Tag: personal

  • New laptop

    The laptop fairy came last night! I’m now the proud owner of a refurbished Dell Latitude D410. I picked it up off of eBay from K-V Laptops in Toronto and they got it to me the next day. It looks brand-new save for a little scratch on the back of the lid. 1.89GHz Pentium M, […]

  • On Facebook, all history is recent.

    Pam made an interesting remark on my Facebook friendswhoring post: It amazes me how the internet has really opened up “history”. I found my best friend from grade 5/6 on a site called the Names Database, and just recently a guy I was friends with from age 8 to 12 found me on Facebook. It’s […]

  • Fine, I give in.

    Ok, I’m giving in. I’m on goddamn Facebook now. Here’s my profile. If you know me, add me as a friend so I won’t be a wallflower anymore. Am I going to regret this? Jesus, there are people from my highschool there. WHAT IF THEY FIND ME

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • file file file file file

    Taxes completed and netfiled. Awaiting refund, even what with Candice’s self-employediness. Yay! That will make me feel a little better about the pending laptop purchase. Did you know you can still file Canadian income tax returns over the phone? I can’t imagine. “Please enter the dollar value from line 132 and press pound. Please enter […]

  • More about that Amazon post

    David Goldenberg of Gelf Magazine has written an article about how Amazon referral IDs mutate as links cross the blogosphere, using that Amazon post of mine as an example. There’s a dorky picture of me there too.

  • Trying Twitter

    Against my better judgment, I’ve got a twitter account now.