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2002

Spine.cx posts from the year 2002.

New Year's Eve Party at Jon & Sharleen's

I'm not sure too many people noticed the small mention down in the Events section, so I thought I...

Nemesis Follow-up

After three days of pining, I finally got to see Star Trek: Nemesis. I liked it, which should co...

Nemesis

I'm probably more psyched to see Star Trek: Nemesis than the average person, or even the average ...

Equilibrium

I saw this movie mentioned on Penny Arcade and I found myself wondering why I'd never heard of it...

Sunday shopping from both sides of the coin

Marc wrote something less wordy than, but similar in sentiment to: "Consumers seem to want to sh...

Privacy at commercial establishments

I'm in line at my favorite local purveyor of warm, toasty processed meat goodness, $5 at the read...

So, I got drunk on Friday night...

I was at Pitchman's, which I have become convinced is the new JJ's. It's weird because I used to...

Nothing special

There have been a number of things running around in my head for the last few days, but I haven't...

What the @#$%! is all this white crap?

So I guess we got some snow. Much snow. Who actually managed to get to work today? I spent hal...

Digital Vinyl

I'm usually not one to go for the novelty CDRs, but these ones from Verbatim are particularly coo...

Remembrance Day

You'll notice that the Spine.cx logo has changed to a Remembrance Day themed one. This is not be...

Jam Master Jay shot and killed

Jam Master Jay, a founding member of the pioneering rap trio Run DMC, was shot and killed at his ...

Want to avoid handing out candy?

Don't feel like lining the pockets of annoying little children with sugar? Want to get out of th...

Ergonomics

Inspired by some ideas the previous article, I have a similar style question: Obviously all of u...

Cool computer cases

I was over at Brent's today, checking out his new computer. He got his case over at MysteryByte...

You can have hours of fun with this

Make your friends say whatever you want. All you have to do is upload a photo, tell the app where...

FNP6: FBI photos!

Shame on me for not posting any new articles in a whole week...Hopefully the pub crawl more than ...

FNP 6 Shirts

Everyone hopefully realizes that we indeed have our 40 people, and the crawl is now moving forwar...

Ron MacLean NOT returning to Hockey Night in Canada

Ron MacLean is apparently NOT returning as the anchor-man of CBC's long running Hockey Night in C...

I need help

And not just the psychiatric kind. The problem is that (as of right now) there are only 21 peopl...

Beer in movie theaters?

It's been recently talked about by Famous Players Cinemas to allow beer to be sold at the concess...

Comment on this tentative lineup of bars

Following, in the article, is a tentative list of bars for FNP 6. I took into account your sugge...

Never underestimate stupid people in large groups

Jill writes: "William Shrubsall, the charming fellow who beat his mother to death with a baseball...

Media coverage of 9/11 anniversary

An Ominious Coward writes: "There apparently will what the networks are touting as "extensive co...

Canadian Senate urges gov't to legalize marijuana

It's all over the news, I'm sure you've read it already, the Senate has released a report suggest...

It's about time for a pub crawl...

September means "Back to School" for many, and along with that comes a return to a lifestyle of h...

Mike Maher's bachelor party (and Wedding!)

Pictures of Mike Maher's bachelor party are now up. Remarkably, the night was relatively tame, e...

Local Bands and why people suck

So I went to some shows this weekend for the first time in a long time. You probably don't know ...

Danko Jones - Sound of Love

I figure that as long as I come out with the MP3 of the month before the month is actually *over*...

Spine.cx is one year old!

Whee! Spine.cx (in its current incarnation) is one year old as of the 11th of August. The traff...

Blomidon camping trip 2002 photos

What's better than three days and three nights in the woods? Making fun of people in photos that...

This guy sucks at the Internet

Some of you know that I have an MP3 of the Month section of this website. Soon enough it got ind...

The first edition

Well, here it is. It's what you've all been waiting for. It's the first edition of Ask Spine! ...

Car troubles

I'm accustomed to having things go wrong with my car. It's fairly old at almost 8 years, and adm...

New photo rating system

It occurred to me that there needs to be a better way of ranking my photos than simply the number...

We need to oust NSCAD, and here's why...

Why do we need to oust NSCAD? Well, I suppose they don't really need to be *ousted*. Just moved...

Office Space's red Swingline stapler a cult icon?

I am surprised, to say the least, that until recently, Swingline did not have a red stapler in th...

New Feature on Spine.cx

We're going to be starting a new (hopefully weekly) feature on spine.cx that's basically going to...

My adventures as a marketing research guinea pig

A while ago, I had responded to an ad in the Coast calling for people who would be willing to spe...

Suggestions?

What sort of site should Spine.cx become? That's the sort of thing I'm thinking about lately. S...

