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This is legal in Canada.
This is legal in Canada, Originally uploaded by nyxie From a spice rack kit I bought years ago. Click for detail!
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Creepy clown playing bass
Creepy clown playing bass, originally uploaded by nyxie This was a gift from a girlfriend in high school. I’ve moved it from Belleville to Montreal (plus two moves there) to Ottawa (plus one move there) without unpacking it. It is gone now.
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I just noticed that Candice set this as her…
I just noticed that Candice set this as her FaceBook profile picture: I guess we’d better get this move over with quick before my wife becomes a pile of boxes like some modern wife of Lot.
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Yesterday, Candice and I went to the Superstore to use their Coinstar…
Yesterday, Candice and I went to the Superstore to use their Coinstar machine, working our way through the decade backlog of jars of change we’ve accumulated. On the way in, we passed a panhandler. Asking for spare change. While both of us had our arms filled with jars of change. And then the Coinstar machine […]
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I’m usually not much for gadget lust, but…
I’m usually not much for gadget lust, but for some reason I find myself really interested in the Asus Eee PC, a $400 900Mhz laptop with a 7″ screen and a small flash disk that runs Linux. I don’t know why I’m so tempted, I’ve already got a little laptop, my 12″ Dell D400 — […]
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Yay, I’ve got DSL now…
Yay, I’ve got DSL now at the new apartment. I ended up going with Teksavvy, which was a bit of a roller coaster to order — they mistranscribed my credit card number, phone number, and mailed my DSL modem to “First Books”, and then the Bell tech showed up today at the wrong house number, […]
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SAGE or LOPSA?
I know I’ve got some professional sysadmins reading this, so: I seem to have slept through the period around 2004 to 2006 where USENIX nearly got rid of SAGE, and then didn’t, and then some people who wanted SAGE to be rid of USENIX formed LOPSA, and so on. But I was all set to […]
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Happy new year!
Happy new year, everyone! 2007 was a tough one, so I’m optimistic. Candice and I just opened our wall calendar for the year. Last year’s was Paris, that we brought back from our honeymoon. Before that it was Hello Kitty all the way down. But this year’s is Thich Nhat Hanh’s, and on the inside […]