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RIP Trailer Park Boys

Canada, geeky things| 12 Comments »

The show is over.
The roguish, dysfunctional, foul-mouthed boyz of Sunnyvale Trailer Park will be no more.
And it doesn’t seem right, somehow.
For anyone unfamiliar with Trailer Park Boys, the show is a collision of concepts: Think the Spinal Tap mockumentary, the US show My Name is Earl and the Burt Reynolds slapstick flick Cannonball Run - […]

Sinead rocks for Beth’s pageant

Uncategorized, geeky things, music| 16 Comments »

This would be part of Beth’s Big Wicked Online Pageant. I’ve broken rulz here. I’m supposed to post a cute kid pic of me in a halloween costume. OK, no I wasn’t exactly a child here. Sadly there are no pictures of me as a child dressed up. In fact, this wasn’t even Halloween. And […]

Slay the rip-off dragons of the Canadian cell phone industry

Canada, geeky things| 8 Comments »

This typist is delighted to see Canada waking up from the coma it has been in on the matter of rip-off cell phone pricing.
The government is promising to open up the wireless industry to more competition in the hope this will stick a pin in the Bell-Rogers-Telus oligarchy, which has kept prices so ridiculously high.
Having […]

Simple typist foiled by technology

Uncategorized, blogs, geeky things| 3 Comments »

Time was when a simple typist never had to worry about things like the Universal Serial Bus or USB.
You just typed until the little bell went off and then you pulled the carriage return. Sure, you had to fuss with carbon paper and liquid ink, but at least you knew what you were dealing with.
Then […]

More Photoshop bootcamp, SIR!

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Private GT is off to bootcamp again this week with screaming sergeant majors ordering me to fix photos and FIX THEM NOW!
I’m a low-rank recruit in Photoshop bootcamp. This follows similar grueling bootcamps in Illustrator and Dreamweaver last week. SIR, YES, SIR!
By the end of it, I’ll be a first-rank private […]

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