My wife loves zucchini. I… do not. I no longer even try to agree with her on pizza toppings–who refuses mushrooms and actually wants zucchini??!? However, I have found one way to cook it that makes it palatable for me. Using this recipe will not result in the Vegan Police taking away your powers. Sweet And Sour Zucchini 1 lb.… Read more →
Month: May 2006
New Danny CD in two weeks!
Hear a sampler here. Sounds like the level of pure goodness I expect from my favourite live performer. It’s things like this that make me wish I still lived in Ontario. You Waterloo, and Toronto, peeps better get out and see this show! June 15 Peterborough, ON June 16 Toronto, ON tickets June 17 Waterloo, ON tickets June 21 Surprise… Read more →
Getting spammed, almost to the DDOS point.
In the last eight hours, there have been 2404 attempts to post spam comments to this blog. Ooops, 2407. The count keeps going up, with between three and ten attempts per minute, sustained over the last eight hours. It looks like they are all generated from the same script, running on several machines. Of course my system, using both Spam… Read more →
Jumped-up desert mythology.
I got a kick out of the “Top Ten Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian” list from EvilBible.com. A couple of examples: 9 – You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt. 6 – You laugh at Hindu beliefs… Read more →
Things that are pissing me off today
Well, Heather Reisman, the CEO of Canada’s nigh monopolistic corporate bookstore chain is marking up our country with her censor’s marker again. You might remember that in the past she’s banned such things as Mein Kampf (although, amusingly, not the “sequel“), books by famous whack-job David Icke, and gun magazines. None of them things I have any interest in reading,… Read more →
Irish For Awesome.
Heh. Is it wrong to want a pint at 10 minutes before noon on a Monday? (It’s a holiday for the Yanks today, so maybe holiday rules apply to me since I work for an American company? I mean I know I’m working today, but surely they wouldn’t begrudge me a pint? Oh wait: I work at home! Excuse me…) Read more →
I love visualization
This is a representation of this web page: The legend is as follows: blue: for links (the A tag) red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags) green: for the DIV tag violet: for images (the IMG tag) yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags) orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags) black: the… Read more →
Five Years!
Sometimes it seems like that was just a minute ago, sometimes I can’t remember a time before then. Trish tells me that we’re through the easy part, and the next two years are the hard ones. I’m not too worried. For the record the people in the image, left-to-right are: My “little” brother Chef Paul, a.k.a. “Chia The Cat” Me… Read more →
Hanging Around The House 6: Sitting Room
Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The… Read more →
The 80s: Age 7 through 17
Wow. If you’re my age you’re going to totally suffer some productivity loss playing with this MASSIVE list of links to 80s music videos on YouTube. (Yes, the page is in Spanish. No, it won’t be a problem for you.) Also, you will probably want me to remind you about the site that makes it easy to download these videos…… Read more →
The Best Dad
On Monday, I was (at least temporarily) The Best Dad In The World. It was a nice day out, so I decided to take the family down to the boardwalk on the harbourfront. Sarah was very excited by the water, the seabirds, and then finally by the boats. Her sheer glee as she literally jumped up and down while pointing… Read more →
Long Weekend Miscellany
Note for non-Canadians: Monday is one of our most important holidays. Hence “long weekend”. I don’t know how much time I will have to blog this weekend, but I can certainly present a miscellaneous set of things to keep you happy all weekend just in case. This will be a tremendously long post about various, mostly unrelated, things. So, on… Read more →
Schneier: The Eternal Value of Privacy
At this point it should be firmly established that Bruce Schneier is like unto a god among my people. His essay, The Eternal Value of Privacy, which showed up on Wired News yesterday, only does more to cement his position in the firmament. Here’s the closing three paragraphs from the piece, but do go read it all–it’s only a page.… Read more →
I can mock the hick parts of my own country too.
Yes, there are crazy religious people-that-time-forgot in Canada too: CBC Montreal – Darwin’s theory not allowed in North Quebec schools Teachers in some northern Quebec communities are being told not to talk about the evolution of humans because Darwin’s theory offends some Inuit people. Alexandre April is a teacher in Salluit, Que., who says his school principal told teachers not… Read more →
So that’s the 31% who still approve
Someone to claim us, someone to follow Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo Someone to fool us, someone like you We want you Big Brother, Big Brother Illegal taps of US phone calls. Check. Secret compilation of the phone records of Americans. Check. Using this secret data to intimidate investigators and political opponents, while forwarding personal and political agendas… Read more →
