I really try to avoid complaining about work here, because I’ve got a job I love working with interesting and qualified people and an interesting product, and there’s little that’s worth complaining about. But today’s story is just surreal enough to share. So our project manager stops me and asks me to pull statistics out […]

I can’t find any of my Jewish friends on IRC. Is gimel, zayin, yud and kerned reasonably well, or is it just plain incorrect and/or an obvious demonstration that I don’t know what I’m doing?

Innocent me, wandering into Chapters to get this week’s Economist. You’d think I’d have learned by now — I left with a rather full bag and a much lighter wallet. Wankel mentioned on IRC that he does that all the time, going in for one thing and then spying the bargain tables. I wish I […]

Everyone’s a critic. <mendel> Hrm, I feel a LJ post brewing. <cstone> oy <mendel> oy? <cstone> sorry, let me rephrase <cstone> Current Mood: Oy :/

Grmph. It’s been long hours at work, having moved from our downtown office to the Mitel headquarters in Kanata, so I don’t have the energy for a real entry. Soon. I have had the energy to finally organize my photos. The instant-viewing wonders of digital photography are lost when one takes seven months to getting […]

This is what the first day of spring looks like in Ottawa: Someone on IRC commented “You can tell it’s spring because there’s snow and fog,” but no, that’s just snow. 10-15cm in the last two days, in fact, after a couple weeks of 5-10 C temperatures. Remember to count the number of newspapers that […]

I haven’t had to deal with NSI in years. Today, I have to. Need I say more?

I went shopping today, and ended up getting a pair of shoes in the sort of tan euro leather sneakery style I’ve been looking for in a while. I had hoped to pick up a bunch of spring stuff as well, but it just didn’t happen, because I’ve no clue what to wear in this […]