So, Susie and I are on The Austerity Plan. It’s a new diet I came up with. It’s got an interesting twist: we can eat whatever we want, but there’s a terrible price.
My buddy Darren spilled root beer on his semicolon key, and as I started to explain to him how to fix it, I realized that this knowledge could help countless other sticky spillers. So, here’s how to remove a key from your keyboard, as taught to me by tech support god Ron.
So, have I ever told you, dear reader, about the horse shoe shaped birthmark I have? Well, it spread some luck to my mom this weekend. She was in town just for a few days, and was taking the Airporter bus back to the airport.
Thursday night, I went to the monthly blogger meetup in Vancouver. Hop Studios is official sponsoring the Vancouver Blogger Meetups for the next six months, and I was glad there was a diverse crowd.
So, I just took a short-term teaching position at BCIT. I’ll be teaching a course called “Dreamweaver MX Advanced / Database Driven Websites” as part of the New Media Design program. It was a little spooky how I got the job.
Susie and I had dinner out last night at Hapa Izakaya to celebrate our anniversary. Nine years. We’re just three years away from earning a high school diploma in marriage.
My friend is looking for a good short story author or two. She’s not a native English speaker, but has a great vocabulary, and wants to find some interesting authors to read. I suggested…
I met my friend Mike the other evening for coffee, then we were going to head to a movie. We were on the wrong side of downtown, and he’d just bought a new helmet for his motorbike.
I so rarely do online quizzes, but this one caught my eye. It has questions like: “Morals are socially constructed” and “Man is condemned to be free.” Agree or disagree? How much?
Today, there was a sign on Anya’s flower selling stall: she’ll be gone in about a week, closing her colorful booth. I asked her why, and she said no reason, she just got tired of being a flower seller.
I was reading a Computerworld article about a dentist who uses an ipod to back up his patient data, and starting thinking… how much storage space is available on iPods right now? You’ll be amazed.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)