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Joining the 21st century
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The creative cycle
Ha ha ha sigh.
Star Trails
The trails are stuttery because the clouds rolled in, off and on. But I’m quite enamoured with the colours that I ended up with. (And here I contemplated doing it up in black and white, to avoid the orange glow of the streetlights.)
Video:
Rum tasting
So my friend Kevin called me up last night, just before supper time. “Are you gonna be at home for the next ten minutes?” he says. “I have a tasting we need to do.” Continue reading
The Evans Theatre
Part of the “webmonkey” side of my profile: I’ve been monkeying with the Evans Theatre’s website, trying to make it look purty and be useful. I’d like to think I’m close.
Have a look: Evans Theatre’s new site
<nerd>It’s a hand-coded WordPress theme using responsive design concepts. Check it out at various browser widths — the images should (mostly) scale nicely. If you’ve got an iPhone or some other pocket browser, I’d love to hear comments.</nerd>
So? Is it purty, or what?
They liked it
As they say, “That went well.” The Facebook comments for my story “Exit Interview” were all very positive. (Whew.)
You can click the little wee screenshot to see ‘em, if you want.
On tap for tonight: Write Club. (Followed up, almost certainly, by a farewell to a couple of our writers, who are going to Guelph* and China, respectively.)
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* I think it’s Guelph, anyways.
Still kicking myself, a little
“Name a time, name a place
Chances are I’ve had the means to be there”
I could’ve been at the concert. I ended up not going for a variety of reasons.
Still. I could’ve been there.
The Swamp House
Possibly the most iconic house in my home province that isn’t on the #1 highway is now in Google Street View:
I must say I’m amused at the idea of calling a provincial trunk highway a “street”. I guess it’s paved…
Interesting, to say the least
I got a new watch from my wife for my birthday last month. It’s a great watch, and I like it rather a lot.
Today on my lunch break, for no other reason than “because I’m a nerd”, I punched my watch’s serial number into Google, expecting to find — I don’t know, maybe its incept date*. Nothing much, anyways.
Instead, I found a US Marshal forfeiture auction listing that included my watch.
That’s it in the bottom middle of the lot.
The things you learn.
[update] Apparently, the auction company in question “sells all the jewelry[etc.] seized and forfeited nationally for the U.S. Marshals Service.” So… do I have a drug dealer’s watch? Was it seized in a tax forteiture? The rather shallow mystery deepens a very little bit.
[2nd update] As it turns out, there’s no mystery here. What I took to be a unique serial number was apparently in fact a global product number. So it wasn’t my watch in the property auction; just a watch just like mine.
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* See, there’s that nerd thing creeping in again.
13 words (plus a bonus)
13 words that sound like what they mean
- gobbledygook
- thrash
- chunky
- buzz
- oodles
- pish-tosh
- dork
- scruples
- least
- worm
- craw
- clip
- hose
One word that doesn’t sound like what it means
- onomatopoeia