August 2007
The Archives
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geek
Southern hospitality
Welcome to the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, where politeness and hospitality runs to the shower as well. Even the shower is polite to the point of not wanting to offend with water that’s too hot or under too much pressure. Instead, the water politely requests that the dirt and soap kindly vacate your body, bless your [...]
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travel
In Halifax, of all places
We have checked in and cleared security for the first leg of our trip to Atlanta, Georgia for Dragon*Con. Oddly, Tania escapes notice by the security wand of intrusiveness, but only because it was occupied scanning me. Scanning the top of my head, where I couldn’t hide much of anything; do they have problems with [...]
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art, geek
Pressed Faeries
As if I really need an excuse to go into a camera shop, I came up with an idea for a series of Dragon*Con photos that might be fun. I hold no expectations of the photos being exactly artistic or anything, but they should be fun. Some equipment was required; a circular polarizing filter to [...]
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art, music
Even machines can be hopeful sometimes
I was busily downloading the most recent album that Steven put online for his Hopeful Machines project, and had tired of the slow slow slow browser downloading, and had resorted to wget from the command line to grab the files in the background so that my browser would remain functional. I found myself wishing that [...]
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art
Taking your own ID photo
Not something that you can do for a Canadian passport, but you can do it for Dalhousie student ID. Here’s the image we’ve taken for Tania’s ID.
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angst
like running in the special olympics
I hate discussions on the internet about social issues. Someone posts a thinly veiled left wing propaganda piece about a pseudo-anarchic organization in Vancouver; the Anti-Poverty Coalition. This is typically followed by bipolar opinions by everyone. There’s always a representative of each extreme end of the spectrum who speak up quickly and voluminously about how [...]
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art
Binarysoul postcards
The promotional standard of the internet would appear to be VistaPrint, which seems to have different prices for things depending on how you hold your tongue while clicking “buy” on their web store.
I went from $99.95 regular price for 1000 postcards to something like $39.95 by clicking on a slightly different URL somewhere. A bit [...] -
Halifax, life
Tourettes or Halifaxese on the sidewalk?
I don’t typically confront beggars, but when Tania hears one of them say the word “whore” after we walk in the store… I tried to think of a word that, when said by a beggar could sound like “whore”, but couldn’t think of anything. So, when we were leaving the store, I thought I’d ask…
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humor, news, politics
Satan versus Her Majesty The Queen
Satan has filed a lawsuit in a Federal Court, contesting the election reform law that stripped his the Rhinos of official party status in 1993. He’s running in a by-election with a promise to rename the country Nantucket if he’s elected.
The Rhino party formed in 1963 with a promise to keep none of its promises. [...]
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