Ummmm….I’m gonna go with NO

On the magazine stand at the local Save-On-Foods:

Terry Fox Reality Show?

Yesterday an email from the Terry Fox Foundation announced the possibility of an interesting “reality show” type project for next year.

The plan at this time is to have two teams of twelve runners start in St. Johns and Victoria on April 12th. Each participant will attempt to run 3,339 miles in 143 days, matching Terry’s daily mileage, meeting in Thunder Bay on Labour Day weekend.

There will be a one hour casting special to air in April in CBC primetime where the participants will be introduced, the stakes will be set for the run and Terry’s enduring and building legacy will be highlighted. This will be followed by a feature that would appear weekly on the National or CBC News Sunday that would provide an update on the runners and their fundraising efforts. There would also be a one hour (or more) special on Labour Day.

Here is more from the email.

Twitter: No more outbound texts for Canada | The Social – CNET News

Twitter: No more outbound texts for Canada | The Social – CNET News.

This can’t be good. Just a few months after restricting its U.K.-based text-messaging number due to cost issues, Twitter has done the same for Canada.

The microblogging service has cut outbound SMS messages for the folks up north, citing "unexpected changes in our billing." Costs had been doubling for a few months.

This explains why I have not been receiving updates from John Cleese, Shaq, ECCW Pro-Wrestling, etc. and why folks have not commented back on my witty tweets.

HEY TWITTER! Just let Facebook buy you and be done with it. Don’t go broke like the dotcoms in the early part of this decade. Trust me, that sucks.

MCing Trivia Night

Last night I MC’d the 15th Annual Terry Fox Secondary School Trivia night.  The nearly 400 players raised roughly $9,000 to the support the school’s music programs.

Eight rounds of ten questions covering topics such as music, quotations, Canada and food carried the night while the students served snacks between the rounds.  The 40 something teams had to come up with team names (nice try table 22 – Hugh Jasses) with the judges selecting "Smarter Than Sarah Palin" as the best name.

It is awesome how the community, students and school come together to help out the music program.  The students, teachers and parents organize the event; community leaders volunteer as judges; local businesses donate items for fundraising; and a articulate, funny, handsome and modest community guy acts as MC.

I hope everyone had as much fun answering the questions as I had helping out the school.  If you are interested in taking part next year, keep an eye out for ads, etc. for the trivia night which is usually the third or fourth Saturday in November.

As mentioned at the end of the evening, below is a complete spreadsheet of the winning teams and scores.

Ummm…really?

Saw this sign on the front door of the Sport-Mart in Port Coquitlam.