the flying squirrel

I have raccoons. At least one raccoon has taken up residence under my porch. Taking the advice of the Humane Society, I’ve spread cayenne pepper around the opening, wadded up balls of paper towels, soaked them in ammonia and stuffed them in the opening, set up a halogen light in front of the opening and [...]

My laptop–a lovely G4 iBook–is nearly four years old now. I didn’t get it for its power or anything, but it’s always disappointed me a bit in how it handles things like Flash-driven web pages and video. And four years is absolutely elderly for any sort of computer, laptops especially. I’ve lusted after the Intel [...]

I have this weird habit where I check myself out in the washroom mirror while washing my hands. I don’t know what I’m looking for–probably just making sure my hair’s okay and I don’t have a giant booger on my face or something. I’ll lean forward towards the mirror and gaze deeply into the eyes [...]

The title of this post is a spoiler, but I’ve run out of time to keep being coy about it. When we last left our hero, he had decided that he would forsake the two parties that had any hope of getting a candidate elected around here, thus “throwing his vote away,” as it is [...]

I’ll take a break from politics to wish you and yours a happy Thanksgiving. I’m a bit too bloated right now to contemplate the NDP anyway. I’ve spent way too much time this weekend just sitting around playing Jeanne D’Arc. I’m a sucker for a turn-based tactical combat RPG, and it’s a good game. My [...]

Before I start beating up on people, I want to take a minute to go over what’s going on here. I know, this is basic stuff, but it’ll become important later. The way Canada’s national and provincial election systems work, you’re asked to vote for which of various candidates in your riding you want to [...]

I’m in Belleville for the long weekend. Having just driven in holiday traffic for three hours, I’m a little tired. So bear with me. I was going to write this as an introduction to my election post (which I keep talking about but have yet to actually write). That’s coming, but I thought I should [...]

My server died. I didn’t really expect the site to be down that long. To my three (or perhaps four) readers, I apologize. I built this thing to be easy to rebuild, but I guess when you start messing around with the fatal combination of Linux hardware support and VMWare, all bets are off. I’m [...]