Aargh. Catherine woke me up with, “Did you mean to sleep in until 6:30?”
The answer to that one’s no. I mean, I now know I can get out the house in less than half the time I usually do, but that’s not to say I enjoyed it.
Author: scruss
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So I’m a word nerd …
And consequently, I love this: Online Etymology Dictionary
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Happy Kyoto Day!
It’s a very small and inadequate thing, but that journey can’t be started without the first step.
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Well, that was painless …
I’ve updated to WordPress 1.5. Dig the slowness.
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Don’t try this at all: Microwave Storm In A Teacup
Made my usual coffee in the office today; mug of water in the microwave for 2:34, and a couple of tablespoons of Alternative Grounds sustainable, organic Costa Rican waiting in the Mug Mate. I didn’t think much of the fact that I had about 2/3 of my usual liquid level in the mug, and threw the filter in anyway.
A couple of seconds of extreme frothing over later, I realised this was not so smart. I’d superheated the water, and the grounds and mesh of the filter were providing excellent bubble nucleation sites. Apart from having to mop up very weak coffee from a very wide area, no harm was done. I certainly didn’t come anywhere near burning myself.
Snopes’s article on the microwave boilover urban legend is pretty good, despite the noxious popups.
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new lemon jelly!!!!!!!!!1111111111!!
The new Lemon Jelly CD, ‘64–‘95, is fantastic. It even has CanCon; William Shatner on the last track.
LJ haven’t lost their sense of humour. According to their fan site, they’re playing St Kilda. I’m sure the puffins will love ’em.
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CIC Canada | Citizenship Applications
Looks like I might need these soon: CIC Canada | Citizenship Applications
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Heeee’s the maaaaan with the goooolden guuuuun…
Goldfinger, as you’ve never heard it before; on banjo: Gold Finger — Peter Stampfel (live, MP3).
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MP3: Robyn Hitchcock: Demos and Rough Sketches – October 1990
Fantastic tracks, many of which I’d never heard of before: Robyn Hitchcock: Demos and Rough Sketches – October 1990.
This will only be up for a week or so, as there’s only so much disk space a man can have.
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When astroturfing a blog, don’t do it from the office …
Ah, the Grocery Gateway/Longo’s buyout debacle. I thought it was but a distant memory until I received this comment to the blog. Here it is, in its raw, uncommented, unedited form:
Author : Bob C (IP: 206.186.239.130 , mail.longos.com)
E-mail : mephistopholes_826@hotmail.com
URL :
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=206.186.239.130
Comment:
I have been ordering from Grocery Gateway throughout the entire mess, and they have really improved. Finally I can get all that I need, on time, and in reasonably good condition. What they need is to carry all the products on Longos stores (Longos is excellent) and debit.Look at the posting address: 206.186.239.130, aka mail.longos.com. Yeah, that’d be a Longo’s employee trying to be teh smrt d00d and pretending to be a loyal, and above all not-in-any-way-related-to-Longo’s, customer.
Jings, what do corporate lackeys have for brains these days?
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Catherine’s Favourite Pedestrian Crossing
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RIP Talk Energy
I haven’t heard a peep out of Talk Energy since 25 January, so I’m afraid to say it must have disappeared. The site no longer resolves for me. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. I wish Darrin well with his next (current?) project.Oops, spoke too soon. Talk Energy has started resolving again. It’s just that their RSS feed was broken.
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personal BND today
Catherine and I are trying to have a Buy Nothing Day today.
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linksys, bittorrent, and ports
Just so I don’t have to answer this again. If you use a Linksys router, and appear to be firewalled when you use BitTorrent, do this:
Go to Status / Local Network / DHCP client table. See what your local IP address is. It’s likely to be between 192.168.1.100 and 192.168.1.150.
Go to Applications & Gaming / Port Range Forwarding, and enter:
Application: bittorrent
Start: 6881
End: 6999
Protocol: TCP
IP Address: (your local IP address that you found earlier)
Enable: Yesand save changes. Your ports will be open!
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happy ears!
I always thought that earbuds would never work for me; they always seemed to fall out. While I like my Sennheiser open headphones, they need to be cranked up to almost full volume to hear over the TTC’s rumbling.
I just got a pair of Sony earbuds with different-sized earplugs, and sure enough, with the left ear set one size smaller, they stay in. They also sound great!
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bad Boing Boing! no cookie!
Aiiee! Boing Boing started to send out ads in its RSS feed! It was attached to this story: RIAA drops P2P case against dead non-computer user. Suxx0rs …
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Notice of Winter Smog Watch
Good work, you polluters: Notice of Winter Smog Watch. It’s February, and they’re talking about smog …
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biccyepiphany
I’m glad we went to Denninger’s for lunch today. I discovered that they sell my favourite biscuit ever, that being McVitie’s Café Noir. Better known to the rest of Europe as Verkade Café Noir from the Netherlands, these brittle sugar/coffee glazed biscuits are the best. When I was a nipper I could scoff half a pack in a sitting, and I haven’t lost the knack. They’re every bit as good as I remember them.
Shame they’re owned by evil big tobacco …
