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It's audience participation time
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Say hi! |
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A versioning scheme for academics
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Why don't academics version? |
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Since all the cool kids are doing it...
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Here's a list of cities I've been in over the past year:Edmonton (obviously)AbbotsfordNorth SaanichLangfordSidney-by-the-SeaToronto (Pearson stopover)Montreal (flight connection)HalifaxNew GlasgowAntigonishCalgary... |
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Cosmic Zoom, the Universe in 40 jumps
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Found an earlier source for Powers of Ten |
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Review: Dodge Magnum
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When we first got to Halifax, Kirsten's car was on a train somewhere between Edmonton and Antigonish. In order to get to Antigonish ourselves, along with all of our luggage, we had to rent a car. I decided it would be best if we kept the rental car the entire time I was there, so Kirsten wouldn't have to spend 5 hours getting me to the airport and getting back when I left. I had reserved a mid-size car, knowing that we'd have a fair bit of luggage to haul up there. I had hoped we would get something decently... |
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harder better faster stronger
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This is so good. |
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wuzzy
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My head is very fuzzy. That is all.... |
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beatboxing
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Beardyman is awesome.... |
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She's famous now!
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K was interviewed by the Edmonton Journal yesterday, talking about her research. Full article inside.... |
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Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas everyone! I'm heading down the tunnel for a week or two, so things will be quiet on this front.... |
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fracking cold
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It is REALLY BLOODY COLD today. This morning featured a temperature of -28 with a windchill of -40. Tell me again the benefits of living in the north? Wind chill warning for: City of Edmonton-St. Albert-Sherwood ParkEXTREME WINDCHILL CONTINUES.EXTREME COLD WINDCHILLS ARE PERSISTING OVER MUCH OF ALBERTA. TEMPERATURES RANGING BETWEEN -25 AND -35 COMBINED WITH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 KM/H CONTINUE TO PRODUCE WINDCHILL VALUES NEAR OR ABOVE -40. THESE EXTREME WINDCHILL VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST FOR THE BETTER PART OF THE MORNING,.PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST PUBLIC FORECASTS FOR FURTHER DETAILS.ISSUED BY ENVIRONMENT CANADAAT 7:48 AM MST... |
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And then I
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Sometimes I get really angry at the world, especially when I see abject cruelty like this (safe for work, unsafe for anyone with any sense of morals or ethics). And then I see something like this and this and it makes me feel a little better.... |
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Ultrawide
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Last night I picked up a pair of Samsung 940BW 19" widescreen LCDs. I'd held off purchasing LCD monitors for quite some time, but the two 17" monitors I was using at home finally started getting unbearably fuzzy and hard to view. K even agreed it was time to get new monitors, and when that happened I knew there was a problem! It feels weirdly luxurious to have the new monitors sitting on my desk. They take up far less space depth-wise on the desk than the CRTs did, which makes the desk look much larger than it actually is... |
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blog pirate
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darren is bad From the editor: The blog pirate is also bad for not choosing a category for this post to go to, nor a post title. Bad blog pirate!... |
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Firefox 2.0
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I grabbed Firefox 2.0, and I have to say, I'm impressed. There's not a whole lot of things changed in my daily use of the software, but what is changed in noticeable, such as the form-field spell-checking. K has bugged me for awhile about finding a way to build spell-checking into her course website, so no bad typos make their way on to her website. I'd been playing with some JavaScript solutions, as well as some browser extensions as a way of dealing with that, and now I don't have to rely on them anymore. I'll just install Firefox 2.0... |
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snow, snow, go away
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We are currently having our first snowfall of the year - pretty much right on schedule. I thought I felt snow on me when I woke up at 3am to let the dogs out, but was too tired to a) care, or b) turn on the outside lights to look. With any luck, it'll melt away as fast as it's coming, especially since I still need to put up the storm windows on the side of the house, and I should really get a last fertilizing of the lawn in before it's totally snow-covered. In other news, K and I... |
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Gotta get my thesis finished!
