Ow
I did something to my leg. No idea how. Maybe the long-ish bike rider over the weekend? Whatever the reason, it’s now hard to walk. I may have to take time off work to let it heal, or something. Sat around all weekend at Tony’s cottage up near Minden feeling about as useful as a doorstop. Managed to get 2/3 of the way through “The Bourne Identity” though. The book is very different from the movie. And still good! I was amazed that I actually managed to get an EDGE internet connection up there. Ronnie starts D&D camp at the ROM today. He’s loaded to bear with his Warcraft III Monster Manual and bag o’ dice (my bag o’ dice, actually).Moments in Time
Posted by rae in family
at 1:39 pm on Wednesday, 25 June 2008
This week marks Ronnie and Michael’s respective graduations.
Ronnie from Grade 8, Michael from Grade 12.
Next year they both head out to new schools, and both of them will be taking the TTC instead of walking to school.
They’ll both be in classes with completely new people, almost all of whom they don’t know.
This week was the last time both of them will be seeing many of their schoolmates.
And yet, they’re both somewhat unaware of all this.
Luisa
mentioned Michael’s reaction,
and Ronnie’s — although perhaps a bit more elequent — hasn’t been much different.
I suppose it’s often the case that you can be unaware of some large changes when they resemble other, smaller changes that have gone before.
Ronnie and Michael are used to starting summer vacation.
It’s the end of that vacation that will really be different.
at 1:39 pm on Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Apple TV
I just popped out to the
Apple Store in the Eaton Centre
and bought myself an
Apple TV (take two).
I got the smaller model since Apple charges over $100 for 120 GB more storage.
For $143 I can get a 210 GB more storage
from Canada Computers.
Many thanks to Iain, who pointed me at
appletvhacks.net.
It needs to be hacked, to add support for other codecs like DivX, XviD, and mkv (Merikovian? Merovincian?)
New DVD drive: combo HD-DVD/Blu-ray?
So I’ve been burning DVDs on my Mac Pro to free up disk space. Leopard requires I wipe my hard drive (more on why later perhaps), so I need to vacate my main partition. This means I often leave discs burning late at night when I go to bed. When Toast finished burning a DVD, it opens the DVD tray with your shiny, newly-burned DVD. Luisa is up early in the morning, and now that I’ve taken over her office, she likes to use my Mac. It has Firefox, so she’s at home browsing the web, reading gmail, etc. But yesterday morning, when she got up to leave, her knee smashed into the open DVD tray. So, I’m down one DVD burner. Not too bad, since my Mac has two (it’s a Mac Pro). So, it’s time to shop for a new one. Canada Computers has the LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray HD DVD Combo Drive for sale at $294. Hmmmm! But I would only be able to watch Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies in Windows, since I don’t think Mac OS X supports it yet. It also doesn’t *burn* either Blu-ray or HD-DVD. So, .. is it worth it?BGG Con
BoardGameGeek Con!
Norman Jewison and my Grandma
Posted by rae in family
at 3:29 pm on Tuesday, 18 September 2007
I found out last night that my Grandmother, Evelyn Ellis, knew Norman Jewison’s family and used to visit.
Apparently she would stay over sometimes; and when she did, Norman would have to give up his bed (in the living room) so she could sleep there.
Hah!
Poor little Normie.
Hope she didn’t put him out too much.
at 3:29 pm on Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Missing my mini-FireWire cable!
stack o’ videos - click for readable text!
Vartans videocamera
mini-FireWire jack
If you have such a cable I could borrow, or you have one of mine, let me know!
I’ll try asking at Friday night gaming, if I remember.
I guess I could always buy one while I’m in San Francisco next week..
Birch Tree video
I’m trying out an EyeSpot video. It’s of the birch tree the Friday it came down.Our birch tree fell down
Tree down
Tree down!