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Welcome to my blug. I’m a Linux and internet geek living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with my wife Candice and cat Rasha. I’m a Zen Buddhist and an amateur cellist, and I work at a little invoicing startup called FreshBooks as their network operations manager. This right here is where I write about whatever's on my mind.
- Rasha claims the new zabuton
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mendel- August 28th, 15:03
I've had my new zafu and zabuton for about four hours now and Rasha's already decided it is his. This is what happens when you adopt a temple cat!
- catbikes
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- mendel
- August 26th, 20:28
Speaking of BikeBike, how awesome is this:
CATBIKES. I totally want a catbike tattoo now. (Also an octopus tattoo, but that's going to be biggish so I don't want it to be my first one.) But I feel kind of silly having not gone to the conference. Then again, I want it because catbikes are awesome and not as a conference memento. I could probably even find out who drew them and make sure it's cool with them.
- sundials in the dark
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- mendel
- August 1st, 15:56
giggly
- pie smoothie
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- mendel
- August 1st, 12:48
I posted this on Twitter but I thought I'd put it here for posterity.
- Whose bacon?
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- mendel
- August 1st, 12:47
Found on the U of T campus.
- the pace of innovation
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- mendel
- July 13th, 23:20
EPost is Canada Post's "seriously, we're still relevant, rite guys?" get-your-bills-online service. It's handy in that encourages bill-senders to all use the same service, and that it's integrated with a lot of banks' online banking sites so you can click "Pay bill" and that happens, but outside of that it's the kind of software you'd expect from a Crown corporation.
I logged in today and got this pop-up:
Many powerful features, like folders. Yay.
- happy canada day.
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- mendel
- July 2nd, 11:25
amused
- Buck 65 at Nathan Phillips Square
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- mendel
- July 1st, 22:03
sleepy
Happy Canada Day!
We didn't do much Canada Day stuff today. I think I overdosed in Ottawa and now it's just a day off. We did, however, swing by Nathan Phillips Square this afternoon for a free Buck 65 concert. I recorded a few tunes.
It was a bit of a weird show -- he didn't have a DJ, and his stage presence is a bit unusual, and it was daytime on a stage at the end of a row of vendor booths, a really weird little setup. Still fun for free though.
I've got tomorrow off too (yay, four-day weekend)!nyxie is going to the 6 AM sitting at the Zen Centre. I am not because that means getting up around 4.
Right, so, Buck 65. Sorry about the glare on the first video, I didn't realize that I'd have to block the sun until the second one.
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- mendel
- June 18th, 20:07
- Remembrance
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- mendel
- May 15th, 23:34
And you wait, expecting that one thing
that your life endlessly shall multiply;
that one powerful, immense thing,
the awakening of stones,
depths, coming back to you.
Volumes of gold and brown emerge
as dawn out of the bookshelves;
and you reflect upon lands traveled through,
on images, on the garments
of women lost once again.
And then you realize suddenly: that was it.
You rise up and before you stands
the fear and shape and prayer
of a year gone by.
-- Rilke, tr. Cliff Crego