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I tell you, everything cool I come across lately is for Mac OS X.... |
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Idea
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An idea, free to anyone who has a better electronics background than me (read: any electronics background) to implement: Fans powered by a telephone jack. The idea came to me this morning, when I read that Los Angeles suffered power outages while temperatures were over 100° farenheit, and people were really suffering, but able to phone into the utilities companies to see what was going on. I then remembered that phone lines contain a small electrical charge, which lights up buttons on the phone, etc. It's not a heavy electrical charge, to be sure, but it should be enough to... |
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Drunk Dog Theatre
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For those who have been following the exploits of Drunk Dog Theatre, you may be pleased to note that the thespian has recently added dancing to her repetoire.... |
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Overread
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From an earlier conversation on Google Talk: kirsten: /me clicks on the star wars holiday special to cheer up staticred: DON'T DO IT!!! I'm coming home right now :) kirsten: its like a kind of suicide staticred: runs out door kirsten: life aint worth livig death by starwars... |
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Copyfight
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This is stupid (and also against the terms of use - take that Johnny Law): Permission is expressly granted to any person who wishes to place a link in his or her own website to www.accesscopyright.ca or any of its pages with the following exception: permission to link is explicitly withheld from any website the contents of which may, in the opinion of the Access Copyright, be damaging or cause harm to the reputation of, Access Copyright. In the event we contact you and request the link be removed, you agree to comply with that request promptly. If you link... |
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How to fool smart people
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How do you scam smart people? Make your pitch sound clever. Note this doesn't generally work for skeptical smart people. ;)... |
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The first ever staticred vote.
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So I want to get out of here for my birthday this year. I've booked the week of the 19th to 23rd off. What do you think we should do?... |
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Conspicuous Consumption
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I emerge from the quietude only long enough to say a couple things: First, the new iBook/MacBook might be announced tomorrow, and that gives me great joy as I may decide to buy one some time next month since I've been obsessing about it for about a month now. And since obsession isn't healthy, I simply have to buy the laptop when my current contract is complete. At least this is the happy little lie I tell myself in order to justify. Second, as many of you know or are about to find out, my birthday is on June 18th,... |
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Unexpected fun
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Last night I picked up (and today I'm wearing) a brown shirt with the following tagline on it: My baloney has a first name It r0x0rs my s0x0rs (I also picked up an Ecko shirt with Graffitti changed my life on it, but K thinks it's too big on me).... |
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Oh, snap!
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Over the past month, I've bumped into the phrase, "Oh, snap!" more than a couple times, on TV, in webcomics, etc. It's like the phrase just appeared out of thin air one day.... |
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dammit
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I just realized that we are once again responsible for the late snowfall this year.... |
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Because my mind is a closet of the weird...
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Kirsten, Orion and I got talking last night about Tom Woo Seminars, for some reason. Then today, I tripped across this link. Weird.... |
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Freaking snow!
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I just can't believe how much snow we have had in the past 24 hours -- likely over a foot and it's still coming. And the City of Edmonton, having NOT had to plow the roads for most of the winter appears to have forgotten how.... |
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It ain't easy being green
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Happy St. Paddy's Day!... |
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Blogger Code
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Because I'm feeling extra-bloggerly today: height: 130px; width: 216px; padding-top:1px; text-align:center"> width: 210px; background-color: #F5F3D0; color: black; font-family: Lucida Grande, Verdana; font-size: 10px; margin-top:50px; border: 2px solid #BDB87F; padding: 2px; "> B9 D++ T+ K S- F I+ O+ X-- E L- C-- Y4 R++ W P++++ M1 N-- N+... |
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Neat!
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It seems we've inherited a couple of tickets to go see La Boheme tomorrow night.... |
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Word of the Day
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Word of the day: fuckmonkery (n.) - the visible results of crack monkeys at work. Wow, those crack monkeys really engaged in some fuckmonkery when they build a wall overtop carpet and carpet strip. We discovered this word while putting down baseboard in our basement this weekend, and came across the above scenario. At what point building a wall on top of carpet and carpet strip seems like a good idea, I'll never know. But never underestimate the fuckmonkery of the people who renovated our house before us!... |
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Word for the day
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New word for the day, courtesy of the job. updation. (n). the process of updating, as in "This help topic needs updation.... |
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The pain.
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Because I want you to experience the pain I experienced in my youth (such pain it was that I thought it to be a particularly bad nightmare), I present to you the Star Wars Christmas special in its entirety. Look for the 10 minutes of nothing but Wookie-bleating, and special songs by Carrie Fisher and Bea Arthur. That's right, nothing says 70s cheese better than Bea Arthur.... |
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On the puppy entry...
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With regards to my entry about missing the puppies. I'm still tough, man. What? Don't snicker at me like that - I'll cut you!... |
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CD Suggestions
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So as none of you know, I'm driving back to Edmonton on Monday with Kirsten's car George... and I could use some suggestions for CDs to listen to. Drop your suggestions in the comments, preferably with links to download. :) (No audiobooks please -- they put me to sleep, which I definitely don't need on a 12 hour drive)... |
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v-day
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Happy Valentines Day!... |
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other random thought
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Random thought: I've been making webpages of varying quality for over 10 years now.... |
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Holy Weather!
