Oct
31
2006
User Name and Password, a video by Darren Barefoot, illustrating one aspect of a geek’s life:
Darren’s site is down as I post this. Maybe his site has been digged.
My question: where or how do you store all the login information? Post-it notes is a silly but popular method.
Tags: passwords
Oct
27
2006
The switch to and from daylight savings time is something I’d rather live without.
Oct
26
2006
Jenny picked up a $50 (Canadian) ukulele guitar at O’Brien’s a couple weeks ago. She’s learning how to play guitar on it.
It has steel strings and sounds like a ukulele, but, depending on how it’s played, it can also sound like a banjo and a mandolin (to my untrained ear, that is). It’s a versatile [...]
Oct
25
2006
Lottery retailers in Ontario are winning the lotto a tad too much to be a coincidence, according to CBC in Lottery retailers enjoying luck of the draw:
…in the past seven years Ontario clerks and retailers have claimed lottery victories nearly 200 times, a statistical anomaly according to one expert.
“So we can say the chance, to [...]
Tags: lotto
Oct
24
2006
What do the terms “bottom,” “top,” “charm,” “down,” “strange” and “up” refer to?
Tags: physics, quarks
Oct
23
2006
Commercial whaling is making a comeback – Iceland kills whale, breaking international ban:
Iceland’s Fisheries Ministry has estimated there are more than 43,000 minke whales and 25,000 fin whales in Iceland’s coastal waters. A limited commercial hunt, it has said, would be “consistent with the principle of sustainable development.”
Iceland stopped commercial whaling in 1986 and scientific [...]
Oct
22
2006
I’ve owned a VIC-20, Nintendo, and Super Nintendo. I currently own a Nintendo 64 and a Playstation 2, which I rarely play. Yet, I still read about new games and the industry. Here are the games I own:
Tags: games, half-life, n64, nintendo, pc, playstation, ps2
Oct
22
2006
Episode 8 of Jody Checks His Loto Numbers, with Caitlyn making funny faces. This episode is rather dull, except for Caitlyn.
Previous episodes.