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Archive for October, 2007

What Ever Happened To The 4077′th?

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

M*A*S*H was one of my favourite shows when I was a kid. I used to watch it every night on CJOH at 5:30pm when I was finishing elementary school.Ever wonder what happened to the cast? AOL Television has the answer. I had no idea McLean Stevenson and Larry Linville were both dead.

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Away For A Few Days

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

I’m in Brockville for a few days getting my mother’s laptop up and running.  As such, my posting regularity will be severely limited until I return.  I’m guessing Thursday on that front.
In the meantime if you’re bored, you can always check my Flickr feed.  I uploaded a few pictures from walking around town yesterday.

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I just can’t resist this story, I’m sorry. I know so many Harry Potter fans who will just be stricken with this news, that I feel compelled to share it.
Scott Johnson over at Extra Life linked a story from The Leaky Cauldron that featured an interview with J. K. Rowling that — among other […]

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I Haven’t Laughed So Hard In Ages

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Want to see two “great tastes” that don’t go great together?
R. Kelly and Smooth Jazz.
I saw this on the iTunes store.  I’m taking a train ride tomorrow and thought maybe I’d buy an album.  I listened to the previews of the first couple of tracks and decided there was nothing “smooth” about it.  This is […]

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Thanks Alisha!

Friday, October 19th, 2007

I doubt Alisha will ever read this, but I need to thank her. She works for Gateway technical support in a call center in Utah.
Bessie, my desktop PC, went dead this afternoon and I was in a five-alarm panic. The panic didn’t get any better when she announced my motherboard was pooched and […]

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A Popular Image

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Believe it or not, I took this picture. I was wandering around with Costanza when I saw the flowers and a large number of monarchs congregating around them.
Flickr keeps track of your most popular uploads by the number of comments, the number of views, the number of people who mark it as a favourite, and […]

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Moo To You Too

Friday, October 19th, 2007

After quite a bit of harassment from co-workers, I have finally entered the land of Moo.
Moo is a printing company in England who make lots of neat stuff from your images, including mini-cards.  So this morning I went into my Flickr account, picked a bunch of images, aligned them on the cards, picked the wording […]

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