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There might just be something to this global warming thing when this is the weather in Edmonton in mid-February: Current Conditions: Overcast Temperature: 43°F / 6°C Wind Speed: 22mph / 35km/h ( NW ) Updated Feb 13, 2006 05:02am... |
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Because I'm a geek...
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Because I'm a big geek and had a spare monitor, I set up Synergy to connect my Windows and Linux computers. Now I don't have to SSH in / open XDMCP / otherwise take up any of my Windows computer's screens to do stuff on my server. I just move my mouse into the third monitor and type away.... |
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Food Review
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So we picked up a couple of those President's Choice microwaveable Indian meals, and I took one - Chicken Madras - for lunch today. They're surprisingly good, and they've got enough guts to properly spice them too (which means my Chicken Madras is hot hot hot).... |
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Such a princess...
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I just got this message from K: kirsten ruby was laying downstairs on the couch she was on top of 5 pillows and a blanket That Ruby is such a princess.... |
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Getting Things Done.
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You won't be able to see it yourself (in theory, it should only display when I access it from work or home), but I've added the next extension to the "Upcoming things" list on my site -- a calendar I really need some sort of in-my-face visual reminder that I have things I need to be doing, and this may be the best way. Time will only tell whether it is useful or I learn to ignore it. Now all I need is a way to synchronize this with my Palm calendar.... |
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wow... old stuff.
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Looking through some old folders on an old site, I came across a drawing I did way back in 1999 for Kirsten:... |
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Meme
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4 things. |
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Jingle bells, batman smells
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Since it's getting closer to Christmas, I thought I'd post a list of things I want, but expect never to receive (this is much easier and more fun than writing a list of things I'd like for Christmas that I might actually get): A nice wide screened (but light) laptop A Chrysler 300, or a Dodge Magnum. Sony Wega 32" LCD Television The Pro Picolo remote control helicopter. Three months off, with pay, to write my thesis. Palm Life Drive with a mittful of 2GB SD cards (gotta have something to store all the movies/tv series on) and a Skype... |
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A request
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A quick request... I'm traveling to BC tomorrow and will be there for the weekend. Can you BC people sweep away your snow before I get there? I was really looking forward to getting AWAY from our snow here in Edmonton. If you could get that done before tomorrow, that'd be just super. Thanks!... |
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Thief, interrupted.
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So my car was broken into yet again, this time downtown while I was at the office. The jerk smashed the small window on the driver's side rear door, opened the locks (thank god they didn't break the locks again, as it would take another month to get those in). It turns out they were either interrupted in the process, or just not very good at stealing stereos because they couldn't get the stereo out. They did, however, manage to damage the stereo significantly, as well as the housing around it (which I foresee taking another month to get directly... |
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Early happy birthday!
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Early birthday wishes go out to Alan, who turns $stillyoungerthanme tomorrow. Don't forget to send him your own birthday greetings too...... |
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Things I'd rather not have to deal with
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In the things I'd rather not have to deal with category, there's a flu shot clinic being run out of the meeting room beside my cube. All day I'm going to have to listen to people getting shots; not something a person with a phobia of needles really wants.... |
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I know kung fu
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It's been awhile since I've done bloggy things here... so here's something bloggy You scored as Neo, the "One". Neo is the computer hacker-turned-Messiah of the Matrix. He leads a small group of human rebels against the technology that controls them. Neo doubts his ability to lead but doesn't want to disappoint his friends. His goal is for a world where all men know the Truth and are free from the bonds of the Matrix. Neo, the "One"75%Captain Jack Sparrow75%Batman, the Dark Knight71%Lara Croft67%James Bond, Agent 00758%The Amazing Spider-Man54%Maximus54%The Terminator54%Indiana Jones50%El Zorro46%William Wallace46%Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0created... |
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Overdue
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So, whether it was a good idea or not, I've decided to show overdue tasks in the public task list (overdue tasks are shown in red). I was already doing this in the version I have at work, but hadn't yet ported the code over to the personal tasklist. Given that I'm so far behind I'm actually re-experiencing events in my life, I imagine the 'overdue' list will get pretty long.... |
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New office!
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Turns out there was a spot open in a larger cube downstairs and I was given the opportunity to move into it. It is a little bigger, but it's also a little more private and quiet than the cube I had before, which was right beside the printer and next to an often-consulted developer. The new cube is tucked away. though darker. I'll need to get some cube art to adorn the walls. And that, folks, is about as exciting as my life gets right now. Update: Problem with the new office: it's dangerously close to the popcorn machine.... |
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Lost thought..
