Aptenobytes

Ways to know that you're getting old.

Toys from your youth start getting referred to as 'vintage'

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That of course is not going to stop me from picking up a replacement on ebay, it's just depressing to be bidding on it as a 'vintage' 150 in 1 electronic project kit.

Postmasters! Turn off the damned bounceback

OK. For the N-th time in the last year I've weathered a bounceback storm. Some satan forsaken spammer spoofs my domain and sends out a couple of million spams, and I get to deal with a few thousand bouncebacks from dumbasses who haven't figured out that spammers use dictionary attacks.

The feature is broken. Stop using it. I beg you. Today's little storm cascading to a Rogers Blackberry. Thanks to Rogers absofuckinglutely stupid data plans, it probably cost us fifty or sixty bucks in data overages.

Yup. I'm pissed.

Other sites I've been contributing to

You may have noticed that my posts have been pretty infrequent recently. Where have you been you may have (not) asked?

Well, forums mostly. SkyscraperPage, Vibrant Victoria, and Connect2Edmonton, EnMasse, as well as some hobby sites. And also Facebook and Last.FM.

So if you want to know what I'm doing, that's where you'll find me. :)

When I have more time to write lengthy thoughts I'll probably post here more frequently....

Against Me!

Apparently I suck. Once again I try and see a live band in this city, only to get denied. Tonight I drive to near an LRT station, take it to the University, walk to the SUB, stand in line, only to get stared at like an idiot. Apparently Against Me! has been sold out for weeks...

Now, back in my day, if a show was sold out, the promoters (who oddly enough were me and my friends most of the time) would find a bigger fricking venue! You know, so everybody who wanted to see the band would get a chance. Apparently not how things operate anymore.

Oh well.

The suckiest part was the realization that most of the kids in line weren't alive when I started going to shows.... and then I realized that most of them were born in the 1990's.

It's been a while since i've been to an all-ages gig, so the realization gave me a bit of a shock.

Victoria truck parade

Watched the truck parade. What's the truck parade you say?
Take a whole bunch of big trucks and decorate them with w whole whack of lights, and call it a fundraiser.

Oh yeah, and they honk their horns to the tune of jingle bells....

More Snow Pics

Click through for a bunch more pics of snow days in Victoria

First Day of real snow!

Yay! I love snow.

Urgh.

I'm getting a little frustrated in my personal life right now. I've kicked ass, I've worked pretty much without a break since February, and I'm a little isolated and a little depressed. What I don't need right now is a bunch of people giving me advice on how I could be doing better. I need some acknowledgment that I have done a fucking awesome job getting the store open on time and then actually selling a fair amount in the first couple of months... maybe even patting me on the back.

Oh well. That's not how the people in my life deal with things....

Scary times

'Course, the scariest thing for me today is that it's my birthday...

On a more serious note, last night while I was washing dishes, I got to remembering stuff. Growing up with the bomb.... I remember having fantasies about what I would do if they decided to drop the bomb.... some of course were Red Dawn fantasies of going off into the bushes and surviving somehow. Some were the typical teenage sexual fantasies (going out with a bang as it were). I was thinking how nice it was that kids today aren't really to aware that the world could end in minutes. It probably changes everything about your world view as you grow up...

With the North Koreans now joining the nuclear club, I wonder how soon we'll be thinking in the real short term again? Non-proliferation has failed. That seems clear. What was once a private club for the US, Russia, France, UK and China now must also include Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea at a minimum. Add in the various nations that could put together a nuclear weapon without effort, like Canada or Brazil, and you have a recipe for getting lots of people all nervous and stuff.

Well, I'm done work now. I'm going to have a birthday drink.

Cheers!

My mom's book is now on Amazon.

Just another gratuitous post to promote her book. ;)

"Shifting Ground" (Ruth M. McVeigh)