Nov 21 2008
What’s up with people sending files with no extension? At least once a week someone sends me a file without an extension. Sometimes I can fix it by adding an .rtf or .doc extension. Sometimes I can’t.
How do people manage to send files without extensions? How do they lose the file extension by sending [...]
Mar 09 2008
Daylight Savings Time kicked in last night; time went ahead one hour.
This has been a public service announcement.
Jan 16 2008
Most portable hot drink cups have a pre-made hole in its cover or one you have to make by bending a flap. Tim Hortons‘ lids have the second type, which fail 50% of the time for me.
Two main problems with Tim Hortons’ cup lids:
Ripping the perforated plastic to the indicated line results in [...]
Jan 15 2008
I said I wouldn’t upload consecutive posts this year, but I got sick of waiting for Jody. Not that I have anything to post about now, but let’s try to break the monotony and see what happens. Alright, here goes. I’m going to type for 5 minutes (with a timer) and I’m clicking the [...]
Oct 22 2007
4,200,000 search results for “dumbledore gay“.
Why did the author, Rowling, proclaim this? Because she wasn’t in the news enough lately? Why is this item so popular?
Really, who gives a fuck?
Sep 24 2007
Someone should start a campaign to put an end to commemorative coins from the Royal Canadian Mint, especially those useless quarters that most of us don’t notice until we try to use them in a payphone and the damn things don’t work. One look at the latest quarter they’ve put out and I know that [...]
Sep 19 2007
I just deleted the 4,000+ emails from my gmail Spam folder. I’m going to check how many spam I get around the same time every day and note it here.
You’re welcome.
(I’ll probably forget to do it after the second day.)
Day 1 (Sept 20): 186 spam in about 24 hours. At that rate I’ll [...]
Aug 19 2007
Jenny and I planned to camp in Gros Morne for about a week. The forecast before we left said mostly sunshine, but by the time we got there, it had changed to nothing but rain. We spent one night in Gros Morne sleeping in the rain and took one picture the next day while we [...]
Jul 18 2007
I tried to order a subscription to Cook’s Illustrated via their website, but as Greg likes to say, it “sucks ass”:
The “State” dropdown list doesn’t list Canadian provinces
The Postal Code can’t go in the “Zip Code” field, but at the end of your second address line instead.
When I submit the form, the form is displayed [...]
Jun 11 2007
Nose hair is becoming a predominate sign of my age; in particular, I have ONE thick, white strand poking out of my left nostril like a white flag of surrender. I noticed it a few weeks ago. It’s the only sign of my age that bothers me.
Mar 29 2007
I had created a filter to delete all the “I’ve added you as a friend on Facebook” emails I’ve been getting lately. Pender wrote a review:
Where myspace looks like it’s tailored for 10-14 year olds, Facebook seems like it’s tailored for the aging 20+ crowd. In 2 days on facebook I’ve linked up with 13 [...]
Mar 14 2007
I just read in a CBC article that there are 18.5 million cellphone users in Canada. Jesus. That’s more than half the population of the country.
Frig. I was hoping there would be an eventual ban on cellphone use except for people who provide emergency services. I guess that’ll never happen now.
Damn democracies.
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Jan 31 2007
I just hung up on a telemarketer, and it felt good.
That’s all I wanted to say.
Sep 06 2006
Greg saw me drive my motorcycle into work today, noting that I came to a complete stop at a Stop sign.
Greg: Why did you stop at the Stop sign?
Me: It’s the law.
Greg: I wouldn’t. You have to put your leg down, balance the bike…
Me: I KNOW you wouldn’t.
Besides speeding, I suspect that not stopping [...]
Aug 29 2006
Actually, I didn’t know it was in my salad until it jumped out of my salad.
It was a light-green frog about the size of my thumb, and it jumped out of the Cajun Chicken Caesar Salad I ordered at Smitty’s last night. For the record, that’s the Smitty’s restaurant in Mount Pearl, just outside St. [...]