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If you don't watch Lost, then ignore this... I was poking around on IMDB to see if anything nifty would be revealed about future episodes... and I noticed that we get to see Kelvin in the next episode. Kelvin, it turns out, will be played by MC Gainey, which really is neither here nor there. What's interesting to note is that the same actor appears earlier in the series. In fact, he appears in Exodus, Pt. 2 (the closer of Season 1) as "The Bearded Man." Know who that is? It's the guy who took Walt away from the raft........ |
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Logical Fallacy
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This article is a perfect example of logical fallacy. They might as well have said that some people surveyed downloaded music and some beat up homeless quadrapalegic seniors, therefore music downloaders are more likely to beat up homeless quadrapalegic seniors; it has about as much basis in fact in terms of correlative value.... |
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Recipe for disaster
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New TV channels and a day off = low productivity. |
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I got my car back!
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After approximately 5 weeks of waiting for parts to arrive from Japan, I got my car back today. Although I had to buy a new battery for the car (my old one up and died at the shop), the insurance company waived the deductible.... |
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notes from the motherland
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Scanned in a few more pages into the notes section... they'll show up over the next few days.... |
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Bragging Rights
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So, it turns out Alberta has the best weather, overall, in the country. If it weren't for the mind-numbingly cold Februaries and snow in April, I might agree. Truth be told though, for the most part the weather here really is pretty good. Sure, we get snow and cold, but we don't really get the extremes of, say, Ontario, or the long, depressing overcast weather of the Lower Mainland. For the most part, it's clear and sunny here.... |
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Moley moley
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So, building on yesterday's entry, I went out and got a moleskine pocket notebook today at lunch, along with a very fine point (0.4mm) pen, so I can maximize the amount of writing I can get into its small pages. So far, it's been an interesting experiment; I've jotted down things I need to know, like dates of classes, some initial notes for a presentation I'm going to give at work on UCD, TV series Kirsten and I watch (and their premiere dates), and an idea for an article Kirsten had last night. I'm a freakin' nerd. But, at the... |
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Moley
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This site totally made me want to get a moleskine. Of course, there's actually nothing I really need to put into a moleskine journal on a regular basis, but that's beside the point, isn't it? I wonder if this is an internal urge to start writing a paper journal? I haven't had one of those for years and years now (last one I had was, to be honest, so long ago that I can't remember when. End of highschool? First couple of years at Kwantlen? I think I threw all the old journals out - or at least, Mom got... |
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Stupid office idea
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Stupid office game idea: Office Pac-Man. Obviously, you'd need to have 8 walkie-talkies, in order for the "ghosts" to turn blue after "pac-man" eats a white dot... but otherwise flawless, as cubicles makes for a very nice maze.... |
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Movies lately
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Some movie reviews. |
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Idiosyncracies
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Five idioscyncracies. Do you have any idea how hard that word is to type? |
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So...
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um... hey. what's up?... |
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I think Geoffrey Rockwell is following me.
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Geoffrey Rockwell is following me... |
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Get out the parachute!
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I saw this comic and immediately thought of elementary school. Who all out there remembers playing with the parachute in the gym? Man, what was that even about?... |
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Weird dream
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The Jetta is the car of my dreams, apparently. |
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Snappy answers to stupid questions
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Have a problem, get it solved. It's simple as that. |
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Also, doody.
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It occured to me today, reading through some old entries on the site, that people aren't commenting here like they used to. Did I become exponentially more boring, or have you people found more exciting lives? Update: It's obviously because I haven't posted a collaborative fiction entry for awhile... There she was, right in front of me... (commenters, write the next bit of the story...)... |
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Earworm
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I currently have the Mr Plow song going through my head. You're welcome.... |
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Sparklines
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This is a sparkline. Edward Tufte came up with them in his book Beautiful Evidence. They're meant to be in-line graphs, able to convey lots of information in an exceptionally small space. Here's an example. The sparkline I embedded above shows hits at staticred.net from June 1 to June 30; hits over 5000 are shown in red. You can see pretty quickly there that I had some weird spike in traffic towards the end of June. And really, what more do you need to know beyond that? Anything further should be me giving you some analysis and supplying a table... |
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Question on my mind...
