Archive for July, 2002

why does the cool stuff always die out…

… and why do I end up buying it? Picked up a Siemens Pocket Reader the other day for cheap. Neat little thing, works pretty well. What am I going to do with it? I have no idea, but I’m sure it’ll come in handy as long as I keep it [...]

no talking

There should be no talking in the men’s room. Period. Unless it’s to say “You have toilet paper stuck to your shoe.” I can’t stand people who conduct impromptu business meetings in there. Some of us are trying to concentrate, you know.

light-rail coyote

The new Sleater-Kinney is good. I must say one thing though: it is loud. There aren’t any pansy-ass tracks on this album; not that I didn’t enjoy You’re no Rock and Roll Fun from All Hands on the Bad One. That’s my favourite song from that album. But One Beat is heavy: either grinding guitars, [...]

megapixel madness

Photos from my recent trip to Yugoslavia are up now.

one beat

New Sleater-Kinney CD is out on August 20. That, along with Super Mario Sunshine for GameCube on August 26, is what I will be blowing my money on that month… In other news, today’s my birthday. In other other news, people in Toronto are really rude. And they park badly. But their [...]

Guide: How to spot American tourists in Toronto

Even with the current state of garbage collection in Toronto, tourists are still here in droves. Since I work very close to the SkyDome and CN Tower, I see lots of tourists at street level. Here’s a quick guide on how to spot an American tourist in a crowd. (Not that I have anything against most [...]

frontier psychiatry

So I’m back, in the country and on my website. While I was gone, Stan moved, and where Stan goes, the server goes, and where the server was going, a new DSL hookup had to be done, and anyone who’s been there know how bad that can go. So we’re back. And PHP got upgraded, [...]

PHP 4.2…

nothing like upgrades breaking my scripts! Bad, bad php.