• Archive for November, 2006

    Craigslist Nigerian Scams

    by  • 11/3/2006 • insanity, life • 30 Comments

    I received two separate responses to my forsale post to Craigslist for my Lexmark Optra S 1625 printer. Good printer, just heavy to take cross country. I’m asking $200, which is a bargain considering that it has a toner cart that’s good for at least another 9000 pages; a cart that retails for about $400. [...]

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    Reason #2 To Leave Vancouver

    by  • 11/3/2006 • insanity, life, Vancouver • 1 Comment

    My #1 reason to leave is to accept a good job offer, and reason the whole real estate issue gets bumped down to #2. There was a piece by Pieta Woolley in The Georgia Straight‘s October 26, 2006 issue that really sums things up well for me. I’m not sure that it’s really the government’s [...]

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    Let’s see if we can do it again

    by  • 11/3/2006 • life • 0 Comments

    I just recieved a text message from my phone company; you may remember this phone company as the same one that sent me to Los Angeles for most of a week. It was related to a Warner Brothers movie promotion around the recent Superman movie (that I haven’t seen yet; I suppose I could add [...]

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    Museum of Jurassic Technology

    by  • 11/2/2006 • geek, insanity, life, photography • 0 Comments

    One of the best places we saw, for the sheer oddity and diversity of stuff that they had on exhibit. From a bank of microscopes with glass slides holding tiny pictures created from individual scales from butterfly wings to rotten dice and a room dedicated to Napolean that didn’t seem to make much sense to [...]

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    Let the bargains begin

    by  • 11/1/2006 • insanity, life, Vancouver • 0 Comments

    Some Craigslist items I have listed as I’m moving to Halifax and can’t take everything with me… Pentax MZ 6 Camera – $150 Large Couch in Great Condition – $500 More coming as I manage to take photos of things. Items that are up for sale but unposted yet can be seen in my Flickr [...]

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