Sarah Polley - Courage

This MP3 is a cover of a Tragically Hip song that I'm sure everyone knows, "Courage". The singer...

It's Canada Day!

It's Canada day, so go drink a beer or something, eh? Not one of those light beers either. None...

Camping photos and some other crappy photos

A few of us were camping in Blomidon this weekend. Kind of a "warm-up" trip of sorts. We checke...

Series 7: The Contenders

I saw this movie called Series 7: The Contenders last night. I'm not surprised if you've never h...

Old people are armed to the teeth

But then again, if I lived in Truro, I suppose I wouldn't take any chances either :) This arti...

Spine.cx Blackout Party! Wooooo!

Yeah, a blackout party doesn't work so well for things requiring electricity to function, does it...

Daze - Call Girl

This song harkens back to my old glory days...when I would be seen at the Dome, 4 nights a week, ...

Spine.cx passes the 100,000 hit mark!

It was a sunny day not unlike today that Spine.cx was born back on August 11th, 2001. Well, this...

Ninjai is back

About a year ago, there was this site with the most incredible flash animation I had ever seen. ...

Get $10 back from Futureshop...

...if you bought the Buffy Season 2 DVD set. With tax and everything taken into account, I got b...

This has really gone too far

Here's an email I got recently. I get this (or a variation of it) about 5 times a week: ATT:R...

Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs

I admit it. I like pianos, which means that I like the Ben Folds Five practically by default. T...

Halifax FARK party is a go!

Yep, it's official. Halifax shall have it's 15 minutes of fame, and it shall be called the Halif...

Added some photos

I finally got the pics from the IWK War Canoe Challenge up. They turned out really well. I thin...

Basketball: What the hell is it good for?

This article pretty much sums up why I don't like watching basketball games. Please read it befo...

Billboards on wheels are worse than cellphones

Have you seen the trucks driving around with nothing but a billboard on their beds? Yeah, I have...

New Feature - Calendar

Hot on the heels of the ground breaking (ok, not really) photo display system is the stupendous, ...

Naughty by Nature - Uptown Anthem

I heard this song on Much (Vintage) Vibe last night, and it's been in my head ever since. Sarah ...

Why McDonalds fries taste so good

Ever wondered why McDonalds seem to have the best fries? Because they're made with meat, that's ...

Reel Big Fish - The Set Up (You Need This)

Reel Big Fish are awesome. They're kind of ska, but not really. They're kind of swing, but not r...

Stupidest marketing ploy EVAR.

The weirdest thing happened to me yesterday. I'm leaving my house for the first time that day, a...

Which do you like better?

I have two photo display systems. One is on photos.spine.cx right now. It just reads directorie...

Steve turns 26

I seem to be posting a lot of stories in the "Beer" topic lately....hmmmm. Anyway, I'm turning 2...

Mr. Nice

Mr. Nice writes: "Hi. My name is Mr. Nice. As you can see, I don't have any arms or hands. Bu...

Mozilla 1.0.0 release party!

I think everyone can tell by now that I don't need much of an excuse to go out and have a good ti...

Andrew W.K. - Party Hard

This song (and indeed the whole album) is nothing but good (I won't say clean) fun. The songs ar...

Summer is officially here

I don't give a crap about eqinoxes or "official" dates for the start of seasons, but there are so...

Brewery Tour followup

Ok, drinkin' buddies, we shall meet at the Alexander Keith's Brewery on Water Street on Saturday ...

Tenacious D - Tribute

I've decided to start a new section of spine.cx devoted to music. I'm a voracious music-listener...

Drinking Games

Everybody's played a drinking game or two in the past, I'm sure. Below is one submitted by one o...

Underoos: Underwear that's fun to wear

Holy crap. Linked to from FARK is this RetroCrush article about Underoos. I realize that some ...

Widescreen is king! Perhaps people aren't so stupid after all...

On Amazon.com's DVD best seller list the widescreen versions of both Harry Potter and the Sorcere...

Date for Spider-Man sequel set...already.

Yep. When faced with enormous profits, I guess studios don't want to take any chances. A sequel...

Alexander Keith's brewery tour

So about a month or so ago, Ryan and I each happened to purchase a 2-4 of Alexander Keith's India...

See yourself in Lego

When I saw this website, I was reminded of troopers. This is just as cool, if not cooler. You c...

*Sigh* I'm looking for roomates AGAIN.

It looks like I must begin the search for a roommate yet again. My current roommate is moving out...

FNP 5: Photos

You know you all wanted to see them. Here they are. My personal favourite is this one. Sorry R...

3rd anniversary of the invention of Cubeball

Today marks the third anniversary of when Ian Frosst and I invented the game of Cubeball. This o...

