the flying squirrel

I dropped my parent’s hot tub cover on my toe on Saturday. It hurt a lot at the time. My toenail turned purple. When I was a kid, my dad’s toenail would do something to his toe (he used to jog a lot) and his toenail would turn black and fall off. This was kinda [...]

I’m in Belleville for the weekend. Which is nice, since tomorrow’s Father’s Day and all. My dad’s not around, though. He’s working most of the weekend. I was supposed to come up last weekend, but I ran into difficulties. I took the car into the shop for what I thought was a quick oil change [...]

You can read it too: June 13, 2008 The Honourable Andrew Telegdi House of Commons Parliament Buildings Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Dear Sir, I am a constituent who is concerned about copyright and intellectual property issues. As a member of Waterloo’s high tech community, I make my living from my intellectual property. I understand the [...]

Whenever someone says “netizen“, the first thing I think of isn’t “citizen”; it’s “denizen”. I just looked that word up. I’d always assumed it was related to den, but apparently it’s not.

I decided that this weekend would be all about gardening. A little bit about getting my computer network back up and running like it should be too, but that’s boring, so I’m going to talk about gardening. My plan was to go around a bunch of garden centres and things yesterday. I only ended up [...]