So like I said earlier: my resolution to win a Scrabble tournament may outweigh my resolve to update this site more frequently. But if I post Scrabble related updates I kill two birds with one stone.

My first tournament is this Saturday, March 1st and although I'm in absolutely no condition to win, my goal is to not come in dead last. Words can't express the elite level of play at the Vancouver Scrabble Club. Well actually words can: VIATORS, ZEATINS, TINLIKE, BORTZ, and AALII are all words I've witnessed people use against me. Plus our club has James Leong, the winner of last year's Player's Scrabble Championship. Check out the related news story, fascinating stuff.

In other news, this year's Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF) is underway, and I DJed the event opening over the weekend. There's some great speakers still to come, like Steph Davis, Dean Potter, and Conrad Anker. Dean's stuff will be bonkers I'm sure.

The reason I'm bringing up VIMFF (other than to help out Alan, who has always been more than gracious to me) is because one of the volunteers approached me with this little nugget of info: up until very recently, if you typed "vimff" in google, guess which site came up on top? More specifically guess which page? If you guessed the buildering.net Jalarmo vs. Ardarvin flame war of 2007 , give yourself a wedgie. I guess people looking for the real vimff.org site bumped it down to 19, but if you type "vimff centennial theatre" it's still number 2.

A lot of people have approached the volunteers, asking what the deal was behind said flame war. Thanks Jalarmo, I always knew tooth-bleaching would get me far in the world of entertainment. Not my proudest moment by any means, but occasionally douchebags need to be put in their place.

And finally, I've been a little out of touch with the parkour scene lately, but I was trolling the forums at http://www.pkbc.net (a great resource if you are a Vancouver based PKer) and came across this video of Cody Brown.

I met Cody through parkour, and his daring and skill was obvious. He's a genuinely nice guy and open-minded (one of the few parkour guys to come to UBC buildering nights). His spring, flow, and attitude is a refreshing change from what seems to be a "parkour-by-numbers" trend as of late.