Archive for June, 2007

Rattlesnake meat at Urban Fare: gross

By Jonathan + June 23rd, 2007

Do people actually come to a grocery store and go, “hey, I’d love to have some rattlesnake tonight.” “Oh yeah, let’s get a snake. Your mother-in-law is coming over and she loves a good snake.” “Yes, sir, I’d like three feet of snake please.”

Bird with insanely big fish: Give up!

By Jonathan + June 23rd, 2007

This seagull was having trouble eating this fish. Birds really could use some teeth.
And yes, I realize this post is super boring but I’m going to leave it up here anyhow

Made it to vancouver

By Jonathan + June 23rd, 2007


I don’t understand why they load you on the plane, THEN they check the engines (and in this case, found a problem with one). Can’t they check if the plane you’re boarding is functional before they put you in it?

See ya, Toronto. See you in a bit, Vancouver

By Jonathan + June 22nd, 2007


Help im trapped in a freezing server room

By Jonathan + June 22nd, 2007


Discountasp.net being DOS attacked

By Jonathan + June 21st, 2007

If you’re wondering why WhyYouShould is responding very slowly (if at all) tonight, it looks like my hosting provider DiscountASP is experiencing a denial-of-service attack. They’re working on it and hopefully WYS will be back soon

From Discountasp.net:

Dear Customer,
We experienced a network-wide outage Thursday morning and late evening as the result of a distributed [...]

CN Tower lit up for Canada day

By Jonathan + June 21st, 2007

Looks like they’re testing the new lights for the Canada Day festivities next weekend. The CN tower is lit-up in white and red (though it’s hard to see it from this camera-phone pic :))

A pig eating an apple

By Jonathan + June 21st, 2007

Here’s a pig (Lucy) I saw today fighting the stereotype that only roasted pigs like apples
All Lucy’s hair is falling out. Pigs are gross.

CHUM Ltd. sign on Citytv building covered up

By Jonathan + June 21st, 2007

The CHUM Ltd. sign on 299 Queen St. West is hidden behind this MMVA07 poster today (MMVA07 having taken place 5 days ago).

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