Pronunciation: 'bil-d&r
Function: verb
Etymology: from boulder, to climb boulders.
Date: circa 1970
Synonyms: urban climbing, stegophilism
1. to climb a man-made structure designed for purposes other than climbing.
Buildering 2.0
(p) Oker.
Welcome to the new site! It's been a long time coming, and I've spent countless hours neck-deep in CSS, PHP, Javascript -- all the things I hoped to get through life without learning. Whatever happened to the basic .html pages of the 90s? Anyway, it's done and I'm quite excited about buildering.net 2.0's potential.
Features:
- Site login. Allows you to post comments, track posts, make a profile page, and more.
- User submitted content. Keen users drop me an email, and I'll upgrade your account to "field correspondent", allowing you to submit your own front page stories.
- Tags. A great way to sort the posts. Click on any tag (e.g. "buildering", "parkour", "gallery") to see all other posts in that category.
- Search. It really kicks ass! Yeah, I'm nerding out...but do you know how many websites have totally broken searches?
- Sexy new music player.
- Better Galleries. I'm sick of little thumbnails and navigating though each picture. Gimmie all my pics, full size, on one page dammit! AND do it quickly. My wish is my command.
- Better Content. Yes I'm an intolerable perfectionist. Since I had to repost all the old content anyway, I couldn't help but go through and fix up my atrocious grammar. I added some new stories here and there, especially in the galleries.
The rest of the features are nerdy stuff that I'm really stoked on, but won't make much difference to you:
- Driven by the Drupal CMS.
- Full W3C compliance.
- All CSS based design.
One thing that will remain from the old site is the forum. Unfortunately the Drupal forum module sucks. Until they overhaul it, you'll have to live with separate logins for the main site and the forum. Of course, if you've got cookies enabled and aren't constantly deleting your cache to hide your porn, then you'll only have to do this once. Also, the main site search won't look in the forum posts. Tis sad, but the forum still has it's own search.
So click around, try and break stuff, and lemme know what you think!
-ard
ardarvin@gmail.com
PS: Old-timey users who still have buildering.net email accounts can access their accounts via: www.buildering.net/webmail
Villains Dodgeball Team
The Villains Dodgeball Team: Jon, Art, Andrew, Ard, Keddie, Nat, Tiffany, Fionna (missing), Matt (missing)
Not much to say really, I just wanted to show you this awesome photo.
I grew the mustache specifically for dodgeball, which we play every Wednesday.
See: http://www.vdldodgeball.ca for more info.
It goes without saying that our team is the greatest and all others are pussies.
The Dean Potter Interview
The soloist, high-liner, and BASE jumper sits down for a chat.
Alain in the news
Video of Alain climbing a 45 storey building in Hong Kong. Thanks to Luisa for the scoop.
Scrabble, VIMFF, and Cody Brown
So like I said earlier: my resolution to win a Scrabble tournament may outweigh my resolve to update this site more frequently.
La Villa Radio 21: People Heating Tasty Animals (photos)
Cat food, cat food, cat food, again
University Wall
This time last year the Vancouver Courier published an article on Ivan Hughes' University Wall documentary.
University Wall documents the buildering exploits of UBC Varsity Outdoor Club members from the 1960s. Its a great film, especially for those of us who studied at UBC, and contains some amazing where-the-hell-did-you-get-that original footage.
Well Ivan would like you all to know that he's got a trailer for the film up on his website: fringefilmworks.com, where you can purchase the DVD, or other climbing documentaries he's made. Show the man some love, Ivan is about as standing up as a stand up guy can be.
La Villa Radio 20: Cusak, Kosick, Cossack (photos)
Drunkenness will not be tolerated.
