scruss

For my mum, who didn’t believe that you could have multiple heads on the one plant:

sunflower(s) Â

How it looked a few days ago.

02006-07-13

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is rather good.

02006-07-13

small power company

Bullfrog Power are so small, the bills come with stamps on the the envelopes. I like that.

02006-07-13

urpy

I have gastric flu, and it’s a pain. This is my first barf episode in about 12 years. Basically, my body’s gone on autopilot, hitting me with D&V whenever is feels like it. It’s not pretty.

02006-07-12

National Convenience Store Day

So, did you US folks celebrate National Convenience Store Day today by grabbing a slurpee and a preserved meat treat? (We celebrate it on 7 November here.)

Sadly, and rather worryingly, I’m not the only person to think of this.

02006-07-11

goodbye, Roger

Thank you for the music, Syd.

02006-07-11

hot & cold running beer

Norvin sent me this story from the The Daily Rangers in my home town. Apparently, booze is cheaper than water. And if you pay more for Tennent’s than water, you’ve been had.

02006-07-10

So long and fare thee well

The Royal Abingdon Renaissance Faire (aka the Ontario RenFest) is no more.

02006-07-10

butterfly, fish

Two unrelated pictures: a butterfly

butterfly

and a cory, admiring itself

leopard corydoras, and reflection

02006-07-10

it’s over

Even now, the town of my birth is considering giving Zidane freedom of the city.

02006-07-09

Catherine has a project involving Toronto’s libraries, and so I, for no particularly good reason, compiled a geocoded list of the Toronto Public Library system: libraries.gpx
Google Earth display of all of Toronto's public libraries

You can thank MapSource for the bloated GPX file. It quadrupled in size when I changed the symbols to look like buildings.

02006-07-09

First, second and third sunflower

First of the year …

Sunflower 1, 2, 3

02006-07-07

mmm, mistaan

Ritesh & Abhay introduced us to a great Indian restaurant — Mistaan, at 460 McNicoll. It’s mostly a Bengali sweet shop, but has a food counter. The chicken saag I had was great. We’ll be back.

02006-07-07

the late b.p. helium torrent

is here: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=26883

02006-07-05

the late b.p. helium, live at The Boat, Toronto â€” 28 June 2006

^*: These short titles are taken from the setlist. I don’t have their full names.

Info page: the late b.p. helium, The Boat â€” 28 June 2006, which also includes a link to FLACs.

02006-07-05

The Edwards & The Feldmans

We now have fish; some scissortail rasboras and a few threestripe corydoras. Not the most challenging of fish to keep, but entertaining and hardy enough (I hope) to survive this impractical fishkeeper.

I’m emphatically not naming them individually, but as groups: the corys are the Feldmans (though may yet become the Doctorows, since the spelling is closer), while the scissortails have to make do with being the Edwards.

02006-07-03

completely tanked

I spent most of yesterday setting up the aquarium. It’s an 120l one, so it’s a lot bigger and heavier than anything I’ve worked with before. It’s been running since then, getting the water ready, and I put in a couple of plants today. Real plants, that is; not the plastic ones that came with the tank.

The tank’s already got a couple of denizens; some tiny snails that were lurking on the plants. I don’t think they’re anything to freak out about yet. If they’re still alive in the morning, at least I know the water’s not completely toxic.

The biggest problem has been making sure the heater’s working. Today it’s been hotter in the house than the tank, so I don’t know if the set-point’s wrong.

02006-07-02