Downtown littered with copper penises

I know I'm not the only one to notice the rather-penis-shaped copper-colored "community bulletin ...

FNP 5: Shirts are in!

Picked up the shirts yesterday. They're pretty cool. If you want 'em, come and get 'em. I'll h...

I appear to be rubbing off on others. Not sure that's a good thing :)

Brent has purchased for himself a new 55'' widescreen television and a progressive scan DVD playe...

Crazy Ants Wiping Out Christmas Island Crabs

SYDNEY (Reuters) - "Crazy Ants" are devouring the famous migrating land crabs of Australia's Ch...

The manual for my bedside lamp

I wanted a new bedside lamp. I went out to Home Depot and bought a new bedside lamp. I wasn't a...

My Furniture is here! (Theatre renovation Pt. II)

You may remember, a LONG while back, I posted about how I was getting my theatre room renovated. ...

My god, giant ants in California

California has been taken over — 'conquered', if you will — by a master race of giant ants. It's ...

Vanilla Coke, How Long Will This Last?

This article on cnn.com states that Coke is reportedly working on secret plans for a vanilla vers...

Roger Ebert on music piracy

I gain more respect for Roger Ebert every day. Here is an intelligently written commentary on th...

AdCritic.com is coming back!

Seen on FARK, but definately newsworthy enough to be seen here as well. The popluar site that ho...

Klingon Google

This is the most retarded thing I've seen all week. I know Google is trying to be all multi-lang...

FNP V: Shirts and schedule finalized

The shirts and schedule are inside. Thanks again to T.J. Maguire for doing them up for me. The ...

Spam sucks! (and so does trafficmagnet.net)

First off, please DO NOT go to trafficmagnet.net. I don't want to give those bastards any traffi...

Feature: Spoo.ca

Spoo.ca is another Halifax website, run by Simon Leither. As it turns out, spine.cx and spoo.ca ...

It's St. Patrick's Day!

Get out your shamrocks and your leprechans, and wear something green. This Sunday is the day whe...

Live action remakes of anime movies & shows

Recently, I've seen more than one account of rumours that anime television show Dragonball Z and ...

Canadian Gov't to raise taxes on recordable media

I'm sure many people have seen this on Slashdot, but I think this needs as much exposure as it ca...

Jeff & Crystal's baby joins us outside the womb

Jayden Cole Pick was born March 9th, 2002 at 1147h at the maternity wing of the IWK hospital. He...

Dial M for Penny

Jesus Murphy. Some guy was shot several times and killed outside the Copper Penny last night...o...

New DVD standards obviously not carved in stone

DVD Forum's Steering Committee voted this week to approve the use of low-bit-rate compression for...

FNP V: The Nova Scotia Liquor Coalition (NSLC)

The title says it all, the name and the theme of the fifth incarnation of the Feelin' No Pain pub...

Why is HDTV taking so damn long?

Here is an article on MSN's Slate.com talking about how HDTV is available in most places now, but...

Industry Agrees On Next Gen Unified DVD Standard

From a press release on matsushita.co.jp: Nine leading companies today announced that they hav...

TheSpark is back in action

TheSpark.com is back! Long have I awaited its triumphant return from its 4+ month hiatus, and it...

Transformers Season 1 on DVD!

An article on DVDToons.com talks about some information released from Rhino Video concerning the ...

Which Office Space character are you?

Take the test and find out who you were. I AM PETER GIBBONS Ever since I saw that fat man k...

Too much @#$% SNOW!

I don't really have much to say here...Use this space to vent about the weather. Originally post...

DVD Forum 4.0 now online

A brand new version of Steve's DVD Forum, a web application to help catalog your DVDs and borrow ...

Prime Minister Day?

Would you like a long weekend (another Stat holiday) in February? Go here and vote YES! The go...

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

I had my inane movie trivia mettle tested today when I was asked by Keely to see if I couldn't us...

Feelin' No Pain V Tentative Date - Comments Please

FNP IV wasn't all I had hoped it would be; there was probably only 40 people on that crawl. That...

Phillips says copy protected CDs are not CDs

Phillips has come out and said that they (as the patent holders on the Compact Disc format) do no...

Portable MP3 player for sale

I'm selling the portable mp3 player that I got at my company's Christmas party. I just found I n...

The Marquee Club Has A Website

Now you won't have to pick up the coast every week to find out whats happening at the best live b...

Wendy's founder, Dave Thomas, dead at 69

Wendy's restaurant founder, Dave Thomas, is dead at age 69. I think people should eat Big Bacon ...

One Night at McCool's

I don't remember seeing this movie in the theatres, but it stared me down countless times in the...

Pictures from New Years Eve

You wanted to see them. Here they are. Hopefully this witih oblige your voyeristic tendancies...