Archive for December, 2002

trains, trains, trains.

An old St. L & H train car, sitting on a tail track just outside of Union Station, Toronto.

It’s time to play… what’s wrong with this picture?

Wow. The US did something right?

This crap. So they stop the ship. It’s carrying missiles. The US suspects that they may be being shipped to a “potential terrorist nation.” WTF is that? I’ll bet about half the world is a “potential terrorist nation” by now. No one really likes the US anymore – other nations are giving them weird looks, […]

All good platforms must come to an end.

Last night I had a nice chat with Jon about gaming consoles and the like. He reminisced about his Genesis and 32x, while I can only dream of one day owning a NeoGeo. At least I have its little cousin. Anyways, because of that it was ironic to see that today IBM has announced that […]

the UNIX way wins out

Today was a good day. After banging my head against ADSI and ADO, I finally solved my problem the UNIX way: with a Perl CGI program. w00t.

hrmmm…

If I was sending a package of CDs to an apartment across from the Pentagon (which I am), would it be a good thing or a bad thing if I wrote “NOT ANTHRAX” across it, considering that the first package of CDs that I sent were damaged beyond use?

addition of condiments or cheese alters nutrition content

I just realized today why those bonus stamps you get from Subway have the store number and ticket number printed on them: so that when you hand it in, they have a record of which stores you’ve been to: geographical data. Or maybe I had too many bowls of paranoia flakes this morning… Today I […]

fill our christmas socks with whiskey drinks and chocolate bars

mmm, that would be good. Woman jump-starts her car with infant. No, infants can’t be used as jumper cables. Infants, however, can swallow small ICs usually attached to keys that emit a small signal when brought close to the ignition, necessary for the car to start. This is also another reason not to buy a […]

hey, wow, life keeps going.

Curiously enough, that last entry was #500. Which makes this #501. Funny that. Today is your typical first day at work: got office, got PC, got logins, mysteriously don’t have phone. Hey, three out of four ain’t bad.

I hope we’re all on the same page here…

…everyone has noticed that Americans have gone completely wacko, right? I mean, at least when it comes to certain things. Take this, for example. Now, I rode the Greyhound a lot over the summer, and I can’t think why these people wouldn’t have just gone and tried to talk to the driver before, say, firing […]