Old Man Luedecke Talks About My Hands are on Fire and other Love Songs on CBC radio
Author: scruss
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As a minor celebration of our 8th anniversary of arriving in Canada, I give you (with explanation later) the collected transcripts of my Google Voice calls:
- Hey, gimme a buzz me back this is Ron man, you know. Lamb oxen, this is Ron 205, buzz me when you get a chance later.
- That probably in about a.
- Hey from A D this is Ron man and 12 5 man If you are a I’ll buzz me, man. I’m gonna do some business man, so pick up you know of a receive, a. My, but alright with equating later.
- Hello, this is not. He wants to join for your learn, not you, that fallen off. Bye.
- Hey, Got this way about you could give me a call back and give me a call. Real quick, I’m outside. Thank you.
- Hello.
- Hello, Would you know that. Love you all River Run them.
- Not available at the. It’s.
In a moment of boredom while visiting the US, I must’ve signed up for Google Voice. I’m not entirely sure what my number is, and I can’t access the account inside Canada. I haven’t given the number to anyone, yet I’m getting these voicemails. What can it mean? As a wise person once said, “Lamb oxen, but alright with equating later.”
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poladroid madness
Poladroid is too much fun:
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Sturmey Archer catalogue
for all your Sturmey Archer needs.
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the scoop
Got my banjo back from Hugh Hunter, who had added a really nice neck scoop by taking out a few frets:
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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:
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<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
subandsupin line 5 fixes the problem. Let’s have that equation again:
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oh the irony
in pdf2ps output:
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Catherine in Torontoist today
Catherine gets a writeup in Torontoist today: Branching Out.
