03/31/07
When I logged into Yahoo 360 today to write this blog posting the three blogs shown below are what Yahoo offered me as interesting pages that I might want to explore on Yahoo 360. I know it's Beta but it seems that suggesting that non-English speaking pages would be interesting to me might be a bit of a stretch. I have included them below to illustrate my point and to further decrease my female movie star to other pictures ratio.
Interesting Pages on Yahoo! 360°
Check out what others are sharing on Yahoo! 360°.
Blumes Blog: ♥¸.•*...♥ ♥ der alltägliche Wahnsinn einer Frau über 40 ...♥ ¸♥ .•´¸.•♥ by ♥ Blume ♥
Le méli-mélo de Charlotte: ou comment je suis partie à la découverte du monde du blog et de ses millions de possibilités by Charlotte
Enough Yahoo bashing time to move onto my scintillating life experiences. A couple of weeks ago the light burned out in out shower. This is the second time since we moved here that the shower light has needed replacement. I really should replace the fixture, it's cheap and last time when I changed the bulb I thought I was going to pull it out of the ceiling as I tried to remove the bulb cover. Today I finally got up the courage to try it again. It was again quite difficult to remove the cover, I ended up using a wide chisel to lever the cover off of the base after attempting to pull it off in a number of different ways and techniques.
I bought a new router this week because my 3 year old DI-604 decided that it was going to reset itself at unpredictable an inconvenient times. I went to Tigerdirect and bought the cheapest non-wireless router they had that wasn't refurbished. It's a Trendnet DW100 and it works fine except for one thing. For some reason Trendnet decided to put a red status LED on the front. All the other LED's on the front are green but or some reason Trendnet decided it would be a good idea to have the red status LED flash when everything is OK. I personally don't think that a red flashing light is what I would use to indicate everything is OK. We tried covering it over with masking tape but that didn't do much to diffuse it's insistent irritating blinking. After I finish this posting I'll be off to find the black tape.
03/24/07
I finally got to sleep in this morning. The cold I have been suffering through the past week and a half has made my right knee sore and I hadn't been able to catch up on the sleep deficit I have been suffering through. This had made me grumpier than I should be as the people I work with can attest. Two weeks ago it was March break camp at Scanlon Creek. Last Saturday it was the Sportsman's Show with the Explorers. I bought a new winter sleeping bag, a canoe paddle and two cloth wrapped summer sausages. They are dry, they are pungent but they sure taste good. Before I went canoeing last year I tried to find some locally without success. None of the supermarkets around here had it and I couldn't find any at the deli's I checked. I asked the woman I bought it from and she told me the deli guy had a place at Vaughan Mills Shopping Centre so when the two sticks I bought are gone I'll know where to get a refill. I have included a picture below to make your mouth water.
Yesterday I got a haircut for the first time in two years. Well, that's not strictly true, it was my first professional haircut in two years. A little over two years ago I decided to give up the battle with my receding hairline, fore-go a comb over and just get my hair cut really short. One of the wait staff at my Tuesday night trivia hangout was a budding hair dresser and after a few false starts one night she was there, I was there and a pair of hair clippers were there. Jenn decided that cutting my hair in the bar might get someone in trouble so we trooped out back to the attached shed with a bare light bulb. Things were a bit tense when we had trouble finding a socket. With one of her friends recruited to hold a plastic bag, my drinking companions standing by watching, she took clippers in hand and gave me a good buzzing. Digital pictures were taken but they have never surfaced so you'll have to take my word for it.
After that I bought a $20 pair of clippers at Walmart and have been doing it myself since. My wife helps me do the back but I don't get her to help often enough. I ran into the hairdressing server a few weeks ago and decided it was time to have her cut my hair under more normal circumstances. She told me what hours where the salon where she works are open but I neglected to get the number. Tuesday night I stopped by on the way home from the bar to get the phone number. I think she was a bit surprised to see me when I walked in the door Friday just before closing. She hadn't connected me with the name in the appointment book but she quickly regained her composure. My hair was soon washed and I was ushered to her chair. Jenn told me that I was getting two pony tails back there as I sat in her chair showing how wise my decision to seek professional help was.
03/19/07
Haven't seen the trailer for Black Sheep the Movie? Go watch it right now.
Tom Merritt of Buzz Out Loud talks about now being able to buy a TV show. He ends up skirting the edges of legality and he lives in the U.S. where you can buy digital content online, unlike here in Canada.
A patent for linked lists issued last year. Huh? What have the boys in the patent office been smoking?
03/18/07
Friday night was the last night for Northern Lights a CBC radio show hosted by Andrea Ratuski that ran from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. There were many nights when I fell asleep to the dulcet tones of Andrea Ratuski. With a decidedly classical flavour the mix of music provided by Northern Lights was the perfect blend music and talk to unwind too. I missed the announcement of it's demise back in January when CBC announced their decision to migrate music programming off of Radio One and focus on news and current affairs. In the shuffle Northern Lights was killed off to be replaced with repeats of CBC shows heard earlier in the week including Vinyl Cafe and Tapestry.
Perhaps I'm cynical but it seems more like a cost cutting measure to me. The second hour of Northern Lights has been filled by moving the start of CBC Overnight forward by one hour. CBC Overnight is reruns of shows from other public broadcasters from around the world. Two hours of original programming has been replaced with nothing new. I'll give the offering CBC Radio 2 a chance but I'm not hopeful, it's a contemporary music show and I'm not sure it will be music to go to sleep by. I'll probably end up going back to programming my own go to sleep music with iTunes and my USB powered FM transmitter.
I know I've written about this before but I'm going to do it again. I want to buy a TV show from iTunes but I can't because I live in Canada. If you look on ebay.ca you'll see iTunes U.S. gift cards selling above face value to, I can only assume, video hungry foreigners who would rather pay for their digital content than steal it. Come on you idiots rights holders, work out your issues and start making money because if you don't you are only encouraging people to circumvent the screwed up system you have in place now.
03/17/07
I have another cold. How did I catch this cold? Last weekend the Explorers and Timberwolves had a four day March Break camp at Scanlon Creek. The March weather is too unpredictable to camp out side so we slept inside. The Timberwolves in the dormitories , the Explorers slept on the floor in one of the other buildings. It was quite common to see people pull into the parking lot and get out with their dogs. The dogs enjoyed the chance to run free and it was soon apparent that the owners appreciated for another region. The weather was unseasonably warm resulting in the melting of some of the accumulated snow. As the snow melted nuggets dog poop began to appear. It was necessary to walk very carefully on the paths close to the parking lot to avoid fouling your boots with dog droppings. Yuck. Our conservation areas are not toilets for your dogs. If you aren't going to clean up after them don't take them there.
You are probably wondering what this has to do with catching a cold? Not much, but I do like to rant. when you take a bunch of kids, put them together in a confined space for 4 days it is inevitable that one will be sneezing and spreading their cold germs to everyone in the building.
When I heard that Veronica Mars was going on hiatus for eight weeks, replaced by the search for the next Pussycat Doll, I thought that this was the death knell for the show and it wouldn't be renewed for the next season. Though critically acclaimed and sporting an extremely loyal fan base it has never built the audience numbers that are required to be considered a success. Evidently the series creator thought so too. One of my friends sent me a link to article on Geeks of Doom reporting that Rob Thomas who created Veronica Mars is filming a trailer for the CW Network in which the series skips Veronica through college to when she joins the FBI academy. It may be called Veronica Mars but the strong secondary characters in the show have always played a big part in what attracted me to Veronica Mars. I'm willing to give it a chance, we'll see if the CW Network is in a couple of months.
