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LEGO 7130 Star Wars Snowspeeder and LEGO 3408 Soccer Super Sport Coverage. New in box.

…when you try to brew a pot of coffee but forget to put the coffee in.

sigh…

Drought Reveals German WW2 Warship in River – Apparently the Danube has fallen so low in Serbia that old sunken German warships from WWII are resurfacing. Cool.

You know you want a huge Star Wars LEGO Set, don’t you?

I’m playing with the site, tweaking some things and starting to convert the old pages to the new look by MTifying the whole thing.

written on May 16 Around 1:00pm

Just before lunch, a homeless person walked with me for a few blocks. It was raining hard, and neither of us had an umbrella. He started talking to me at Queen & John, I was walking south to Metro Hall. He was an Aboriginal person, around 40 most likely. We talked about this & that: he said that his father was very rich, but he wouldn’t give him any money. He said he was from Manitoba: I said I’d never been out west, but I’d been out east. He said that when he was 16 he travelled all across the states, from California to Maryland.

Whether or not his story was made up or real, if he was really homeless or not I’ll never know. When he asked for money, I gave him $2 with little thought. Was I being conned? Did I really help someone, or just bring them $2 closer to their next drug purchase or jug of liquor? I’ll probably never know. But stranger things have happened in the city before, Maybe I’ll find out.

Just now I saw two police offices and two security guards escort a (homeless?) man from the Metro Hall food court. What had he done? It he just wanted to get out of the rain, what’s wrong with that? Strange juxtaposition on the last day of my job.

As you may or may not have heard, I’m moving to a new apartment this coming Thursday. Since a number of Newton sites are run by me, I though I’d give everyone here a heads-up of what sites may be down for an extended period of time. I do have a new 3Meg DSL connection on order, but whether it is lit up on moving day or 8-9 days afterwards I don’t know yet. Hence this list:

SITES THAT WILL BE AFFECTED:

-guelph.unna.org: this mirror will be completely down. Since all UNNA file submissions are run by this server, UNNA uploads will also be unavailable. -Error Codes DB (guelph.unna.org/errors/) will be completely down. -Searchable Newton Glossary (guelph.unna.org/glossary) will be completely down. -WikiWikiNewt (guelph.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/) will be completely down. -Misato NPDS Tracker Server (misato.chuma.org:2110) will be completely down.

SITES THAT WILL NOT BE AFFECTED:

-newtontalk.net -all other unna.org mirrors -www.chuma.org and my chuma@chuma.org e-mail

I’ll still be able to read my e-mail and post here, don’t worry. I will likely be very busy for a few days assembling new furniture with tiny little allen keys.

Since John was having some disconnected random moments yesterday, I realized that I had one this morning.

On my daily walk from the train station to work, I walked by the woman who I had sold Sandy’s old discman to a few weeks ago. And she was listening to it. Good to see good hardware go to good use.

uhm… apparently the high temp for Toronto today will be 21 Celcius… and Tuesday will be 27 celcius. 27! Last week it was freezing and ice storming! WTF!

Amazing: Honda Accord ad. This is not done with computer graphics.

You ever have one of those days where productivity starts out high, but then trickles off to the point where all you’re doing is endlessly looking for cool writeups on everything2?

…yeah.

Oh, in other news., still no news on whether or not the car is fixed. I will be calling at 4:30 sharp.