We Saw a Chicken …

Category: goatee-stroking musing, or something

  • can we have more CN strikes, please?

    Hey, the GO train was (nearly) on time this morning, and there were plenty of seats!

  • I have teh spicy …

    I spent too long in Taste! this afternoon, and consequently spent too much on good hot sauce.

  • first LED

    Saw my first retail LED domestic bulb today – $14 at Rona. Looked more like a novelty than anything else, but it did have a stated 100,000 hour life…

  • avec wings and beer

    so we met last night; including Rannie, Eva (happy birthday today!), Arieh, Graham, and a bunch of other good folks (hey, I’m bad with names). We had beer and wings.

    Rannie taught us a nifty prefocus trick for quick portrait grabs. I shall be sure to use it.

  • GO Transit, you suck!

    I discovered last week that GO don’t have a central announcement system. That means that unstaffed stations like Kennedy and Exhibition always leave their passengers in the dark. Plus, the e-mail announcement system only alerts you if the train is more than 30 minutes late. I think by that time I would have gone home.

    No sign of that train yet …

  • scrummy scran from the HAL Burgers man

    I really like HAL Burgers (244 Adelaide). Good burgers, clever decor and decent beer. Not the cheapest burger I’ve ever had, but one of the better ones.

    Update, August 2007: oh no, it’s closed! Notice of Distress on doorway dating back to July, so again I’m the last to know.

  • Nanohazard Symbol Competition

    Here are the entries for the International Nanohazard Symbol Competition. Sadly, the competition is closed, but my entry, given below, would certainly have won:

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  • snarky van graffiti

    “if the sale of spray paint to minors was banned, I’d be dealing drugs and killing your kids. Now I’m an artist …”

  • prescient Upton

    One of the baddies in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is a political henchman called Bush Harper. No further comment is required.

  • true happiness have I found in self-assembly furniture

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  • good work, GO!

    I wonder if GO Transit could ever get a train running on time on the Stouffville line. Ten minutes late on an 18 minute journey.

  • Anssi, not ANSI

    Note to IKEA: while cheese has many excellent qualities — nutrition, sustainability, yumminess amongst them — it is not a suitable material for making nuts and bolts. While building an Anssi bar stool, I managed to round out just about every fastener, despite using good tools.

    Building the Anssi was especially frustrating, as it’s the only IKEA piece I’ve ever built that had such poor tolerances that everything needed slackened off in order to make the next part fit. It’s built now, though, and hasn’t imploded from internal stresses (yet).

    I bought it as a banjo seat, for while I was at Casa Wakefield in Missouri the other week, I noticed how good a bar stool is for comfortable playing.

  • T’aint what you coup (it’s the way that you do it)

    I know I shouldn’t, but every time I see the name of Fijian military coup leader Frank Bainimarama, the songs of this eighties girl group come to mind.

  • ack bleah

    I picked up a pack of Wrigley’s Doublemint Kona Creme Coffee Flavored (as they say) Gum in Missouri last week. I strongly advise that you don’t.

    To use the crude but apt expression coined by Jay Primeau to describe a badly-mixed Kahlua cocktail, it tastes like coffee flavoured ass. While chewing, it causes the gorge to rise (I think it’s the slightly minty edge of the gum base), and has an aftertaste akin to latte barf.

    Canada’s own Thrills Gum may still taste like soap (as it says on the package, and they’re not lying), but this is just … eww.

  • Year of ZOOT

    Happy 2007, folks!

  • thought for the day

    Dance as if no-one were watching.
    — anon.

    Laugh as if watching someone dance as if no-one were watching.
    — me.

  • happy solstice

    And we didn’t even need to sacrifice anything to bring the sun back. But don’t forget the old Scottish saw: “As the days lengthen, the cold strengthens.”

  • Frosty’s Drano (or the snowmen’s suicide pact)

    Catherine pointed out that the current Tim Hortons “Happy Holidays” campaign depicts an ill-advised, possibly fatal, beverage choice for snowmen:

    tim hortons suicidal snowmen

    To me, it’s clearly a suicide pact. They don’t want to see another summer. They’re going to a better place where it’s always ten below.

  • offis pahty

    We were let out early to go to our dinner at North 44° – shiny!

  • new tokens

    ttc tokens, old and new

    I rather like the new TTC tokens. Their swirly pattern makes them look asymmetric, but it’s a trick of the light.

    Wish I had one of the pre-1975 “SUBWAY” tokens, but alas …