I misread this CBC headline “Allawi accuses U.S.-led coalition of negligence in ambush of Iraqi recruits“, and I thought, wow, that’s a whole new coalition, and a whole new ballgame!
Category: General
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Not Wilde About It
Wilde show flops after one night. I guess that’s what you get when a 1980s MOR DJ does culture.
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spam action
Okay, I’ve now installed ThreeStrikesSPAM and Kitten’s Spam Words. This should help with my comment spam problem.
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bagel
I made bagels this morning. We just ate them. Yum. -
the servers cannae take it
I see that Norvin‘s company Zenon Environmental has made Salon, and then on to Slashdot. Let’s hope your servers can handle it (even if /. is pointing to the wrong URL, when it should be discussing ZeeWeed® 1000).
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thanksgiven
Belated thanks to the Bowyer family for inviting us over to their home near Wingham for Thanksgiving. We had the best time, and I took too many pictures — the image above links to a gallery. -
kanguq monday
Saw a pair of snow geese in with the usual gaggle on the fields near Burlington station. It really must be winter.
Oh, and it is still there …
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magical thinking in Scarborough
I was thinking about skunks last night as I walked home from the TTC. When I rounded the corner in our street, what should I see but everyone’s favourite stinky animal, scurrying down the street.
Just as well I wasn’t thinking about grizzlies.
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ex-bat
There was a dead bat on Front St. It looked like it had flown straight into the Dominion Public Building; a very solid stone building. And to think that one dead bat can cause all sort of kerfuffle on a wind farm …
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Radio Silence
Wouldn’t you know it, but my tablet recipe appears to have fallen off the net? It’s supposed to live here: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/scruss/scots_tablet, but it appears to have gorn. Such irony after wowing GTABloggers with it last night.
Happy Thanksgiving, eh!
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Not that I do, of course
Friends who orienteer are the best, given that you (and they) know where they are.
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frail out!
Who knew that boingboing would actually register when a banjo tutorial fell under creative commons licence? The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo
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life advice #31a
Don’t put your business card holder through the wash.
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Russia ratifies!
Russia Ratifies Kyoto! So that leaves those other backward countries out in the cold.
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I had a worse roommate, once
At Word on The Street today, I met Jim Munroe, author of An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil. He was eating a particularly evil sandwich at the time.
Sorry, Jim, but you did choose the pose!
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Grocery gateway: now with added uselessness
I used to be mad about Grocery Gateway. Now I’m mad at them.
Our last (and by last I mean final, never again, not just most recent) order was a disaster:
- the delivery was made 15 minutes before our delivery window, at 5:45am.
- the driver did not call beforehand.
- the driver was discourteous to Catherine.
- only 2/3 of the items we ordered were delivered.
- some of the items appeared to be dirty and badly handled.
- they’ve put an extra inexplicable charge of $75 on my credit card.
I e-mailed a complaint on the morning of the delivery, and an automated reply promised me a response within 24 hours. A week later, an anodyne semi-human response trickled in, hardly worth the bits it was printed on.
The whole Grocery Gateway/Longo’s debacle has caused quite a stooshie on GTABloggers, with voxpopgirl more than sharing my outrage. A self-described PR-flack for Longo’s tried to make amends by saying how much in debt GG was, how Longo’s pride themselves on exemplary customer service, how hard a job it was, blah blah, rhubarb rhubarb. No ice was cut.
Longo’s cancelled the order of a person with disabilities. Is it possible to get worse PR than that?
Good riddance,Longo’s Grocery Gateway. I won’t shop with you any more, and I’d strongly recommend other to take their money elsewhere.
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Which part of … do you not understand?
Yay Canada Post, for bending my hard-earned BCS charter certificate out of shape. -
Saved by the hat!
Last week, I rather foolishly left my wallet in the company truck when I came off site. Not merely did it contain all my money and cards, but it also had my TTC pass, so without it I couldn’t get home. It didn’t contain my GO train pass, which meant I could get an inconvenient distance from the office truck before realising I could get no further.
Stranded on the platform at Union Station, I suddenly remembered the advice in my Tilley hat‘s manual about putting “a $10 bill into the plastic bag in the pocket of the crown“. Hurrah!
Sometimes it does pay to read the manual …
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there’s a ghost in my house
I just got Robyn Hitchcock‘s new album, Spooked. It’s early listening days, but it sounds a great one. -
gum mug
What have they done with Wrigley’s Extra Peppermint Gum? It’s got a big Improved Flavour banner, but it tastes kinda cinnamony, kinda soapy to me.
At least it doesn’t taste like Thrills Gum, the tagline of which is “it still tastes like soap!“. But Extra Peppermint gum was one of my favourites, and now I’ll have to try something else.