Mostly Ignored

  • Weekly Workouts: April 22 – 28, 2013

    (Sick this week, if that excuses anything.) Tracked a Workout for 7,079 pts on Apr 26, 2013 Jumping Jacks: 66.6 jumping jacks (+19 pts) Barbell Squat: 275 lb x 5 reps (+169 pts) 295 lb x 5 reps (+194 pts) 315 lb x 5 reps (+222 pts) 335 lb x 5 reps (+254 pts) 355…

  • Cheerless But Entertaining

    Last week’s featured webcomic was The System, and in the process of clicking through those wonderful additives to the humour universe, I discovered another. Matan, creator of an Israeli webcomic called “Ho Lo” (a Hebrew expression that roughly translates as “Oh Crap”), drew a guest comic for Rosscott which was good… definitely good enough to…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2013-04-25

    My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Billy Talent (10), The Cult (1) & Whitesnake (1) #mm http://t.co/KBCWHHX5KH -> Does the place you were born/raised have a CBC Vignette about it? My town does. http://t.co/MtN4CAj1nb -> My favourite part of every weekend is teaching my girls. I want them to exceed me in every way. In music,…

  • My Billy Talent Ragecomic

    I was listening to LiVE 88.5 on my commute recently and the  song “Stand Up And Run” from Billy Talent’s Dead Silence came on.  Great tune. I know I can’t be the first, but as I was listening I was surprised at the inclusion of a classic phrase from the ragecomic meme.  Naturally, I had to capture…

  • Weekly Workouts: April 15 – 21, 2013

    Tracked a Workout for 218 pts on Apr 16, 2013 Walking (treadmill): 0:43:14 || 2.4 mi || 122 BPM || 20 % (+218 pts)

  • The System Has Not Failed

    If you enjoy xkcd, you will probably enjoy this webcomic series by Rosscott Nover: Quirky humour and wry observation, usually depicted through stick-figure sign icons. Instructions for use: Read this.  Or this.  Any of them, really. Buy stuff from his Store and/or make sure your ad blocking software is turned off (the man needs to eat…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2013-04-18

    Google lets users plan their digital afterlife – Computerworld http://t.co/XN7dYOYO7u -> Sad to admit that I am now an ex-vegetarian. Got good mileage as a veggie powerlifter, but I can only eat so much powder & textured soy. -> The local sign vandals are at it again – Gabrielle-Roy School | Toddle http://t.co/HZ279Wipuj #Ottawa ->…

  • Hunting for a self-hosted photo gallery

    A friend asked me for my advice for software she could use to host photos on her website.  I’ve been out of the gallery game for some time, but I started by checking out the old favourites I was familiar with.

  • 5,000 Tweets

    An accomplishment, perhaps.  Not an epic one.  Moving on.