Figures... as soon as I get some time off, the weather turns to this wet, damp crap, unseasonably warm and all.
Not what I want to see in December. I have never liked having a green Christmas. When I was a kid, I found green Christmases really disillusioning.
Now I find them annoying.
Off for a few days... did the Boxing Day shopping, got out of the Yonge and Dundas area about an hour before someone got shot... lovely... enough is enough is enough. i'll rant about htis later.... or maybe not at all. Many people more eloquent than I have weighed in on this.
Sleeper Cell: Wow. This show blows 24 out fo the water. No contest. Watch it. It's good.
On iTunes: Outcast mashed with Le Tigre - Bombs over Baghdad.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Learning to drive... again (sort of)
Yeah... picked up my new car from the dealer yesterday. First time I have driven a stick shift in well over 10 years - and I'll level with you: I was never that well-practiced at it before.
After a humiliating start (yes I was that jackass on Plains Road in the middle of Saturday afternoon), everything slowly began to pull together.
Drove my mother to drop a package off in Oakville. Mistake - my mother has rarely been comfortable with my drving in an automatic - the experience of riding with a novice stick shift jockey did nothing to calm her nerves.
Drove back to Toronto on the Lakeshore, made it without incident, though I gave the RIDE program out on Lorne Park something to laugh at.
At the end of the road, Iw as manoeuvering into a praking spot, doing the olde reverse-forward-reverse-forward... yeah I stalled out about a half dozen times.
That was embarassing. Then I got lazy and just snagged a spot further down the road.
Next week, the highway run...
After a humiliating start (yes I was that jackass on Plains Road in the middle of Saturday afternoon), everything slowly began to pull together.
Drove my mother to drop a package off in Oakville. Mistake - my mother has rarely been comfortable with my drving in an automatic - the experience of riding with a novice stick shift jockey did nothing to calm her nerves.
Drove back to Toronto on the Lakeshore, made it without incident, though I gave the RIDE program out on Lorne Park something to laugh at.
At the end of the road, Iw as manoeuvering into a praking spot, doing the olde reverse-forward-reverse-forward... yeah I stalled out about a half dozen times.
That was embarassing. Then I got lazy and just snagged a spot further down the road.
Next week, the highway run...
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Off the drugs
Damn, I hate being sick.
Ah well, feeling better now, sleeping well and not waking up feeling like a bag o' shit.
Did I mention I hate being sick?
It's snowing fierce tonight, and will continue to do so for the next few days. I am definitely happy about that.
IM'd my friend Prize for a bit this eve... haven't chatted with that dude in ages. I was beginning to feel lax in my correspondence.
Xmas is definitely in the air. It's going to be a hectic week: get rid of the old car, pick up the new, do the extended family Christmas... moses.
Yeah... I almost forgot... My old friend Marc is in a band (well, a duo) called Dresden Sky.
the Windsor press cannot say enough good stuff about them. I'll say this, they'll folk you right up (thanks to Acker for a good theivable quote).
If you can dig that, you need to check it out.
Oh and Marc... Props man, that's good stuff.
Ah well, feeling better now, sleeping well and not waking up feeling like a bag o' shit.
Did I mention I hate being sick?
It's snowing fierce tonight, and will continue to do so for the next few days. I am definitely happy about that.
IM'd my friend Prize for a bit this eve... haven't chatted with that dude in ages. I was beginning to feel lax in my correspondence.
Xmas is definitely in the air. It's going to be a hectic week: get rid of the old car, pick up the new, do the extended family Christmas... moses.
Yeah... I almost forgot... My old friend Marc is in a band (well, a duo) called Dresden Sky.
the Windsor press cannot say enough good stuff about them. I'll say this, they'll folk you right up (thanks to Acker for a good theivable quote).
If you can dig that, you need to check it out.
Oh and Marc... Props man, that's good stuff.
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Not next to useless...
...two seats down, in fact.
Ugh... I have a minor cold won't go away, and yesterday the effect was post-nasal drip which was/is driving me batshit.
So, before I fell into the coma, I had some cough syrup to help get that away.
When I got up, I reached for the non-drowsy decongestant pills to keep the sinuses clear.
Well it looks like there's some interaction happening, 'cause I'm on a chemically-fuelled roller-coaster between lucidity and torpor... I can type for a few moments at a time and then it all gets bad...
...Yeah, or I daze out and find myself half-asleep absorbing all the office gossip around me. And I hate that. Like most people I have my own shit to worry about, I don't need to hear (especially involuntarily) other people's issues.
Moses... I think I was asleep with my eyes open for a few moments there.
OK, back to work... hopefully I won't drool on the keyboard.
Ugh... I have a minor cold won't go away, and yesterday the effect was post-nasal drip which was/is driving me batshit.
So, before I fell into the coma, I had some cough syrup to help get that away.
When I got up, I reached for the non-drowsy decongestant pills to keep the sinuses clear.
Well it looks like there's some interaction happening, 'cause I'm on a chemically-fuelled roller-coaster between lucidity and torpor... I can type for a few moments at a time and then it all gets bad...
...Yeah, or I daze out and find myself half-asleep absorbing all the office gossip around me. And I hate that. Like most people I have my own shit to worry about, I don't need to hear (especially involuntarily) other people's issues.
Moses... I think I was asleep with my eyes open for a few moments there.
OK, back to work... hopefully I won't drool on the keyboard.
Friday, December 02, 2005
What the fuck is going on in France?
http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html
Here's a highlight from the article:
"Friday November 18th, 2005, French Department of Culture. SNEP and SCPP have told Free Software authors: "You will be required to change your licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop publishing free software," and warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department"[1] bill proposal pass in the Parliament. "
Now, I am not a lawyer by any stretch, but I have to wonder what end it serves to make free software licenses criminal. What kind of jurisprudence is this?
How the devil can you press a civil suit against an individual or group who is willing to give away their IP for free? Who does that hurt?
Ça c’est fucké…
Here's a highlight from the article:
"Friday November 18th, 2005, French Department of Culture. SNEP and SCPP have told Free Software authors: "You will be required to change your licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop publishing free software," and warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department"[1] bill proposal pass in the Parliament. "
Now, I am not a lawyer by any stretch, but I have to wonder what end it serves to make free software licenses criminal. What kind of jurisprudence is this?
How the devil can you press a civil suit against an individual or group who is willing to give away their IP for free? Who does that hurt?
Ça c’est fucké…
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