Posts Tagged ‘toronto’
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
The craving for second-rate chicken came over me. So I’m sat here in the chalet next to two couples who are having a conversation from two decades ago: how they drive out their way for Burger King, how the auto industry’s dying (but still a good place for a pension), bemoaning the lack of the Gardner extension, why recycling doesn’t work … and how John Tory’s a really nice guy who just can’t catch a break.
Just another Sunday night in Scarborough.
Tags: chicken, ohdear, scarborough, toronto
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The last couple of times we’ve been to the supermarket, we’ve noticed someone has thrown a pack of pork products into the halal section chiller. C’mon people; that kind of behaviour comes free with stupid. Just ‘cos you’ve got bacon breath doesn’t mean you have to force it on everyone else.
Tags: dominion, halal, pork, toronto
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Tags: clipping, pmd620, toronto, train
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
(who managed to make my train 11 minutes late, then had it overrun the platform:)
1.) Rent a brewery.
2.) Tell people.
I’m sure, though, that you couldn’t even follow these simple instructions for arranging a piss-up in a brewery.
Tags: snark, toronto, train
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Tags: lx2, snow, toronto, winter
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Tags: lx2, toronto
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
The 9th annual Banjo special was its excellent self last night. Messrs Taheny (x2), Quinn, Coole and Naiman - aided by a cast quite literally numbering more than three - were on fine form.
Got to meet a few BanjoHangout folks too - including Hugh (the maker of my banjo) and Loren, for whom Hugh had made “The Banjo of Death“. Loren’s got this thing about skulls, and this banjo has them aplenty.
Tags: banjo, toronto
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
The Carolina Chocolate Drops rocked Hugh’s Room last night. They’re just your average banjo-playing, jug-blowing, fiddling, throat singing, kazoo-playing, charlstoning, Highland mouth-music’ing, bones-rapping, reso-guitar-picking, beatboxing trio …
Tags: carolina-chocolate-drops, stringband, toronto
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
What’s it with good east end chippies? St Andrews (Ellesmere and McCowan) closes at 8pm, and Duckworth’s at 7:30.
Tags: chips, scarborough, toronto
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Tags: acoustic, guitar, ken-reaume, pwyc, toronto
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
With fresh memories of Arthur Bryant’s, I tried Phil’s Original BBQ (838 College, at Ossington). It does a very creditable BBQ brisket, and the got sauce has the right mix of vinegar and burn. Not so sure about the sweet sauce, which has enough sugar and cinnamon to make french toast happy.
There’s blues on the sound system, and the service is quick and friendly. The bread’s maybe a bit too good - hey, if Wonderbread works for Bryant’s - but maybe it’s the closest you’ll get to KC BBQ without driving 1600 klicks.
Tags: bbq, meat, toronto
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
oh no, there’s a Tim’s opened right kittycorner to my office.
Tags: donut, tim, toronto
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
A new Tim Hortons across the road from my office isn’t going to help a carefully-controlled diet. This is just as well, as I don’t have one.
Tags: donut, toronto
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Walk Score rates our neighbourhood at 32%, which isn’t very good. There are some errors in its analysis — we have a library kittycorner on the main intersection, and not 12km away, as Walk Score claims.
But yeah, there are problems. Our nearest bookstore? Cupid’s Boutique, where I’m sure they sell many illustrated periodicals for the discerning gentleman …
Tags: scarborough, toronto, walk
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Tags: bluegrass, climate, toronto
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Bullfrog Power are going to stop issuing their own bills, and go through the local utility. Though I understand it is a bunch cheaper to get Toronto Hydro to do it, I’ll miss getting my bills with a stamp affixed.
Hmm, now that I have a smart meter, does that mean I can access the metering information? Bullfrog doesn’t do time-of-use (yet), but the stats would delight this nerd.
Tags: bullfrog, hydro, toronto
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Robyn Hitchcock had his blue Fender Telecaster stolen in Toronto on Tuesday. For last night’s show he managed to borrow Barenaked Lady Stephen Paige’s black Tele.
I also suspect that his Fylde acoustic was stolen too. He was playing a small-bodied acoustic last night.
Mean people suck.
Tags: guitar, hitchcock, theft, toronto
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
I really think that Ken Reaume’s Four Horses could be my best album of the year. It’s been on repeat play all day.
And yes, he does work in Penguin Music.
Tags: four_horses, guitar, toronto
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
All our usual restaurants were busy, so we stopped at El Pulgarcito at 1210 Kennedy Rd. I’d never had pupusas before; these little filled maize pancakes are the best. We’ll be back.
Tags: food, pupusa, salvador, toronto
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
We got our smart meter installed today. Unfortunately, Catherine didn’t quite understand why there was a knock on the door, then her computer went beeeeyyooooww … then all our clocks caught the <blink> tag.
While I like smart meters, this one isn’t quite as smart as it could be. To me, a smart meter needs to have a big display of your current demand, and needs to be inscribed with a suitable message like “Quit using so much juice, you cretin!” It also needs to hook into local time-of-use pricing, which me being green and a Bullfrog customer and all, I don’t get to take part in. Boo.
But what could have really gone sideways was my own desktop, which was quietly chugging away installing Ubuntu 7.10. Since I started using Linux in 1995, I don’t think I’ve ever had a system upgrade go totally smoothly. This time, though, I was lucky - the system must have fully initialised before we lost power.
I can’t honestly say I see any difference between Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon; they both are fairly pretty, and just work.
Tags: linux, smart_meter, toronto, ubuntu
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