Posted in Uncategorized on September 29th, 2004 No Comments »
I was talking to my coworker Jane today, who mentioned in passing that her car has over 480,000km on the clock. My first response was, “Hey! Just another 110K before you hit its second light second!” Drop the “light,” because it’s assumed, and you can quote your car’s odometer in seconds.
This got me [...]
Posted in slice-o-life on September 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
Yesterday, when Shannon picked Cian up from preschool, he complained loudly and at length about his ears hurting. As is his wont when not feeling well, he proceeded to scream bloody inchoate murder, while she tried to secure an appointment with his paediatrician.
When finally she dragged (I believe this is literally what happened) him [...]
Posted in slice-o-life on September 19th, 2004 No Comments »
Robert came by this evening. “I went to see Ghost in the Shell II last night,” he said. “Definitely two cybernetic, depleted uranium, thumbs up.”
Posted in slice-o-life on September 17th, 2004 No Comments »
Although the image quality of the built-in phone that my camera sports is generally abysmal, sometimes the poor resolution and washed-out colours add a certain tone to the images that I end up liking rather a lot, much as people seem to be very fond of those old Fisher Price cameras that record to audio [...]
Posted in house on September 16th, 2004 No Comments »
We signed the final paperwork on the new properties last night. I remain impressed by how little my signature at the beginning of a signing session resembles itself forty repetitions later.
Shannon and I spent tonight drawing floor plans on graph paper. I thought that I was fairly indifferent to my surroundings, preferring to [...]
Posted in house on September 11th, 2004 No Comments »
On the left, we have the image that was published with the listing for the new property. On the right, a picture of the actual place. While the pen-and-ink drawing makes the property look quite attractive, the photo fails to make the place look as decrepit and sad as it appears when you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, software on September 9th, 2004 No Comments »
I decided to resurrect the blog this evening, after a mere 18 months of inactivity. I thought it would be a simple matter of fiddling with a few Apache configuration directives; as I should have expected, it turned into a heinous nightmare.
I originally settled on Rael Dornfest’s blosxom blogging software. It’s conceptually lovely, [...]
