• Archive for June, 2007

    Alternate Comic Universes

    by  • 6/29/2007 • art, comics • 0 Comments

    Thanks to Something Awful and James Nicoll for leading me astray. Damn it. I present an surprisingly better version of the latest sub-par comic in the For Better Or Much Much Worse saga. Click on the image to embiggen.

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    Atlanta Update

    by  • 6/27/2007 • travel • 0 Comments

    Looks like we’re definitely going to Dragon*Con 2007 January 19, 2007 — Booked hotel room at the Marriott June 12, 2007 — Ordered my membership June 13, 2007 — Tania ordered her membership June 27, 2007 — Booked flights on Delta Now just need a place to stow the dog and need to deal with [...]

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    Custom chainmail work

    by  • 6/27/2007 • art • 0 Comments

    Click on the image to see the image on flickr, or grab the full thing to see the detail of the rings, in what looks like life-size on my 19″ monitor. This is a custom piece that Tania’s working on; a full tank top, with the flames running from the bottom to about 2/3 of [...]

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    Well past max…

    by  • 6/26/2007 • life • 0 Comments

    Today was supposed to be 23 degrees as the high, according to  the government’s weather service, but if you look on the left, it reports 27 degrees as the recent high. I think that the humidity as listed on the east coast of North America is either a lie, or measured on some completely different [...]

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    I very rarely do this, but…

    by  • 6/24/2007 • geek • 0 Comments

    According to some lame dating web site (mingle2.com/blog-rating), this little piece of internet abuse at foo.ca only warrants a PG rating. This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: hell (3x) abortion (2x) dead (1x) They must have missed the posts with the really bad words.

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    Retroactive Education

    by  • 6/24/2007 • geek • 1 Comment

    I need to find people with recognizable professional designations that I can use as references on an application that will help me take over the world. They can be people who are legally able to sign a Canadian passport application or people with “recognized professional designations”. I’m not entirely sure what that means, but I [...]

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    I Present: Canada’s Facebook Community

    by  • 6/20/2007 • politics, religion • 0 Comments

    Thank you CBC for sponsoring this little Canadian Wish List project on Facebook; you’re showing me just how conservative and scared Canada is of those that are different. Top Wishes By Membership 4956 — Abolish Abortion in Canada 4610 — I wish that Canada would remain pro-choice 2302 — For a spiritual revival in our [...]

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    Are You Unskilled and Unaware of It?

    by  • 6/18/2007 • geek, work • 0 Comments

    Damn interesting… When asked, most individuals will describe themselves as better-than-average in areas such as leadership, social skills, written expression, or just about any flavor of savvy where the individual has an interest. This tendency of the average person to believe he or she is better-than-average is known as the “above-average effect,” and it flies [...]

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    Things in under 10 words

    by  • 6/17/2007 • life • 0 Comments

    Deepsea fishing later; people had better things to do Friday New breadmaker; where have you been all my life. Hidden Thai food – Richmond man, Halifax restaturant, hates city too. Welcome to Halifax, have some tear gas.

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    Teh Intornetz

    by  • 6/13/2007 • geek • 0 Comments

    Al Gore Magical Thinking Box Internets Mystifying Tubes     Of course there’s a cat picture in there, unfortunately it isn’t captioned “I CAN HAZ OUIJA TOO?” There are T-shirts and mousepads though  

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