Too Mad For Pants

Friday, October 27, 2006

Could Have Had His Eyes Closed

Puck and I almost got run over on our way back home this afternoon. This surprised me because it seems that most Vancouver drivers are fairly pedestrian-savvy. That said, count the nuisance points this driver had racked up:

Driving a Black SUV
with a Novice sticker on it
in reverse
down an alley
at high speed
while on the phone
and smoking.

I was more amused at the perfect storm of careless driving than I was angry at almost being turned into street pizza (although in Vancouver it would be street crèpe or maybe street make).

The real comedy began when I (not a cell-yakking, reverse-speeding, suburban-assault-vehicle-driving, chain-smoking novice) was pulling my car into the alley after going to pick up our Friday night pizza and the SAME guy almost hit me AGAIN as he did

15 mph
out of the alley
in reverse
while on his phone.

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and not rack up a point for also handling a lit cigarette.

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adding a bathroom

We're switching to a new server this weekend, so expect glitches.

Dan assures me:

"I don't think we can break toomad during this process; we've basically paid for another much larger storage unit and now we just have to move stuff from one to the other."

...but I've had it down for many hours after just changing a font colour. Wish us luck.

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Monday, October 23, 2006

Down the drain with Archimedes

Talking to McKay about his day at school today while we ate dinner.

R: What did you do at group time?
M: We checked to see what stuff would sink and what stuff would float...
Big stuff will float, but the little ones always sink.
R: Really? So by floating, you mean, goes to the bottom of the water?
M: No (with much disdain) floating means ONTOP of the water.
R: Oh.
R: Well, what floated?
M: The really really big blocks, and the little tiny marbles sank.
R: Oh.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Behind the Silicon Curtain

It would seem that our border is a semi-permeable one.

I read this week about Americans coming across the border to get flu shots. The Vancouver airport has clinics set up to do this, and cruise ship operators are offering it as an optional excursion on their activities calendar. This is fine, I agree with this, "Send us your sick..." etc...

However, can I get one (ok 4) measly downloads off the web? NO.
Read some good reviews of Jericho. Checking out their website to see if anything was going to be rebroadcasted showed me that I could watch the episodes right from their site. Cooool. I love technology. Made a cup of coffee, leaned back in my chair, and hit play. Three commercials later, I'm informed "this product is not available in Canada". Hmm. Uhhm, ok. It really is, though, it's been on TV, you see.

A little bit of net sleuthing leads me to a list where people of ALL nationalities (well, Australia and Sweden anyhow) are downloading this and watching it from itunes. Hop on over there, it can be mine for a mere $1.98. Ok, I'll pay that. Sign up for i-tunes. (Yeah, I know, join the millennium etc..). It won't accept my American credit card. Says it's not valid in Canada. Odd, since we've been using it ~~every day~~ sparingly since we got here. Shrugged that off, and used another card (Canadian). That goes fine, I'm registered, once again, hit download. "That item is not available in Canada, would you like to switch to the US store?". Uh, ok...that's fine. Search again, hit download, "I'm sorry, that credit card can not be used in the US."

Oh yeah? I don't even like TV anyhow, where's my friggen book?

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