Just what happened yesterday
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. […]
John Shirley on marketing turning into brainwashing
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 […]
The Newton is heating up again…
The Newton community is attracting a lot of attention in the media again. Since the upcoming World-Wide Newton Conference has attracted ex-Newton engineers as well as enthusiasts, and former Apple CEO John Sculley is the honorary president of the Worldwide Newton Association, we’re getting press in places like Wired and Slashdot, and hopefully a few […]
back on tour, 1-2-3
Snagged the new Prodigy album/EP/whatever the other day. I’d heard the single ‘Girls’ before and it felt sort of lukewarm, and so did a lot of other people. Well, I’ve been listening to the album and I’m hooked on it, especially the track “Wake up Call”. So much grinding guitar goodness.
bloody comment spammers
I’ve gotten over 50 comment spams in the last two hours. Therefore I’ve intentionally broken comment posting for now.
paint everywhere!
We can now safely say that over half of the inside of our house is painted. We went on a painting blitz this weekend. There are only three basic painting tasks left! Finish second coat on “The Blue Monster” – the single largest wall in the house, in the stairway – including ceiling detail and […]
It’s my barf-day
Yay me! I’m 24 today. Yesterday my parents and Sandy and I went out for dinner. Unfortunately last night Sandy woke up with food poisoning 🙁 I wasn’t feeling too hot either, plus I’ve gotten only 4 hours of sleep the last few nights because of Oliver hogging my side of the bed. So today […]
why Canadian cell phone companies suck.
It’s that time again… time to bitch about cell phone plans! Our contract with Rogers is up at the end of August, and Sandy is adamant about shopping around. I’m always up for getting a better deal, and for technology-related shopping, so I’ve already started looking at the companies again (Rogers, Telus, Bell, and Fido) […]
happier things that we did this past weekend
Besides caring for Oliver, we did do some other stuff this weekend: On Friday we went to the last Erin Smith Band show for… a long time! Mike, their drummer, is off to BC for a while, so the band is going on an official hiatus. Nia at C’est What was packed and most of […]
