Nasty Natto from The Sneeze
Friday, October 7th, 2005Steve’s experience with natto — the fermented soy beans of doom — pretty much matches mine, though I suspect he liked it a bit more than I did.
Archive for the ‘sheesh!’ Category
knitters wanted, some travel required
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005Spamusement!
Friday, September 9th, 2005This one almost made stuff come out my nose on the train: She cant possibly be enjoying this!
Hey Stinky!
Friday, August 26th, 2005The prize I got in my Duracell Pop the CopperTop was $1 off Gillette deodorant. I think they’re trying to tell me something …
This is only funny if you’re Scottish …
Monday, August 15th, 2005The Globe and Mail reports:
Monday, August 15, 2005 Page A5
Kingston — More than 11 million litres of liquid manure that spilled into a river in New York state is taking much longer than expected to enter Lake Ontario.
The cow waste flowed into the Black River in northern New York, near the town of Lowville, after the wall of a holding lagoon at a dairy farm blew out late Wednesday or early Thursday.
On Saturday, the manure seeped westward, heading toward Black River Bay, which flows into Lake Ontario. By yesterday, it still had not entered Black River Bay, said Jim Keech of Utilities Kingston. [CP]
gone fishin’
Sunday, March 27th, 2005Dave Raine said he’d take us to dinner at a fishing store. Woo, we thought; hot dogs and soda while he dug for bait. Ths isn’t the case when the fishing shop is the HQ of Bass Pro Shops in Springfield, MO. They have a fantastic restaurant, complete with cordon bleu chef. Who knew?
(and who knew that I’d end up with a fishing rod from there, either?)
red
Tuesday, March 15th, 2005We have a very small, somewhat bedraggled, poinsettia in our front room. We got it a couple of Christmases ago, and we surprise ourselves that it’s still alive. Since its initial forced colour faded, it’s just sat as a small green plant.
Today, though, it’s got a splash of red on it. Who knew that the Christmas plant would be doing its thing near Easter?
book no fair
Sunday, March 13th, 2005I thought I might’ve had a couple of books waiting for me at the library yesterday, but all of these holds were waiting for me:
- Banvard’s folly : thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck / by Collins, Paul
- Been brown so long it looked like green to me : the politics of nature / by St. Clair, Jeffrey.
- Hey Rube : blood sport, the Bush doctrine, and the downward spiral of dumbness : modern history from the sports desk / by Thompson, Hunter S.
- Mutants: on genetic variety and the human body / by Leroi, Armand Marie.
- The pencil : a history of design and circumstance / by Petroski, Henry.
Looks like I’ve got a lot of reading to do in the next three weeks …
Well, if you can’t trust the government …
Monday, February 28th, 2005
cycling madly
Sunday, February 20th, 2005post ten items to Freecycle Toronto — get 60+ responses in under five minutes. Meep!
sleep-in friday
Friday, February 18th, 2005Aargh. Catherine woke me up with, “Did you mean to sleep in until 6:30?”
The answer to that one’s no. I mean, I now know I can get out the house in less than half the time I usually do, but that’s not to say I enjoyed it.
Don’t try this at all: Microwave Storm In A Teacup
Monday, February 14th, 2005Made my usual coffee in the office today; mug of water in the microwave for 2:34, and a couple of tablespoons of Alternative Grounds sustainable, organic Costa Rican waiting in the Mug Mate. I didn’t think much of the fact that I had about 2/3 of my usual liquid level in the mug, and threw the filter in anyway.
A couple of seconds of extreme frothing over later, I realised this was not so smart. I’d superheated the water, and the grounds and mesh of the filter were providing excellent bubble nucleation sites. Apart from having to mop up very weak coffee from a very wide area, no harm was done. I certainly didn’t come anywhere near burning myself.
Snopes’s article on the microwave boilover urban legend is pretty good, despite the noxious popups.
Modern Moist Towelette Collecting
Thursday, February 10th, 2005No, really: Modern Moist Towelette Collecting.
“Ah, but what *version* of PhotoShop did the accused use?”
Friday, January 28th, 2005Parking official convicted of duping motorist using a doctored photograph, by Judge Jonathan Geek.
… but my python’s gotta eat too, y’know.
Thursday, January 20th, 2005After a flurry of anti-free-pet postings on Toronto Freecycle (including a post where the precious-beyond-words term persons-of-fur was used), they’ve gone and banned animal postings.
Lemmings — in DHTML!
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
MonstreX Ultra: monster repellant
Monday, January 3rd, 2005Troubled by pesky monsters lurking in closets or under the bed? Jody’s kids were, but ever since they got a can of MonstreX Ultra, monsters are a thing of the past.
(Jody’s site is definitely worth a dig around in, especially for the Linux and Raw Digital Images resources. If you can’t find anything else, he has a fairly nifty CMS.)
Oates-y goodness: Spot of the Antarctic
Friday, December 31st, 2004
iriver corporate nonsense
Friday, December 3rd, 2004Worst corporate-speak ever: iriver heart connection
Smiling Envelope?!
Wednesday, December 1st, 2004What’s a “smiling envelope” when it’s at home?
smiling envelope
