(recorded April 10, 2026)
- John Scalzi: When the Moon Hits your Eye – Not great but light and yet serious and also peculiar. Recommended!
- Nanaimo and Pandora city of Vancouver Park – Pandora Park – built in 1914! Renovated
Episode 105: Bicycle Maintenance Entropy :-)
(recorded March 27, 2026)
- Zen and the art of Motorcycle Repair
- Dale’s new bicycle smell is so over after 3 years and 5000 km 🙂
- March 9, 2026:: Rad Power Bikes blog:: Life EV Completes Rad Power Bikes Asset Acquisition
#104 Tough Old Broads
- Still a few shows Tough Old Broads at the VIFF theatre. downtown: March 31, April 1 and April 2 2026! Highly recommended!!
- Official Website:Â Â Tough Old Broads
- Kathrine Switzer: First woman to officially run the Boston Marathon in
#103 “Eby-time” is Hammer time
- 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 USBÂ 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