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Stop staring at my numbers, mister
Posted July 26, 2010 at 12:07 EDT under photos.
For some reason, this is shaping up to be my most-viewed photo on my 23 account:
Really, this is a perfectly innocent image of a too-large t-shirt of mine that has been cleverly modified into a nursing pyjama top for ecogrrl by ecogrrl's mom. I think it's a pretty nice job.
I'm wearing a matching (but unmodified) 23 t-shirt at work today, but I doubt there would be quite as much interest in a photo of that.![[Jump to top]](/images/seal.gif "Jump to top of page")
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Things a week of fatherhood has taught me
Posted July 19, 2010 at 12:36 EDT under daily.
Things a week of fatherhood has taught me.
- Babies are not top-rack dishwasher safe, regardless of any such statements on the tag or packaging it arrived in.
Receiving blankets
are for primarily receiving a variety of effluvia.- Effluvia come in a large variety, and in great amounts; you will need approximately 1000 square meters of receiving blankets to contain it.
- If you believe the internets, a newborn is less a human child, and more an eigeninfant system in perfect equilibrium poised to fall into a non-ideal chaotic state at the slightest provocation. Maintaining the health of your child is, apparently, like balancing a cannon-ball on the apex of a dome.
- If you are the sort of person that feels sick and groggy after a short nap, having a child will cure you of this. You will feel sick and groggy all the time, not just after a daytime nap.
- Blogging, and other non-baby-related tasks, are often cut short because of a sudden need to
@clvrmnky, out.
Hey, Daddy-O
Posted July 9, 2010 at 12:22 EDT under photos.
Oh, by the way, I'm a father. Did I forget to mention that we were pregnant?
Of course, now that someone can call me dad
un-ironically, my entire approach to this web site will have to change. Sorry about all the swearing and frothing political rants.
Kidding! Now I have the best reason of all to point out how stupid everything is!
However, mother and daughter are doing fine, though a bit tired from the ordeal. Shout out to Genesis Midwives for helping make sure the whole event went as easy as possible, and smoothing out the bumps.
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Charlie Angus for Prime Minister
Posted July 6, 2010 at 03:20 EDT under news.
As I've said before, I come from a long line of social democrats. This means that I often find myself aligned with many of the approaches to governance taken by moderate political parties like the NDP.
For example, take this nuanced and measured response to bill C-32, the disastrous anti-copyright bill that the Fake Conservative Party of Canada is hanging its political hat on.
This is an example of a case where the slippery and absurd notion of left
and right
make no sense.
Angus is taking a reasoned and informed approach to the problem of how Canada aligns itself with well-established international law regarding intellectual property in order to critique flawed thinking.
Our Lack of Culture Minister, on the other hand, appears to be a simple ideologue who equates anything except resounding applause for this terrible bill as extremism.
I'm sure the irony that The Fake Conservative Party of Canada itself seems to be taking the most extreme position on Canadian copyright reform is lost on him.
This is to be expected, I suppose; delicious, delicious irony is traditionally the tool of artists, and The Fake Conservative Party of Canada seems to be hell-bent on crushing the remaining bits of Canadian Culture under some ridiculous and extreme digital lock measures.
Seriously, how bad does this shitty government have to get before we chase their asses out of parliament?
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Sharron Angle is a douchebag
Posted July 2, 2010 at 11:18 EDT under news.
Sharron Angle is a douchebag.
If my language offends you, rest assured that was the entire point. I find the mere existence of Ms. Angle offensive, so you can call this one even if it makes you feel better.
Shout out to my homies in Edwinase
Posted June 22, 2010 at 11:17 EDT under news.
Ghana is leading Group D! Go Black Stars!
Ahem, well. I'm not much of a footie fan, and as far as I can tell, the more popular and international a sport is the more corrupt it becomes. Still, good on Ghana for doing so well in the opening rounds.
The next match is against Germany, who probably have more to lose and seem to be struggling this World Cup (based on what little I know about football) so I predict if Ghana stays loose and plays well in their own end they should either fight to a draw or hand Germany their second loss.
