Because I saw geese flying north today, and because of the rim, it is officially spring in Scarborough. (The ~20cm of snow is merely an anomaly).
Author: scruss
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Mr BigHands fears clamminess
A guy in our office washroom used NINE paper towels to dry his hands today. Two is maybe okay; you can make do with one.
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not so clean
Took the D70 in for a sensor clean to Vistek. Pretty decent that they they could do a sensor clean for $35, I thought.
But I’m back on the stretcar for a reclean – they missed a huge macule which is obvious even printed at postcard size. Add four TTC trips each visit, I guess I didn’t get such a bargain.
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define:irony
How strange that ads for Outragenl.ca | Take Action Against Violence happened during Hockey Night in Canada.
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(imp)Ursonate
Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu,
pögiff,
kwii Ee.Ursonate, by Kurt Schwitters (and the score).
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Old Man Luedecke: banjo dude – in Guelph next week
Who : Old Man Luedecke http://oldmanluedecke.ca/ Where : Folkway Music (163 Suffolk Street West, Guelph) Â http://www.folkwaymusic.com/events.html When : Friday March 7th - 8pm doors, 8:30 start How much : $15 What : clawhammer banjo and skewed lyrics
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not my favicon
I’m trying to make Firefox on Windows XP like Firefox with the GrApple theme on OS X. I don’t have to have it look the same, just compress all the bookmarks in the toolbar into the width of the screen.
This is how I want the bookmarks toolbar to look:
And this is how it looks right now on Windows:
I can find any number of links about only showing the favicon, but none about turning it off to save space. Aargh!
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stupid hp, part deux
HP’s Photosmart driver proved its genius once again:
The download figures would have made more sense if it was working in kilobytes. As is, that’s quite a buffer overrun.
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glacial
Toronto’s ice melter
Icebeard
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the first sign of spring in the city
So how did I know that spring was on its way today? We’ve still got huge piles of snow, it’s pretty chilly, and there are few birds and no green things. I knew ‘cos Roll Up The Rim To Win started today. And I won a coffee with my first one. Sweet.
Don’t think I need one of these, though.
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Sunday night at the chalet
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.
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sins of emission
The Observer on carbon rationing action groups, or CRAGs: Want to cut your carbon? Join our club. There’s one in Vancouver.
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an engineer is me (almost)
I passed the PPE. Now all I need to do is prove that I have engineering experience, and I’ll be able to have a licence to practice engineering. The Engineering Council thought I had enough experience to be a CEng back in 2001, but engineering fundamentals are so different here in Ontario.
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as welcome as a … in a …
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.
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this town ain’t big enough for the half of us
My rather weak attempt to show that if something doubles in size, it uses the sum of all its previous endeavour to do so. Source: halves.eps.
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dinner
I made stovies; turkey ones. They were good.
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once mighty edifices crumble and fall
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