John and I lead off this episode live from Robson street with follow up audio from Alanah. She calls up JJ who is at GM Place for game 7 of the Conference Quarter Finals. Meanwhile, Dave was over in live video streaming Canucks Outsider land. All in all, a CRAZY night.
It was a nervous first round, but the Canucks pulled it off in game seven to win the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Dallas Stars. Rebecca and John lead off this episode, stepping on their balcony to capture the atmosphere of the downtown celebration going on in Vancouver. After that, Alanah phones J.J. just a few minutes after he left GM Place where he had tickets for this amazing game seven. He has some great reports of the atmosphere from inside and outside of the garage, and hopefully you can make out what he’s saying from all the noise of celebrating fans in the background. [thecrazycanucks]
Update early 2009: If you’re looking for the Canucks “live stream” you can probably find it here – availability not guaranteed.
Our co-host Dave, on The Crazy Canucks Podcast is currently streaming live on his site, The Canucks Outsider. They’re sitting on a couch, surrounded by Canucks memorabilia, talking hockey, and are fully interactive with their live audience. If you cannot get the game on TV (or even if you can) tune in now.
Here’s how to play along: IRC: #canucks-outsider on irc.freenode.net
ustream chat: ustream.tv/canucksoutsider (requires Java)
I’ve logged onto the live chat and we also just received a phone call from Dave (sporting his Don Cherry hat). This is pretty darn fun, and geeky.
Update: Living off Robson street we are experiencing how NUTS this city gets about their team – especially now that we’ve made it past the quarter finals and will meet Anaheim on Wednesday for the conference semi-finals. WOOOOOOOOOO!!
Update: 9:51pm The crowds haven’t ceased their honking and cheering on Robson, audio will be up tomorrow on the podcast.
Update: 10:47pm It’s still noisy as anything outside. Revving engines, horns, people cheering. I forgot to mention that today I received my ‘major prize’ from the Kukla’s Korner contest a while back [ms604]. I’ll never wear another shirt for a game this season.
Update: 10:48pm One more thing, enough with being smug and calling out the bandwagon jumpers. We did it, we all love this team, let’s move on.
Update: 7:52am Robson is finally quiet – can’t wait for round two. Who didn’t dream of Linden last night, eh?
Remember when McDonald’s used to have Pizza? It took about 12 minutes, was pretty cardboard-like in texture, and the novelty wore off pretty soon. Regardless, it was a pretty fun notion when it first came about.
A line of personal sized pizzas were sold in the early 90s. In Ontario, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia (c. 1992-1995) the pizza originally began as a family sized pizza that was brought out to the table by an employee and placed on a raised rack in the centre of the table. Later it was scaled down to a personal sized pizza when the larger version did not sell well. [wiki]
McDonald’s Pizza
The logo for the McDonald’s Pizza’s was the word pizza but the “Z’s” were two golden arches on a slant – hence the reason I always call it “Pimma” (which I believe my brother first started).
You can’t find many remnants of the McPizzas anymore, the big custom ovens have been shipped out and there’s barely a trace of evidence on the internets. I was only able to find an online petition calling for their return. John and I don’t eat at McDonald’s often – or at all, really – but whenever we’re in the mood to call Flying Wedge, we do enjoy us some good pimma.
John, JJ, Dave, Alanah and I hit the “big time” in this special TV episode of The Crazy Canucks Podcast that aired on CTV earlier tonight. FYI – even though our names were never mentioned on the spot, Dave and I *are* in fact co-hosts of the podcast too 😛
And if you’re looking for stellar playoff coverage, head to JJ’s blog (Canucks Hockey Blog). I also have to mention that my ongoing secret girl crush on Alanah (fellow Crazy Canucks podcast co-host) is alive and well with her recent fiesty playoff blogging, check out her site (Canucks and Beyond).
I’ve never worked in such an officey-office before so when faced with a drawer full of shiney, colourful supplies, I tend to go a little nuts. Most recently I discovered a love for two particular items; Post-It Tabs and Correction Tape.
Post-It tabs/flags are amazing. Courtesy of our friends at 3M (okay I’m not really friendly with the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing company but I really have nothing against them)… these come in all shapes and sizes, and stick to anything, anywhere, anytime – again and again. And it’s not that annoying kind of sticky that leaves residue on your hands, it’s a nice clean stick. The little dispenser is practical, fun, and makes you want to grab flag after flag. To write on the tabs you need to use permanent marker (mmm fumes). They can be used to mark your place in a book, to divide pages in a binder or to stick on your fingertips to pretend you have long, multicoloured, square nails. Not that I’ve ever done that before, but if I did, they would STILL be sticky enough to tab a page.
Correction Tape is equally fascinating. No Wite-Out fumes, no wet pages, no smudges (if you’re left-handed like me), no crusty brushes and shaking of bottles; this is one helpful gadget. It’s particularly fun to fix should the tape become tangled, broken or loose. You can spend an hour in the afternoon carefully dissecting the cogs and inner workings of the correction tape dispenser should you have so much free time on your hands. It’s 5mm x 8 m of fun.
John and I lead off this episode live from Robson street with follow up audio from Alanah. She calls up JJ who is at GM Place for game 7 of the Conference Quarter Finals. Meanwhile, Dave was over in live video streaming Canucks Outsider land. All in all, a CRAZY night.
Correction Tape is equally fascinating. No