I slept…yesterday. I think.
It must have been yesterday; I’d be seeing wall-roaches if it had been more than 30 hours.
Insomnia gave way to, “Fuck, I am SO not sleeping now or my sleep schedule will be even MORE b0rked, where the HELL is my coffeh” at about 4am, and so here I am with my [...]

Freerice.com : test your vocabulary and donate rice to third-world countries at the same time. I seem to be maxing out at about 44/50.

I love French. I think it’s important to, yanno, be bilingual if you’re living in a bilingual country. Someday I’d love to be able to read and write fluent French. Speaking it, though, remains quite the comedy/pain-filled challenge.

Today in LJ-land I read a post where someone asked where they could find a specific kind of fur-trimmed hat. Most of the replies were helpful, but there was one at the end with a person saying there was no reason to use leather and fur when synthetics were available, and that fashion was no [...]

A fellow named Josh sculpts amazing things out of rust.

Tonight I watched The Maltese Falcon for the first time.
Movies sure aren’t like that at all anymore, are they?

The opening to Queens of the Stone Age - Mosquito Song always makes me want to learn to play guitar.

Beyond whatever misadventures my brainmeats are throwing me, Daylight Savings Time always kills me in the autumn. Your system’s slowly getting used to less and less sun, and then suddenly, WHAM, say hello to 5pm darkness.
I grew up in a rustic corner of Canuckistania where we had evolved past the need for DST, and this [...]

A ram’s skull sculpted from melted cassettes.

…or, ‘I have to populate the blog with some entries in order to work on formatting.’
WordPress is slick so far. No rebuilding, no cursing the gods of the Internets for rebuilding scripts that time out.
In related news, mod_rewrite is bizarre and mighty and deserves some looking-into.
Chatting with dG brought up the idea of turning my [...]

Loonie hits modern-day high above $1.06 US
The Canadian dollar surged to a modern-day high against the U.S. dollar late Wednesday after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates again and oil prices surged to another all-time high.
In after-hours trading, the loonie went as high as $1.0617 US, eclipsing the previous 50-year high of $1.0614 US set [...]