Zoë just drew this. No-one is quite sure why.
Category: goatee-stroking musing, or something
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Are You A Happy Carrot?
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We’re going to die out, you know that?
Signs of our impending extinction: that someone would expend effort to add a self-portrait mirror to a camera phone just so you can send pictures of yourself over the phone.We’re all doomed, but some of us are more doomed than others.
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Today, I am 13000
Yup, 13000 days old today, according to my mildly-amazing 1000 Day Birthday Calculator. I don’t know where I got the idea for this, but it was back in my undergrad days, certainly before I hit my 10000s.
As there aren’t any birthday cards for these celebrations yet, I’ll just have to make my own. Happy Birthday To Me! Just don’t call me leooo …
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pennerd
Oh dear, I think I’m turning into a fountain pen nerd. I’ve dug out my old Parker and Sheaffer pens, and with my Rotring 600s, I’ll soon be needing a pocket protector. I’ve even found a couple of inks I like: Sheaffer Turquoise, and Waterman Havana.
I like fountain pens. They’re cranky, unreliable, antiquated, and need constant attention and refilling. A bit like myself, I suppose …
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The Moogle Project
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mmmm, croissants …
Old employer, new logo. Don’t you think it looks like a tasty croissant? I do.
If you go to their site http://www.collins.co.uk/dictionaries, you’ll see an animated Flash version of the logo, which looks awfully like the Firefox browser throbber. Hmm.
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strange, strange dreams
There are land-based crustaceans, looking a little like both a prawn and a rabbit, that are a common source of food. What’s doubly confusing is that these dreams are coming with a hefty sense of déjà vu, such that I seem to remember having these dreams a long time ago.
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pen perfect
I just scored a beautiful black Rotring 600 fountain pen on eBay. I have always wanted one of these. It writes beautifully.
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drain, pt2
The city came to do the drain last night. They found bad stuff, but the guy was pretty sure it was on city property. Sure enough, when they came to CCTV the drain this morning, the city pipe was cracked and badly offset. So yay!, we don’t have to pay.
Unfortunately, we do have to pay up for the basement damage. Since this happened before, we have a monstrous deductable on our insurance policy. The City of Toronto Water and Wastewater Services (whose people have been great, so far) limit claims to $500, and we may not be eligible. So we’re going to be out of pocket, but not as much as we were in Januay 2003.
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aarggh! delivery.ca and pizzaville.ca suck monkey bum!!
We like Pizzaville pizzas. We are shy, and can order them online at delivery.ca with no human interaction.
We ordered our favourite pizzas tonight, and waited. And waited. And waited! And waited!! So I call them. After getting hung up on once, they explain that the store we order from is closed, and so we can’t get deliveries. They claim that they called us. We don’t think so.
This is, frankly, crap customer service. We’re going elsewhere. The pizzas from 241 may taste of cardboard, but at least they deliver.
Oh yeah, and delivery.ca seriously endanger your credit card information by sending your data unencrypted to the server. I’d make that illegal, if I could. It’s the dumbest thing ever.
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pride comes before a Phaal
This is dumb: I just ordered what could be a murderously hot curry from the local takeout. Wish me luck!
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drain
Ah, the joys of home ownership: our main drain has done a bad thing again. A couple of years back, it was so choked with roots from a city tree that it flooded the basement with icky stuff. This time, it just made a wet patch on the floor.
It seems that the tree (planted about 50 years ago with the house) has got into the city’s pipe, partially collapsing it. We share this outlet with our neighbours, so it’s going to be more involved getting it fixed.
There are a couple of other houses in our short stretch of street that have needed this work done. Much as I like trees in the urban environment, when they get in your drains, it’s personal.
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But how can fish stand?
Finnie to outline fishing stance. Aptly named, or what?
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your spiny little buddy
I saw that they had the cutest critters in the pet store: hedgehogs! Best to keep ’em away from balloons, tho’.
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Single Serve Coffee.com – why?!
We have to wonder why Single Serve Coffee.com – The One Cup Coffee Lovers Weblog exists. We already have th perfect ‘single serve’ coffee in the shape of a coffee grinder and a one-cup caffetière. And there’s no waste involved, unlike a pod machine.
I predict that in five years’ time, the single-serve coffee maker will be the yard sale sandwich toaster of today. The manufacturers will come out with new and incompatible pods, or stop supply altogether.
Remember, there are only two things you need to know about coffee: the perfect flavour for coffee is coffee; the perfect addition to coffee is nothing. Thus endeth today’s lesson.
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i like to caress rusty cameras …
Derek just bought an old view camera on eBay. If you’re quick, you’ll still find the original item listing. Here’s an image of its ground glass:
Now, look at that, and tell me that it’s not the image of David Firth’s disturbing Salad Fingers character?
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happy st andrew’s day!
I’d almost forgotten about it …