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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Do not support making the long form census optional
The government wants to make the long form part of the census optional - an important enough issue that I sat down and wrote a letter to my MP, despite being at work late again. I’ll let the letter speak for itself:
Dear Mr. Obhrai,
As a voter in the riding of Calgary East, I wanted to […]
No Comments » - Posted in The system, Podium by ralph
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Oy limp icks
Every 2 years I am faced with the usual summer / winter sports obsession known as the Olympics. It’s particular bad this year as since it’s in my country, everyone and their dog is covering the event.
I can live with that. I’ll even put up with the waste of cash that is “own the […]
No Comments » - Posted in rant by ralph
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Cooking Show Comic Genious
I got curious about what kind of internet cooking shows might be out there so I fired up You Tube and typed in “cooking shows” in their search. The “Trailer Park Cooking Show” catches my eye so I pull up the vid. Turns out it’s a video response to an urban legend where if you […]
No Comments » - Posted in WhoKnows?, Food, internet by ralph
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Do you want Fries with that?
I went over to T&T Supermarket last night for some fruit and stopped by the noodle isle. That’s right, you go to an oriental grocery, the noodle selection takes up a whole isle. The store was about to close, so I had to quickly select some cup noodles out of the many for sale. I […]
No Comments » - Posted in WhoKnows?, Food by ralph
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Google Streetview in Calgary Peculuarities
Google Streetview for Calgary got released today. I ended up blowing away more time at work looking at this that I should have, but oh well, it’s not every day that Streetview gets released for your city, and being a big Streetview junky, I was going to have to look up a few hundred things […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Computers, internet, review by ralph
Monday, September 7th, 2009
Damn, you Ice Cream truck!
It seems lately that that my neighborhood has been bombarded by Ice Cream trucks. You really can’t miss them - at least by sound. That silly musical bonging playing the same thing over and over and over. The thing of it is, I’m outside working, listening to this thing go up and down one block […]
No Comments » - Posted in WhoKnows?, rant by ralph
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Canon T1i review
I bought the Canon Digital Rebel T1i, the 10-22mm Canon lens and the 70-200 F4 L lens + 1.4 extender, along with the kit lens, 18-55mm.
Having previously owed the original digital Canon Rebel, I found my T1i to be light years ahead of the original. But I was expecting that, having researched things so completely, […]
No Comments » - Posted in pictures, zoo, review by ralph
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Meta Phography Equipment Review - Canon focus
def: meta Something of a higher or second-order kind - AskOxford.com
Or, this is a review about review sites. Specifically, photography equipment review sites.
First some talk about where I’m coming from. I’m an intermediate skill-level photographer that recently had most of my equipment stolen. I had a Tamron 28-200mm lens from my film days that was […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Computers, pictures, internet, review by ralph
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Flower of the Day out of Nowwhere
Little story behind this picture. I’ve had this mystery plant popping up a few leaves in my rock garden for about 5 years now - I think it showed up as a hanger on with one of my purchased plants. Every year, it popped out a few long leaves from a bulb, then it would […]
2 Comments » - Posted in WhoKnows?, pictures by ralph
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Wacom Tabet saving my wrist so far this spring
I got a Wacom tablet this spring to help stave off carpel tunnel on my mousing wrist. I was expecting to use it only for drawing site maps, where the continual mousing all day drawing was becoming a strain. I have yet to draw much with it but I find that I’m using it more […]
