Looks like I’ve won a copy of the new edition of Cheapeats Toronto, thanks to publisher Alexandra Clark. Seems my re-recommendation of the Detroit got into the draw for a free copy. All your cheap eats are belong to me!
Archive for the ‘General’ Category
more cheapeats joy
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005teddybeardog
Friday, June 24th, 2005a 3 month old St Bernard puppy at the vet next door
I don’t know what these flowers are
Sunday, June 19th, 2005… but they’re in my garden and I kind of like them. I suspect most people would call them weeds.
more web file managers
Wednesday, June 8th, 2005I’ve previously written about PHPFileExchange, but it looks like it has strange installation requirements. Cwfm and Owl might do the happy thing, but neither looks quite perfect.
black smoke
Monday, May 30th, 2005heavy black smoke coming out the chimney stack of the Oakville Humane Society — that can’t be good.
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Canal freight plan takes to water
Wednesday, May 25th, 2005BBC NEWS | Scotland | Canal freight plan takes to water. And in Kirkintilloch, too!
strange inscription
Monday, May 23rd, 2005A new black granite headstone at the old cemetary at Kennedy & Eglinton has the baffling inscription: Lum Lum & Bulgy.
canadian moment
Monday, May 23rd, 2005A CN freight rumbles up to Kennedy on the rail spur just south of Eglinton. It stops. Two men get out. They walk up to Tim’s on the corner of Kennedy and Eglinton. They come back with double-doubles and donuts. The engine starts, the crossing lights flash, and off goes the train through the intersection.
Zoë’s wee horse
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
More photos if you click on the image.
faster mac
Monday, May 16th, 2005I upgraded the memory in Catherine’s eMac last night. It was deathly slow with the original 128MB, but now runs good an’ fast with 384. CPUsed isn’t the cheapest place to get RAM (it’s the same 8-chip PC133 that mini-ITX boxes use), but at least it’s a Mac place, so I could rant at them if it didn’t work.
See how propriteary systems beget proprietary systems …?
ride comes before a foal
Friday, May 13th, 2005Zoë’s horse Molly gave birth this morning, much to everyone’s surprise. Everyone, I suspect, except Molly, who knew but wasn’t telling.
Chickens are not the only fruit
Thursday, May 5th, 2005Neil Martin has a blog: Chickens are not the only fruit
guns suck
Thursday, April 21st, 2005Someone shot and very nearly killed the son of a friend of mine. Only after extremely complex surgery at St Mike’s does it look like he’ll pull through. Get well soon, Andrew; you’ll be parkouring again before long. His family’s requesting donations to the anti-arms-trade Project Ploughshares.
It’s strange, but in Glasgow — a city with an exceptionally violent reputation — anyone who carries a gun is seen as either a coward or mental. Gun violence in North America isn’t doing anything to change my mind.
taxing times
Saturday, April 9th, 2005That’s Catherine’s and my tax returns done. Much to my pleasant surprise, I had kept enough back to pay everything. Not much more, but enough to be happy.
UFile behaved impeccably this year with Firefox. It’s a big improvement on last year.
revenge of the daylight-saved
Friday, April 8th, 2005My body decided to blissfully zizz through my 06:00 alarm, and wake me up an hour later. And since there’s only one train an hour, there’s not much point in me rushing off to get into work no earlier.
not top dollar
Thursday, April 7th, 2005I briefly visited the Toronto Dollarevent this evening. While I’m a huge fan of local currencies, this one’s a bit too local to claim the Toronto name — looks like it circulated in about two blocks downtown. C’mon, people, Scarborough’s Toronto too … should I found the Scarborough Lek in parallel?
new icon
Saturday, April 2nd, 2005
Like the new icon? I thought the Atari ST character set image of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs was getting a bit tired, so I found a suitable chicken-related image on openclipart.org. Seems to work in my browser, don’t care about yours.
I should really have used the Nong Shim Worried Chicken, but there’s too much editing, copyright and glutamate-consumption—condoning there.
Instructions on how to make a website icon for Unix users are from Matthias Benkmann, “How To Create And Install A favicon.ico“.
new favourite white chocolate
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005Catherine bought me a bar of El Rey Icoa for Easter. It’s extremely special, which a much more robust flavour and texture than any other white chocolate I’ve tried.
music nite!
Sunday, February 27th, 2005We were at Hugh’s Room last Thursday to hear The Wailin’ Jennys. Support was Gregory Hoskins, who has the voice of Jeff Buckley, and the sensibilities of Tom Waits.
The Jennys were on fantastic form. Their lineup has recently changed, with Annabelle Chvostek. We’d seen her open for Evalyn Parry a while back.
Canadian music is a small world. Earlier in the week, I’d been told not to miss The Duhks, but I couldn’t make the show. Wouldn’t you know it, but WJ Ruth Moody was the lead singer of Scruj MacDuhk, the precursor of The Duhks.
The Passing of The Grammarian
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005In subsequent years, friends at the magazine would visit or send gifts: books, flowers, a basket of cheeses and fruit. But after a while she found such attentions hard to bear. She missed the work that she could no longer do. To one correspondent she sent a beautiful letter, frank and kind, needlessly grateful, which ended with the sentence “Please forget about me.”
