Category: goatee-stroking musing, or something
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We found tastiness at Makkal Chon
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!
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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.
