Archive for May, 2003

It’s been a tense few momemts…

But I finally confirmed that I GOT MY JOB!!!! It’s like a ten million pound weight has been lifted.

random things just because

Avril Lavigne song to be made into a movie for chrissakes. Somehow this is worse than the American Idol movie, I’m not sure how. Computer-controlled foosball player. This is damn cool. You have to look at the videos, I also got tickets for the badly-namedConcert for Toronto, which is going to be six hours long […]

263 new messages later…

…our phone line is back up! Finally!

Did I mention I hate Bell? I hate Bell.

Guess what happened last night? For no apparent reason, our phone line died! Zero! Nada! No power! No dial tone! No DSL line sync! I hate you Bell! I hate you! And can anyone tell me where the demarcation line between my wires and Bell’s wires could be? No, I didn’t think so.

written on May 16

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. […]

Rock-Paper-Scissors-Spock-Lizard – a slightly more complex way to solve disputes. Cool.

I’m losing my perspicacity!

What crappy awful weather today. Pouring rain all day. Have a job interview this afternoon at 3pm, sitting at my current desk for the last time now. Gotta collect my stuff, upload all of my files and crap somewhere to the network, turn in my security pass and SecureID keyfob, grab some lunch, run up […]

Tunnel underneath Union Station, Toronto.

if you want to be free, take a sip of this tea, join the red oyster cult

The new Guster album, Keep It Together, comes out on June 24th. Guster kicks mega ass. Also, they’ve made six out of the thirteen tracks on the album available for listening (not downloading, sort of) on their website – at the Guster Player. Super-secret stuff: the tracks are stored as MP3 files embedded into Shockwave […]

my tfnet experience

This was originally posted to the RBUA forums. Well, I promised in another thread that once I got my TFNet (Toronto FreeNet) connection setup I’d write a post about it. So, this is that post 🙂 I suppose it’s also sort of a good “what happens when you sign up for DSL” for people who’ve […]