Archive for October, 2004
Saturday, October 9th, 2004
Ridiculous weekend redux
So lots of projects right now. I need, for obscure reasons, some high-performance 50-pin SCSI drives. I’m trying to find a nice new camera for my parents (DMC-LC70 on eBay, I’m looking at you), I’m trying to buy Eric’s camera, and there’s the usual fuzz of bicycle projects ranging from the sane (replace brake pads) […]
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Friday, October 8th, 2004
Naughty, naughty Microsoft!
Robert X. Cringely (the PBS one, not the Info World one, long story…) has a natural gift for overstatement. Erick tends to think he’s a complete idiot most of the time. Nonetheless, he’s got the scoop on some interesting, if long court documents. The scary court submission suggesting MS told naughty lies to the Department […]
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Friday, October 8th, 2004
Katamari Damacy Update
Curse you Penny Arcade for addicting me to this wonderful game! I have picked up a cow, two types of car, a couple of motorcycles, and some jungle gyms. Current project: find some way of extracting the soundtrack so I can make my own CD of the rich, tasty music. Oh yes.
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Thursday, October 7th, 2004
This post is mostly about voting
So the City of Vancouver is about to ask its citizens to vote on whether they want a ward system to replace the at-large council system which the city currently uses. Mercifully, I live two municipalities away, so I don’t have to make an excuse for missing the civic plebiscite on the 16th. The entierety […]
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2004
I got it for my birthday
Katamari Damacy. Well, Mike gave me a gift certificate, which was quickly turned into Katamari Damacy. Funny story about that: I got all excited after he came over around 7 last night, told him what I was going to buy with the gift certificate, so we jumped in his car, drove to the mall, and […]
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
Happy Birthday to me
31. And darned nearly hairless thanks to my recent close shave. Instead of ruminating about being old, I think I’ll ruminate about being bald. I’m not really bald. I just shaved my head down to about 2 mm. Since I am a perpetually warm person (not just my personality, either!) I enjoyed the cooler feel. […]
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
Update on Vic
Vic will be discharged from the hospital, either Monday (ie, already) or Tuesday. The cracked ribs and collarbone will keep him out of action for a while, but he seemed in good spirits when I saw him (and his lovely wife) on Monday around noon. We had a good visit. He’s pretty badly beat up, […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2004
Say a prayer for Vic
My friend Vic came out for the Saturday morning bike ride with me, fell down, and is now spending the evening at Richmond General Hospital as they treat broken ribs, a broken collarbone, a partly collapsed lung, and a seriously rung bell. I’ll be off to see him tomorrow. Remember kids: it’s not fun to […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2004
You can get it for me for my birthday
As a regular reader of Penny Arcade, I was bemused when they did a comic and newspost on something called Katamari Damacy, which they liked more than candy. That box art! That ludicrous gameplay! The promo copy seems to have been written by Bizarro Jesse Jackson: “Featuring ball-rolling and object-collecting gameplay mechanics of mesmerizing fluidity, […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2004
BMX LX version II.i
Sorry, no photos yet, but The Lovely One’s bicycle underwent some major surgery Friday. I did a fork transplant in order to add new brakes in hopes of improving the braking. Did it work? A painful but hilarious endo during the first test ride says yes, emphatically! Alas, it didn’t go quite as planned. In […]