Taizé ceremony (a mix of candles, chanting and tissues) taking place in the rec hall. If camp burns down, they’ll never forgive themselves. # Female Yellow-rumped warbler was caught around a light last night. She would take off and circle it, like a moth, land and repeat. # Aaaand we’re done. My stint as Camp […]
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Today’s tweet digest 2008-08-31
Catholic mass (with a real live archbishop!) taking place at camp today. The archbishop comes with his own cigarette-smoking security dude. # ODC ends tomorrow and staff are feeling it. Currently managing their apathy. #
Today’s tweet digest (2008-08-30)
Glorious end-of-summer day in Algonquin Park. Makes up for the 2:30 am bed time due to a late group arrival. # Evidence of shorebird migration here at camp: two peeps flitting around the shore. And me without binoculars; these two go unidentified. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Russia invades South Ossetia; Georgia decalres a state of war. Tom Clancy silent.
Russia? At war? Why hasn’t Tom Clancy already written a book whose narrative arc eerily echo these turns of events? I feel so lost… P.S.: I thought we only had to fight wars against terror now. This seems waaay more complicated. Russia’s ‘Full Scale Invasion’ of Georgia (Updated, with Video) [Link] US, Europe scramble to […]
Torbutton extension deleting my Firefox 3 cookies
I was having a problem with Firefox 3 where all my cookies were being deleted each and everytime I re-launched the program. Luckily after some Google-fu, I found some other people having similar problems to my own. The solution? Deleteing the Torbutton extension. Seems to have solved my problems.
Ikea’s multipurpose bench
Copies of the new Ikea catalogue appeared in the apartment foyer today. I, like the automaton that Fight Club would suggest I am (So I wonder: what kind of bench defines me as person?), picked one up to have a leaf-through. I opened the catalogue and found this kid on a Jasper bench. Is it […]
How-to: Create a kayak crate for the transportation of a Border Terrier (or any other small dog breed) on the deck of a tandem sea-kayak
My challenge: to take Ollie (at the time, a five-month-old Border Terrier puppy) on our regular summer sea-kayaking trips on Georgian Bay. Canoeing with a dog is easy. Kayaking with a dog seemed a bit more difficult. So I dreamt up a contraption that would allow Ollie to join us on these kayaking trips. Thanks […]
My Tamron 90mm macro lens is b0rked
More correctly, I should say that the autofocus on the lens doesn’t seem to be working. I’ve been using manual focus and that, combined with the lens’ razor thin DOF when it’s at 1:1, makes the photo on the left something of an accomplishment. The plan is to drive to Amplis Foto in Markham with […]
WordPress 2.6 update and log-in woes
I’ve been the good boy that WordPress wants me to be and I’ve just upgraded to 2.6. It wasn’t without its moments, though. All the upgrade process went just fine, but when I went to log in to my dashboard–the backend of the blog–I was met with a message that said that my password was […]
Birds migrate at night in loose flocks
Birds migrate at night. Bird tend to flock together. These two disseparate facts have been recently weaved together to suggest that birds migrate at night in flocks. What I find interesting here is the suggestion that these flock are “loose”–not the tight configurations visible in the preceding video of starlings flying in a flock–birds may […]