restricted use of one vaccine, but deemed the other safe. http://bit.ly/4kITLr #
• .@kabutar The thing about vaccines is that they're only effective when herd immunity is achieved. Every unvax'd person threatens my kids. in reply to kabutar #
• So the Governor-General wore a Navy uniform yesterday. What rank did she wear? Is there a specific GG rank? #cdnpoli #
• So the Governor-General wore a Army uniform yesterday. What rank did she wear? Is there a specific GG rank? #cdnpoli [Now w correct service] #
• Re G-G uniform: Turns out the G&M has a good explanation: http://bit.ly/2B9nuy #
• Lol, so I'm on @VanCourierNews's "Moms" list. At least one of us is confused. #DadsGetNoRespect #
• Hmmm, what to have for supper. Other than chocolate chip cookies, of course. #ChocolateIsAFoodGroup #
• Who knew? There's a bunch of us in YVR who … get this … don't drink coffee! http://bit.ly/4vnGb4 #
• I know no one else cares about #Survivor, but tonight's episode was one of the best in recent memory. #EasilyAmused #
• Wow, you hear about bad mailing lists but rarely have I seen one as poisonous as VanLUG. #
• Massive headwind this morning. 10:1 odds of a massive headwind heading home too. Vancouver weather is magical. #
• Want a cheap XBox 360? If you're not going to play it online, it seems eBay suddenly has lots: http://bit.ly/1HOvMo #
• RT @asawyer: CTV, Global ask CRTC for "program deletion regime." Blackout US stn when Cdn bcaster airs show at diff time. #
• As CTV, Global swing wildly trying to preserve their broken business model, more ppl are finding their entertainment online. #DyingMedia #
• Following @olympicreporter's tweeting of the women's ski jumping case. Don't understand how an org in Canada can operate outside the Charter #
• .@northernpenguin Exactly. The more you tighten your grip, Global, the more viewers will slip through your fingers. Or something like that. in reply to northernpenguin #
• This will be awesome! The data from purposefully crashing a 300-person jet will be incredibly useful: http://bit.ly/NFkXW [via @AvWeekBenet] #
• Thanks for all the #FF shoutouts. I don't do #FF myself but you can look at my conversationlist http://bit.ly/1YLLeh to see some cool tweeps #
• And while you're at it, how about creating your own conversationlist? It's actually pretty easy: http://www.conversationlist.com #
• RT @twitcouver Witness a bike/vehicle accident? Leave biz card/contact info even if ambulance is checking them out & cyclist says they're ok #
• RT @twitcouver: Cyclist is shaky, won't think to ask 4 witness info. Karma act: gather witnesses contact info & hand to cyclist b4 going. #
• Apparently my workstation's UPS battery needs to be replaced. At least that's what it's beeping about now. AFTER THE POWER BUMP. Goin' home. #
• Once again in the 2010 Olympics "Virtual Waiting Room" for tix. Let's hope it goes better than last week. #
• 10am has come. How many other tweeps are with me in this 2010 waiting room? #
• I feel like I'm at a bingo hall … I've got 3 laptops sitting in front of me all counting backwards from 30 slightly out of sync. #
• Right. Now they're telling us how many "sessions" are available for each sport, but what's a SESSION? #
• These 3 computers have widely varying ideas about how long 30 seconds is. Amazingly diifferent. #
• One computer has now completely lapped the other two. #
• RT @gnb: @AnthonyFloyd Is there virtual muzak in the virtual waiting room? How about really old virtual magazines? #vancouver2010 #
• RT @eastcoastgranpa: @AnthonyFloyd Don't forget the virtual yelling and running children! [Nah, I've got *actual* children doing that] #
• Short-track speed skating is the first event to be completely sold out. #
• Wow, while waiting in the Virtual Waiting Room, I'm witnessing the most cut-throat game of Frustration that this family has ever seen. #
• Boy, I'm going to feel pretty awful if @kirklapointe gets into the ticket site before I do… #
• Threshold for being able to make it to Hope by 1pm is passing. I guess I won't be at the BCGA AGM. #
• In other news, Aidan is now 3-1 lifetime vs parents in Frustration. #
