Day: February 26, 2006

More Leah

Since I posted yesterday, Google’s search algorithm has turned things around a bit: Leah McLaren‘s site for The Continuity Girl is still the third hit, but other pages have gotten a nice PageRank boost so there’s a little less bile immediately evident. I’d never even thought to look at Rotten Tomatoes for a list of Leah’s movie reviews (she’s seen a lot more than I have, but we share basically the same opinions on the ones that coincide), and this interview at Gremolata is an interesting read too. (There’s an all-salmon diet? Ewww.)

I think the funniest thing, though, is this line from her G&M bio: This is her first real job. That’s exactly how I describe the job I’ve held for a decade (ever since graduating), and I don’t plan to leave anytime soon.

Finally, for what it’s worth, Mark Evans sort of echoes my call for Leah to start a blog of her own. You know, it seems to me that a book tour would be ideal fodder for a few posts… I’m just sayin’….

Just a second

Apparently Canada’s record 24-medal haul at the Torino Olympics would have been higher but for a single second:

  • Short-track speed skater Eric Bedard missed bronze by 4-1,000ths of a second in the men’s 500.
  • Skier Kelly VanderBeek missed bronze by 3-100ths in the women’s super-G.
  • Francois Bourque missed bronze by 76-100ths in the men’s giant slalom.
  • Pierre Lueders missed bronze by 9-100ths of a second in four-man bobsleigh.

For those of you keeping track, that’s four medals and a total of .884 seconds.

But frankly, as one who has no athletic talent at all, I’m in awe of the whole team, medals or no (with the exception of the less-than-inspiring men’s hockey team).

Here we go again?

This evening, more than 1,500 employees of the CBC and its French-language service rejected contract demands from the network, prompting their union leader to warn the broadcaster it could soon have a strike on its hands. […] With two months to go before the collective agreement winds down, the union is claiming that negotiations are at a standstill and that Radio Canada is gearing up for a showdown. More at I Love Radio.