I stained the deck today.
Category: goatee-stroking musing, or something
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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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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.
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Proclamations
Take heed, fell people of Storex: may your website forever remain broken for the crime of putting a tamper-resistant product sticker on the front of my filing cabinet. The hour spent removing its tiny sticky shards was not a pleasant one, nor will it be one I get back, mark my words.
Know this, excellent people of Scraperite: your blades of finest vorpal plastic cut through the sticky clogging evil like enchanted senna through a dwarven granny.
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wildlife and environs
this former coffee time is abandoned again 
dim bulb by the RT track 
ducts and buses 
easter bunny unsurprisingly 
first groundhog 
second groundhog 
a delightful industrial scene 
abandoned rona 
no loading 
S A Armstrong building 
sheepsfoot wasteland (the abandoned donut shop has quite a history)
I also saw and heard a woodpecker: local woodpecker.
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the perils of tidyness
The cleaner at work threw away one of my My-Kaps, which allow you to reuse your Keurig K-Cups. This is annoying, as I’d just bought two, and only having one is a pain. They never usually tidy my desk (I think I’ve lost three “Please tidy your desk for cleaning” slips in the strata) so this is mystifying and annoying.
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too many instruments
I just counted, and found out that my instrument collection has 115 strings. I think I should thin the herd.
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acme of acmes
Acme Burger‘s second location at Bloor near Bathurst is just as awesome as the Queensway one.
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stewart’s rule of home networking
Three hours of frustration trying to configure a balky wireless router is better spent with a 15m Cat-5e cable fished through the cold air return.
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the action verbs of the Bush administration (according to the Bush administration)
I took all the action verbs used in “100 Things Americans May Not Know About the Bush Administration Record” (from the now-defunct The Bush Record) and linked them to web searches, so you can find some other opinions:
added, advocated, appointed, arrested, bolstered, called, committed, convicted, created, delivered, dismantled, disrupted, doubled, empowered, enacted, encouraged, established, expanded, focused, generated, halved, held accountable, helped, implemented, improved, increased, infused, instituted, invested, laid, launched, led, leveled, negotiated, outlawed, persuaded, prevented, prohibited, proposed, protected, provided, raised, reduced, removed, rescued, saved, secured, set on course, signed, supported, transformed, warned, weakened, withdrew, worked
If you’d rather search for images for these actions:
added, advocated, appointed, arrested, bolstered, called, committed, convicted, created, delivered, dismantled, disrupted, doubled, empowered, enacted, encouraged, established, expanded, focused, generated, halved, held accountable, helped, implemented, improved, increased, infused, instituted, invested, laid, launched, led, leveled, negotiated, outlawed, persuaded, prevented, prohibited, proposed, protected, provided, raised, reduced, removed, rescued, saved, secured, set on course, signed, supported, transformed, warned, weakened, withdrew, worked,
