Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Dates for hiking (Two of them... too bad neither is a date-as-such)
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Lisa, Shiva and I will likely be going on a car-hike on the weekend of the 25th. Natasha (former gf) wants to do one as well, much sooner than that (i.e. in 10 days or so). I put on shoes today for the first time since dancing on Saturday... ouch... the "wounds" are definitely not ...
Hmm, John Stewart just lost it for a second (Even if I do agree...)
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Has a right-wing gent on with a book about the connection between Al Quaeda and Iraq and he just lost the whole objectivity thing when the chap came up with some gem about mustard gas use in the Iran-Iraq war being unproven (keep in mind the topic of the guest's book). Was funny, but it ...
If the man telling you to commit suicide isn't dead (Why would you trust him?)
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Just wondering. It seems pretty stupid to believe someone who says all good little believers should arise and kill themselves who is not themselves dead. I actually have problems with following the ones who have offed themselves (and others), but at a minimum I demand death from my death-cult leaders.
I don't care if you're ...
Oh, yes, yesterday (Gifts and weddings and such-a-like)
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Everything yesterday went as-expected. Mom came into town with Aunt Marg (who's still incredibly spritely for an 80+ woman) and her nephew and niece (Ken and Marilyn). Mom seemed to like her gift (a Royal Daulton figurine).
The wedding was rather larger than I'd expected (Shademan has a lot of family). Got to meet Yvonne ...
Think that about wraps up the week (13 hours is too long a time to sit in one spot)
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Mostly work on UI stuff again today. Nothing really exciting, just cleaning up and converting to the new UI style. Unfortunately, I didn't wind up getting a chance to work on the product summary document (that was going to be my first task of the day, but then I got side-tracked trying to figure out ...
Shopping tomorrow (Can't look shabby at the wedding...)
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Need to buy new dancing shoes and a decent shirt (think I'll go for either lime green, red or blue this time) for my suit (yes I do own one). I haven't the foggiest where one goes to get reasonably priced, yet stylish men's footwear in Toronto, I normally buy boots and/or hiking shoes. Luckily ...
Former gf graduates (With "high distinction")
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Congratulations out to Natasha, who graduated from U of T English Literature this afternoon, welcome to the wonderful world of the baccalaureate!
The pernicious influence of puzzles (Almost an hour wasted on this so far...)
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Got an email today telling me about a TTC puzzle to try and find ~70 English words (no-abbreviations, proper names, contractions, etceteras) formed from just the letters in "TRANSIT". I've got 54 so far (stop reading if you want to try the puzzle yourself):
a, I,
an, it, is, at, in, as, nit,
tan, sit, ...
This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) )
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Grams and I played 1 game of snooker and then 3 of pool. Going to have to brush up on the rules of pool, it's been way too long, and there's at least 2 major variants that we're conflating. Still working on getting Gentoo set up for real work. Eric3 (a Python IDE) is crashing ...
This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) )
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Snaking,
Vindaloo.
Grams and I played 1 game of snooker and then 3 of pool. Going to have to brush up on the rules of pool, it's been way too long, and there's at least 2 major variants that we're conflating. Still working on getting Gentoo set up for real work. Eric3 (a Python IDE) is crashing ...
Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.