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Rich Lafferty's Journal

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O hai.
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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Rasha claims the new zabuton, originally uploaded by mendel.

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!

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catbikes
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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.
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sundials in the dark
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Walking through the U of T campus with [info]nyxie at about 10 PM last night, we came across a sundial on a plinth with a plaque on the plinth:

[info]nyxie: What's this thing?
[info]mendel: Sundial.
[info]mendel: Too dark, can't read it.
[info]nyxie: ...
[info]mendel: THE PLAQUE. I CAN'T READ THE PLAQUE.

I get no credit at all.
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pie smoothie
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pie smoothie, originally uploaded by mendel.

I posted this on Twitter but I thought I'd put it here for posterity.

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Whose bacon?
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Whose bacon?, originally uploaded by mendel.

Found on the U of T campus.

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the pace of innovation
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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.
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happy canada day.
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Slightly belated but too awesome not to post. Click to embiggen.



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Buck 65 at Nathan Phillips Square
"bunny headphones" by kozyndan, bunneh
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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)! [info]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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Energy Secretary Steven Chu is not considering a bomb.
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Remembrance
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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
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