This guy fried an egg on his processor.

 › cute     2004-07-29 12:19   ...0 comments

Self portrait with teeth!

Yes, the big day has finally arrived, the day of the installation of my tooth. I went last week to have the colour matched up, and today was a trip to the dentist to get the actual crown put on.

As you can see from the photo, I think it looks great.

The tooth is now on with temporary cement (although apparently the temporary cement is sometimes just left alone because it allows for easier servicing if required later). I need to go back to the implant guy (my regular dentist did today’s procedure) and have him look at the gum line. The gum is a little short on the implant tooth, which isn’t generally noticeable since I don’t show much gum when I smile. However, there may be some more work to do to make it perfect. I’ll keep you posted on that later.

 › health     2004-07-15 17:09   ...4 comments

I realise that there are those who aren’t fans of the Onion, and who do not follow it from week to week. To you I pass along my condolences. And point out that at the bottom left of the Onion’s home page there is a weekly “blast from the past” Onion in History section. This generally consists of a view of what the Onion might have had in their weekly edition thirty-five years ago.

This week is the 35th anniversary of Apollo 11, and here is what the Onion’s take on that would have been, if it had been being printed with the perspective of today. (Wioll haven be and all that.)

Click the image for a full-size version

 › cute     2004-07-13 21:45   ...0 comments

This is a pretty cool little program to get content out of pdf files. Haven’t tried it, but the idea is neat.

This is reminiscent of the fantastic Tailor postscript editor.

 › cool     2004-07-13 11:38   ...1 comment

Well, you might think that with a headline like that I am going to discuss my satisfaction upon the recent release of our new product PhoneValet Message Center. I am not going to do so. (Not because I am not satisfied, which I am, but because I have something else to write about this morning.)

We decided that we needed a wedding planning book with lots of checklists. So we went out to Chapters. The whole wedding section in these stores is hilariously funny because every book is wanting to be purchased by “the bride”*. We only saw one book which could be considered as a “groom” oriented book entitled Complete Guide for the Anxious Groom: Everything You Need to Know on Your Her Big Day which is obviously designed to be purchased by female friends of the groom. In short, nothing in the wedding section is aimed at men.

They don’t even pretend. The contents of the books are full of “It is wise to consult both your family and his family on important aspects…” blah blah blah, me, me, me, blah blah blah.

Anyway, we did manage to find a book that has seemingly lots of good advice, but more importantly many checklists so we can avoid forgetting to consider things. We had a good time reading (and editing) the Bride’s Wedding Planner. (Bride’s in this case referring to the magazine of the same name.) Jen only allowed us to buy this planner if I agreed to re-cover it.

We also wanted to pick up a current issue of Wedding Bells Ottawa to see what’s out there in the wedding industry (damn this is weird) but they were out. In the end I picked up a copy of The Walrus a new Canadian magazine which is nothing about weddings, but is great.

After the Chapters experience we decided that we wanted to watch The Fifth Element, and decided we should try and buy it. So we walked over (an unheard-of method of transportation at the evil South Keys Shopping Centre) to Future Shop, where it transpired that every movie ever made was on sale. Well, every bad movie anyway. Jen being an aficianado of bad flicks, and myself being a not-unwilling partner in many cases, we quickly started stacking up some of these films. In some cases the films were, like, $8 or less on DVD. (Still way more than the cost to manufacture… grr…)

The new acquisitions were, in descending order of price:

Johnny Mnemonic

Anyway, we very much enjoyed The Fifth Element again, and we have huge amounts more entertainment stored up now for the rest of the summer.

* Kill Bill reference on my part was unintentional, but amusing.

 › domicile     2004-07-11 11:24   ...2 comments

I’ve been working on this entry on and off for the last week, as I’ve had time. I did most of the writing of it at 30 000 feet on a United Airways flight from San Francisco to Chicago, possibly the most uncomfortable flight I’ve ever been on.

I’ve been in San Francisco for Apple’s WWDC developers conference. Chris and I arrived on Saturday around noon (to get a reasonable airplane fare you have to stay over a Saturday night, so we arrived early).

We had the entire day on Sunday to ourselves. A quick check of the interweb revealed that we could rent a car for about US$45 for the day. So we had a car. What to do with a car in the bay area? Well, the Napa valley (see also here) is about 90 minutes from San Francisco by car… and Chris and I do like drinking wine… so that became the plan for the day.

Read the Complete Entry

 › food     2004-07-04 14:12   ...0 comments