Tune In, Turn Up, Geck Out.
Posted On Sunday, December 7th, 2008 By Zen Render
You’ll have to excuse the look on my face, that was like the 9th photo with the flash, and I was starting to see big purple blotches eveywhere. Oh, and I don’t have a receding hairline, I just have a humongous freakin’ HEAD. Here’s the rest in (what I’m hoping is) some sort of chronological order.
Posted On Thursday, December 4th, 2008 By Zen Render
How do you know your six-year-old is sick? A whole day of being inside with no TV, and he didn’t go insane once. So what did we do? Not. Freakin’. Much. I did some dishes, and hung out while he zoned out on the couch. Made some cardboard coasters wrapped in wrapping paper. Wait, no. The coasters were wrapped in paper, not him. He was sick, not high. (Though he did seem to enjoy working with the glue a little more than usual.) So we watched the Empire Strikes Back (his first time), and then we watched the credits to find Nilo’s name (Ripley has met Nilo, and kept asking me “did Nilo make that?” for the first twenty minutes.) Doesn’t get much better than THAT.
Posted On Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 By Zen Render
So, after much kvetching and grumping about how it was all going to work, and how was any of this possible, Arwen happily let herself be convinced by a telemarketer to move our phone service to the same company that handles our television. Unlike my recent excursion into the deep waters of RRSP transfer and 19.75% Visa cards that *I* went though, Arwen simply was nudged that last 1% into making the move. We were sorta happy, and a little nervous about how VoiceOverIP was going to work, but we were jumping in. As an added bonus, we also got highspeed for the same price we were already paying at Telus. Here’s the kicker though. It really WAS three times faster than we’d had before. Being the “just stick a cable in it and see what happens” type, I hopped off our Telus network and onto the new ugly Shaw modem to see what would happen, and here’s my result. See those numbers there? Yes, that’s about 5 megabit. That means around 500 kilobytes per second. That means AROUND 10 minutes to download a CD image (and I do a fair amount of that, in my travels as a Linux-boot-CD Continue Reading
Posted On Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 By Zen Render
This post triggered by SuperSecretVault, so don’t tell anybody. Not to be confused with SuperSpecialQuestions. Oh wait, is there a SuperSecretAnswers.com? Maybe I should grab THAT. When I was a young buck, having just migrated across Canada in a two-toned yellow Datsun 210, I got a delivery/driving job in a pizza place (Smitty’s Pizza of Kingston, proudly delivering sans-muffler and plus-BC-plates). Every day, around 6:30 or so, we’d make a pizza for dinner for ourselves. Every teenage boy’s dream: Paid to drive around army bases like a pizza-scented idiot.
Posted On Monday, December 1st, 2008 By Zen Render
Today started out really nice, and then kinda got bent outta shape. By the time dinner rolled around, I was a basket case. I’m good now. Laundry folded, kids long-since asleep, icecream has been nommed. We watched Pineapple Express and I either wasn’t stoned, or wasn’t 18 enough to enjoy it. Seriously, what was the point? It was your standard “Two Hapless Dudes try to Run Away from the Seriously Bad Guys,” movie, but with way more shooting, stomping, and death. Think Half-Baked meets Lethal Weapon III. Okay, don’t think that. It wasn’t as good as either of those movies. So today started well, and ended well, but In the middle, between breakfast and dinner was some stuff that wasn’t a whole bunch of fun. Ripley was manic today. He was having fun, but in that challenging “I don’t know when to quit” kinda way. The kind that makes me crazy. Makes me think of me. Must be hard to deal with me when I don’t know when to shut up. Sorry, world. Tate? Tate was a butt-head today. Exhausted, I think. Still getting over that egregious flu we all had a few weeks back, I guess. I think he’s Continue Reading