Seriously. I’m sitting in the theatre for The Dark Knight (aside: Totally Awesome. Loved it. Wicked. Go see it. Big ups to my friend Matt’s wife who was second assistant accountant on the shoot, and hence associated with something way cooler than I’ve ever done), when the trailer for The Watchmen came on. Within about [...]
Tagged comics, nerdsWe bought a new house!
Pretty exciting stuff, as it is a detached house in a slightly better area. By that I mean that we are now in the school catchment that we wanted to be in so the kid can go to JK with all his friends from his daycare. Still in the same neighbourhood, [...]
Two nights ago I attended Damian Conway’s excellent talk: “Temporally Quaquaversal Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces … Made Easy!” My notes said that he left out the “Virtual Nanomachine” part of the talk title, although he did talk about virtual nanomachines.
The talk was a preview of the keynote session that Damian will [...]
Now that I’ve left my job at OpenMake, I needed new business cards. But really they are more like “contact” cards as I don’t yet have a business.
My wife (and the rest of the blogosphere) is a big fan of Moo Cards. And now they’ve started printing business cards in the standard sizes. So I [...]
So my friend Pat The Lawyer and I went for lunch. I felt like a burger, so I suggested we go to Detroit Eatery on the Danforth. Good burgers and a pretty cool place — school kids at lunch sitting besides regulars and the hipsters, too.
The place is crazy decked out with Red Wings memorabilia, [...]
Well, I left my job.
I was employed for 6 1/2 years at Catalyst Systems/OpenMake software working on build management tools. I’ve decided that I needed to take some time off and figure out what the next move in my career was going to be, seeing as I’m 36 and I want to make sure that [...]
My washing machine broke on Monday.
Suddenly, it wouldn’t start the spin cycle or drain the water from the drum. And that left my towels soaking in a pool of dirty sudsy water, which I had to bail out.
The last time the door latch broke on the washing machine, it was $200 just to get the [...]
Whoa, 180 pounds. Not good.
I’ve been back from Vancouver and Whistler for about 10 days now. I got to go skiing three of the days I was there, and I made the incorrect assumption that I was skiing so hard and burning so many calories that the food intake didn’t matter. And that the beer [...]
Went two weeks without checking in here — have to get focussed again.
Weight was 176 lbs. Good direction, and I’m doing well with not drinking cola. I had one last week and it didn’t taste very good. Still having a few beers, though.
Next is to get the exercise ramped up. Soccer seems to be on [...]
Good news: 178.5 lbs, still no cola, down on the alcohol.
Bad news: no additional exercise and indoor soccer got postponed for a week.