from the “ticket systems that are a ripoff” department
I’ve long hated movietickets.com. Every single movie at Famous Players has their ad in front of it, trumpeted about how easy it is, how you don’t have to line up, etc etc. What a crock of shit. I’ve never had to line up for tickets for two reasons: I always use the automated ticket machines […]
breaking the habit
Not smoking, thank goodness, but caffeine. My three coffee per day average is not a good thing. I blame the rich, smooth flavour of the free Starbucks at work though, not my own weak will to resist it. Anyways. Instead of having a coffee-coffee-coffee day I’m going to start having a coffee-coffee-green tea day. Green […]
ideas
I get tons of ideas. Mostly for software, web services, and the like. It’s kind of like I’m always thinking about how things can be improved, or what I want my computers to do and how to make it happen. The vast majority of these things never get done, because I forget them or I […]
WSJ.com – For His Sick Kids, a Father Struggled to Develop a Cure: Heartbreaking story of a father who quit his job and started his own biotech company in order to find a cure for his children’s fatal disease.
Felix
This is Felix, our latest addition. I totally can’t remember if I’ve posted a photo of him before, so here it is. Felix is a bit of a special cat. He is a polydactyl cat, meaning that he has extra toes on his feed. In his case, he has two extra toes on his left […]
I would find this a little bit annoying.
Super Regis Roving Robotic WebCam – drive this guy’s completely wireless robot (with camera) around his office.
Power, please
The above graph (click for full-size) shows Ontario’s current power demand (from The IMO) and available supply (from stories at The Toronto Star). I’m missing some numbers from yesterday and today, hence there’s a gap. This will update every hour.
I’m still around
as you likely already know, we power-hungry North-Easters sent ourselves spiraling into a blackout on Thursday. I was at work when it happened. At first we thought we had just tripped a local breaker, but then the UPSes in the nearby machine room began their bleeping chorus. It took about an hour an a half […]
Today is a photo day
Sculptures in the window of the King George Hotel, King St, Toronto.
