11th
May
2010
I spent part of this morning “setting up” a geolocational device for someone here at the office. Now there’s an act of faith: leaving for the other end of the province with an in-car GPS that you’ve never used before, hoping to end up at a planned destination. Out of kindness, I included a set of printed maps in the car kit. Old school, meet new school.
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posted in technology |
10th
May
2010
Technology is fun. Old technology is funner.
Put away your grammar book. I am quite capable of conjugating the comparative in a traditional sense. I choose not too. End of discussion. Now, back to my original premise. I’ve been playing with electronic stuff for a long time, and there’s been a shift in the technique, even if the result is the same. Turn on radio. Listen.
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posted in ham radio |
9th
May
2010
Perhaps I’ll have to accept that things are going well; on the only day of the season where my local camping supply store offers to absorb “both taxes”, I went for a wander and couldn’t think of anything I really wanted to buy.
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posted in economy |
8th
May
2010
The pool store is still the cheapest source of my chemical fix. I tried shopping around, but the other big box stores have figured it out for themselves. There is too little margin for places like Wallies and Canny Tire to waste valuable floor space on pallets of bad smelling powder.
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posted in science, Wx |
7th
May
2010
Prescriptive analysis, I believe it’s called. The examination of an accident, with the goal of preventing a reoccurence. Sort of like what you do at home, when you’ve stubbed your little toe (badly) because someone else moved that dad-blasted chair into the route you take between the couch and the refrigerator. I jest, a little.
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posted in science |
6th
May
2010
Show me the money. Isn’t that a Cruise line? Turns out that the banking industry is singing in harmony on that one, at least in Alberta.
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posted in economy |
5th
May
2010
Some folks that this sports thing WAY too seriously. Here in the land of bent sticks and rubber missiles, the playoffs are underway. First proof; the number of cars with flags flying from their side windows. Only a vexillologist can explain why a big C, in red, surrounding a tiny H, in white should be flown, ever. Especially in the absence of a parade formation.
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posted in sports |
4th
May
2010
Another idle evening. The theme is Sinatra, and the students are (so far) WAY out of their depth. Drowning. Michael Lynche excepted.
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posted in Idol, music, technology |
3rd
May
2010
I unlocked the door to my postal box, and my stomach did a little flip. The parcel which has been enroute for over a week was finally here. And the post office had left their own, personal mark on things.
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posted in computing |
2nd
May
2010
If it hadn’t been for that rusty washbasin, we could have been learning about any tiny point in the middle of the ocean.
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posted in history, politics |
