How to get a human on the phone
Large, growing list of ways to actually talk to a customer service human when you're stuck in the endless computerized voice hell of major companies.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Useful
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Very sad
More species slide to extinction
Damn...hippos are just about my favourite animals :-(
Monday, May 01, 2006
Sunday, April 30, 2006
John Kenneth Galbraith, dead at 97
Economist Urged Using Wealth for Social Needs
Love him or hate him, you can't deny his influence. I'm proud that he was Canadian.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
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Thursday, April 27, 2006
Sad computer geek :-(
I've managed to kill my computer, so if you know me, please email me. I have NO addresses anymore.
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The Inner Savant
The Inner Savant
(Even though my least favourite question about my autistic kids is "what's their special talent?, this is a fascinating article.)
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Great resource
Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers
Very well organized, with notes, explanations, online texts, and resources.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Seriously crazy
and not really for the weak of stomach. But I sure wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it.
Snake coughs up entire hippo
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Shadow Play
AdamFrank
Amazingly cool art exhibit with created shadows.
(via metafilter)
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Interesting google map type community
Envision Toronto
Some surprisingly beautiful pictures
Via Metafilter
T E X T F I L E S
Remember BBSs? Lots and lots of old textfiles...now I feel very old.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Tony Bourdain is a god
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
I still like A Cook's Tour better, but this show kicks some serious ass too.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Lazaressurection
Veiled Conceit: Lazaressurection
"There's no way she wasn't going to marry a Jew," Mr. Brodesser said of the conversion he made last year. And what of his visit to the mohel who did the circumcision? "It didn't tickle," he said. Ms. Akner, 30, recalled, "He was drugged, but the amount of Xanax I was on rivaled it."
(Veiled Conceit is fun..."A glimpse into that haven of superficial, pretentious, pseudo-aristocratic vanity: The NY Times' Wedding & Celebration Announcements". I'm glad she's back!)
I think that maybe they're missing the point
"Loyal" donkeys better than wives, says textbook
Although I guess that it depends on how close you are to your donkey.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
No matter how old this is
I still giggle like a school girl every time I read it
worst analogies ever written in a high school essay
Monday, April 03, 2006
Sunday, April 02, 2006
I re-read this book last week
and it was great to find a site that had pictures of a lot of the main players. Still a devastating read, if you've never come across it.
And the Band Played On Photographs
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Friday, March 31, 2006
From the Arcata Eye
Always check out their Public Safety Division.
• Wednesday, February 8 3:41 p.m. Police met with God, or so he said, in the parking lot of a Valley West fast food franchise. The Creator was subsequently relocated from the golden arches to a rubber room.
Someone who’d taken a week’s worth of Quazomil was ambulanced to the hospital.
• Thursday, February 9 1:27 a.m. When you live in a tiny studio apartment with shared bathroom and kitchen, what better time to share earsplitting tuneage with your neighbors?
7:48 a.m. A little boy ran out in front of a car and was struck on Sunset Avenue, but sustained only minor injuries.
1:28 p.m. A iPod nano was stolen from a high school boys’ locker room.
1:43 p.m. Another high school lad was found in possession of marijuana.
7:24 p.m. Everyone agreed that the loose pit bull on Spartan Street would be better kept inside.
• Friday, February 10 12:24 a.m. A scruffy-bearded man proved unable to remain vertical near the Community Center. He was hospitalized.
12:15 p.m. After allegedly tagging stop signs at 16th and H streets, a suspected vandal was arrested on the Plaza.
• Saturday, February 11 2:22 a.m. “Get away from me!” screamed the woman on Olympia Street. Police provided the service, alleging public drunkenness.
9:02 a.m. A woman with a baby was seen digging in garbage on Lincoln Avenue.
9:07 a.m. An H Street resident reported people in her hallway, her closet and upstairs. Her medication may be reevaluated.
12:22 p.m. Someone found 14 VISA cards and two California driver’s licenses at a McKinleyville golf course, and turned them in to APD. One of the items was traced to a theft in Manila.
3:41 p.m. A woman complained of her ex-partner calling several times and harassing her children. He wanted the fax machine back, but she declined to return it. She did give him his car back, though ą with the truck and backseat loaded with cardboard and compost.
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
This has to be fake
but it's still pretty funny!
World's Best Resignation Letter?
This is not a boring Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi Humps a Traffic Cop - Wonkette
Can you imagine a North American leader getting away with that?
Amazing
Explore the solar system with this incredibly cool download.
Celestia
Cabbage Hell
My daughter won't eat vegetables, so we're in a new phase where she tries one new vegetable a week (her choice which one), and we see which ones stick. Unfortunately her veggie of the week is cabbage, and I haven't got a clue what to do with it aside from cabbage rolls. So here are some recipes- wish me luck! If anyone has any other great suggestions, please let me know.
CABBAGE RECIPES
Beefy Cabbage Casserole
And the world of people who want their cats to look like idiots gets a little larger
MissGlamourPuss - Dresses
(although I can't blame the girl for doing this...I feel a new career coming on!)
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
When you're a Prime Minister, it's always nice
when the press secretary of your biggest trading partner knows your name.
CBC News: Harper suffers identity crisis with White House press secretary
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Canada has "placed itself alongside China as the cruelest and most self-serving nation."
And Morrissey said it, so you know that it's true.
I'd thought that McCartney's protest was pathetic, but Morrissey? Next thing you know Kool and the Gang will be up here throwing their bodies between us blood-crazed Canadians and the cute little baby seals.
So much for open and accountable government
Battle heats up between media and Prime Minister's Office - Yahoo! Canada News
(Not that most people I know believed him anyway, but it's still depressing to see it in action).
The Movie Timeline
The Movie Timeline
"The Movie Timeline is the history of everything, taken from one simple premise: that everything you see in the movies is true - the real mixes with the fictitious, so long as it's reported in a movie somewhere..."
For example...
n the beginning... God created the heavens and the earth (The Bible)
A long time ago... Luke Skywalker and Han Solo lead a rebellion against the evil empire(Star Wars)
26,000,000,000BC Los Angeles (and everywhere else) - The Earth's crust begins to harden (Adaptation)
5,000,000BC Martians uplift apes to become intelligent as a way to preserve their own society (Quatermass and the Pit)
4,000,000BC Aliens leave monolith on Earth (2001: A Space Odyssey)
1,000,000BC Loana faces dinosaurs to be with Tumak, a caveman banished from his savage tribe, and then from her gentler group of cave people (One Million Years BC)
San Dimas, Ca - A phone box briefly arrives from the future containing Bill S Preston and Ted 'Theodore' Logan (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
80,000BC A tribe of early man searches for fire (Quest For Fire)
FUN!
Sad
Robert Jordan health update
Even though his books now annoy the hell out of me, I wish him all the luck in the world. That sounds like an ugly disease to have.
Monday, March 27, 2006
I'm not even sure how to explain this
An interactive painting/puzzle? It might be a little too thoughtful for Monday morning though.
The Truth is What you Believe
Fun, or useful
Free online typing tests
I guess that if I think that this is fun, I should probably get out more.
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