November 2011
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October 2011
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Twitter
It looks like I’m mostly done with Tumblr and Facebook, but with all the Twitter integration in iOS 5, I’ve decided to give that a legit shot.
My “main” Twitter account is @canadianlit, which I use for work. Today I’ve set up @gruman, which I’ll use for non-work things. Maybe.
September 2011
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Rheostatics - “Record Body Count...
August 2011
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RIP Jack Layton
Before the last election, my brother took his two daughters (then 1 and 3) to an NDP rally in Edmonton to see Jack Layton speak. The older one asked why there were so many people:
Him: you know how Ms. Johnson runs your pre-school classroom? Her: yeah Him: well Jack Layton wants to run the whole country Her: woah…
She spent the next half hour watching him talk in silent amazement.
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“[Dany Larivière] joked that his ex-wife, Isabelle Prévost, had always wanted a...”
– Mayor dumps gift-wrapped 20-tonne boulder on ex-wife’s lawn
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Kate Nash - “Happy Merry”
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“[Sherlock Holmes’] career has been a long one - though it is possible to...”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Matthew: holy cow
Clooney's in this with a moustache!
movie just went to 11
Greg: nice
i absolutely love that guy
especially w/ a moustache
Watch“If You Got the Money” (Jamie T. cover)
Closest you’ll get to hearing me rap.
WatchHugh Acheson farmer’s market cooking demo.
“He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.”
– Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
How did this actually happen?
MRI tech: oh it's hitting your nose
I have to go adjust that
Me: haha, that's alright I'm used to it
most of my Jewish genes are in my face
MRI tech: ...what do you mean?
Me: I have a big nose...
MRI tech: I don't understand
Me: Jews typically have big noses
MRI tech: oh do they?
I've never heard that
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July 2011
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Scroll Reverser for Snow Leopard →
For anyone else upgraded at home but not at work (or vice versa), and want the new Lion-style scrolling. It’s only been a couple days, and the “old way” of scrolling already feels unnatural.
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Mom: what are you working on?
Me: it's like a fake Web MD
but no matter what you put in, it diagnoses you with Lupus
Mom: why would you even think of making something like that?
Me: ...I'm sorry?
I don't think I understand your question
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Abbreviations are hard
Me: Don't do any updates on the site
the DNSes are still populating after switching hosts
Kathleen: DNS?
Dinosaurs...?
Me: Dinosaurs and Nnnn...
Nanobots...?
Kathleen: Synchronized?
Me: The Dinosaur and Nanobot Synchronicity
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FL Studio Mobile →
It exists, it’s awesome, and it’s on sale!
June 2011
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Me - Oh Yeah (ft. The Gruman Sisters)
Part 2 of...
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WatchShantanu Narayen (Abobe CEO): We will have 130 million phone devices that will have Flash on them by the end of the year… Walt Mossberg: And I have yet to test a single one where Flash works really well. I’m sorry. They struggle on those Android devices.
PS: it has nothing to do with Flash, but go check out what Pixelmator is up to.
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WatchMe - “Record Body Count” (Rheostatics cover)
As a Canadian, I was always aware of the Rheostatics, but I didn’t really listen to them until I was about 15. I picked up this Canadian music compilation album, and my favourite track was a live version of “Record Body Count.” It was this really atmospheric song with these gloomy lyrics and this amazing guitar solo that...
