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To be fully authentic, it would be on the sole of my foot …
If I wished to get a tattoo (which I don’t), I think it would have to be this:
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Everybody needs a Level 43 Tickle-Mimic
The display gets a bit mixed up under Linux, but Progress Quest is still delightful.It also has some of the best Release Notes ever:
 Changes for version 6.1:     * I really just don't remember.     * I also don't see how it could matter much.
Fetch me a teratoma!
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Power, at what price?
It’s the Canadian Electricity Association’s Electricity in Ontario week. Can’t you feel it in the air? A brochure, snappily titled “ELECTRICITY ARE WE GETTING VALUE FOR THE MONEY WE PAY?†[pdf] was in my dead tree media stack this morning. I think it’s trying to say our power is too cheap, as in this graph yoinked from the text:
But as ever, hand-picked statistics only tell half the story. Digging into the IEA Key World Energy Statistics handbooks for 2011 and 2012, the data look something more like this:Country
2010 Domestic Electricity Price / USD/kWh
2010 Annual Electricity Consumption per capita / kWh
Annual Cost per capita
Denmark
$0.356
6,329
$2,255
Japan
$0.232
8,399
$1,950
United Kingdom
$0.199
5,741
$1,142
France
$0.157
7,756
$1,216
United States
$0.116
13,361
$1,547
Canada
$0.095
15,145
$1,431
Mexico
$0.089
2,085
$185
So really, because Canadians use such an obscene amount of energy per capita (srsly; we should be ashamed of ourselves), the graph should look more like this:
So we’re not actually that inexpensive; solidly mid-range. Since our electricity price per kWh is so low, if we spent a little money on energy conservation, we could have really cheap power for everyone. -
The Yonge & St Clair Autoharp Guy
This guy sets up on the SE corner of Yonge & St Clair most afternoons, and plays endless variations on the above recording. He’s playing an autoharp with the chord bars removed, and run through a homebrew battery-powered amplifier with much reverb and distortion. A bunch of the burbly noises are 8kbit/s voice recorder artifacts from my phone.
Although the themes seem repetitive, I don’t think they repeat exactly every time. He seems to be in a happy place playing them.
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Site of some epic head-crushings
