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Posts Tagged ‘General’

Well that was fun…

796 A few years ago, I took a trip home to see my parents and flew part of the way on a Dash-8. The trip itself was unremarkable, but I did manage to get a neat picture of an airplane propeller, which I’ve since managed to lose somehow — it might be buried in a [...]

Happy New Year!

Have a good one, everybody. That’s all. Technorati Tags: General

State Run Media and the Illusion of Discourse

I have just awoken from a late morning / early afternoon nap. I had a breakfast of left-over chinese food. The sun is shining and the new snow is melting faster than it is accumulating. I love this new weather. my radar widget in a state of confusion this morning, decided to draw in the [...]

An Open Letter to the Kid Who Gave Me SARS

Dear Kid, Cover your effing mouth when you cough. Do not cough on people. It’s rude, disgusting and spreads your filthy little germs. Dear Kid’s Parents, Don’t bring your infected kid on a plane and then make him sit next to someone who hasn’t been exposed to your foreign germs. Try instilling some manners in [...]

For Beltzner: His Favorite Sign

we walked past this a bunch of times in the past few days, but I didn’t notice it until B pointed it out. It’s a pretty serious-sounding sign. I took a picture for him. If you’re wondering where I’ve been this past week, I’ve been in Toronto with my friends and colleagues gettin’ it done. [...]

Inconsistent Metrics

In between turns of Civilization, I’ve been tweaking the stylesheet that drives this crazy thing called blog. I’ve managed to tighten up some of the margins and the sidebar looks quite a bit better (if I may say so) after adding in a couple new widgets. So if you were by tonight and things looked [...]

Orange Long Weekend

I think I’m fairly settled on this theme for now. I’ve got it to where I think it looks pretty good. My one beef is the sidebar disappearing to the bottom of the page in small browser windows. I’ll fix that later with some trickier stuff. In the meantime, please make your browser bigger. This [...]

A travelog, YOW->SFO in 12 hours

6:38 You know you’re travelling more when you start recognizing the staff and crew at the airport. I believe dria said something like that a couple of years ago, and I finally know what she means. From arrival this morning at the ridiculous hour of 5:30am until checking through security to my gate, I encountered [...]

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