We Saw a Chicken …

Author: scruss

  • easily amazed

    I know the technology is not that nifty, but I amused and amazed myself by sshing into the home server whilst on the Via train somewhere between Smith’s Falls and Ottawa.

  • STEEL REINFORCED NECK

    My Harmony banjo arrived today. For something essentially made of plastic, with a brown-painted neck, it sounds great.

  • non-numinous

    I had assumed that an admin here at work liked obscure Shakespeare plays when they called our server cressida. But I found the real reason when I noticed that the Richmond server is called rav4 …

  • DO NOT WANT

    The Vega is still at Encore. The price is still in the upper atmosphere. One of Dave’s regulars pointed out that the heel has a major crack in it. Do not want!!

    Mind you, they did have a mint Squier P-Bass (yeah, they’re cheap, I know) for very few $ …

  • a fitting memorial?

    Maybe we should rename it Vancouver Dziekanski Airport.

  • pretty much it for now

    the way out of Richmond

    Well, that’s pretty much all for my BC trip. Got another day in the office, then fly out this afternoon.

    I managed to be a bit more sociable this time. Dinner with Dave and Leanne in a very high-tone restaurant, curry with Kelly on Davie St on Halloween, then dinner with colleagues last night.

  • ill-advised facial hair

    I should probably not consider growing a Holiday NeckBeard this year.

  • Old Man Luedecke: banjo dude

    You might like Old Man Luedecke as much as I do.

  • why is it … ?

    That I always get sick when I visit Richmond?

  • Koolu: low-energy computers

    Dave sent me this. It’s kind of what I’ve been trying to do with Mini-ITX for a while, but at a sensible price. I suspect the fanless Geode processor is slightly low in grunt, but it’ll do the job: Koolu.

  • salvadorean scran

    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.

  • not-so-smart meter

    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.

  • big ole bagel

    City Cafe Bakery, at the corner of Victoria & Strange (!) in Kitchener has the best bagels.

    I hadn’t been there for years. Last time was with Steve Izma (typesetter and BTL Books guru) and his family, who are regulars.

    Being Scottish and consequently dough-addicted, CCB is heaven.

  • The big 14k

    Yep, I’m 14000 days old today (how old are you?). It’s supposedly the length of a biblical generation.

    Many people suggested ways I should celebrate (most involving ingestion of various ethanol-based solutions). It turns out that a company I’m working with is taking me out to the Leafs game tonight. There may well be ethanol.

  • the antidote to autotune

    We saw The Wailin’ Jennies at Hugh’s Room last night. As ever, their harmonies were beautiful, but what amazed me was their one piece in unison. They were so close that it didn’t just seem to be the one breath, but as one heartbeat. Wonderful stuff.

  • this is rather good

    BWEA – Google Map of all UK wind farms – wonder if we can do the same for CanWEA?

  • will self on uncle

    I think Uncle stuck with me because of its combination of excess, gadgetry and eccentricity – all of which are modes of being I have attempted to emulate in my adult life. I blame J.P. Martin.

    — Will Self on the Uncle books, from the Telegraph’s Unsung Books.

  • a narrow escape

    I nearly fainted at the guitar store; they had a Vega Folklore long neck banjo on consignment — eep! After playing it a bit, I asked how much they wanted for it. Seems that the seller thinks it’s the Pete Seeger model, and is asking about what I can get a new Vega Woodsongs for. No thank you!

    (anyway, two new banjos in a week would not be fiscally sound.)

  • cruel and unusual

    Black Eyed Suzy (files a domestic) [MP3]
    (and yes, that is a banjo playing)

  • oh and i went to high school with him too

    now this is a live music photoblog: rahimlive.