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There's a really cute 6-week old lab cross puppy at Second Chance Animal Rescue Society. It's about a 45 minute drive to their location, so we could take Cayce up and see if they get along... Of course, there's two things stopping me from just getting right into the car and driving up: Six weeks old means puppy house training, which I don't look forward to (though it went pretty quickly for Bronte) Do we really need a second (big) dog? I have been pining for one for a little while, but more of a small dog like a bichon... |
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The Orchard Drive
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As an update to my previous entry on Chris' play: Kirsten, Pam, Igor, and I will be heading to the Thursday show on July 14th. If you'd like to join us, you're more than welcome!... |
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Surrealicious
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Generic greeting! |
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Unabashed plugging
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Local playwright makes good! |
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An open letter
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To the phisher who is trying to scam me out of my US "Federal Credit Union:" through email: y'know, your email scam is less convincing when I receive 10 copies of it in a single day.... |
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The Doctor
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I've been sucked into the new Doctor Who, and I'm impressed with how good it's been so far. Russel T. Davies is doing a really good job of rebuilding the series. A larger arc seems to be emerging; one of the things that has been recurring in all the episodes is a reference to 'Bad Wolf.' It's everywhere, but the first nod in-series to it was this week, when the Doctor finally notices it (Sorry Canadian viewers, I'm two weeks ahead of you thanks to Torrents). There's a lot of speculation as to what it could be, and what it... |
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Sith review
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I think Rex Murphy put it best. ''Revenge of the Sith'', it's not a movie, it's a protracted lisp. He's a fan... he even wrote his reactions to Episode I: Star Wars is said to be the self-defining icon for a generation. Icon -- they got one syllable right --con. This is all fluff and feathers; "Skywalker" as panhandler for the disposable income of kids and boomer sentimentalists. Star Wars is not an event. The Phantom Menace -- it's phantom entertainment and menacing merchandising. Sleep overnight in a line-up to see Star Wars? It's a felony against good taste. May... |
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Looooosssssst
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4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. |
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Avalanche Burger
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Kirsten came back from Banff a few weeks ago, with a suggestion for a burger she wanted to try. At the hotel she was staying at, they had a burger called the Avalanche Burger. It sounded good, but she didn't try it at the time. We've since made it a couple of times, and boy-howdy is it tasty. It's basically made like this: toast the buns, then on the bottom add a layer of tapenade. Place your patty on top of that, then place some goat feta on top of the patty. Garnish with spinach and tomato and serve. It's... |
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Happy June
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Important days in June. |
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I like stuff
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I like stuff. Do you also... like stuff?... |
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Liveblogging the Queen's visit from 27 floors up
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Play-by-play of the Queen's visit to downtown Edmonton. |
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Sucks to your auction
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I totally didn't get the 17" monitor I was gunning for at the company's IT Auction today, nor did I get the KVM either. Both would have been way cheaper than buying even used... but some other folks were quicker on the draw than me. :(... |
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Revenge of the what now?
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The general opinion of “Revenge of the Sith” seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones.” True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion. source And with that, my mind is set. I've decided to treat the "second trilogy" of Star Wars movies the same way I treat Highlander 2, 3, and 4: they don't exist in my universe.... |
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1000 blank white cards
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I need to find a few people to play 1000 Blank White Cards with me. It sounds like a real hoot! (A bunch of sample cards can be had here (hit refresh)... |
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Some movies I liked
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I saw me some movies. |
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Soliloquouy against suburbanism
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What I want may very well be impossible.... |
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Satan in a packet
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I'm eating Easy Mac for lunch today, because we really didn't have any leftovers from dinner last night. Watching this stuff change from watery soup to non-watery mac & cheese is really quite frightening. I'm pretty sure that Satan is somehow involved in the process.... |
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Argh.
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Argh. Linux box died the other day... looks like it's finally time to replace the case/power supply. :(... |
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Christobel!
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I must own these.... |
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I thought
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I thought I lost my shoe. But it was only under my desk.... |
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Discuss.
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Home renovations. Discuss.... |
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Peter Jennings Reports
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Did anyone else catch Peter Jennings Reports last night? Did it seem odd to you that a fairly well-known and respected journalist would report on the UFO phenomenon?... |
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Film recommendation
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Also, I highly, highly recommend The Life Aquatic. Watched it over the weekend, and it was fantastically good. Bill Murray is turning out to be a better and better actor every time I see him.... |
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We have an allergic dog...
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I just got a call from Kirsten, who had taken Cayce to the vet this morning for an ear infection. It turns out Cayce is allergic to both corn and rice, the two main components of dog foods everywhere (including all the "Allergic" blends). According to our vet (Edmonton Holistic Veterinary Clinic - yes, you read that right, our vet is basically a pet naturopath), Cayce has the classic symptoms of a rice/corn allergy: she licks her paws almost obsessively, and gets ear infections at 2 month intervals. It turns out that in humans, rice is a completely hypoallergenic food,... |
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Happy Anniversary!
