An aunt of mine will be visiting from Finland in June. My parents will be going to pick her up from Toronto by car, then driving her to Thunder Bay ( Read more... )

Does anyone in Thunder Bay want to come to a murder mystery on Friday (i.e. two days from now)? Excuse for fancy dress, for hanging out, for pretending that we are all socialites who take trains around for a living. If so, kindly choose from The Businessman, The Conductor (it is on a train), The Doctor, The Lord, The Magician, The Peasant, The ( Read more... )

I went to the Thunder Bay Wedding Show today, and hopefully soon my answering machine shall be full of all the people who were impressed at my computer graphicking skills and naturally assumed that it translates to playing the piano ( Read more... )

News: I am tutoring someone in first-year civil engineering, on their first-year CS course. Can you believe they still teach classes in FORTRAN? I couldn't. It's like, halfway to assembler ( Read more... )

Casting for extras in a movie! Found in a nudge-nudge wink-wink sort of entry by destroyerzooey, so guess what movie it could be for? Somebody go to this thing so I can live vicariously!

Ratio of the entire U.S. federal budget in 1957, adjusted for inflation, to the amount spent so far on the Iraq war: 1:1 Crazy, sobering numbers. Fingers crossed for future sanity!

Also: I think I am going to have a murder mystery birthday party, if I can get enough people. For I have found The Little Engine That Could Kill, which I shall avoid ( Read more... )

There's a protest in Toronto over Prop 8 tomorrow, and I'll actually be there for another thing, so I might stop by! It is in front of the US Consulate, so it's not completely irrelevant ( Read more... )

So, I submitted a design to Threadless!


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Hawksley Workman in Toronto (and Ottawa) in November! Who else is already making plans? I am most certainly not going to miss him again!

Yup. So productive ( Read more... )