It's only 25 degrees in Toronto, which after the last week is basically awesome. Also, ferox has air conditioning, so I may just never go home. (Sorry, artemisiabrisol. I love the AC more than you. And the dishwasher. And the washer and dryer ( Read more... )

Now actually to the point where I think I must turn off the computer in order to lower the room temperature. HELP.

It is forty-two degrees celsius on this bus if it's one, and why are those children so loud? *squints ( Read more... )

Yesterday we went on more or less the longest walk ever. Or, the usual walk to the tea shop, but since it was about 28 degrees outside, it was something like hiking up the Himalayas. (Not one of our best plans, I admit.) Pekoe was also not enormously fond of the necessity of having to put sunscreen on her nose (though that was pretty damned funny ( Read more... )

I know a lot of you use Gimp rather than Photoshop and sing its praises often - after all, it's free. Hurrah. I, myself, learned Photoshop, way back in film school, and have kept using it. Recently I even acquired a legal version (O.O ( Read more... )

Mostly, anyway.

And now I think I'll just curl up in a ball until the Plague abates. *cough*

( Because I keep getting myself into these things. :) )

For the first time in my educational career since 2001, it's the end of the first week of classes and I have a hope in hell of actually being up-to-date on my readings before the second week starts. Of course it doesn't help that the Computer Class Of Things You Should Have Known Since You Were Ten (What-Is-A-Keyboard, What-Does-GigaByte-Stand-For ( Read more... )

The Amazon Rank fiasco has so far sparked the fastest torches-and-pitchforks reaction I've ever actually seen LJers muster (with the disclaimer that we didn't hear about this until this morning). Go us. *thumbs up*

Dear Amazon: even for a corporation for your size, it's a special kind of stupid when you tell one customer it's a glitch and another ( Read more... )

Today I brought my bike home from the doctor (Took four hours and fifty bucks to replace the front innertube and both tires, another sixty to buy night-necessary flashies required by the City of Vancouver - Very Very Bright LED because of my paranoia of instant vehicular death - for the front and back. There were cheaper ones, but not by much, and ( Read more... )