One of my favourite bands made 3hive today: Of Montreal
Author: scruss
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Today, I am 13000
Yup, 13000 days old today, according to my mildly-amazing 1000 Day Birthday Calculator. I don’t know where I got the idea for this, but it was back in my undergrad days, certainly before I hit my 10000s.
As there aren’t any birthday cards for these celebrations yet, I’ll just have to make my own. Happy Birthday To Me! Just don’t call me leooo …
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ice dog
two people walking their dog on the frozen Credit River near Port Credit
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12 hours to Burns night
So it’s Burns Night tonight. Will I partake of haggis? It’s basically made of the bits of an animal that no-one would pay to eat.
I’d just like to point out that, in Scotland, it’s Burns Night. For some inexplicable reason, it’s known as Robbie Burns Day here. Canadians, stop doing it, I beg of you. Burns Day is only celebrated by UK Accident & Emergency ward staff on November 6th.
I’d also like to point out that I’ve never been to a Burns Supper. Scottish celebrations (like tonight, Hogmanay, and St Andrew’s) seem to be an excuse to get thoroughly munted in the dark side of the year.
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Atanarjuat does the chores
Because I could, I decided to take the trash out barefoot tonight. It was a relatively mild -5°C, and there was about 20cm of really soft snow. I didn’t exactly hang around, but it wasn’t as cold as I thought it’d be.
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Colin Meloy РCaf̩ du Nord, San Francisco, CA Р16 January 02005
Following on from my Decemberists theme, here’s Colin Meloy – Café du Nord, San Francisco, CA – 16 January 02005 as MP3.
The torrent of the original files is on easytree.
Thanks to Allen/gilbert for getting these to me.
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Bob The Angry Flower RSS Feed (beta)
Bob The Angry Flower RSS Feed: http://scruss.com/btaf.rss
This is very beta, extremely hacky, and only updated once a day. It does hit Stephen’s site quite hard when it’s run, so what you’re seeing is static output from a cron job.
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… but my python’s gotta eat too, y’know.
After a flurry of anti-free-pet postings on Toronto Freecycle (including a post where the precious-beyond-words term persons-of-fur was used), they’ve gone and banned animal postings.
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Halifax Airport is officially pants
Halifax Airport is to be renamed after Robert Stanfield, whose family is well known for their underpants.
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pennerd
Oh dear, I think I’m turning into a fountain pen nerd. I’ve dug out my old Parker and Sheaffer pens, and with my Rotring 600s, I’ll soon be needing a pocket protector. I’ve even found a couple of inks I like: Sheaffer Turquoise, and Waterman Havana.
I like fountain pens. They’re cranky, unreliable, antiquated, and need constant attention and refilling. A bit like myself, I suppose …
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catherine’s site
I set up a site for catherine last night: c-raine.com.
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Rocker on Code Optimisation
When the code stops producing digestive reactions in others, stop refactoring.
— Alan Rocker
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YEP, Toronto
Young Environmental Professionals’ Toronto chapter has re-opened. They’re having their first meeting on Wednesday February 9 2005, 6:30 – 9:00 pm at the Bow and Arrow Pub (yay! best beer ever!).
The speaker will be Joe Mihevc, talking about Transportation in the GTA and its environmental impact. Here’s the YEP Toronto Re-launch Event Flyer, which has the RSVP details.
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Quest for the Lama on the B766
On Cinders McLeod‘s recommendation, I just read Anne Donovan’s Buddha Da. It’s the story of an ordinary Glasgow house painter’s search for Buddhist enlightenment. It’s written in quick, brilliant dialect, and is packed with humour and pathos.
There’s an excerpt from Ralph Magazine. There are a few typos, but you get the idea.
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The Moogle Project
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thinkpad t21, linux 2.4.28-gentoo-r5, and ACPI
If you find yourself running this kernel, make sure you remove all ACPI support from the kernel if you want to use the onboard 3Com Tornado 3c556B CardBus ethernet adaptor. You used to be able to get away with the acpi=off kernel parameter with 2.4.26-gentoo-rn kernels, but this doesn’t work any more.
This has been a Nerd Public Service Announcement.
