If you should happen to want to comment on one of my entries and click on the “crosspost to FaceBook” option, it will result in me receiving your comment twice: once from FaceBook and once from LiveJournal, as I already make a practice of having my LiveJournal posts also show up on FaceBook.

Since I’m not normally in the habit of making friends- ( Read more... )

A while ago, I traded in my old Nokia phone for an iPhone, when I went to try to delete a very large number of messages from the old phone and discovered that there was no mass delete functionality in it. Not a very smart phone after all. Quite a stupid phone, really.

Turns out that if I’d gotten it earlier, and wanted to delete, say, hundreds of ( Read more... )

I saw a couple of young people wearing bright red T-shirts with “TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FREE” in white letters on them. One of them was wearing a bandanna exceedingly gaily embossed with Canadian flags.

My theory is that they were a couple of Americans who had received the advice “try to look like Canadians, and people won’t be as antagonistic ( Read more... )

I went out shopping today for various things I wanted. I went to Hard-Off and didn’t get things that I was actually looking for, but I got things that I wanted anyway:

• a Playstation memory card
• a Ministry CD
• a Lisa Loeb CD
• Gran Turismo 2 for the PlayStation 2
• a cable splitter

I went there a few months ago in hopes of finding a GameCube game for my newly-purchased Wii, and there was damn near nothing.

Today I went there and the only good games-for any console at all-were for the Game Cube. Paper Mario, Zelda: Wind Waker and Viewtiful Joe. And a Game Cube controller to boot.

Shame they didn’t have a Game Cube memory ( Read more... )

…that it’s illegal to mount stuff on the mirror posts of a motorcycle in Japan. I learned this by asking a nice man how I’d go about mounting my GPS onto my mirror post, considering I was having the damnedest time finding anything to mount it with.

Also, my old mount, while nice-looking, was made of plastic. And broke when I was adjusting it one ( Read more... )

I used to spend quite a lot of time playing video games. That was fun-working my way all the way through Final Fantasy X, for example. Following the epic story as it unfolded. Going through all of the dungeons in The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past was also fun-accumulating all of the extras. I recently thought about the fun I had with ( Read more... )

Laura Ingraham wrote a very very bad book. It’s called “The Obama Diaries” and its conceit is that it’s the “secret diary” of Barack Obama. She went onto the Colbert Report and he told her, to her face, that her book was terribly-written and racist. It was a beautiful moment.

And then she went into what she figured was friendlier territory, and ( Read more... )

I fixed the starter motor on the little bike!

It turns out that it needs to have the bolts holding the kickstarter mechanism in place very carefully tightened (to Not Very Tight At All, just a smidge past finger-tight) otherwise the starter gear gadget doesn’t turn around at all. Now I can start the bike with a button again, though, instead of ( Read more... )

My bank balance is now significantly higher than my remaining student loan!

So should I pay the leftover student loan off all in one go, or let it fizzle out and keep my credit rating alive a bit longer?