Category: LiveJournal

  • Well, that’s an odd place for geekery.

    Because I’m too lazy to change the channel, Miami Ink just came on the TV. The title of tonight’s episode: “Symbolic Ink”. What?

  • Testing via ljtalk

    Wow, LJ Talk is pretty well done. Sign in with a Jabber client, and there’s your mutual friends, all in their own group on your roster, with userpics and everything. And there’s a goat bot that you can post through, too — send it a message (like I’m doing right now) and it makes its […]

  • lazyweb: help me back up to a shell account

    So Dreamhost, odd place they are, have apologized to their users for a long stint of server and network problems (which seems to be resolved, knock on wood) by doubling our monthly bandwidth and 10x-ifying our plans’ disk quotas. That means I’ve got 413GB of storage there now. I don’t have 413GB worth of website […]

  • note: still a fashion whore

    There’s now a Stance store in Bayshore! Stance primarily sells fashion sneakers from big brands: Converse, Puma, Onitsuka Tiger, Adidas, Vans, Etnies, Lacoste, that sort of thing. And those sorts of things are hard to find in Ottawa — the big sports stores don’t carry many slim street shoes, just athletic shoes or big chunky […]

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  • O Canada!

    This is so great. From eBay Canada’s payment policy: Sellers may offer to accept personal cheques, money orders, cashier’s cheques, certified cheques, Canadian Tire Money™ and other negotiable instruments. (For those going “Canadian what?”, see here.) Also, while Canadian Tire Money is permitted, cash is not. Now I want to sell things on eBay and […]

  • argh (or, this is also why people wear pleated pants)

    I suppose I’m kind of known to be a bit more up on fashion than most of my geeky friends, because I have this conversation about once a month, and it just happened again: some guy: I need to buy a suit for $EVENT, but I want to buy something that I can wear next […]

  • This clears things up