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Ok, cue the doves
It's a miracle! I finally, after my first anniversary (though before my other first anniversary) the Canadian government has approved me to become a Canadian resident! Well, I will be approved provided I send them my passport before June 30th along with some pictures and wait for it to return. Still, within a month I should officially be able to ( Read more... ) -
Signs of the Road
So I've visited my wife a few times in the past three weeks - once a short but much-needed one night meeting in Wenatchee, WA, and then for three full days up in Penticton over Memorial Day weekend. That's a lot of driving (around 32 hours all told). Along the way, I noted a couple of interesting signs. The second was the most deliciously recursive ( Read more... ) -
A heads up to my Colorado Homeys:
Maybe you've noticed this on the news, maybe not, but stay the hell away from work zones on the highway in the near future. The gist of it seems to be that they're hiring a private company to put speed camera vans at work zones (which can be active and defined as work zones even if no workers are present and won't be for another 4 hours) and will ( Read more... ) -
It... but I... Buh?
So in more national politics news, I caught this exchange with Antonin Scalia* last night on The Daily ShowSTAHL: If someone’s in custody, as in Abu Ghraib, and they are brutalized, by a law enforcement person - if you listen to the expression “cruel and unusual punishment,” doesn’t that apply ( Read more... ) -
First off, a meme
So this one is from wuruiqiu, duckie, and a few others. It's that list of "unread" books because, really, I don't consider myself well read in the classics, but there's some good stuff on here.
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...and that is why we save our data on different partitions
So my computer died last night - my old one. I'm still not sure exactly what happened, but I was playing some WoW, and all of a sudden the game started to get jumpy - getting a ridiculously low 2 fps and freezing every few seconds. I closed down WoW and there were some processes I didn't recognize taking up a fair chunk of the processor's time. To ( Read more... ) -
How does that even happen?
So, apparently, according to my dentist, I have the sinuses of a 70-year-old. What the hell? Did I pick my nose too much as a kid or something? What this means is my sinuses are quite large, to the point of being near the roots of my upper teeth, meaning I might mistake a sinus infection for a toothache at some point. I can't help but wonder, ( Read more... ) -
Happy Anniversary to us...
Well, not today, but this Thursday is our first anniversary. There's no way we can be together for it... or even anytime soon. The next feasible time for a visit is looking to be around the end of May. I'm not going to lie to you, it's a bit depressing. One could say I'm at a low ebb here, but I'll try not to get too emo about it. It just kinda ( Read more... ) -
Happy Pi Day/Einstein's Birthday to all!
...and that's all there is to say about it really. I really must get around to celebrating it properly one of these years. That and Talk Like A Pirate Day.