I've been catching up a little on some Bad Astronomy while I wait for sucktastic Open Office to apply a filter (for some reason it's really slow on Ubuntu 10.04, compared to a Windows VM running on the same system). [Just checked, it's still working.] And I found two posts that just make my heart swell:
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My lovely fiancée has been crowing about the fantastic surprise she's had planned for my birthday since ... July or something. So, rather than try to describe the delightful ride she took me on, I'm going to tell it with pictures instead.

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So the other morning, I woke up from a dream in which I was making an elaborate meal for my fiancée in a strange kitchen, using all four stove elements at once (including a toasted sandwich sort of thing, but instead of bread, it was salmon filets, which I kinda want to try making now ( Read more... )

...brought home 3D glasses last night, allowing me to take advantage of Google's pranks. I'm in love.

So, when I moved in, my girlfriend, acting in what she believed were my best interests, gave me a lot of friction about keeping some red-blue 3D glasses I had (apparently called anachrome?). She asked when I would ever use them, and not being able to come up with any rebuttal, I tossed them ( Read more... )

I had an extremely productive day at work today, but that was because a tonne of things went horribly wrong, and I successfully dealt with most of them. They went wrong due to the carelessness of other people, which made me especially frustrated (didn't discover this until the end of the day, so the middle of my workday was unblemished by this), ( Read more... )

I've been going to three-day workshops for training in the company philosophy. There are 17 people in my group (which stays almost the same from week to week), some from my office, and some from as far away as Quebec, New England, and Indiana. There are cool effects I'm seeing from such a broad range of backgrounds and locales coming together, ( Read more... )

I learned how to print bar codes, and printed off a quick example for my boss on Monday morning. I got a "Whoa, already?" response, which was pretty darn satisfying. That left me with little to do for the rest of the day (I had flow charts for the plant I was going to tour Tuesday, but nobody expected me to do anything more than glance at them ( Read more... )

In looking for a plastic bag yesterday evening, and finding my grandmother's large stockpile, a thought occurred to me: The driving force in my grandmother's life is fear. Not necessarily, terrifying sorts of fear, but it ranges from mild anxiety to panic. She's heard that grocery stores in Toronto are being legislated to charge for bags, and ( Read more... )

I really enjoy Classical FM, a radio station here in Toronto (and receivable in KW). It's more consistently classical than CBC2, if less imaginative (sometimes it gets monotonous) but at Christmas, they've actually got a wider array of Christmas music. Unfortunately it has ads, but they're not too bad either, and usually quite a bit different than ( Read more... )