Wonder Debbie

Posted by rae in friends
at 2:58 pm on Friday, 28 May 2004


my entry into the PhotoShopped Debbie contest

Well, I was feeling left out, so sue me. :-)

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Accordian Guy

Posted by rae in the Net
at 1:14 pm on Wednesday, 26 May 2004

accordian guy Accordian Guy is an interesting Filipino Canadian who is big on Canada.

via BoingBoing

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Back at enTrac

Posted by rae in Reid
at 9:55 am on Tuesday, 25 May 2004

I’m working for three days at enTrac this week. Back to getting up on time and driving in to work. Feels strange after sleeping in most days for a few weeks. Sort of like coming back from vacation.

It feels a bit strange because enTrac laid Mark off a while back, so I almost feel like a traitor coming back to work.

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Wood stove is gone

Posted by rae in friends
at 9:41 pm on Saturday, 22 May 2004


Ronnie stands next to where the stove used to be in the corner of the basement

Well, we got rid of the wood stove last weekend. Just before Walter and Vartan got here, Luisa found out how to detach the pipes connected to it, and then Vartan discovered screws holding the bottom plate on, so it was a bit easier than we had expected. Walter and Vartan did all the lifting of the stove, taking it to the garage. I felt quite guilty as it was my stove and they were doing all the work. However, there is no way more than two people could handle that thing safely. Besides, they had gloves. ;-)

So now the stove sits in our garage, awaiting the Guildwood Garage Sale Day next Saturday. Hopefully someone will take it away (for free), otherwise we may have to impose on Walter once again to use his CutQuick(tm) to chop it up and take it away. If anyone wants the stove, let us know, okay? It’s pictured below (in its old spot in the basement).


How the wood stove looked before we yanked it out.

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Going through old notes

Posted by rae in Reid
at 2:13 pm on Friday, 21 May 2004

Today I found an old entry I wrote in a notebook on Tuesday, September 8 1998, saying that Saturday Sep 8 2001 was a day of note. That gave me a bit of a shock &mdash only 3 days from Sep 11.

It turns out that at 9:46:40 am on Sat Sep 8 2001, Unix clocks based on Jan 1 1970 hit second number 1,000,000,000. It was only about 255,600 seconds later that disaster struck. There must be numerology sites that make a deal about this somewhere..

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“Troy” in 15 minutes

Posted by rae in the Net
at 2:00 pm on Thursday, 20 May 2004

have you seen “Troy” yet? Cleolinda Jones has written Troy in 15 minutes. Here is an excerpt:

Inside the Palace of Troy

PARIS: Aight, everybody follow Andromache into the tunnel. Follow the river, etc.
HELEN: But Paris–
PARIS: Shut up, Helen. Hey! You! Kid!
KID: Yeah?
PARIS: What’s your name?
KID: Aeneas!
PARIS: Can you take the Sword of Troy that my father gave me, and which will preserve our people as long as it remains in the hands of a Trojan, and go found Rome with it?
KID: Sure thing, man.
PARIS: Sweet.

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some internet humour

Posted by rae in the Net
at 12:14 pm on Tuesday, 18 May 2004

This is making the rounds, as it has likely done many times before..

For those with No children, this is totally hysterical!
For those who already have children past this age, this is hilarious.
For those who have children this age, this is not funny.
For those who have children nearing this age, this is a warning.
For those who have not yet had children, this is birth control!
The following came from an anonymous Mother in Austin, Texas:

Things I’ve learned from my Children (honest & no kidding):

  1. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.
  2. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.
  3. A 3-year old’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.
  4. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20×20 ft. room.
  5. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way
  6. The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn’t stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
  7. When you hear the toilet flush and the words “uh oh,” it’s already too late.
  8. Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.
  9. A six-year old can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year old man says they can only do it in the movies.
  10. Certain Lego’s will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old.
  11. Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.
  12. Super glue is forever.
  13. No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can’t walk on water.
  14. Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
  15. VCR’s do not eject PB&J sandwiches
  16. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
  17. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
  18. You probably do not want to know what that odor is.
  19. Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.
  20. The fire department in Austin, TX has a 5-minute response time.
  21. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.
  22. It will, however, make cats dizzy.
  23. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.
  24. The mind of a 6-year old is wonderful. First grade…true story:

    One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of the Three Little Pigs to her class. She came to the part of the story where the first pig was trying to accumulate the building materials for his home. She read, “..And so the pig went up to the man with the wheelbarrow full of straw and said, ‘Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?’”

    The teacher paused then asked the class, “And what do you think that man said?”

    One little boy raised his hand and said, “I think he said…’Holy crap! A talking pig!’”

    The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes.

  25. And finally: 60% of the men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid.

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More bluffs biking today

Posted by rae in family
at 1:29 am on Tuesday, 18 May 2004

Reid on his bike
Reid at the shore of Lake Ontario

We went biking again. Lots of pictures and stuff, including a few panoramas, a quicktime movie of a mother very far away from two baby ducks, plus QuickTimeVR’s of the panoramas (there are JPEGs too).

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Choice quote about female gamers at an E3 panel

Posted by rae in the Net
at 5:17 pm on Friday, 14 May 2004

“The second biggest buying group is females” — Gerhard Florin, VP EA

I would guess that the biggest buying group is “males” then?

[via Wonderland]

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Orkut and Netscape.ca

Posted by rae in the Net
at 12:52 pm on Friday, 14 May 2004

Well I am sucking in just about everyone I know into Orkut. If I’ve left you out and you want in, let me know! :-)

While browsing the job communities on Orkut I ran across this AOL job in Canada. It mentions supporting a site called Netscape.ca. I was a bit surprised, as I’d never heard of Netscape.ca, and I *live* in Canada.

They don’t seem to be doing a very good job at letting people know about it!

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