Steel White Table

I love this: The PocketMod
Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper.
The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card.
They have offline and online tools to walk you through the easy [...]

Our 18 month old son sleeps in our bed. It’s easier to put him back to sleep when he’s with us, after he wakes up from his crib during the night. We have the bed against a wall so he won’t fall off; that’s the side he usually sleeps; however, he’s an active sleeper, [...]

I used to decide on whether to ride my motorcycle to work if the chance of rain was less than 40%; I wouldn’t take it if it was higher. Unfortunately, we’ve had a wet spring, resulting in a lot of false alarms; there have been many days where it hasn’t rained even though the [...]

Okay, it’s coming back to me. Someone who bats .500 hits the ball and gets on base half the time. Babe Ruth has a lifetime batting average of .355 (I know this, because I saw City Slickers). So he got on base 35.5% of the time. Why don’t they just say he has a [...]

A serious, yet hilarious controversial (to some) post by Scott Adams: Could Science Eliminate Religion?
As readers of my blog know, I believe that given the right conditions, anyone can be made to believe any damned thing. That’s why there are so many different religions.
I wonder if a team of well-funded atheists could devise a legal [...]

Remember that dog who took a leak on my rug, and threw up on my rug? I took some pictures of it.
Dog hairs are still floating around our house.
UPDATE: Slideshow removed. My free Flickr account only allows a certain amount of sets. So I deleted the dog pics in favour or some other ones.

Plants are evil:
That plants are evil is widely regarded as an inherently obvious fact, but this is clearly not sufficient as a basis for scientific research.
Nature tells us to destroy plants: Many animals have devoted their lives to the destruction of plants, most of them have in fact evolved in such a way that their [...]

My dream vacation, The Academy:

Here is the opportunity to make whisky the traditional way, to live Islay’s culture, see the heritage, and experience the magic. We do not claim any teaching qualifications, nor do we rely on classroom study, or facile industry indoctrination. Instead we offer the Islay way of down-to-earth, [...]

Music is so intimately connected to our memories that our judgement of the quality of music is often based more on nostalgia than on the actual music. I don’t think you’ll find many 40-year-old converts of The Doors, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, The Eagles, or Super Tramp. If you didn’t discover the music when you [...]

I read and posted about the book, Fast Food Nation, over two years ago; (Shit, I’ve been at this blog crap for over TWO years?!) and to my surpirse, it’s being made into a fictional movie:
…a character study set in the fast food industry, is based on material from the book of the same name [...]

A drug is being developed to suppress the need for sleep, as noted in From A to Zzzzz:
Tests conducted on rhesus monkeys last year suggest that CX717 can wire users to remain awake for 36 hours without the jitters, euphoria and eventual crash that come after mega-doses of caffeine or amphetamines. Further down the line [...]

Canadian aboriginals (that an oxymoron?) are pissed off at the white man again, protesting the development of land that they claim is theirs in the Caledonia land claim dispute:
Protesters say the land [that a subdivision was being built on] was granted to Six Nations more than 200 years ago and was never officially transferred to [...]

I took these close-up photos of flowers in my garden yesterday. Click an image to enlarge.

Cherry blossom from a tree
Red and yellow tulip
Blueberry buds

An annual I don’t knowthe name of
Dandelion ready to spreadits seeds
Bleeding hearts

Some blue flower sprinkledthroughout my lawn
Chive buds

My 18 month old son and I took photos of each other today. His snapshot of me is the BEST ever. Click to enlarge, if you dare.

A friend emailed this notice today:
ATTENTION TO THE GRADUATING CLASS 1985-1986 OF C.H.D.H.S
20-YEAR REUNION
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 2006 7:00 PM
NEIGHBOURHOOD (NEIGHBOUR’S) PUB
50 RODNEY RD, DARTMOUTH
CORNER OF RODNEY RD. & PORTLAND STREET
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
PLEASE CONTACT:
RHONDA (JOYCE) DANN: drdann@hotmail.com
CINDY (“CJ” STARR) HARVEY: cj1harvey@hotmail.com
KELLY (SULLIVAN) HUNT: keith.kelly@ns.sympatico.ca

I’m not going. I’m in contact with everyone I want to keep [...]