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I'm coming out of hiding for only a minute... to say Happy Anniversary to Nat & Del!... |
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Hellboy II
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Rumour is that Hellboy II is being produced as we speak... little do they know that I happen to have a copy of it sitting on my coffee table at home, courtesy of a trip Kirsten's mom took to Hong Kong... I still haven't seen it, because I wanted to watch Hellboy I first, so as not to lose any of the story. :) Update: OH. MY. GOD. It turned out to be a movie called Skinned Deep, which is quite possibly the worst movie ever to stain celluloid. It's bereft of plot or action, and is quite possibly the... |
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That's a lot of space...
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I think it's time I rebuilt my Linux development box... apparently there's 2.28PB of free space. That's 2.28 petabytes, my friends, or 2,334.7 terabytes.... |
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Cutest. Puppy. Ever.
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Every once in awhile, we give Cayce a bone to chew on. We get them for free from the local bison store, and they always put lots of meat on their dog bones. Cayce will chew on it for awhile, and eventually want to bury it. This is great for her in the summer, as she can take it outside, but in the winter she has to use other methods... (click for AVI file) (No, I didn't realize sound was being recorded... and yes, I realize this puts us in 'crazy dog people' territory)... |
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Brilliant yet disturbing
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These drawings are both brilliant and disturbing. Michael Paulus has created skeletal systems for well-known cartoon characters. The attention to detail is astounding, but looking at the drawings is just a little creepy.... |
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Winter's back...
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Winter, after a brief sojourn up north, has returned to Edmonton. On Friday, it got up to 10°C. On Saturday, it dropped, and snow started coming down... today, after two days of snow and dropping temperatures, it's -21°C. I'm looking forward to the trip down to BC more than ever now. :)... |
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Roger Wilco
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I think I now have a goal for my two weeks Christmas vacation: play all the Space Quest games. Abandonia is a collection of "abandoned" DOS games that are freely downloadable... it looks like their collection is pretty complete, and they have some great classic games (like Quest for Glory, and even Adventure.... |
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The Life Aquatic
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I just discovered there's a new Wes Anderson movie coming out, The Life Aquatic. I must see this movie. That is all. (Wes Anderson is one of my favourite Hollywood directors/writers. He and Charlie Kaufman can do no wrong) Oh, and here are some clips... |
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Things that suck.
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So. Very. Busy. |
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Helpetica
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Kottke has a helper monkey. |
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Our new catch phrase...
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Watching yet-another-stupid-reality show last night, Kirsten and I came across a phrase that we will, from now on, use as our battle cry: "I shaved my pits this morning... I didn't do that to lose." (Mondo-surprise points to anyone who can name the show.) Oh, and as an aside... what the hell has crawled onto Peter Mansbridge's face and died?... |
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Yum!
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We made 5 pounds of fudge last night. It was really easy, and is so, so tasty. Update: Mmmmmmmmm... fudge.... |
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10 inches
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10 inches of white stuff. Winter's here to stay. |
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Things the dog does.
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In the spirit of this entry on dooce, here's a list of all the weird things our dog Cayce (incidentally, we're pretty close to just renaming her Case, since everyone calls her "Cay-See", even after we call her "Case") does: destroys sticks - We used to have a box of kindling downstairs, to use with our non-usable woodstove. Over the course of a couple of days, Cayce had chewed them all up, leaving little bits of stick and bark all over the basement floor dances - when we come home (after an hour, three hours, ten minutes), Cayce runs around... |
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The Great Grey Hunter
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So much for our built-in mouse catchers... |
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Rank amateur
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Kvetch kvetch kvetch. |
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Joe Schmo 3...
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So they played a reality TV show prank on a witless bachelor... then, they played the same prank on a bachelor AND bacherlorette. What could they do next? Enter Invasion Iowa, supposedly a shoot for a new William Shatner movie. Instead, it was a new reality TV show produced by the same guy who brought us the Joe Schmo series, where they trick an entire town.... |
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That's suicidal...
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Arnie has a deathwish. |
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Things stuck in my head
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"It's Bart's moon party in outer space... with R2-D2 playin the bass" is being sung over and over again in my head. Someone make it stop!... |
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A question...
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Who's our superhero? |
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The world of Tomorrow!
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Short review of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: it rocked! |
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Cutest thing in the world
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Cutest dog ever. |
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An open letter to George Lucas
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A letter to Mr. Lucas |
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Apt title.
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Sitting in the lobbyish area of my office is a magazine called Car Man Mag. I wonder who their audience is?... |
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mea culpa
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busy. talk later. |
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why?
