Between work and home I own eight Apple computers — four iMacs, two MacBook Air, two Mac Pro. So, like any respectable user, I promptly upgraded the operating system to the new version, OS 10.8 (aka Mountain Lion), which has now been available for a few weeks. Around this time
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cartoon life: The Horse’s Mouth
I saw The Horses Mouth as a movie in my senior year of high school. I had read the novel, given as a gift by my cousin, a corrupting and influential gift, while I was in public school. There was much I didn’t understand then. And those are indeed, magnificent
Continue readingcmkl: The wierdest thing I found today
So probably the wierdest thing I found today was a grocery bag full of old bits of sandpaper. I swear some of them were ones I used when I was sanding the paint off the window frames in the 1970s. No joke.
Continue readingcmkl: And now the next stage of life
Apart from a brief but wonderful stay at my aunt and uncle’s cottage this past weekend, my life has been consumed by the bureaucracy and mechanics of death.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Lost Train
I was all set to write something, great I’m sure, and had to do something before I started typing. I came back to this page, and I’d forgotten what exactly I wanted to write about! Instead, I’m remembering parts of a dream I had two nights ago, which was more
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Year
It’s been a year of marriage, and I don’t want the honeymoon to end. == It’s that time of year when the weather gets hot, and the blogging gets slow. Where is everyone? Where’ve I gone? I hope someone is looking after the ‘shop.
Continue readingcmkl: Rainy day in Vancouver
I know it’s kind of like titling the post ‘breathed oxygen today’. But even our Vancouverite friends, all the shop keepers, waiters we’ve encountered say that the weather here has been particularly bleak this spring and early summer. Ah well. Mallory loved the Olympic swimming pool yesterday and enjoyed playing
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Solar Tour
On the weekend I had a fantastic tour of the Regina area, along with my parents, seeing the sights highlighted by conversions to solar energy. Solar PV, and active and passive solar heating were demonstrated in locations adjacent to the General Hospital, Shannon Road in south Regina (part of where
Continue readingcmkl: Pinworms. Again again.
I’m just saying it to mark the occasion so we know for next time when the last time was. I’ve said lots about this topic already. Irene spent most of the day to day cleaning, doing laundry and putting our house into decontamination mode.
Continue readingcmkl: Father’s Day
I got some cool gifts from Mallory this morning as part of my Father’s Day super breakfast. And I got to sleep in until 9am. Wow. I am feeling very lucky this evening.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ten Years Blogging
I may have marked this milestone in February, but Google doesn’t tell me I did, and I don’t remember. Old bloggers also repeat themselves. My blogging is ten years old this year, making me a veritable Tyrannosaurus Rex of Open Data. I started posting photos and tales of my voyages
Continue readingcartoon life: The time passes
Hmmm. Ian Goldsmith dropped in on the blog to like the previous cat picture, and left on his own painting blog a great post including a link to a YouTube video about Chuck Close. Ian writes this: ”You see if you sit around waiting for inspiration doing nothing ’till it comes,
Continue readingcartoon life: 100 cats series
Accidentally today, a number of posts went up. I’m scheduling some cat images from the 100 cats series. Sometimes the WordPress app screws up and doesn’t remember a tap or two and the delayed post date doesn’t get remembered. So some of you have liked the posts within the first
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Transit of Venus from Saskatchewan
The last chance for humans alive today to witness a transit of the planet Venus (directly from Earth), happens in a little over one hour from now. There are 7 hours after that to catch the event on the Internet or from other positions on the planet. What you need
Continue readingcartoon life: The 100 cats project
If you’ve been following the tags, you’ve seen the tag for 100 cats.The 100 cats project is me deciding to draw 100 cat drawings on my iPad, and putting together an ebook collection of those images. So far, I have drawn more than 80. Some have been edited out of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Mosaic 2012 #WHYQR
I had an excellent evening out in Regina with my wife, family, and friends. I met some Ward 1 residents too along the way, including Joe and his wife. Joe’s writing a book about Regina, and it may be available by the end of this year. He also had very
Continue readingcmkl: Dad’s back at large
Out of hospital, back at home. With a couple more bottles of pills, two, possibly three appointments to line up and a whack of new gadgets – oxygen dispensing – to keep him busy. Failing health is a full time job.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Annular Solar Eclipse from Regina, Saskatchewan
I showed some of my neighbours the eclipse as I took photos, and here it is for those who missed it, or wanted to see it the easier/safer way (second hand using indirect viewing). -The lens flare underneath, on the roof, blows me away. -A couple sunspots visible in this
Continue readingcmkl: Saw one of the deer tonight
The bigger one, the one without the white fur. Other fascinating observances:
Continue readingcmkl: Mallory’s first tent out and I’m missing it
Irene just called to tell me that Mallory and her friend C are tenting out in her backyard, after a delicious urban safari involving a bike ride and a trip to Harveys wherein Mallory scored her first root beer.
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