• On the other hand, we've been all over him in "Snakes and Ladders" #
• Back of the envelope calculation shows I've seen the 30 second countdown on the VANOC Virtual Waiting Room just about 1000 times now. Ugh. #
• So 2010 ticketing site shows only hockey, curling and ceremonies left. Too long to hold 5 yr old's attn I think. Will look at Paralympic tix #
• Three hours in the 2010 waiting room. Beginning to feel like I'm waiting at the Vancouver General Hospital. #
• RT @dadcamp: DadCAMP 3 is tomorrow to see the Giants game. We're meeting at the rink at 430, 5p puck drop. RSVP if you're in. #dadcamp #
• We have two kids: No one knows the evil that lurks … under the couch. Ewww. #
• And, 6 3/4 hrs in, it seems like one machine got into the 2010 tickets site … but then it timed out on loading the page. #fail #
• So I'm finally into the 2010 ticketing and it's already told me to "try again, unable to process due to high volume" #EpicFail #
• "We're sorry, we were unable to process your request due to high transaction volumes. Please try to submit your request again." #FAIL #
• There's a 12 minute limit, and each click is taking > 1 min. This is 7.5 hours after starting. What a joke. #
• In the end, we ended up getting opening ceremonies, sledge hockey and ski slalom for the Paralympics today. It'll be nice for Aidan #dadcamp #
• Wow Quinlan sure can shriek. Is a trumpet mute an appropriate parenting tool? #
• Complete #dadcamp day today. Paradise City in the morning, BC Model Trains exhibit in the afternoon, Vancouver Giants game in evening. Rawk. #
• Unbelievable. Ti-cats tie up the game w/ a 2 pt conversion with ~:20 left on the clock #
• Confusingly, BC now heading to the CFL Eastern Conference final. #
• http://twitpic.com/posz4 – At the model train show #
• http://twitpic.com/poszf – Some of these layouts are quite complex! #
• http://twitpic.com/pouhc – This set is all LEGO. Aidan is in heaven. #
• http://twitpic.com/ppr1u – Aidan at the end of his first hockey game! Giants blown away 5-0 #
• Back from a most excellent day out with Aidan. Train show followed by Giants game. Careful out there, some huge puddles on the roads! #
• Aidan and I making a big screen appearance at #dadcamp tonight http://bit.ly/38Wj4t [via @dadcamp] #

• Nuts. Aidan's flu turned into Aidan's and Quinlan's and Gwen's cold. I've got tickle in my throat too. More cowbell won't cure this fever. #
• Last night on Left Coast Floyds: Happy Hallowe'en http://bit.ly/1blgbb #
• Hey, look! @slvrlambstudios is one of Vancouver's 50 Essential Portrait Photographers! http://ow.ly/yDLD [and Twitter addict to boot] #
• Starting off Bike to Work Week … sick at home with the rest of the sick family. #
• Just got a call from A's preschool. Closed till Friday due to multiple confirmed cases of H1N1. He didn't go today either. #
• I'm pretty sure what we have is just a communal cold, but it seems to me that the H1N1 vaccine roll-out is happening too late for the kids. #
• Tired of waiting for Vancouver Tweetup to approve an event (4 days waiting) I've taken matters into my own hands (see next tweet) #
• Greater Vancouver Twitter Parents Meetup I: http://bit.ly/3IJQb4 Vancouver Aquarium, Saturday 10am. #GVTPM1 #
• Thanks for the RTs @GillianShaw @hummingbird604 @karenhamilton YVR Parents Meetup http://bit.ly/3IJQb4 #
• Thanks for more RTs! @alexishinde @klipbook @stv @bobsandlolo @tjrossignol YVR Parents Meetup http://bit.ly/3IJQb4 Join us, won't you? #
• Uh … the 4 yr old just fell asleep while sprolled on my lap. 1 minute he was arguing about lunch, then … quiet. Can you say "sick"? #
• http://twitpic.com/o6kku – Somehow, despite being sick, Aidan has managed to build + maintain THIS #
• And no, that's not Aidan, that's Quinlan playing Demolition Man. Actually Q's pretty good with it! #
• Thanks for more RTs! @earnestgirl @nicole013 YVR Parents Meetup http://bit.ly/3IJQb4 Join us, won't you? #
• Made it to work for the first time this week. And, oh, @cityofvancouver? Thanks for the 2 detours on the bike route during #BTWW #
