Ritesh & Abhay introduced us to a great Indian restaurant — Mistaan, at 460 McNicoll. It’s mostly a Bengali sweet shop, but has a food counter. The chicken saag I had was great. We’ll be back.
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the late b.p. helium, live at The Boat, Toronto — 28 June 2006
- (intro)
- crying*
- reminder to self
- they broke the speed of light
- fela*
- i tried to make it with you
- (banter)
- bluebeard
- rabbit’s ear
- the curse of the trial
- raisa raisa
- the weeping soul
*: These short titles are taken from the setlist. I don’t have their full names.
Info page: the late b.p. helium, The Boat — 28 June 2006, which also includes a link to FLACs.
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The Edwards & The Feldmans
We now have fish; some scissortail rasboras and a few threestripe corydoras. Not the most challenging of fish to keep, but entertaining and hardy enough (I hope) to survive this impractical fishkeeper.
I’m emphatically not naming them individually, but as groups: the corys are the Feldmans (though may yet become the Doctorows, since the spelling is closer), while the scissortails have to make do with being the Edwards.
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completely tanked
I spent most of yesterday setting up the aquarium. It’s an 120l one, so it’s a lot bigger and heavier than anything I’ve worked with before. It’s been running since then, getting the water ready, and I put in a couple of plants today. Real plants, that is; not the plastic ones that came with the tank.
The tank’s already got a couple of denizens; some tiny snails that were lurking on the plants. I don’t think they’re anything to freak out about yet. If they’re still alive in the morning, at least I know the water’s not completely toxic.
The biggest problem has been making sure the heater’s working. Today it’s been hotter in the house than the tank, so I don’t know if the set-point’s wrong.
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Married To The Sea: a daily comic.
Married To The Sea reminds me of What a Life!, only like not written in 1911 or something.
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big trash
wish I could have carried it out; there was a HP 5000 GN (huge network printer) marked out as trash on the same floor of our office.
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FUNtain.ca
Steve Mann‘s done it again: the FUNtain.
Though totally different in scope, it reminds me of a device I saw at a street fair in Glasgow. This was a bank of drainpipes, arranged in a circle. One end of each pipe had a pressure washer head with a flat nozzle played across it, and the other end was stopped at just the right length to play a note. The pressure washer triggers were arranged as a keyboard, and there was a (laminated against water damage) music book on the console. You could play simple (if very loud) tunes.
I’ve never seen such a device since then.
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fame and fortune with the Billboard Battalion
Hey, that’s me in there: Eye – The De-signer Guys – 06.29.06
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the late bp helium rocked the boat
the late bp helium played The Boat last night, and as a wise man once said, the crowd roared like a lion. I love that psych guitar sound that he has, and the band is really tight together. I got a chance to chat with Bryan — whom I know from fegmaniax — and he’s a fine bloke. He has mad guitar skills, to boot; reminds me of The Soft Boys, with serious effects pedals.
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we’re talking fish
Called in at Finatics Aquarium (599 Kennedy Rd, Scarborough, ON, M1K 2B2 – 416-265-2026) yesterday. The owner, Mike Bandura, was very helpful for the complete novice fishkeeper. I think we’ll be stocking our new aquarium from there.
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have they even left yet?
Earliest back-to-school ever; Staples has some B2S displays, and I’m not even sure the kids are out of school for the summer.
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mark’s doodle, July 2001
Here is a drawing of a farting elephant, made by Mark Taylor, formerly of Collins Dictionaries.
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Stewart C. Russell – scruss.com
The move to Teksavvy has finally goaded me into moving my old Sympatico pages to scruss.com. Considering they’re still using 2003-style markup, I think they look quite smooth.
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you suck, Hershey’s!
We made a special detour via Smith’s Falls, and the Hershey factory store had no Payday bars. Aargh!
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pocket mail
Gmail works flawlessly on the BlackBerry. Wish I could find a general POP3 client for my other mail…
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in Quebec (just) for my birthday
Nice of them to have their holiday especially for me. It’s appreciated.
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dumb joke
Q: What is the little script-kiddy’s favourite movie?
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convert an angle to a bearing in excel
I can’t believe I had difficulty with this one for so long:
 =MOD(450-angle,360)
This assumes you’re measuring the angle in the usual Cartesian way; anticlockwise from the x-axis.