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Monthly Archives May 2007

hurnnngggh

Went to the gym last night for the first time in ages. Little sore today but not as much as I expected.
I’m doing the Men’s Health “Abs Diet” (Amazon), but it’s not really so much a “diet” as it is a workout regimen with a bunch of useful nutrition advice up front.
The workout is mostly [...]

Posted 09 May 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: , ,

ASU police log

Highlights from the college police log at Arizona State. [via the Obscure Store]

Posted 09 May 2007 † Rich § Quick links ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Unattended terminal

An IRC conversation reminded me of the traditional punishment for unattended terminals that was in effect when I was in school:
echo ‘echo sleep 3 >> $HOME/.profile’ >> $HOME/.profile
Although these days computers are fast enough that one might be better off with “sleep 1″.

Posted 08 May 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged:

Epicurean Ottawa

Have I mentioned the food blog that Candice and I maintain recently? It’s Epicurean Ottawa, and while it was originally primarily about food in the Ottawa area, it ended up a little more haphazard than that — in a good way!
Anyhow, I just wrote up a short post about a recent trend in wine labels [...]

Posted 07 May 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged:

Routine as mindfulness practice

I’m not sure why, but I’ve been resisting routine in my life for a long time, and it’s getting a bit silly now.
There are a whole bunch of things on my 101 in 1001 list that ought to be really easy (and ought to be done by now), but which are still underway after multiple [...]

Posted 03 May 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: ,

I guess they like me

Just got mail from the admissions folks at the U of O school of management: they’re offering me a (partial, but substantial) scholarship.
Yay! Maybe this was a good idea after all! (I kid, I kid.)
Now I just have to get the rest of the financial stuff ironed out (RRSP withdrawals and a line of credit [...]

Posted 03 May 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

The growing pains of gentrification

Candice and I live in Westboro, a neighbourhood of Ottawa which is sort of the Next Big Thing here. It’s got many of the things you’d expect to make a neighbourhood get trendy: it runs along an urban shopping strip and the waterfront, it’s a ten-minute drive along a parkway to downtown, it’s got good [...]

Posted 01 May 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,