Archive for October, 2007

Seven on vacation

By Jonathan + October 30th, 2007

I went out to Stouffville to visit Seven in her vacation field today, and take her cross-country schooling. It was 16 degrees and sunny. Might not go back to work tomorrow

Toronto sunset

By Jonathan + October 29th, 2007

The sunset in Toronto tonight was ridiculous. Riiiiiiidiculous! Fall is setting in…and camera-phones need like 11 more megapixels

Time Machine is the new killer feature of Mac OS X Leopard that performs an automatic backup of your machine, and the race is on in to be the first to get it using Amazon S3 to save the backups. Amazon S3 is basically unlimited storage for $0.15/GB/month. When you combine that with [...]

OS X Leopard

By Jonathan + October 26th, 2007

Install = no problem. Worth installing != worth it

Guy on Arby’s cup

By Jonathan + October 26th, 2007

Who is this random guy on the cups at Arby’s? He looks like the boss’ son or something

The Royal Winter Fair starts soon

By Jonathan + October 25th, 2007

Just a week until the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair kicks off. They started hanging all the fancy ribbons around the Horse Palace. I feel so fancy

Vibromax

By Jonathan + October 25th, 2007

Umm….is Vibromax really the best name for a construction company? Sounds like gas-powered s3x toys, but that might just be me

Why you should trust parrots

By Jonathan + October 23rd, 2007

They may save you from a house fire! My plants have never even lifted a finger to help me

Why You Should trust parrots

Toronto becoming a surveillance society

By Jonathan + October 21st, 2007

I was just reading on CityNews and CTV how the TTC (the Toronto public transit system) is installing 12,000 security cameras on their vehicles and in their stations.

I live in the downtown core of Toronto, which means that between the police cameras already in place, the new TTC cameras, and the security cameras at work, [...]

Greatest sports questions of our time: answered

By Jonathan + October 21st, 2007

Can Andy Roddick, playing with a frying pan, beat some guy playing with a racquet? Would a midget be good at baseball? Would a sumo wrestler be good at football? Would a fat goalie be good at hockey?

These are the questions that keep me up at night…those and the sounds from Evan’s [...]

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