• The Flames. The Abby Heat. Now @hosea24hours reports the BC Lions will be getting H1N1 shots. Why do athletes come b4 "high risk" groups?!? #
• Screw'em! Some kid doesn't get vaccinated b/c some overpaid meathead with connections and $$$ does!?! #QueueJumpersSuck #H1N1 #
• Vancouver (and area) parents! Want to join some other Tweeps at the aquarium this weekend? http://bit.ly/3IJQb4 #GVTPM #
• Dear potential followers: No @'s on your current Twitter page? There's no way I'm gonna follow you. It's a 2 way street you know. #
• .@VanArchives I think your account has been compromised. Got some DM spam from you. #
• Getting DM spam from someone? Bad. Getting DM spam from someone not following you? #Unfollow! #
• Crazy warm ride to work today, and managed to (mostly) ride between the rain drops! #BTWW #
• The list of hockey teams who queue-jumped the H1N1 vaccine grows: CB Screaming Eagles. Moncton Wildcats. Calgary Flames. Abby Heat #H1N1 #
• Nice to know that when the End-of-Days virus comes around, hockey players will be around to rebuild society. #H1N1 #QueueJumpersSuck #
• RT @604homesguy: BMW crushes a Hyundai and Hyundai gives the guy a new car http://bit.ly/1QUFqZ #
• Ho-lee crap. Top 5 craziest ride every. You all are pretty f'n crazy tonight. #
• PSA: I've got lights front, back, and both wheels. Refl tape on booties, legs, arms, torso + helmet. Don't notice me? Shouldn't be driving! #
• I know it's raining. And dark. That should give you MORE reason to look to see what's coming at you. Such stupidity is depressing. #
• In other news, cool! I made the retweet beta! #
• http://twitpic.com/ofq8v – For those curious, here's the RT beta info box #
• A bunch of Twittering Vancouver-area parents are going to the aquarium on Saturday. Care to join us? RSVP: http://bit.ly/3IJQb4 #
• So using Twitter's new built-in retweet functionality doesn't allow you to edit the Tweets. Problem if Tweet is too long for RT! #
• Also, how can we add editorial comments to RT's if we can't edit them? I think this will be a little-used "feature" #
• So now that the big 3 mobile carriers in Canada have the iPhone, where's the site that compares the rates? #
• RT @ShireenJ: Canadian carriers selling iPhone are the tech equivalent of gas stations selling gas at same price. #
• Rocking out to El Tango De Roxanne. Quietly. In my cube. On my kneeling chair. #
• Last chance to RSVP! Join some Twittering parents at the Vancouver Aquarium tomorrow: http://bit.ly/3IJQb4 #
• Q is v congested. Currently sleeping in his toddler chair; upright at least keeps the airway mostly clear. Can we leave him there all nt? #
• And we're all up. Well, G is back to bed after having managed Q's sleeping in the chair. At least his congestion is reduced… #
• Back from the aquarium. First time visitor. I suspect it won't be the last. Nice to meet @alexishinde, The Imp, and Rob! #
• For sale, one toddler turned banshee. Slightly used. #
• Also note that said banshee also has monkey-like climbing ability #
• 4.5 yr old just made meatballs w/ me. He's usually v sensitive to squishy things, but made them like pro! Future culinary servitude pending. #
• Whew. @LeftCoastMama disappeared hours ago to go shopping, and I remembered that I was responsible for cooking supper before was too late! #
• I don't usually make those saving rolls vs marital responsibility. :p #
• Any WP experts out there know how to manually upload images but then get WP to import those images into its Media Library? #
• Some nights it seems the 9 O'Clock Gun rattles the windows. Tonight was more of a whimper. Another Vancouverite succumbs to H1N1 #

A few Greater Vancouver parents were chatting on Twitter about how several of us hadn’t met in real life. So, we’re about to rectify that! Introducing…

Greater Vancouver Twitter Parents Meetup I
Where: Vancouver Aquarium
When: Saturday, November 7th, 10 am

Bring your kids! Bring your significant other! Bring a snack! Everyone’s welcome. If you’re planning on coming, please leave a comment below, and retweet this post on Twitter so we can have lots of people meeting!

You can also RSVP to the event on Vancouver Tweetup.

