I like this watercolour by Chas Creek over at Doodle a Day.

I also like that he correctly spells the word ‘colour.’

I went to Future Shop / Best Buy the other day to get a specific wireless N router, but when I got there the sales person tried to pressure me into buying a router that was more than twice as expensive. She threw all kinds of computer jargon in my face and started dissing [...]

Tags: future shop, routers, Staples

I’m sitting at my desk, looking at a small wide-screen monitor, watching these words appear on the screen as I type them. I’m wearing a dark blue hoody (though I’ve never gotten used to that term) with a silk-screened drawing of birds flying on the front and back. I’m wearing blue jeans and [...]

J-Walk saw the movie 11:14 and said it’s a good movie. I just saw it and said, “It’s pretty good.” J-Walk said, “It tells five separate stories, and they all converge at 11:14 pm.” It’s a well-acted gimmick movie full of black humour that could have been titled, Bad Luck is On [...]

From Steve over at Oh Me Nerves:
Ever get ready to snap a photo of that special moment only to discover that the camera is set to “video” mode?
Well, today I was cleaning up my video folders and found that over the course of eight or nine years of digital picture taking it appears we’ve [...]

Is it a good book?

I recently finished watching the HBO series, Rome on DVD (22 1-hour episodes). Loyalty to the death and lots of sex around the time of Julius Caesar. The characters speak in modern UK slang, none of the fluffy where-art-thou Lord of The Rings English, so it’s easy to understand and relate to them despite the [...]