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crap-crap-crappity day |
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Brooklyn Superhero Supply
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"Serving Brooklyn and the Greater Metropolitan area" |
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Congratulations Pam & Igor
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Pam and Igor were married on Saturday in Kamloops... congratulations to both of you!... |
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.999~ = 1
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Apparently 0.999~ = 1 |
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Geminis rule, Cancers drool.
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Happy birthday! |
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Pet Names
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Alternate pet names... |
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Happy Solstice!
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Happy Solstice, and thanks to everyone who came for the birthday. |
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Other happy birthdays
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Other happy birthday greetings go out to Suzanne at Synaptic Impluse, and Darren Naldrett, whereever you are. Update: I wrote the exact same entry last year. Eerie.... |
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Lawn darts!
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Weird craving. |
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And in other news...
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I just picked this CD/MP3 player up for the car, to replace the stereo that was damaged when my car was broken into. It turned out that Certified Audio (where I got K's CD player, and had extremely good service) was having a MASSIVE SALE (so emphasized, because they had to rent out Edmonton SportEx center to hold it) last weekend. It was a fortunate coincidence that I'd just received the insurance cheque the Friday before. Kirsten and I wandered over to the North side after humming and hawing over whether we wanted to make the journey. I'm glad we... |
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Two weird things...
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Weird things that have happened. |
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And in other news...
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When'd we move to BC? |
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yum!
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yummy paprika sausage. |
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Doggie-do
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I taught Cayce to swim! |
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Theez peepl hav no lievs.
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Lazy people against learning right! |
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Yes, this is what you think it is...
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We got snowed on last night.... |
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Fifth sentence
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Neat little literary meme. |
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Theory.org.uk action figures
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Monitor toys for academics. |
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for reference
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tool for home |
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Who are you?
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Who are you? Let me know! |
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Happy International Women's Day!
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Wouldn't you know it? It's International Women's Day Be sure to wish your better halves a happy International Women's Day!... |
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What to rent...
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Answer some questions, get a movie recommendation! |
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eep.
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still bitching about the cold... |
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Winter in Edmonton
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an unbelievable picture. |
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Urgent Request
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Got a mac? Let me know. |
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You know you're an Edmontonian when...
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<nobrr> |
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Happy New Year
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A new years greeting from everyone at staticred.net |
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U. exhonerated; U. found guilty
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A story of intrigue, suspicion, and vindication. |
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Humbug!
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A link to A Christmas Carol |
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All about Pantookas
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Christmas-inspired hallucinations |
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Holiday cookies!
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cookies, yum! |
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This is just a test
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Testing the excerpt field, and wanting to start getting in the habit of using it. |
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Cat (Nap) in the Hat
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A quick and simple movie review for Cat in the Hat: When Kirsten and I saw the ad for the Cat in the Hat movie, she turned to me and said, "That will either be really good, or really long." It was really, really long.... |
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Happy Birthday Nat!
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Happy birthday Natalie!... |
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Turkey soda
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Ick. I've known Jones Soda to come up with some pretty interesting flavours... but this one takes the cake.... |
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Science Trivia Questions of the Day!
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Some true/false questions about water reflecting the current temperature in Edmonton. Let's see how many you folks get right: True or false: 1. Water melts at the same temperature it freezes. 2. Water is the only material that expands when it freezes 3. Ice can transition directly to a gaseous state. 4. Salt melts ice at any temperature. 5. Ice is less dense than water.... |
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How to smudge.
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Grounding Your House: Creating the Right Energy Field for Your Home Or, how to Smudge your house. This was the least "pray to $deity" type ritual I could find.... |
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Sprite Ice
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I was thirsty and needed a pick-me-up a few minutes ago, so I nipped down to the store and got a Sprite Ice. Drinking it is like being violated by Peppermint Patty.... |
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Nifty!
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In about 20 minutes, Kirsten will be flying to Baltimore from Toronto on one of these.... |
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Air Canada Sucks!
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Air Canada Sucks Kirsten just got off the phone with them... apparently they called to say that the were cancelling her flight to Baltimore (she's going to a conference) and rescheduling it... She wasn't allowed to know why it was cancelled, and no compensation was offered to her for the short notice... and, of course, the woman she was dealing with was a complete bag - saying, "I can cancel the flight entirely, if you'd like." And they wonder why people are fleeing them and going to Westjet. Update: There's apparently a "step by step" process to file a complaint... |
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Winter's here...
