Archive for November, 2004
Thursday, November 25th, 2004
Waste Not, Want Not
I originally posted this elsewhere, but Mennonite Marc thought it was pretty good, and I respect that, so I’ll repost it. It’s entirely political, but political philosophy rather than anything more specific. It’s pithy, and it’s much more than two weeks late: “People are going to have a drink and have a smoke and that’s […]
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Sunday, November 21st, 2004
The Sublime and the Ridiculous
Well, I am The Lovely One (TLO). At Ryan’s urging, I have agreed to do a weekly posting. In each posting, I will discuss one sublime event in the week and one ridiculous event in the week. I am sure it will be easy to find many examples of the latter, but the former may […]
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Sunday, November 21st, 2004
Do I post about anything but jelly and bicycles?
No, no I do not. Jelly: I dug the ghost of crab apples past out of the deep freeze earlier this week, thawed it, and with nothing more than the application of 7.5 cups of sugar, some pectin, just a bit of lemon juice, and an hour or so of work, I have a couple […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2004
Arbitrage
I’ve been surfing Techbargains an awful lot lately (any other good bargain sites?) looking for a deal on a digital camera. With the Canadian dollar suddenly well over $0.80 U.S., and with Canadian (and American) consumer prices not quite caught up to the new reality, an interesting bargaining situation arises. In short, consumer goods being […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2004
A Pain in the Neck
Argh. Sidelined at home. This is why you shouldn’t run around and have fun on your lunch hour after age 30: Thursday, I participated in the usual intramural indoor soccer game in the gym. It went just fine until I had a harmless fall while playing the ball, got up, and a minute or two […]
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2004
Junk bicycles
On any given club ride, especially during the Winter, I am bound to have the ugliest, oldest bike going. My early-80s Bianchi is a messy mutant, and it’s not made any prettier by the mis-matched fork (used to make my short-reach front brake work) or brake levers. It also really needs a wider handlebar to […]
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
The Neutral Zone
When I discuss politics with earnest people of significantly otherwise views, my guts get into a knot. No, that’s literally what happens. We’re talking full-on physiological response. I’m not good at conflict. Flex day Wednesday. It’s fully booked. I stupidly drank a nice cup of coffee again tonight, again at about 9:30. Now I’m all […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2004
Transformers: the Ad
Thanks to the ever-nerdy Gizmodo, I got to see this amusing ad depicting a Citroen as a dancing transformer. Bravo! But we at Wired Cola strive to provide value added content in all our posts. And thus I looked a little harder at the ad than other, non-Cybermorphic™ cola bloggers would. Is that distinctive building […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2004
News I Can’t Use
I was over at my in-laws’ place, enjoying a glass of wine and the company of my brother-in-law and father-in-law, and for the first time in a very long time, I watched a local news show all the way through. I should preface my remarks by saying that this has obviously been a slow news […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2004
Col. John Boyd
So I follow the story of that little movie I blogged in the previous entry, read through some of Amazon’s “look inside” system to see what the book was like, and found the name Col. John Boyd mentioned. And that made me google this: How Col. John Boyd Beat the Generals. A fascinating read for […]