The semi-skilled busker with the snoozing-in-the-guitar-case spaniel was performing at Osgoode tonight.
Author: scruss
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18 things I’d rather have than an iPhone
In response to Jill’s post to fegmaniax:
- Batavus Personal Bike
- Lagouille pocket knife
- The Muppets Series 2 on DVD
- a better film scanner
- a Bill Rickard banjo
- Danelectro guitar (like Syd’s)
- “Unicorn Power” t-shirt
- duplexer for my inkjet printer
- titanium spork
- a ream of Blue Angel printer paper
- A4 feed tray(s) for my printer(s)
- Sumo Lounge beanbag
- silent Mini-ITX motherboard
- bluetooth GPS
- Fixpencil
- Vivitar 285HV flash gun
- Pelican case for the RB67
- nylon-strung old Harmony banjo.
I was trying to get to 100, but I guess I’m not that acquisitive.
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Uncle Dave on ill-advised facial hair
Look at that man with all the hair around his mouth
Like he swallowed a mule and left the tail hanging out
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Steelwinds
Catherine & I are just back from visiting our friends in Kent, OH. On the way there, I knew we’d pass the new Steelwinds wind farm in Lackawanna, but I didn’t realise just how striking it would be from the Buffalo border crossing. We drove into Lackawanna, and parked on the lake shore. Steelwinds looks like this:
The Clipper turbines turn extremely slowly, and are some of the most graceful ones I’ve seen. Good work!
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a landmark day in Ontario
Tim Hortons finally got Interac in Ontario. Western Canadians will no longer be frustrated with their eastern siblings. (well, I’m sure there will be some other bones of contention ….)
Oh, and we technically implement Kyoto today.
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disney work
I tried to get more of a ‘joiner’ effect, but Hugin’s just too good at stitching. Still, it’s angular enough for the Disney Opera House. The original is approximately 90 megapixels.
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injera frenzy
Catherine and I just had lunch at Queen of Sheba on Bloor just east of Dufferin. It was good; gentle spices and tons of flat bread to eat the meat and sauces with.
I can’t believe I have never had Ethiopian food before. I shall remedy that soon.
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the land camera
RB67, 127mm @ f/3.8, expired Polaroid 664, 1/125s
My first attempt with the RB67 and Polaroid back. With the metering prism and the handgrip, the RB67 weighs over 4kg, so it’s not something you want to wave about.
Something’s a bit weird with my film. Every picture I take has the top left corner missing:
 Is the developer dry? Am I pulling the film through the rollers too slowly? Too fast? I dunno.
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it’s summer, so …
… it’s time for the CREST Wind Energy Summer School.
It’s about the best way to start out in the wind industry. I went there back when it was at Imperial College. So many of my friends and colleagues in the industry have attended.
I wish the same course were run in several locations. Loughborough isn’t on most people’s travel plans.
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pee-yew
There is a very bad smell blowing into Union Station from the east. It has a kind of burning manure tang to it.
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my new favourite word
I will use the word tortfeasor in casual conversation today.
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clearly an American agency
Bell Canada’s new slogan “From A to Z, the calls are free” doesn’t quite work here. In this country it would have to be “the calls are fred”.
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overfed
We had a power cut last night, and my Gregarius aggregator on the basement server really didn’t appreciate it. I think it was doing something to the sqlite database that holds the feeds when the power went out, so I lost all my configs and had to trudge through hundreds of old items.
It could be worse; you could be stabbed! (as Mark Taylor always used to say).
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i think not
Barr’s Irn Bru Irish? Surely not, but that’s what Dominion thinks:
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that’ll learn me
… to buy so many CDs at the Midwest Banjo Camp. I’ve spent the last couple of hours keying in track listings for The Old Time Banjo Festival, Erynn Marshall & Chris Coole, and Neil Woodward. Please, please please don’t let me have to do the same for the Uncle Dave Macon set, ‘cos then I’ll be here all day.
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pen lament: lost angeles
Dang! Looks like I lost my Lamy fountain pen at the Los Angeles Omni.
It was very yellow, with green ink.