Here is a picture of Mohammed
Posted May 20, 2010 at 11:50 EDT under news.
Apropos of this, here is my contribution:
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What?
Consider this an incendiary political statement intended to offend some delicate sensibilities
Posted May 18, 2010 at 12:19 EDT under news.
Your Favourite Movie Sucks
Posted April 18, 2010 at 12:03 EDT under daily.
Yes, yes. Avatar and Kick-Ass both suck, and are symptoms of a dying culture.
Can we go back to ignoring the wasteland of late-modern English-speaking popular culture now?
The whole world is made of metadata
Posted April 9, 2010 at 07:03 EDT under daily.
While I'm tinkering with the site, here's a picture of a standing cat.
No, not really. Here's the Weekly Roundup:
- My RSS had standing cats in it. Yours? The world is made of metadata (did you see that link?)
- Spent more than a few days herding
testenvs
and reading logs, and doing a lot of old-fashioned collective problem solving in this business we call Tech. - We gave the bread robot a few turns churning out good-as-storebought loaves with the occasional stand-outs.
- Cooked An Entire Raw Ham! That thing was tremendous and raw and actually pretty good once cooked low-and-slow, then trimmed and glazed. Well, then plenty of left-overs for a week. Guess what's for dinner?
So, here we are, internets: another Friday night (locale adjusted.) I've got a bourbon-on-ice close to hand (thanks @doc_hatter!) and I'm just about to have a little dinner break from the hustle and bustle of this modern life.
Imma catch a game on the TV, and maybe catch up with y'all tomorrow.
@clvrmnky, out.
Happy Important Bunny Day
Posted April 4, 2010 at 09:22 EDT under daily.
You know what I haven't been doing a lot of?
Anything.
No photography. No climbing (though I just have to make time for that, as @fivemagicbeans has been trying to get us deadbeats out for weeks now.)
At least I got the bike out of storage this weekend, thought most of my riding has been commuting to work. On top of that, I've been working odd hours. Odd, as in 4AM in the morning. Don't ask.
We cooked a whole raw ham, which was a lot more involved than I expected. It turned out pretty good, and we have sandwich meat for days. Which is why I'm making bread. Or, rather, the bread machine is making bread. But still.
Maybe I'll get me a bourbon and look for a hockey game.
clvrmnky, out.
Photogeekery
Posted March 24, 2010 at 07:12 EDT under photos.
Here is a before/after picture showing the new noise reduction and sharpening capabilities in the latest Lightroom 3 beta.
View full-sized to get an idea of how awesome this is. I mean, who cares about the actual photo. Look at how the colour and luminance noise has disappeared, even after the image has been captured in a screenshot and converted to JPEG!
You have no idea how much this makes me squeal like a little girl.
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((x-3)^2+(y-4+sqrt(y^2-8y+16))^2)^2((x-3)^2+(y-2)^2)+(y^2-6y+8+sqrt(y^4-12y^3+52y^2-96y+64))^2=0
Posted March 14, 2010 at 05:46 EDT under web.
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Finding Ada
Posted March 14, 2010 at 10:42 EDT under news.
Don't forget about Ada Lovelace Day 2010, which is a world-wide internet event happening on March 24.
Go over to Finding Ada and pledge to write, make a video, paint a picture, draw a comic or whatever you usually do on on your blog, and talk about women and technology.
This has been a public service announcement.
Camera porn
Posted February 26, 2010 at 09:41 EST under daily.
By Crom, I want to afford one of these one day:
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Maybe I can mortgage my first-born for one?
@(O_o)@
Posted February 24, 2010 at 03:00 EST under daily.
Your daily monkey, ASCII style.
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Don't even ask.
27. Dry
Posted February 22, 2010 at 12:48 EST under photos.
There is something wrong with this drink.
Unccl Inyragvar'f Qnl!
Posted February 14, 2010 at 02:39 EST under daily.
From the egregious-use-of-the-pre-tag dept.
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The developing world does not need your old shoes
Posted February 8, 2010 at 04:21 EST under daily.
And some kind of help is the kind of help/ That helping's all about/ And some kind of help is the kind of help/ We all can do without
Whenever decent people hear about disasters, like the one that is happening in Haïti right now, they want to help.
