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It’s been a few months since my last random wayward text message. This one was FOUR PAGES LONG! (I had to paste the orphan line at the bottom to get each page in one shot.) She refused to believe I wasn’t the guy she thought she was SMS’ing.
So I did what most anyone would [...]

I was talking to a friend last night about Googling, and the conversation reminded me that I have this little cache of odd screen captures from one of my webstats programs. Here’s a gem from Pennsylvania a couple of weeks ago:

I don’t know what’s more bizarre: the query itself or the impression that my website [...]

Got Milk?

I was downtown on Friday night and spotted four cartons on a… milk run? I’m amazed this shot turned out as well as it did — they were in a hurry! Were they late meeting a plate of cookies?
We’ve got: soy, homogenized, half & half, and 2%. View larger.
Queen Street West
Toronto

Last Friday night I fell asleep in my armchair and woke up to this. Methinks it’s not intended for me, for two obvious reasons. Why would I waste a Saturday on my hair???
In the old days, smoking pot and using a telephony device meant accidentally dialling an ex. And taking a very long time to [...]

I laughed on the subway when I read this.* I might make it my life’s work to find published typos.
Maybe I can bring home a trophy elf? I showed this page to some people the last couple of days, and now it’s a running joke.
This latest edition of Lonely Planet Iceland just came out last [...]

PSA


Madness

On my way home from work, I saw a giant queue on the north side of Queen Street across from MuchMusic. Curious, I followed it to the entrance to the market lane… which led me to the entrance of Ben & Jerry’s, currently hosting a “Free Ice Cream Cone Day”. That explains it. Or not, [...]

The perfect stocking stuffer for the Crazy Cat Lady in your life. I’m sure everyone knows one or two. That might even be me someday.

I was looking for that photo I mentioned in the previous post, the first one I took of David, and I found this.
It’s a shot I took back in October 2004, the weekend we met. We were on our way to Cherry Ridge to take out the Tri-Pacer, and Lake Ariel is one of the [...]

I just saw this on BoingBoing, and immediately thought of Socar:
Footracers in San Fran will push a Katamari Damacy ball
For illustrative purposes, I checked Flickr for Katamari Damacy tags, then interestingness. See here.
Check out this cake! The cake in progress.

KATAMARI DAMACY CAKE!!!! by Rakka




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