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Yearly Archives: 2004
Tankers
Spent a while at Kate’s last night, keeping an eye on the wee fella while Shannon worked. Cian chanted. “Tankers! Tankers! Tankers!” “How charming,” I thought to myself. “He must have seen some tanker trucks.” Then the devilish grin spread…
Posted in slice-o-life
Used car sales for physicists
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…
Posted in Uncategorized
Bush, Kerry could learn a few things from Cian
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…
Posted in slice-o-life
Ghost in the house
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
Maybe phone cameras aren’t so bad, after all
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…
Posted in slice-o-life
It’s (they’re) ours!
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…
Posted in house
Never trust a pen-and-ink real estate drawing
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…
Posted in house
Blowing off the dust
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…
Posted in software, Uncategorized
