I found that this blog was getting searches for “calories in Rickard’s White” so I contacted Molson to ask for the information. I wasn’t specific in my enquiry and they sent me information on Molson brands only.
I still have to wait for the other info, but in the meantime:
The Stanley Cup was at the museum last week and I stood near it while a photo was being taken.
The Memorial Cup tournament is over. Spokane won; Kitchener lost.
And just like with the Grey Cup last year the trophy got broken.
7:20: Oh, my. Spokane captain Chris Bruton, in trying to pass the Cup to Trevor Glass for the traditional skate-around, dropped it. Or Glass did. The top fell off. They stood there, looking at it, like, “now look what you did.”
–Live blog: 2008 Memorial Cup final Kitchener vs. Spokane
Luckily it wasn’t the real cup. Just a copy according to this story:
Good thing it wasn’t the real mug. Mercifully, the authentic 90-year-old chalice is safely stowed away at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
– Chiefs bringing it home to Spokane
Goaltending made the difference. Spokane goalie face 54 shots. He was named tournament MVP.
The Memorial Cup tournament begins tonight. Every game and event of the tournament is being covered at TheRecord.com and in the Waterloo Region Record.
There is the Memorial Cup blog:
The Memorial Cup special section:
There is even this video from the Memorial Cup opening ceremonies:
Lisa made a great shirt for Brendan’s computer science paper.
The title of the paper is:
Remus: High Availability via Asynchronous Virtual Machine Replication
The title of the paper uses Remus, one of the twins who in mythology founded Rome, as an allegory.
The t-shirt is modelled after the statue of the she-wolf and the infant twins, Romulus and Remus.
So the Mac icons are the twin computers and the she-wolf is the Internet.
Here is the statue.
So you understand the context of the allegory here is an excerpt from the paper abstract:
We describe the construction of a general and transparent high availability service that allows existing, unmodified software to be protected from the failure of the physical machine on which it runs. Remus provides an extremely high degree of fault tolerance, to the point that a running system can transparently continue execution on an alternate physical host in the face of failure with only seconds of downtime, while completely preserving host state such as active network connections. Our approach encapsulates protected software in a virtual machine, asynchronously propagates changed state to a backup host at frequencies as high as forty times a second, and uses speculative execution to concurrently run the active VM slightly ahead of the replicated system state.
The paper won best paper at NSDI.
Now we just have to wait and see how the t-shirt conference goes.
I recounted a story about how Chuffy was trying to figure out what rubia meant on a New York pizzeria’s drink list.
There were plenty of good guesses and requests for the answer.
So, here it is:
Did you know potatoes and tomatoes are in the same genus? It’s called solanum.
After my carbon sequestering potato plants flowered they produced a fruit that looked like a little tomato.
I had noticed similarities between potato and tomato plants before, but here is another one I had hitherto not seen.
This is what the pedia says about potato fruit:
After potato plants flower, some varieties will produce small green fruits that resemble green cherry tomatoes, each containing up to 300 true seeds.
[...]
Potato fruit contains large amounts of the toxic alkaloid solanine, and is therefore unsuitable for consumption.
Also, I learned that the UN declared this year, 2008, the International Year of the Potato (rice year was 2004).
I was at the super store on Wednesday. And went to the drink aisle. What did I find?
No mauby.
Disappointing. What is their problem?
Yeah, that is peardrax in the background.
Facebook now let’s you view the prevalence of words used in wall posts over time and compare them. They call it “lexicon.”
It is like Google trends but for personal public messages. It is more interesting in many ways beacuse it is about the words used in txt interactions between people and not just search words, which are interesting for other reasons.
I tried a few out and found this one. Where I compared happy and day. With spikes at the appropriate holidays.
The one thing that puzzled me was the drop in happys. Eventually I figured it out.
Who searches for Waterloo? — Iran, HK 22 Jun 2006
Chuffy told me a story about when he was at a downtown pizza place in Manhattan . . . to get pizza.
I had told him about when we were in New York and the pizza guy cracked some one-liners.
In Chuffy’s story he looked at the drink menu and saw “rubia” listed there.
He asked the guy, “What’s rubia?”
“Rubia? Rubia’s rubia,” the guy replied.
“…”
Do you know what rubia is yet? Guess or I’ll tell you later.