Steel White Table

We try to go for short hikes at Dobson’s Trail every Sunday morning, which I mentioned before. Here are some photos from today’s walk. Click images (that have no people in them) for their full size.

the child sits on the curb
staring at the passing cars
the used gum on the road
dead worms drying up
- crunchy like a chinese noodle?
scraping the gum off the pavement
it’s moist underneath and
it leaves a fingerprint on the road
you’re guilty now
the pebbles are small like babies teeth
picking them out (and how it would bawl)
some stay in and [...]

Finally, someone addresses this burning issue. I posed the following question to The Scotch Blog (which EVERYONE should read):
How about an article behind the usefulness (or lack thereof) of corks? Do they serve any practical purpose? Are they only a marketing gimmick? I suspect it’s all about perception, but then you’d think why don’t [...]

I had a persistent, hacking cough for three weeks, sometimes having coughing fits that made me gag. Last Wednesday my daughter and I went to the doctor, because her cough hasn’t been going away either. The doctor said she was fine; the cough would go away soon. He said I had bronchitis, [...]

From the Canadian Music Creators Coalition website:
Artists do not want to sue music fans. The labels have been suing our fans against our will, and laws enabling these suits cannot be justified in our names. We oppose any copyright reforms that would make it easier for record companies to do this.

And:
Artists do not support using [...]

I recently discovered CamStudio, an impressive, free Windows program that…
is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using it’s built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Here’s a short video I created of me starting to create [...]

cat drinking fountain illustrates how to easily create a fountain for cats that prefer running water.
Materials needed:

aquarium water pump
long bowl
duct tape

Our cats drink from the bathtub after we get showers.

The ultimate tax shelter: Owning your own business:
The surest way to reduce your taxes is to convert personal expenditures into allowable deductions. Turn even a hobby into a business and you’ll cut your tax bill.
In a more recent case, a high school teacher’s golfing activity was declared an activity with a profit motive, so he [...]

The Great News Network:
Its objective is to become a leading news organization that reports positive news which has the potential to inspire and motivate our readers to make a better world.
Better than reading meaningless drivel about who had a baby or who’s killing who.

I recently bought a bag of organic fair trade coffee beans from Bolivia. $11.60 for a 500g, which is cheap for quality coffee beans. It’s the best coffee I’ve had in a long time. A smooth, medium roast. I drink it with cream and I love it. I’ve paid as much as $35 for Jamaican [...]

Greg Brown recorded a traditional song called Who Killed Cock Robin on his Honey in the Lion’s Head album. (What does that mean, anyway, honey in the lion’s head?) I love the album and I love the song. While doing some research on the story behind the song, I came across a guy named Charlie [...]

Jenny and I are getting a dog this weekend. Not our dog, though. A journalist Jenny works with did a story on an animal shelter. When he was there, he couldn’t help but pick out a dog. But he’s also moving into a new house this weekend, so he asked them if they could keep [...]

So I go for a walk with my dog, Jake, down to a little pond in the woods where last summer I got the crap scared out of me from a beaver smacking its tail against the water. I saw the beaver last week sliding down a muddy embankment, splashing into the pond through a [...]

SWT’s referrer log is noting hits from The Unofficial Eddie Van Halen website, which recently linked to SWT’s infamous 100 “greatest” guitarists of all time post.
I wonder what they’re complaining about.

I almost hit a raccoon today. He shot out from some bushes on the right and I had to swerve to avoid squashing its pretty head. I felt bad about running over a squirrel once; I don’t know what I’d do if I hit something big. Probably nothing.