do you believe
I have a confession to make: I’m hopelessly addicted to BBC World, channel 501 on Sta rChoice. I can’t really explain why. I use to always watch BBC World News on CBC NewsWorld (every night at 6pm), and now I can watch it 24 hours a day. I also really like the new graphics and […]
radioactive sludge coffee
I’m happy to report that seven months in Zimbabwe has not damaged Leo’s ability to drink large amounts of alcohol. We ended up at this party with UTS Class of 98 people and a bunch of U of T Eng.Scis. The security guard for the building w as playing pool and drinking with us – […]
millions of peaches, peaches for me.
FINALLY, my replacement Newton MP2100 arrived from Apple today. It makes me ver y, very happy to have my life back. Tonight Leo will be getting back from Zimbabwe and I’m going to a little dinner / party thing that his parents are arranging for him. Should be good. I wonder if he’ll have changed […]
brand nubian
Meerkats are cute. Every time I go to the zoo I make sure to pay a visit to the meerkat exhibit. Those guys are just so damn cute. And pretty smart, too. Meerkat is a headline sweeper tha t collects headlines from tons of different news sites and shows you only the on es you […]
because l. ron hubbard holds the truth for all of us
Today I was not such a complete ass than I was last saturday. According to my gigantic master playlist, I have over 219 hours of music in MP3 format. That’s over nine days. This is good to know in case my CDs suddenly di sappear in a cruel twist of cosmic fate and the momentary […]
indulging in my self-defeat
I’m back from Easter weekend. I had no time to unpack any of my stuff before I left, and today I’ve only got my computer unpacked. I also moved my dad’s machi ne downstairs and set it up as a NAT router using the 56K modem, which also invo lved running 100′ of CAT5 from […]
aw crap.
Yes, I’m done. It totally hasn’t sunken in yet. All of my stuff is in boxes al l over the place. Today I’m getting dragged down to the cottage for the weekend . Aw fuck. I really don’t want to go, I have a list of a million things I have to do (especially reply […]
so I missed a million miles of fun
This morning I found this really strange Slashdot comment. I have never heard of the term “filker” before ever, but I immediately understood what the idea is – song s like this have been part of hacker culture forever. I was also trying to find some pages about the NEC Ultralite PC-17-02, and I rea […]
solving problems with a chainsaw
I finally got the status of my Newton Messagepad repair from Apple, no th anks to the people at their 800 number – bunch of clueless monkeys. I used 411 and the address on my copy of the courier waybill to find out the real Apple Can ada phone number, called and very nicely asked […]
disclaimer
Just in case you stumbled here by accident, I’d like to point out that things he re aren’t quite finished yet and so most links will be broken or pages will not look like the rest of the site. Everything will be fixed by May 1.
