We went to Makkal Chon (1975 Lawrence Ave E, near Warden) and had truly amazing Korean food. It’s such an unassuming little place, but worth it. Kal bi frenzy!
Category: goatee-stroking musing, or something
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slightly past the use-by date
Just changed the batteries in my Mini Maglite. Check the battery date:
I bought the batteries (and the torch) in an outdoor store in Truro, Cornwall in July 1993. I needed it to stop and start wind turbines at Carland Cross at night. The batteries still worked, if a little weakly. There are people driving younger than these batteries.One of the batteries was, like Mr Belpit’s legs, a bit swollen with age. After several fruitless attempts involving rare-earth magnets and superglue, I took off the lens, bulb (well, LEDs)Â and tail cap, and smacked it sharply against the floor. I could then lever the battery out with a sweetcorn skewer.
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NEW Series: Great Fax Machines of Wind Energy – #1: Zephyr North
Retired from office duty, Zephyr North‘s old fax machine does sterling duty testing phone lines at Cultus Wind Farm. -
Hino bark chips, kinda
His anti-forward-control prejudices notwithstanding, I rather like Joe Clark‘s highly geometric photo Hino gravel.
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bike ride, with rodents
I rode my bike last night and I saw nine groundhogs -
my blog from 1976
Discovered a cache of old jotters at my parents’ house, so first I give you steam trains.
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the moon; on being totally over it
With all the current hoopla over the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, I still stand by what I wrote four years ago:
I know I’ll never make it to space. I have no interest in messing up our environment here, just to get somewhere colder and less hospitable. I think I’m expected to be a space-nut, since I was born just before the moon landing, grew up with SkyLab and such, and became an engineer. But if it’s that much trouble to travel so short a distance in space, what chance have we in the stars?
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for *all* occasions?
Saw a van advertising “Bouncy Castles – for all occasions“. Wonder if they’d rent one for a funeral? Maybe in black, to keep it tasteful.
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it somehow makes me happy
to know that there is something in the world called a Pleasing Fungus Beetle.
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For All Your Pipeline Condition Assessment and Leak Detection Needs
I’m sure that if I had muncipal water assets to manage, I’d use the Pressure Pipe Inspection Company (PPIC) | Pipeline Condition Assessment and Leak Detection to detect money-wasting leaks …
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I’m all about the Black Sesame Soy Drink
Seriously, Sahmyook Black Sesame Soy Drink is amazing. A really rich, nutty, smoky flavour. It’s quite hard to come by – I bough a case of the tiny cartons today for $25 in P.A.T. Market East.I think it would be a hit if marketed to non-Korean folks. Sahmyook have an office in Thornhill, so the revolution starts there.
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how stained am i?
Before I stained the deck today.
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531 would never do this …
Busted Carbon shows some fancy broken bikes. Never ride anything that doesn’t have metal to metal contact.
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q happiness
I have found Toronto BBQ happiness at Highway 61.
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tasty korean noms
… can be had locally from P.A.T. Market East, at 1973 Lawrence Avenue E (near Warden). Black sesame soymilk is me. All I need now is the fabulous Korean steel chop sticks and spoon combo, and my utensil joy is complete.
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mercifully gore free
So I shaved with an open razor for the first time today. Not a proper hollow-ground steel, but a shavette, which is a handle that takes regular rzor blades split in half. With only one tiny cut, I managed to kinda get a proper shave, but it was slow. The ergonomics of it are weird; to hold it comfortably, you can barely see the blade in the mirror.
I had to finish off shaving with my regular Merkur.
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let’s hope not in the British sense …
Joe Clark’s ‘The Cranky Copyright Book’ launches tomorrow.
