Monthly Archives: March 2010
poladroid madness
Poladroid is too much fun:
(wombat image is Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-3.0 by noodlesnacks: File:Vombatus ursinus -Maria Island National Park.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
tracks
Sturmey Archer catalogue
for all your Sturmey Archer needs.
extremely silly classical banjo piece
squirrel got a bun
the scoop
Got my banjo back from Hugh Hunter, who had added a really nice neck scoop by taking out a few frets:
Hugh also fitted a BanjoMate Thinline Armrest, which is a ton better than the one that was on before.
well, it would be a first …
so who’s your favourite typographer/experimental musician?
aquarium requiem
No Canadian weather? That sucks, Asus!
I just got a ASUS O!Play HDP-R1. It’s one of the current crop of media player boxes, like the WDTV. I suspect they’re all the same MIPS hardware/Linux firmware inside. (Hey, you can telnet into it! Whee! Or something.)
At first, I couldn’t get it to work with my network share, but after a firmware upgrade, all is good. The new firmware offers web content, including weather. So I hopped along, and tried to access Toronto weather:
Err, some of us live outside Asia, Europe and the United States, y’know …
<sup>ping trouble with a long spoon
I like Rob Goodlatte‘s Flow Theme for WordPress. But it makes me look like a shambling moron in some of my equations, viz.:
What’s ‘d2 v3′ supposed to mean? I certainly didn’t type that.
Digging (not very deeply) into Rob’s CSS, I found this section
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-size: 100%;
vertical-align: baseline;
background: transparent;
}
That forces pretty much all text to be aligned with the baseline, including <sup> and <sub>. While it may be all pretty like, it also destroys the sense of my markup.
Deleting the references to sub and sup in line 5 fixes the problem. Let’s have that equation again:
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Laaaahrvely.
oh the irony
in pdf2ps output:
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Catherine in Torontoist today
Catherine gets a writeup in Torontoist today: Branching Out.
it’s a transit routing algorithm!
– from MyTTC.
Gridlock Blues, by William Beauvais
chkn

Tropical Desires (224 Adelaide St W, Toronto) does as awesome a jerk chicken as they do roti.
sometimes, I’m not sure if my colleagues understand me
It’s been like this for weeks …

conservative bias at the CBC!!!111!!!
So where’s the “Will not help at all” option at Budget 2010: How does this budget affect your family? – Point of View
life-changing roti experience
Had a really good chicken roti from Tropical Desires (224 Adelaide St W, Toronto). Really tender chicken, good veg, mild spices. They’ve only been open a couple of weeks, but I’m planning to be a regular.
It still amazes me that Burrito Boyz is full every day, yet this place is empty.