There’s a Twitter list put together for people attending:

• Ack! They changed the CBC Radio News intro music again. Jarring. #
• Rogers, Telus, Bell. Meh, no diff. They're all out to wring as much $$ from you as they can. Plenty of ppl willing to bleed $$ for iPhones. #
• RT @LeftCoastMama: http://twitpic.com/n1ppc – My tie is cute! [Another engineer in the making! – Only I don't wear a tie at work :p] #
• RT @ParkBoard: Have an opinion about smoking in parks & on beaches? Take a min. to fill out Smoking Restriction Survey. http://ow.ly/wE6H #
• RT @limelitePR: looking for mom/dad bloggers int in reviewing iPhone apps for 3-5 yo. em jeanette@limelitePR.com if interested @dadcamp'rs? #
• 3pm and I've just finished putting out today's "fires". Now to get to Real Work. #
• 30 kph tailwind meant riding home in a vacuum. Weird feeling. And then, arrived home to quite a wild rumpus. #
• Flipped on the tube, happened to be on the opening scenes of Canada's Worst Driver (new season!). Aidan and I sat slackjawed, stunned #scary #
• Very timely, today's Sid the Science Kid was all about flu vaccinations. Coincidence or PBS as a front for Obama's propaganda machine? #
• Reality sets in; next wk we have to register Aidan for Kindergarten. At 3 diff't schools: the close Fr Imm, our catchment Fr Imm, + the Eng #
• It's silly really. How is it we're not in the catchment of the school 5 blocks away but instead we're in the one 15 blocks away? #
• Ack, new cache published less than 1km from work. No GPS, can't leave work. Le sigh. #geocaching #
• Shiny! Mail delivery brought "Kids of Catan" and "Kids of Carcassonne" today. Xmas and birthday presents for Aidan. Must resist opening… #
• RT @dadcamp: please RSVP for DadCAMP 3 at the Vancouver Giants on November 15. http://bit.ly/1zTG3U #
• That is one big moose. http://bit.ly/2OfkFd #
• A Møøse once bit my sister … #
• Actually, I kinda miss Derby-style steaks #SteakAndStein #
• OK, that's the sixth Britney account I've blocked today. What's up with that? What do they gain by continually harassing people? #
• The more I use Dropbox the more I like it. Great way to share between comps + backup to the cloud. http://bit.ly/3drKkk gets you xtra space! #
• Everytime I hear "Zetterberg" I think … what, the Facebook guy? #
• And ANOTHER Britney follower. #Twitter needs to find some way to control this. It's un-freaking-believable. #
• RT @realreporter: Went to Women's Show at Tradex in Abbotsford? check bank account! ATM thieves were mining data. http://bit.ly/1Kdkwd #
• To be fair, that slalom challenge would be difficult for almost anyone without some training. #CWD5 #
• Just upgraded my CrossOver Linux installation to 8.0 on "It's NOT Free" Wednesday (but it's half price!) http://bit.ly/JAtFi #
• Seems like more people are getting access to Twitter Lists. I wish the apps would catch up to facilitate management of said lists. #
• It seems parts of the UK are entirely off their rocker. "Council bans parents from play areas" http://bit.ly/3xjE81 #
• DadCamp goes to the Giants' game on Nov 15th. RSVP if you're going to come! http://bit.ly/299P2z #dadcamp #
• RT @rhh: BREAKING: ZOMBIE OUTBREAK REPORTED IN TORONTO. DEVELOPING. [Oh noes! Head to the malls, it's safer there!] #
• Still trying to figure out how to get to/from U2 concert tonight. Transit's going to be a mess. Driving 2.5 km seems wrong. Taxi? #
• Problem is that it'll be 30 mins to walk to BC Place, which is too tight given our babysitter/home-from-work time constraints. #
• http://twitpic.com/nc5i2 – Made it to U2 concert. Huge friggin' set! #
• http://twitpic.com/nc9n8 – Top of #u2 set for @moneycoach. Does look like rocket, actually #
• .@seanfunk Lights still up, smoke machines started #
• BEP about to hit the stage. Later tweeps! #u2 #
• http://twitpic.com/nccci – BEP on stage, performing to typically dead YVR crowd #
• BEP put on an amazingly produed show! Crowd was a bit tepid #u2 #
• http://twitpic.com/ncjmf – Set changes to something more simple for U2. No giant lemons yet… #
• Getting old. But I'm *so* glad I've got -30db ear plugs in :) #
• And yes @leftcoastmama and I are sitting beside each other oblivious to each other's tweets #u2 #
• I feel dirty. Bono just lead us in Happy Birthday for Bill Gates! #
• http://twitpic.com/ncx76 – Walk On #
• http://twitpic.com/ncydp – Singing about a really hard to navigate city where streets lack names #
