Stewart’s long walk
After picking up my UK passport form at Bay & College, I walked to Spadina Subway. Not far, you’d say. It is if you go via College all the way to Dufferin, and back. 7.3 km, I make it, from the...
View Articlea wee corner of Scotland at Ellesmere & McCowan
Serendipity: took a wrong turn coming out of the federal building, and found ourselves in Scottish culinary heaven (which is not an oxymoron, I assure you). At the corner of Ellesmere & McCowan is...
View Articlebest beat neat nest
Beware, nerdiness follows: I generally like my BlackBerry 7130e, but its multiple letters per key can sometimes give the wrong result. Using word frequency lists from the British National Corpus,...
View Article… until someone puts an eye out, of course
Can I just say that styrofoam plate + cocktail sticks (the ones with the little fletches on them) + milkshake straw = teh fun blowdart game?
View Articlethe great lost opportunity
I’ve always thought that Adobe missed a great opportunity when they didn’t make their basic PDF writer freely available for Windows. Other OSs now have transparent print-to-PDF options. If you’re...
View Articlewhat day is it?
Why, it’s Rush Day – 21/12 – of course. So have a good one, straight from the land of the Rand-fanciers themselves.
View Articlepig out!
Every restaurant is packed out tonight – except Phở Vietnam. Then we realised that tonight is the eve of the Year of The Pig (Hogmanay, as it were), so of course the place was quiet.
View Articleit’s summer, so …
… it’s time for the CREST Wind Energy Summer School. It’s about the best way to start out in the wind industry. I went there back when it was at Imperial College. So many of my friends and colleagues...
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