- Permanent summer time in British Columbia from gov.bc.ca: Adopting permanent daylight saving time ‘Spring forward’ on March 8 will be the last time change, ending twice-yearly clock changes
- Roland was wrong (again 🙂 !). NTP servers broadcast UTC! Wikipedia:
#102 – Bicycling in the rain
(Recorded March 1, 2026 at Commercial Street Cafe, Dale voted for Ghibli, I voted for the other 🙂 last episode was recorded on February 1, 2026)
- Roland recommends: Boeshield T-9 for oiling your chain but maintains 🙂 that
#101 Special Guest: Joe Planta, BC’s best podcaster, 2200+ podcasts but who’s counting :-)
OK, maybe not the best in BC but certainly one of the most erudite and perhaps the most prolific. Check Joe’s podcast at thecommentary.ca
- 10 Pulitzer Prize winners have been on 🙂 Joe’s podcast
- Dale and I were on Joe’s
#100 – Retrospective part 1 – We started 10 years ago back on January 2015
- Microphones and wireless microphones have greatly improved. We started with the Roland Duo Capture EX USB interface 4 XLR interface with 2 USB Audio mics: the Audio -Technica ATR2100
- We now record with a Boya Magic wireless system with fantastic
#99 – Pluribus S1E9 Finale Carol’s grief rebound and big bang theory :-)
- The Carol / Zosia affair is “just” grief rebound, right?
- Will the nuke be used in season 2? Probably not in a way Dale or I can imagine it.
- The clock is ticking. With the DNA from Carol’s frozen eggs,
#98 – Charm offensive Pluribus episode 8
- Gratuitous shout out to Allen Pike 🙂 !
- The hive minds are bored? So super excited for anything new like a new chapter in a book from Carol?!?!? I like this theory from Dale but we’ll see 🙂 .
- Manousos’s
#97 – Come Back Pluribus Episode 7 (recorded 2025-12-13)
- The character’s name is: “Manousos”. Full name: Manousos Oviedo. My apologies for getting it wrong in the podcast!
- We recorded on a fine, non rainy but cloudy day at the Riley Park Winter Farmers Market which Barb and Roland have
#96 – HDP Pluribus Episode 6 (recorded 2025-12-07)
- Our usual podcast recording location is: Commercial Street Cafe and their muffins and many other things are great!
- We both loved the John Cena cameo in Episode 6. William Goodman:: Vince Gilligan Explains John Cena’s Surprise Pluribus Episode 6 Cameo
#95-Bicycling on a rare dry, sunny Vancouver day (2025-11-30)
- Dress in layers.
- Don’t wear cotton. Cotton is great in the summer if you are not sweating. In the winter, cotton results in cold sweet when exercising.
- The race was the Vancouver Historical Half marathon. Go runners in a wiener
#94 – Pluribus Episode 5
- The wolf has been re-introduced to Arizona according to Wikipedia.
- There is a large population of coyotes in Arizona according to Wikipedia: “The NHL team in Arizona (1996–2024) was named the Arizona Coyotes to pay tribute to the large population
