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Time to get more t-shirts. Via boingboing I found this awesome place called Jinx that sells really cool geeky t-shirts like these.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | At play with firm’s clone kittens – Uhh… apparently now they can clone cats with a high degree of success. Genetic Savings & Clone

Last night when I got home I was incredibly tired. But it was the day to put a second coat on the “Blue Monster”: that’s the huge wall in our stairway that we’re painting blue. I moped around a bit and then did it with some help from my friends Mr. Extension Pole and Mr. Ladder.

I try not to look at the walls after I paint them, because they never look right until they are completely dry. Still, I peeked at the wall this morning and it probably needs some more work.

This morning while walking through BCE Place with the morning rush, I almost wiped out when a woman in front of me stopped to pick something up Off the ground. I turned around just long enough to see her lift her foot and pick up — I Swear — a contact lens. Shudder

In this guestblog writeup on BoingBoing.net, John Shirley talks about what I’ve been thinking about marketing for the last 10 years: the lack of ethics, and the extreme tinkering with brain control going on.

Best part of the writeup:

A marketing guy at Toyota complains–he’s complaining about this!–that young people “have the total ability to block out anything they don’t want to get through…that’s what makes this animal so scary.” The Wired writers don’t seem to see, no one seems to see, which animal is really scary. What’s scary, dude, is that you think it’s scary that these guys have the free will to block out your advertising. Hey, there’s media overload, in our society, there’s advertising OD; people learn to block it out or their brains crash like an overtaxed computer.

CBC News: Prince Charles in ‘near miss’ – Damn it! Near miss?!

Post-wedding life has begun! And I’m happy to report that nothing has changed 🙂 We came back from the Dominican well-rested but happy to be back home. We really missed our cats and our families. And ahem DSL.

First of all, the wedding went off without a hitch! There was some last-minute hyperventilating right before the ceremony as we had no idea where the band was… but they showed up with a minute to spare. We both remembered all our lines at the ceremony. Neither of us could remember how long the whole thing took, but it was far and away the happiest moment of my life.

The reception was tons of fun. We danced up a storm and so did a lot of other people. The music was great and no one got hurt, although apparently some cupcakes were thrown…

But we had an early flight to catch, so we left the reception and went straight to the airport hotel.

More about our trip later…

wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding.

That’s what’s going on.

The preparations are going fairly smoothly though.

Right now, installing Java on Manrake 9.2 is pissing me off (why are you coredumping! ARRGH!) as well as Mozilla 1.6 (no, I didn’t double click, don’t open 15 messages in separate windows now, also don’t close TWO tabs, just one please!)

We are packed for our trip already and the thought of doing nothing in paradise for two weeks is really really starting to look good.

Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick any two – the essential mantra of any software engineer.

Al Gore’s address at NYC, May 26, 2004 – can I just print of a million of these, visit the States and start handing them out?

Contact Sheet – 1940s pamphlet on how to use… the phone. Great line drawings in this one.