Category: LiveJournal

  • and a yo ho ho

    Wow, I haven’t posted in forever. Well, the easiest way to get around that is to post about something, so here you go. So apparently I like rum. I didn’t think I liked rum. I have exactly one childhood memory about rum (and boy, if “childhood memory about rum” doesn’t raise warning flags), except that […]

  • aftermarket audio blues

    Out of boredom I just spent some time learning about the audio system on my car (a ’99 Saab 9-3), with an eye towards seeing what I can do in terms of aftermarket kit. MP3s and satellite radio might be nice, or just a newer non-OEM head unit, etc. But Saab seems to have tried […]

  • This does not make food.

    Candice and I decided we wanted peanut butter cookies. First stop: the recipe on the side of the jar of Kraft peanut butter. Second stop: Any other recipe, because: Super Easy Kraft Peanut Butter Cookies 1. MIX together 1 cup KRAFT Smooth Peanut Butter, 1/2 cup sugar, and an egg. 2. ROLL into balls and […]

  • truth in advertising

    A wet wipe that came with nachos at the Heart and Crown in the Byward Market the other day:

  • How not to establish your business

    Got mail today from an address I didn’t recognize with the subject “Wedding Photos”. We’re planning a wedding so I figured it might be something relevant, especially since it was a big (4MB) message. Nope. Some local startup wedding photographers decided the best way to get business would be to scrape the addresses of local […]

  • Maybe Rosencrantz and Guildenstern should enter on a miniature train.

    angevin2 presents: The Things I Will Not Do When I Direct A Shakespeare Production, On Stage Or Film. I cannot choose favorites. Go and read them all.

  • No.

  • overriding usb charging current in linux?

    Asking here because I can’t think of where I should post, and because I’m tired of people on various IRC channels completely misunderstanding the question, and because I know a few people from RIM read this: The goal here is to charge my Blackberry by plugging it into a USB host running Linux. The problem […]