http://ratsofrass.com Ralph's Words on the internet, about the internet, and whatever else I feel like talking about Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:47:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://ratsofrass.com/index.php/archive/oy-limp-icks/ 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 ... http://ratsofrass.com/index.php/archive/cooking-show-comic-genious/ 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 ... http://ratsofrass.com/index.php/archive/do-you-want-fries-with-that/ 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 ... http://ratsofrass.com/index.php/archive/google-streetview-in-calgary-peculuarities/ 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 ... http://ratsofrass.com/index.php/archive/damn-you-ice-cream-truck/ 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 ... http://ratsofrass.com/index.php/archive/canon-t1i-review/ 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 ... http://ratsofrass.com/index.php/archive/meta-phography-equipment-review-canon-focus/ 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 ... http://ratsofrass.com/index.php/archive/flower-of-the-day-out-of-nowwhere/ 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 ... http://ratsofrass.com/index.php/archive/wacom-tabet-saving-my-wrist-so-far-this-spring/ 'Ya know, having to buy computer stuff for work means you end up buying a lot more stuff for yourself. But based on the previous 2 days happenings, I think I have a pretty good excuse. Besides, $150/TB of external HDD goodness seems like a good deal, but what do ... http://ratsofrass.com/index.php/archive/1tb-external-esatausb-unit-150/