Sep 30 2008
My son ran into our bedroom and slammed the door after some incident today. My wife immediately followed him in and discovered a puddle of piss on the carpet.
Dawn: Iain, did you pee on the floor?
Iain: No. The dog did it.
The dog was outside.
Maybe my son is getting up in the middle of [...]
Sep 29 2008
Giant pumpkin sets Atlantic record at Neguac festival:
An Atlantic record was set at the Giant Pumpkin Provincial Festival in Neguac, N.B., over the weekend.
…weighed in at a whopping 594 kilograms, beating the previous record by 26 kilograms.
That’s 1306.8 pounds.
The world record is 1689 pounds.
Sep 29 2008
I’ve been too lazy to post about stupid crap I find on the net (J-Walk tends to grab most of it anyway), and not motivated to post about personal occurrences, although here’s a summary of recent events:
Wally has diarrhea, which he’s been letting us know about by the mess he leaves every morning on the [...]
Sep 26 2008
Searching for Bobby Fischer became one of my favourites when I first saw it in a theatre in 1993. I was hooked after the opening narration by 8-year-old Max Pomeranc that recounts Bobby Fischer’s rise to fame as one of the best chess players in the world and ends with the whispered words: “He [...]
Sep 24 2008
We’re having a general election in Canada on October 14th, 2008. I have a few questions:
1) If you’re Canadian, what party are you voting for?
2) Why are you voting for that party?
3) If you’re not Canadian but you follow Canadian politics (which is likely no one), of the 5 political party leaders, who would you [...]
Sep 23 2008
According to this CBC article, global warming could make Atlantic Canada colder as Arctic ice drifts south.
The melting Arctic ice would alter a phenomenon known in scientific circles as meridional overturning circulation, where warm ocean currents move north and colder currents move south, maintaining a moderate climate on the Atlantic coast.
If you read the comments [...]
Sep 22 2008
I recently started playing chess again, joining GameKnot after receiving an invitation from a co-worker. From GameKnot’s site:
An online chess community where you can play chess even if you only have 10 minutes. You choose when to move and how often to move in your chess games.
They use the ELO rating system:
All players [...]
Sep 16 2008
Bob Dylan has a new Bootleg series coming out soon. Volume 8. Here’s a track from it.
Sep 16 2008
Steel White Table has been using a free website tracking tool since 2004 - eXTReMe Tracking. It’s a quick way for me (and visitors, although I doubt they view it much) to see how people reach this site and what pages are viewed.
A couple years ago, Extreme Tracking “upgraded” their free service, providing better [...]
Sep 16 2008
Daniel Lanois is releasing a “Goldtop” edition of his 1989 album, Acadie. It has 6 bonus tracks. The first 500 copies sold through his web site, Red Floor Records, will be signed by the man himself. I ordered mine today. I guess I’ll find out when it arrives if I’m one of the first 500, [...]
Sep 15 2008
I think this dog must have long claws to be able to climb those screen walls:
Hope he didn’t hurt himself on the way down.
Sep 01 2008
Excellent work everybody! The calibre of your contributions to the Add a Sentence story is beyond my expectations. Let’s keep it up, if that’s possible. To make it more interesting, or challenging, I’ve chosen a series of somewhat random words. How about we continue to add one sentence at a time to the story, but [...]
Sep 01 2008
Whenever I put on just about any Krzysztof Kieslowski DVD, it becomes apparent, usually within the first 60 seconds, that I’m watching an exceptional film. The way it looks, the rhythm of the shots, the way it sounds, the natural look in the actors eyes — the attention to the details of every [...]
