I just came back from the annual campus boat race. Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking this is some kind of Harvard vs. Yale regatta type event. Hardly! Do you know what a beer relay race is? Well, it's like a regular relay race, but instead of passing a depeche between you the goal is to run to a pole, drink a beer, and run in a circle holding on to the pole, and then run back and send the next player along. Imagine that with boats and silly costumes and you have the campus boat race.

This year crews from twelve faculties participated and it was obvious a lot more effort had been made into their entrances than into actually competing. The crew from my faculty had rented a truck and blocked the back with bright coloured foam bricks. They then burst through the bricks dressed as demented cheerleaders and chanted and spelt out the name of their crew (it's PANIK, but they spelt out KINAP like the morons they were supposed to be). Other crews had rented fire trucks, army vehicles, or a gang of bikers and the crew from the English department came as Vikings/Metal Heads. The crew consisted of the members of Insidiöus Törment, who all have poodle perms and names like Ronnie Gamboa (geddit?) and Dave "Steel" Steel. The architects had made a model of the Sydney Opera House, which was designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, but unfortunately from a distance people thought it looked like an iceberg.
Unfortunately, it started raining and people started leaving, but it was a lot of fun and the crew of medical school students, who were dressed as characters from Batman, were deserving winners.
Oh, a fun moment was when a friend of my brothers said: "What's that theme they're playing?...... Oh, it's the Batman theme". How the hell is it possible to not instantaneously recognize the Batman theme? It goes dada dada dada dada dada dada dada dada Batman!!!! from crying out loud.

I mentioned the Coupland book tour yesterday and Nick mentions it here today. Turns out he was at the opening for the Spike show in NYC, which I was also at with Anne and Chris. I think Huey Lewis said it best, when he said: "It's a small world, but it's the only one we've got".

Ernie is redesigning Little.Yellow.Different, but go over there anyway just to check out his D'oh! picture from The Weakest Link.

Denmark is playing in the world hockey championship for the first time, so hockey has been getting a lot of air time on television here. I always thought of hockey as the ultimate white-guy sport, but check out this guy. It's like Cool Runnings all over again.
And speaking of hockey check out the Warren Zevon website to see why his health is so bad (he might as well be under the care of Dr. Nick).