Close enough for you, bub?
I'm going to the Abbotsford Airshow in a few weeks with my friend Chris. I'm not terribly knowledgeable about aircraft, but I enjoy being able to get up close and…
Case mods…game over, this guy won
There is a sub-class of computer enthusiasts who build extreme gaming rigs. They do crazy things like refrigeration for cooling, and spend thousands of dollars to squeeze an extra 5%…
Strange juxtaposition…
There were two news stories on my desktop today that, individually, were sad tales of accidental death. But side by side as they were, they pointed out the difference between…
Common sense is hardly common…
I am feeling "fat", and I know exactly what I need to do to fix it. Eat less junk (not necessarily less *food*, just less junk), and be more active. …
Burned kitten receiving first-rate care
My previous post was angry, and looked at the worst aspects of the human animal and how some can sink to levels that might drive me to violence against them. …
If I met these two witches with a gun in my hand…
Two darling teenage girls out for a walk saw a stack of cages containing feral cats. As a light hearted lark, they poured lighter fluid on one and set it…
Warm enough for you?
It was 38 degrees Celsius here on Wednesday. It was about 32 today, and about the same on Monday and Tuesday. I like warm weather, but "warm" to me is…
String Theory
I spent an hour or so today looking at xkcd, which is a stick-person comic for geeks. Some of the humour is somewhat esoteric: math and statistics jokes, for example. …
iPhone battery- iPod part 2
Apple learned a great deal from the battery complaints that users had about the early iPods. First, instead of just making it challenging to get at the battery in the iPhone,…