Archive for January, 2007
Funny U-Tube dealio of the day
Thanks to Tiffany for sending me this…
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Look —>
I added Meebo to the blog. Not sure if it’s useful or not…let me know what u all think. It does seem to think I’m off line right now so maybe it doesn’t work so well? I dunno. Anyways…there.
BTW—comments now outnumber posts on the blog. Yay.
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Tribute
Like many kids, growing up I had four grandparents; my dad’s parents and my mom’s parents. My dad’s parents lived in Lethbridge Alberta and my grandad raised pigeons for racing when I was really small. This hobby ended for him when I was in my early teens as he just got too old [...]
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So Duane made a pretty cool post on trackbacks and used me as an example. I’m thinking he used me cuz he knew i’d track him back to help demonstrate his words in action. So I’m tracking him back. Now those of you who came here from his post (both of you) [...]
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Nice…
I made the better part of 6 figures last year, and thanks to some bullshit lies and self promotion from others combined with some bad decisions I’ve got myself into a situation where I can go to either my grandpa’s funeral next week or my brother’s wedding next month. Only one of em. [...]
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Tomorrow at about 11:30 PM
…will be a complete week without smoking. It’s been easier than I thought it would be and yet harder than I ever imagined, if that makes sense. I have these moments where my mind tells me I should be smoking, and it puts me on edge. It takes about 10 minutes for [...]
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It’s the principle of it, I’m sure. See our sales tax got lowered several months ago. What this means is that the newspaper, which used to be .75 cents is now .74 cents. I buy the paper every day, so I know. So there’s a little news stand below the office here, a little kinda [...]
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Creepy Search Term of the day
So looking in my stats today, I see that one of the search terms that brought someone to my blog was “Mickey Mouse Club upskirt”. Now…maybe i’m out to lunch here, but am I the only who finds it creepy and offensive that someone would be searching for such a thing? Seriously… die, loser.
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I dunno whether to think this guy is a genius or an obsessive compulsive geek. Or both. But…wow!
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Well, so after several hours of surgery and a day of hope that it made it thru, at 3:10 PM yesterday my Nokia N-70 succumbed to injuries sustained in the infamous toilet incident. It was turning on fine, and all the menus worked even if the up down button was toast, but when Ruth [...]
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The Good:
1: I had said in my New Years’ resolution blog that I’d be quit smoking by the 15th. Well, today is the 15th and it’s day 3 without a cigarette. It hasn’t been especially difficult other than the odd moment where I get a massive urge to light one up…usually [...]
Filed under: Heart, Soul, Soundtrack | 4 Comments
…toe rubbers that is. Friday I was wearing a suit to work as we had some VIP’s coming by and had my fancy dress shoes on. The weather report said a bit of snow in the morning but it was getting up to 8 degrees and sunny in the afternoon so it should [...]
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Every decade or so a CD comes out that kind of grabs a group of people and speaks so intimately to them it becomes a part of their souls. Won’t Get Fooled Again, Goat’s Head Soup, Revolver, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Led Zeppelin IV, The Joshua Tree, Appetite for Destruction, The [...]
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Blogspace reality check…
***/me puts on the ol’ MadVoiper hat…****
Ahhh sometimes it’s sweet to live in a bubble of self generated pseudo reality. When we spend alot of time inside a particular industry or media we tend to lose perspective on things outside that, and we start to generate our own reality.
Andy Abramson wrote a post on [...]
Filed under: Brain, Chains and Wires and Wireless too | 3 Comments
Whee the sun’s out (kinda)
During the rainy season here it makes sense to take advantage of the sun when it comes out. You don’t get many chances when you’re not at work to see it, and for me (someone who has a tendency to get the blues from the grays) it’s doubly important to catch what rays there [...]
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An inconvenient quandary
I walked into an offtime discussion yesterday between super engineer RJ and super tech writer CB (the other CB) about pollution and solutions. They were talking a bit about kyoto and exchanging credits and all that, and the conversation kinda of shifted into possible environmental solutions. I’m of the opinion that this is [...]
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Vancouver Province is pretty much a cheesebag newspaper… They delight in making the controversial big news and getting a rise out of people. Today they did it again, starting off with a bunch of articles about how shitty people can be. The first page of the paper today…3 articles:
1: “Savage attacks on three women” [...]
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Now how’d that happen?
A mostly true story:
“There’s something about you. I don’t know what it is, but it greatly intrigues me.”
“You said you weren’t in a position to go there.”
“Sigh…I did indeed. And I wasn’t. “
“And now cuz of circumstances things have changed?”
“I’m not really sure where I am now…but you’ve got that one backwards.”
“It was ten days [...]
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WordPress ate my post!!!
So I wrote this brilliant post about IM communications. I mean, this was a fabulous post…full of insight and amazing observations, and was bound to bring me fame and power in the blog-0-sphere. The money and notoriety it would have brought me is almost uncountable! I went to post it and I get a message [...]
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The banned words list
The annual Lake Superior State University list of stupid overused words that deserve to die is out. Now, for the most part I find this year’s list a bit weak; there are plenty of other words that could also be served with death penalties. Where is “sweet”, “meh”, and “pimp”(although I think pimp [...]
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