• http://twitpic.com/nd0to – Heading out; all done #u2 #
• Kudos to @cmbc and @translink the ride to and from the U2 concert was quick and painless #
• Home from #U2 concert, baby sitter driven home, cats fed. 1 yr old wide awake and crawling around the living room. Up for work in 5 hrs. Ugh #
• Both boys awake and up at 6:30 am. I had somewhere around 4 1/2 hrs sleep. Who's idea was it to have the #U2 concert on a "school night"?!? #
• It's days like these I wish I drank coffee. Hot chocolate just isn't going to cut it I'm afraid. #
• RT @Stv: Really disappointed in @mayorgregor & Vision for abandoning the electoral reform referendum election promise: http://bit.ly/1gqCpC #
• More people in the USA use "food stamps" to buy food (36M) than there are people in Canada. Tell me again which country is "socialist"? #
• Boy #1 is apparently on the couch with a fever of 101 + complaining about being cold. Perhaps vaccines didn't come out soon enough for us :( #
• RT @curiousdad: The babyproofing latches we got for the toilet and dishwasher are also mommy and daddy proof. [And what about visitors? :)] #
• RT @OnlineStrategy: Heard from Virgin Mobile rep that they will be offering the iPhone in early 2010. [All CDN carriers to offer iPhone?] #
• Snow at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic mountain venues (aka @cypressmtn) is accumulating! http://twitpic.com/neswi [via @karlwoll] #
• Well, crap. Just realized I forgot my lunch and will now be subject to the culinary whims of UBC Food Services. #
• Mobile phone competition in Canada takes a serious blow as the CRTC rules that Globallive (WIND) is non-Canadian + cannot operate in Canada #
• CRTC decision for Globalive: http://bit.ly/IgYcN [via @michaelgeist and @Mark_Goldberg] #
• RT @ShireenJ: I wonder if MSM covered deaths by car in same way as they are doing 1 death by H1N1, then would anyone get in a car again? #
• RT @Twitter_Tips: Tweetdeck soon to announce support for Twitter lists, including sharing! http://j.mp/1n0ScD [W00t!] #
• This is the most lethargic I've ever seen Aidan. Usually when he's sick, he's still high energy. Not no; laying watching HSM2 w/ LCM #
• One of the best summations of my feelings about vaccinations written by someone else (@alexishinde) http://bit.ly/OcSYu #
• Boy was bit better today, more energetic and actually eating things. Still feverish, tho' — no preschool Hallowe'en party for him :( #
• Another excellent post on why you should get at least your children vaccinated http://bit.ly/24dhu0 (via @curiousdad) #
• RT @Scobleizer: You CAN remove yourself from lists. Just block the person who made the offensive list. #
• All this enthusiasm about the Olympic Torch relay is turning me off. Will every minute of the next 104 days be tweeted? #
• One thing the antivaxxers never address is their complicity in spreading preventable diseases. Where is social responsibility? #
• RT @FakeAPStylebook: When there's no more room in Hell, omit the final paragraphs to save space. [Wait, I thought this acct was *fake* ?!?] #
• Interesting, meatloaf *muffins* for supper. #
• Vampire baby awakes for his 11pm feeding. Can't wait until all the fangs are completely in. #
• Installed Ubuntu 9.10 UNR on my Eee 901, works great other than the lack of sound. I don't need to hear that Pavlovian tweet anyway. #
• http://twitpic.com/nqn3o – I don't know why a garbage truck is scary, but that's what Aidan wanted … #dadcamp #halloween #
• http://twitpic.com/nsnvu – Out Trick or Treating at False Creek #
• http://twitpic.com/nsp8u – Trick or Treating at False Creek #
• Aidan Trick-or-Treated as an elephant … with fairy wings. #
• Listening to the Hallowe'en fireworks and wondering how busy the emerg must be. #
• Someone replaced my 4 yr old's attitude with a 13 yr old's. This does not bode well for today … or for 2018. #
• 4 yr old still behaving like … well, a 4 yr old I guess. We'll take the bus to get our hair cuts instead of driving to make an adventure. #
• Either our moods will both improve … or child services will be involved. #
• Many thanks to my father @EastCoastGranpa for being an enabler and feeding my addiction. #12: 766 pages. Two more volumes to go! #WOT #
• At the moment I'm on 17 "Vancouver" lists (10 of which identify as YVR). I have one too. I wonder if this is an efficient use of our time. #
• Irony: Choosing sofa over bed due to coughing wife and toddler … and then not being able to get to sleep. #