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Winter's here. :PEdmonton City Centre - Canada - Current Conditions and 5 day forecast, Provided by EC Text Forecast from Environment Canada Edmonton City Centre: Issued 11:00 AM mst Tuesday 28 October 2003 Today .. Wet snow at times heavy developing near noon. Amount 2 to 5 cm. Wind east 20 km/h. High plus 4. Tonight .. Snow at times heavy. Snowfall amount 15 to 25 cm. Wind east 30 gusting to 50. Low minus 3. Wednesday .. Periods of snow. Amount 2 cm. Wind north 30 km/h. Temperature steady near minus 3. Thursday .. Cloudy with 60 percent chance... |
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soaked to the bone
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Dear Vancouver, It has come to my attention that we have inadvertantly received your weather, through some sort of meteorlogical mix-up. We'd like to resolve this situation as soon as possible, so that you have your rain back, and we have our sun. Please let me know as soon as possible when we can arrange the weather-swap. Yours truly, Edmonton.... |
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elict.org
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Can anyone tell me what's on this site? It's showing up as a major referrer, but I can't see anything there (could just be the work proxy).... |
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These men have no girlfriends...
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LA Weekly: Features: Keepers of the Magic Kingdom tells the oddly compelling story of obsessive Disneyphiles - people who obsessively visit Disneyland several times a week, collect Disney memorablia (or, in one case 'ephemeral ephemera'). They know the Disney cast members, they notice if a new speaker is placed on a ride, or plants are placed around a fountain. They have memorized the entire history of every square foot of the park. Are these people mentally unhealthy, or do they just really like Disneyland? In one Disneyphile's case, a traumatic event is associated with Disneyland: his father had a heart... |
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Hail to the King, Baby!
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I really want to see this movie. "Bubba Ho-Tep" is the "true" story of what happened to Elvis. And it stars Bruce Campbell. Could life possibly get better?... |
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Favourite Movies
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Natalie has put out a challenge to list our favourite 100 movies... I'll see what I can come up with here, listed by director.... |
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Dec 17th...
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I wonder what I'll be doing on December 17th...... |
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interview, cnt'd (again)
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Keth & Dave's questions... And as a special, added bonus, since nobody else offered, I'm forcing Anders to answer five questions.... |
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feelin' wonky
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Feeling pretty wonky right now... Keth and Dave - your questions are coming, but you probably won't get them until Monday. Update: Basically, all the stress and negative feelings I accrued working for the company I was talking about yesterday have invaded my body... my neck's near-seized, and I just feel icky. I'm looking forward to this weekend, because Kirsten and I are heading down to the mountains (there's ONE trail in the Kananaskis area that's open, and that's where we're heading. I've been pretty cranky all week, so I was raining on K's "Let's go Hiking!" parade yesterday... and... |
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5 Questions, cnt'd
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Squid has answered his questions... ...and so has Pam! I need two more of you kids to interview.... c'mon out of the woodwork!... |
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So, uh. Hi. What's new?... |
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The Compendium of Lost Words
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Compendium of Lost Words Basically, this is a collection of words that have fallen out of common use in the English language. Some of them are pretty nifty!... |
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Ugh.
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Seriously. Who didn't see this coming? The US is in a bad way with regards to the situation in Iraq. What better timing for a great piece of anti-Iraq propaganda about their 'star soldier', Jessica Lynch? Yes, I'm sure that they'll protray the Iraqi doctor that helped her in a positive light, since it's told from his perspective... but just watch what they do with the initial 'battle' and subsequent dealings with Iraqi soldiers. The funniest thing about this, however, is that they've cast a Canadian actress to play Jessica Lynch.... |
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Which character are you?
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I always knew I was wise beyond my ears.... |
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believe it or not
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And, I have the theme song from The Greatest American Hero stuck in my head. (listen) Will the Gods' punishment never stop?... |
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Hit the bigtime!
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I've been getting quite a few hits at the Comic Book Guy page today, and now I know why... I've hit the big time! A link to the Ask the Comic Book Guy script was posted in alt.religion.kibology, by N Gergen. Here's the bulk of the post: From: N. Gergen (ger...@armory.com) Subject: Comic Book Guy says: "Worst Government Ever!" Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology Date: 2003-07-31 06:12:11 PST Ok, I lied. It's not the Comic Book Guy, but a Nobel laureate in Economics. Although I don't know what he does on the weekends. And just which gummint is teh WORST EVAR? Iraq? North... |
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IQ
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Hmm... according to the Emode.com IQ Test, my IQ's at 135 these days, making me (in their words) a "visionary philosopher". What do you folks score?... |
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a new name...
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From now on, I'm going to try to refer to K as QTπ. Perhaps I'll reveal why later. :)... |
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Email address change...
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Just a note: I'm changing my email address to webmas...@staticred.net, as I won't be renewing the nasty.cx domain next year. So update your address books!... |
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