We got all of our carpetting installed over the weekend after removing the tiles. They finished carpetting the stairs this morning and now the basement is starting to get cozy. Read the rest of this entry ...

§9 · January 11, 2005 · Life · Comments Off on Starting To Cozify and Codify ·


I never knew what the attraction was for Blogs before I started one of my own. In searching to see if I got listed at Technorati after my most recent post, I was led to Wil Wheaton's Blog and spent a good chunk of my day reading through the archives.

What a dangerous hobby...

§8 · January 10, 2005 · Life · Comments Off on Please Give Me My Life Back ·


Probably in lock-step with getting interested in animation from the golden age came a fascination for even older forms of entertainment such as American 19th century Minstrel Shows. A large number of cartoons from the 1930s and early 1940s contain blackface gags. And did you ever wonder why Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig all wear those white gloves? Read the rest of this entry ...

§7 · January 10, 2005 · Cartoons, Entertainment · Comments Off on The Evolution of Entertainment ·


I just found out that for the second year in a row, the Real Ale Fest 2005 has been cancelled, reportedly due (yet again) to the inability of its organizers to find a suitable venue/location. However, the organizers had over a year to work out something so I really wonder how much work they put into it. Read the rest of this entry ...

§6 · January 7, 2005 · Life · Comments Off on Two-Fisted, Cup-a-Hand ·


Well, today we're finally getting our carpetting installed in the basement downstairs. It's been a long road because we knew that the tiles that were on the basement floor contained asbestos.
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§5 · January 7, 2005 · Life · Comments Off on The Trouble With Being Both Cheap and Paranoid ·