I’m getting a little tired of this layout. It doesn’t lend itself to rapid updates, which is maybe why I don’t do them.
Glenn Gould and discarded newspapers, outside the CBC Broadcast Centre, Toronto. Do any American tourists know what this is? Probably not, ’cause they’re too busy riding in rickshaws that have ads like “HOT ‘OIL’ BODY MASSAGE”. Yeah. ‘OIL’.
The past few days I read two very interesting articles. One was called Power Steer and is about the production of beef in the US. It was pretty chilling, but very very well-written. I’ve since been reassured by some people that Canada does not produce beef like this, thankfully. I don’t think I’ll be buying any imported meat for a while.
The second was called Happy Birthday, North Korea and is a three-part article about one person’s visit to North Korea in September 1998. The descriptions of the total personality cult built around their leaders are very chilling. I still have to read part 3.
Yesterday was Evil Bus Day. Here’s why:
I hope this gets through alright, because I was messing with the script and may have broken it.
My grandmother’s funeral was on Sunday. There’s a lot of things I could say about the service, but above all I thought that everyone involved did the best job that they could have. My Uncle Adrian and Aunt Annette (the youngest and oldest siblings) did a very touching eulogy. My cousin Kassandra recited a poem she had written, something which I probably couldn’t have done. My dad gave the thanks at the end. Even the words of the Reverend were very appropriate.
All of the male grandchildren acted as pallbearers: we carried her down the steps of the funeral home to the hearse, and then from the hearse to her final resting place.
Beforehand, I was thinking in general about funerals. It occurred to me that funerals are the one family event where no one takes pictures. I thought that was a little strange, but I was happy when I saw my cousin Andrea with her SLR and my Uncle John with his digital. I wish I had brought my digital.
I also realized that this was the first time since some Christmas many years ago that the entire family was together. I don’t know all the whys or hows of why we all stopped getting together, but I don’t see any good reason for it. Our differences should make no difference – there are no wrongs between any of us. I know that a few of you read this space. Think about it.
Project upgrade-old-mac has just begun, and is almost complete! Now that I can actually see video (thanks to a borrowed Mac video to VGA adaptor), it’s time to make this box not-so-sluggish. I picked up 32MB of RAM for the little pizza box over lunch, which will upgrade it to 40MB. I’m also going to pick up an extra cache module off of eBay for dirt cheap (like $2). I think I’m going to stay with the installed MacOS 8.1 now. Anyways, here are the specs (once I upgrade it tonight):
And the machine name will be… Kensuke.
And as you can see from the two tests below, I can now submit stuff via a normal page – take that, evil corporate proxy server! This means I should be writing things more frequently, and at more normal times of the day. We’ll see if it breaks.
My grandmother died on Sunday – Mother’s day. She had been sick with Alzheimer’s disease for a number of years. I feel sad, but I also feel good that her suffering is over. I visited her last month for the first time in a number of years and it was very sad to see her, though I’m glad that I did. Her funeral will likely be on Wednesday.
seemed like a good title, considering I barely get time to update this lately. I still don’t have a web interface for my sorry-ass excuse for a blog system. But at least I wrote it all myself, and it doesn’t use insecure protocols to update, like blogger does. I don’t like blogger.
Switched to the bus from the train. It’s cheaper, has a more flexible schedule, and gets me home an hour earlier. I sacrifice a bit of comfort, but that’s liveable.
What else… work is going just dandy. Sure, it’s a Microsoft shop, but I can live with that. I do wish I had at least some more RAM in my machine, but what can you do – I’m a lowly co-op. Everyone’s happy with my work though, so I’m happy.
I think my Newton is developing the jaggies.
It’s sad. My pen calibration is drifting, and the right side fo the
screen has it the worst. I need to try and fix it. Can’t live without
Newton.