Archive for: July, 2005

hey, I won $50 in the NHL draft lottery!

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005, 11:37 am
Filed under: Hockey

That must be what the Canucks are thinking to themselves right now.
While 10th pick out of 30 teams in the lottery is a pretty decent score for a team that finished quite high in the rankings the last few years (they haven’t had a top-10 pick since 1999), it’s not ideal. Maybe it’s just me, [...]

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what’s on nick’s playlist?

Friday, July 15th, 2005, 12:01 pm
Filed under: General, Music

Welcome to another (ok, the first) installment of “what’s on nick’s playlist?”
Currently listening to:
Beck - Guero
Coldplay - X&Y
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up
Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
Theory of a Deadman - Gasoline (yeah, Nickelback v2.0, still like ‘em)
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Kasabian - Kasabian
The Cure - [...]

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could have used a little more cow-bale?

Monday, July 11th, 2005, 4:13 pm
Filed under: Home Theater

OK, so I went and saw Batman Begins in the theater right after it came out. Loved it — Christian Bale is an amazing actor and really makes the role his own. I remember seeing the initial previews for Batman Begins late last year, I remember thinking to myself that they couldn’t have picked a [...]

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the great indoors

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005, 11:30 am
Filed under: General, Home Theater

As some of you know, I’m in a bit of an odd situation right now at home. I’ve been doing the ol’ furniture re-org; I moved my home theater into the living room (surprisingly, re-wiring it all was pretty painless, aside from the surrounds), and I’m planning on doing some painting, patching and general repairs [...]

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