Archive for June, 2008

Jun 30 2008

Keeping Kids Busy

Published by Jody under life, movies, tv & video

My three year old son started playing soccer last week. My daughter’s in gymnastics and piano lessons. My wife goes to the YMCA for exercise regularly, and I play World Of Warcraft.
I watch less than a couple of hours of television a week, but the kids watch it a lot; it’s their baby-sitter. [...]

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Jun 30 2008

Bees On The Loose

Published by Jody under general

Escaped bees abuzz in N.B.
Approximately 12 million honeybees have escaped from a truck that overturned on the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick.
Rain in the area is currently keeping the bees under control, said RCMP Sgt. Derek Strong.
They’re being imported because pesticides have been killing the natural population of bees.
Update: From another CBC article, they were [...]

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Jun 27 2008

Moving Day

Published by Phillip under Phillip's Room, life

3:51pm. I’m moving today. I’ve got myself a Uhaul cargo van out front. I just began filling it up with the large items, mostly bookcases. There’s still a lot of junk left.
Jenny and I made the final inspection of the new house this morning and now we’re waiting for our lawyer to call and tell [...]

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Jun 26 2008

Volumouse Application

Published by Phillip under Phillip's Room

This is the most useful — definitely the most used — teenie-weenie application on my PC: Volumouse.
I use it to change the volume on my PC without having to click anything. I use it to change the Master Volume and the Wave volume, but it can be easily configured to change the volume of anything [...]

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Jun 25 2008

Firefox Add-on: NoSquint

NoSquint is one of my favourite Firefox add-ons because it makes at least half the sites I visit on a regular basis easier to read by making everything on the site bigger — the text and the images, and it does so without messing up the design of the site because proportions are maintained. Here’s [...]

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Jun 23 2008

Wally’s First Casualty

Published by Jody under general

A 20 pound bag of basmati rice that was on a low cupboard in the kitchen. He’s been shitting rice cakes for two days.
Unfortunately, no photos.
(Related posts about Wally.)

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Jun 23 2008

A Review Of The Movie Kung Fu Panda

Published by Jody under movies, tv & video, reviews

Kung Fu Panda is an animated film about a Panda who loves Kung Fu, where he finds himself having to learn it and save his community from his Master’s nemesis.
I recommend it for kids and adults. The story is simple but engaging, with laugh-out-loud moments. The action scenes are incredible: intense, fast, and [...]

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Jun 21 2008

Meet Puff Ball the Hamster

Published by Jody under general

This is my daughter’s hamster, Puff Ball:

He’s about six months old now, which surprises me: I figured he (or her) would be dead by now.
A cat, dog, and a hamster. We had a fish once.

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