Archives for "Recreation"

Posted by Tarandon on 20th July 2009
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Social Activity

For some reason I’ve become engaged once again in the social media tools the internet provides.  This very post represents the first since early February here at Tarandon.ca.

It’s interesting to try and identify why the internet today seems more apt to meet my needs as a user than it was 5 months ago.  Maybe it’s just the summer time, and the renewed energy that comes with warm weather but I think life in general just seems to be going at a better pace than it has in the past.

Whatever the reason, I plan on keeping things moving forward.  Just updated the whole backend of this bitch and now I’m ready to take it all on.

Now, off to investigate cheap bicycles in Toronto.

Cheers,

Tarandon

Posted by Tarandon on 3rd December 2008
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GoodBye Pownce!

Pownce is dying on December 15th!  I used this tool from Andrew Curioso that allowed me to find the majority of my Pownce contacts on Twitter.  It also exports your Pownce friends/following data in a handy CSV file for download. Sweet!

Huge props to Leah Culver and Mike Malone for their hardwork on Pownce.  I hope you both enjoy your new roles on VOX with sixapart.  Things are going to be interesting in 2009!

Cheers!

Tarandon

Posted by Tarandon on 21st November 2008
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BasketBall Update

We only have three games left before the end of the term and we have yet to win a game.  We played fairly well last night however, and we only lost by eleven points.  This was our smallest margin, as well as our highest scoring game.  I almost fouled out in the first half and had to play point defense for the rest of the game because we only had six chaps make it out.  Furthermore the decision for play next term will need to be made fairly shortly, and I’m on the fence.  I would have expected greater progress at this point but our team just can’t seem to pull it together.  Many of our players show up sporatically and we never get a chance to practice.

We’ll see how the game goes next week.  If we can win a couple of our last games, I might sign up again for next term.

Cheers,

Tarandon

Posted by Tarandon on 4th October 2008
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MurderBall

So we got murdered at basketball Thursday night. 46-15 was the final tally. We brought 6 guys to the game, and the other team brought 11. They showed dominance from the start and my legs just weren’t working. By the half we were down 22-5 so the second half was by far the better of the two. We switched to a zone defense to save our energy and just ran like feinds on the other end of the court. We got destroyed on offensive rebounds and just gave up trying so we could focus on defense.

The referee’s started handicapping the game near the end which just lead to really rough play which doesn’t help anyone.

Next week it looks like a couple co-workers might join us, one of which is six foot six so we should fair a bit better. I just hope we can pull up our ranking a bit over the next 10 weeks.

Cheers,

Tarandon

Posted by Tarandon on 24th September 2008
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Tuesday Practice

So last night we played some pick up ball at the JCC on the SW corner of Spadina and Bloor. We had a good time and played better I think than we did last Thursday. In the last 5 minutes however, I managed to sprain my thumb. Currently its about six shades of blue circling the base of the thumb. My movement seems to be increasing however, so hopefully I’ll be able to play in tomorrow nights game.

I’m going to research thumb taping tonight in case there’s some tricks I can use to increase the stability of my joint in preparation for the game tomorrow night.

Wish me luck!

Tarandon.