Ugh
Hey A&W, here’s a tip for your food preparers: Pay the slightest bit of attention to what your’e doing.
That’s it. You have one job to do, and that’s to make food. The menu is limited, this isn’t rocket science. You aren’t making omelets from scratch, or using molecular
gastronomy techniques, or emulsifying anything.
Grab frozen patty, slap on grill for specified amount of time, add cheese, scoop onto bun, slap on dressings and toppings and hand it over. Even SpongeBob Squarepants has it down pat, and he’s a sponge for chrissakes.
What made you think I’d want to eat paper?
Do you like eating paper?
Is there fibre in it?
My wife has a blog now, where am I supposed to go for my alone time now???
I’m glad she’s posting now, I love what she writes. I wish I could put my thoughts into her fingers. I have ideas, but they come out funny.
http://anitalifeandstuff.blogspot.com/
Every time a major linux distribution gets released I give it a shot. I’ve been doing this since the beginning of linux. Every time I walk away thinking I just wasted a few hours of my life. Don’t get me wrong, linux for servers and embedded devices is beautiful, heck I’m absolutely in love with my Android phone.
This time around I installed the latest Ubuntu 9.10 for my older laptop, and as pretty as it is I just can’t shake the impression I get that the group managing it all is made up of the bottom of the barrel of software developers. If I was hiring a programmer and he said he was one of the developers who did some of the god-awful crap I’ve downloaded in the last 24 hours through the Ubuntu Software Center I wouldn’t even give him a second chance. I’ve seen better software in the mid 80’s on my Apple IIc.
I mean, Extreme Tux Racer for example. In what world does clicking the UP arrow in the config menus mean a value should decrease? Is there some long held joke that I just don’t get where these developers insist on doing everything ass backwards? Up = more you idiots!
Sigh.
There’s a great article on the Think Technica blog about digital document organization, and how to turn paper into searchable PDF’s using your cellphone. Read up here!
Each summer I try to do something that reminds me that I’m not dead yet. And now that I turned 40, doing this is even more important. In 2007 Brent and I did a crazy, exhausting canoe trip / hike on Atlin Lake that pushed us to our limits. In 2008 I did several 20+ km excursions in the canoe. This year all I had time for was a trip up and down Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Provincial park. It was a doozy, 24 kms in a hair over 5 hours.
There are a few pics and thing here on my Picasa page. Here’s to being 40 and not dead yet. Another 40 to go.
I went for a quick paddle on Buntzen Lake, 10 km on the nose to circle it completely. I hit my speed record today, 9.0 km/h. Previously 8.9. I thought things would start to slow down now that I turned 40 … guess not.
Photos and geo-location stuff are all up here on my Picasa site
A real website will come shortly, but for the moment this will have to do: www.thinktechnica.com
Technica Systems is my new business, and by the name you can probably guess what I do.
Systems. Technical stuff. Like servers, networks, software, that sort of thing.
Mosquito-borne African virus a new threat to West
Awesome. So glad I moved to Vancouver in ‘98. I think I’ve seen a total of 3 mosquitos this whole time.
“Unlike West Nile virus, where nine out of 10 people are going to be totally asymptomatic, or may have a mild headache or a stiff neck, if you get Chikungunya you’re going to be sick,” he said.
“The disease can be fatal. It’s a serious disease,” Diaz added. “There is no vaccine.”
Chikungunya infection causes fever, headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, muscle pain, rash and joint pain. Symptoms can last a few weeks, though some suffers have reported incapacitating joint pain or arthritis lasting months.
This is me in a nutshell.
(Stolen from http://thisisindexed.com/2009/09/shiny-object-must-get/)
A snapshot from the top of the Shangri-la Hotel in downtown Vancouver. This is the highest building in Canada West of Calgary, which still isn’t all that tall compared to other skyscrapers. Still, the view is pretty damned spectacular!
