daveb: frivolity

musical trees · Apr 16, 08:30 am

yesterday i walked to the grocery store. it was gorgeous, sunny day, and i had my wife by my side, and my son in the stroller in front of me. it was a good day. one of those days you feel there could be a soundtrack playing – it feels like you’re enacting a scene from a movie in your daily life.

oddly enough, as we tramped along on our return journey i started to hear music playing. for those of you that know the hood, i was in front of the end zone pub when i first heard a bit of music. i assumed it was leaking from the pub, but it was bob marley and the wailers, so didn’t seem like sports pub tunes.

as we continued down the sidewalk i realized that the music was coming from a house just up the street. i was surprised at the volume that was emanating, as it was quite loud to be leaking from inside a house. the closer we got the more confusing it was – until we were right in front of the house.

that’s when i realized that the music wasn’t coming from inside the house, but from two 40 inch speakers that were strapped to the spruce tree in front of the house. there was yellow speaker wire coming from inside the house going directly to the tree. the sort of thing i would have noticed on my walk to the store.

so during my time at the grocery store, someone climbed about 15 feet up the massive spruce tree in front of their house to lash large speakers to the trunk. i guess they figured since it was a nice summer day more people needed to enjoy the wailers.

it’s a good sign spring is here, and summer is around the corner.

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who says snow geeks aren't cool? · Apr 11, 11:15 am

snow surfing

dartmouth college has some hip cats.

check out more of their robots

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water cooler · Oct 2, 07:26 pm

we recently got a water cooler at the office. you’d think that would revolutionize the type and frequency of conversation we have at the office, but really, it hasn’t provided as much conversation as you might expect.

our water cooler has a blue light that shines down on the area where the water pours out. the light shines down into the water vessel, so when the water streams down from the water jug to the cup it seems cooler, fresher and almost otherworldly. from some icy waterworld. but the good kind of waterworld, not the kevin costner kind.

it feels like our office is more like an office now that we have a watercooler. we had a brita in our office fridge before, so it’s not like we were wandering in an office wasteland before, but now we have an official fluid dispensing device. something you would not likely have in your home. a water cooler is office hardware.

we have people from neighbouring offices – who have no watercooler (the parched souls of the earth) – stop by to drink and make their stab at clever conversation, but you can tell they’re just trying to alleviate their guilt over stealing our water. which is weird, cause we tell them it’s okay, and it’s really cheap. the water.

any suggestions on how to pump up the water cooler chatter?

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freestyle rap edmonton · Nov 18, 12:37 pm

i love google analytics. how else would i know that “freestyle rap edmonton” is the most popular search term to get to my website…

try it – click here for the google results page

i’m the number 4 result. i’m not sure why or how, but you can’t argue with google.

suddenly i’m hip.

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out my window · Oct 4, 02:21 pm

every wondered what i look at when i look out the window?

now you can check it out

(updates every 2 min – unless my computer is off…)

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