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Gollum vs. Regis Philbin@Everything2.com – THE REGIS CHEATS! It only asks riddles and not answers! UNFAIR! CRUEL REGIS! Perhaps we EATS the Regis soon? Yesss…. EATS HIM!

I wrote this up as part of a discussion from boingboing, but I should post it here. These are the gadgets I carry around regularly.

On the belt, a Motorola V101. Sure, it’s ugly as sin, bulky as hell, and sucks for actual voice calls. But it has a screen that you can actually read some text on and it’s beautiful for sending SMSes and using the ICQMobile integration just kicks ass. I think this phone is only available in Canada.

In my bag:

• Apple Newton MessagePad 2100. Still the most usable PDA ever created. I organize my life and my work tasks on this puppy, and wouldn’t change that for the world. Of course, I’m a little biased since I happen to also run a very large Newton mailing list… This is actually kept in a BurroPak padded sleeve inside the bag. If you were a Newton user and you remember the BurroPak from Landware, you get a gold star.
• Game Boy Advance with a 128 megabit flash cartridge. Real games on the go, and even Classic Nintendo games to boot.
• AVC Soul Player CD/MP3 player. Coupled with some Sony MDR-V150 headphones. I don’t need an iPod; CDRs are still cheap. If I scratch one, I just re-burn it from my hard disk at home.
• Canon PowerShot S230 camera. Man, I love this camera. It’s tiny, it’s 3.1MP, it uses CompactFlash, it shoots movie clips with sound, it has great low-light performance, and digital zoom that actually looks good. It has a Lexar 128MB CF card in it.
• AComData USB CompactFlash reader. It’s also nice and small. It’s mostly for using a 16MB CF card that I use to ferry files back and forth from work without exposing data to the wilds of the net. Also for showing photos from the camera on any PC, of course. For $20 minus $20 rebate, I wish I had bought two.
• Leatherman PST II multitool. For everything from a quick nail file to cutting wire. Also has a decent phillips-head screwdriver and three sizes of slot drivers, well suited for the inside of a PC case.
• Sanford PhD Multi. Stylus, Pen, Pencil, and only $15.

I’m back, 100% feeling fine. Returning to broadcasting at ya.

Sandy and I found a new apartment on Friday! It’s around the Don Mills & Sheppard area of Toronto, right across from Fairview Mall. It’s a nice building – possibly the only really nice one in that area – and it’s right on the subway, next to the mall, and 10 minutes away from Seneca, where Sandy will be starting her ECE course this summer. And it’s not in the ghetto. Ahem. I didn’t realize all the hoops you have to jump through to rent in Toronto – credit check, letter from your employer (or proof of other income), letter from your bank… but I did all that and we got it.

Yesterday it hit me like a sack of potatoes falling on my stomach. Today I am back, but running at around 80% capacity.

My cell phone does strange things when its battery gets really really low, like either turn on every pixel in the display, or just give a garbled display. Or the display is dying, which would suck and probably make me wish I had bought the stupid extended warranty.

I saw the following on a small unassuming sign at the north door of the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto:

The CBC is looking for people who would like to be in the audience at a special live edition of The National to be aired on March 6, 2003. The show would start at 8pm and would be a discussion of [something to do about war in Iraq, I don’t remember exactly what it said now]. There would be some audience participation and afterwards audience comments about the show will be taped and shown on The National the next day. People who are interested and can attend are asked to call (416) 205 5029 to be put on the waiting list.

I’ll go take a photo of the sign in a little while and post it up here.