Sometimes this drive to help leads us in directions that are not actually all that helpful. For example, if we don't have a lot of money, we might look around and decide that our old shoes or skanky yoga mat or random medication is just the thing for those suffering through a natural or man-made disaster.
It isn't. If you want to help in Haïti, donate your money or go down to the local Red Cross and ask how you can help. And then consider doing what they suggest you do to help.
Just because you mean well does not necessarily mean that you will do well.
The name iNap is right out
Posted February 1, 2010 at 02:54 EST under web.
Apropos of my last comment, this is what Feministing has to say about the iPad.
SRSLY? Feministing has to stoop to posting a sophomoric Photoshopped image of an iPad and a sanitary napkin as a starting point to an article that accuses Apple of not having any women in decision making capacities because no woman executive would possibly accept a name that is any way a reminder of feminine hygiene products.
Because, for some reason, unfairly and unnecessarily engendering personal electronics products is bad, except when it is necessary and done by women.
Perhaps we might want to consider promoting an environment where obviously non-gendered objects and concepts are critiqued on their intrinsic value, and not how it makes us huh-huh-huh like some no-wave feminist Beavis or Butt-heads. Next: having a good laugh at your next bird-watching because someone spots a tit.
Har-dee-fucking-har-har.
I mean, sure, If you think the name is funny, by all means have yourself a laugh. Post funny pictures. Start an all-day pun session lampooning Apple. I insist! But please don't turn yourself inside-out trying to read some sort of feminist subtext into the name of a god-damned mobile computing device. It makes you look stupid and petty, and minimizes the real feminist critique of popular culture that is going on right now.
I'd make a quip about it being a slow news day for the blogosphere, but every day is a slow news day for the blogosphere.
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Blah blah blah iPad blah blah blah
Posted February 1, 2010 at 12:58 EST under technology.
I've refrained from discussing the latest technology news that seems to have all panties everywhere in a twist, but I was amazed at the number of smart people who just didn't get it.
I'm still not going to discuss the latest pants-twisting news because this post sums the whole thing up perfectly.
I will add one single comment here, though: hackers and geeks often make terrible choices when it comes to what the rest of the world actually needs from technology. There are design and usability trade-offs that trump ideals, no matter how lofty or technically correct.
There are some companies that, by and large, get that.
What is a blog?
Posted December 31, 2009 at 11:42 EST under daily.
I was going to finish up the year of desultory blogging with an epic epistle on the personal blog.
But, well, you know. One thing led to another, and here I am, about to turn in at 10:30 on New Years Eve. No barn-burner of a rant or grand essay on What I Learned During My Year Of Blog, I'm afraid.
It's not like I haven't been tempted. Between our current Pseudo-Conservative government stepping on their own dicks week after week, or the International Air Travel Players and their latest Security Theatre production, there has been no lack of fodder for this blog.
But, honestly, it's pretty obvious I'm not as interested in that sort of thing as I used to be.
Happy New Year, internets.
@clvrmnky, out.
Twc = 13.13 + 0.6215Ta - 11.37V^0.16 + 0.3965TaV^0.16
Posted December 19, 2009 at 11:20 EST under daily.
Well, internets, it has been a long time since my last daily
update.
Mostly, I had my head down trying to get my task list down to single-digits, which required a fair amount of hacking, thinking and cat-herding.
But, I made it to Friday with most of those items complete or nearly complete, and look forward to a fair amount of time away from the office.
Because it isn't quite cold enough in SW Ontario, we have decided to vacation in Winnipeg this year. It ain't winter until the film of saline on your eyeball freezes between blinks. Luckily, I was able to get my parka repaired before we leave.
See you some time after Christmas, but before the new year.
@clvrmnky, out.
The weather outside is frightful
Posted December 9, 2009 at 10:43 EST under daily.
Today I struggled to work in the filthy weather. During the commute I participated in a conference call. Then I battled with Oracle until my head asploded.
All I wanted to do is eat chips and watch hockey. So that is what I did.
@clvrmnky, out.
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