tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56036995096442040882011-04-21T23:32:00.291-04:00the puerile ramblings of a half drunk idiotStevenoreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-67885887221573506952008-06-19T13:51:00.001-04:002008-06-19T13:53:26.422-04:00

Interesting idea. Read about it here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-43564462077386676702008-06-18T07:49:00.000-04:002008-06-18T07:50:26.530-04:00

No cars in The Village for the summer, it's a start.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-5844050128120138082008-06-18T07:44:00.002-04:002008-06-18T07:46:20.540-04:00

How is this even remotely legal?

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-84703437032080973812008-06-18T00:25:00.000-04:002008-06-18T00:26:18.134-04:00

Please read this so I don't have to argue with you about it. Thanks

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-67128612048990801092008-06-14T20:19:00.000-04:002008-06-14T20:20:08.886-04:00

I am so going to do this.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-4732268663499938242008-06-06T13:50:00.002-04:002008-06-06T13:50:54.909-04:00

This just adds to the reasons I love living here. Read about it here

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-11677438094121049742008-05-19T18:35:00.002-04:002008-05-19T18:37:26.433-04:00

Hey both of you that read this, it's been a while since I last posted. Sorry about that, I've been drinking again. Anyway I found this little article very interesting. Land of the free!

Stevenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-74096844400747397372008-04-23T22:48:00.002-04:002008-04-23T22:49:15.956-04:00

Here are a few myths about the recent hockey riots cleared up. Read about it here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-12791001420019420912008-04-15T09:06:00.001-04:002008-04-15T09:07:25.817-04:00

Watch out Toronto. Read it here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-1159846913603128552008-04-15T08:26:00.001-04:002008-04-15T08:28:20.777-04:00

Great New Yorker article about elevators. I hardly ever am in them but I do find them fascinating. Read it here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-12779122986473696922008-04-11T03:09:00.003-04:002008-04-11T03:12:20.739-04:00

Now I don't feel so bad if I leave a shutter closed or make some other dumb mistake. Read about it here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-37538231443828304012008-04-07T05:03:00.002-04:002008-04-07T05:05:45.879-04:00

Another great article about the LHC, this time from National Geographic. Read it here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-4003933248582060642008-04-07T04:14:00.001-04:002008-04-07T04:15:43.861-04:00

The one about catching a cold is my favourite. Read about it here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-74692944682084471402008-04-04T03:36:00.003-04:002008-05-19T18:39:30.754-04:00

Disregard this.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-67364657779129929272008-04-03T03:04:00.001-04:002008-04-03T03:07:08.384-04:00

1973: Martin Cooper of Motorola uses the first portable handset ... to make the first cellphone call ... to his rival at Bell Labs. Read about it here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-70852544691928946692008-03-30T19:46:00.001-04:002008-03-30T19:47:39.567-04:00

Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won’t catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site. Read more here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-428811200327356172008-03-27T16:49:00.001-04:002008-03-27T16:50:54.038-04:00

For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison's invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades. Read about it here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-13028255286601601132008-03-27T04:49:00.001-04:002008-03-27T04:54:34.625-04:00

I'm not too worried about it creeping up on me though. Check it out here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-38312548120529318322008-03-26T16:07:00.001-04:002008-03-26T16:09:08.428-04:00

Yes they may be adding to the Eiffel Tower. Read about it here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-33606106354466712742008-03-25T14:18:00.000-04:002008-03-25T14:20:17.743-04:00

On 3 March 2008, in a popular TV show, Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist International, challenged India’s most “powerful” tantrik (black magician) to demonstrate his powers on him. That was the beginning of an unprecedented experiment. After all his chanting of mantra (magic words) and ceremonies of tantra failed, the tantrik decided to kill Sanal Edamaruku with the “ultimate

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-63073482408018828032008-03-23T20:47:00.002-04:002008-03-23T20:50:02.974-04:00

I saw a firetruck yesterday and noticed it had what I thought was the Toronto Fire Department logo on its door. I was stumped as to why this was until I read this today.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-50215583649062860712008-03-21T18:19:00.011-04:002008-03-21T19:01:48.164-04:00

So a friend sent me the transcript of a Barack Obama speech she found impressive. I have to admit I found it pretty impressive too, he's a really good speaker and has some great speech writers, but I found the highlighted portion below a bit annoying."I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-48199134767622590862008-03-21T18:19:00.003-04:002008-03-21T18:21:50.413-04:00

Here's an article from National Geographic about the tiny bones they found.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-9387256899289975602008-03-21T14:18:00.003-04:002008-03-21T14:48:01.235-04:00

I always wondered what they meant by "moral turpitude" when I filled out those ridiculous immigration forms.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-49996393177859535462008-03-20T15:12:00.001-04:002008-03-20T15:15:33.645-04:00

This is quite funny and very informative.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-13798043254536525842008-03-20T14:50:00.004-04:002008-03-20T15:42:04.508-04:00

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is about to be activated. I'm excited. More about it here.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-52586037182430319612008-02-28T01:21:00.001-05:002008-02-28T01:46:31.040-05:00

NSFW: VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. As an expert witness in the defense of an Abu Ghraib guard who was court-martialed, psychologist Philip Zimbardo had access to many of the images of abuse that were taken by the guards themselves. For a presentation at the TED conference in Monterey, California, Zimbardo assembled some of these pictures into a short video. Wired.com obtained the video from

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-65953480533071473252008-02-22T08:48:00.002-05:002008-03-21T00:20:41.900-04:00

I've always said The Beatles sounded a bit like children's music, here's proof.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-61937799530351778862008-02-21T11:47:00.000-05:002008-02-21T15:07:25.348-05:00

I have been reading about the fire that happened in Toronto yesterday, more about that here and here, and I am quite saddened to see that Duke's cycle shop was totally destroyed. I bought my current bike there 16 years ago and always took it back there for servicing. I'm glad nobody was killed, but I do know what it's like to be made homeless by fire so my heart goes out to those who were made

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-70940731434359751022008-02-19T03:09:00.002-05:002008-02-20T02:32:29.364-05:00

Fidel Castro, who is looking more and more like Willie Nelson these days is resigning as El Presidente of Cuba. Read more about it here. Hm so the bastards at the New York Times changed the picture of Fidel to one that looks decidedly less Willie Nelsonish, their campaign to make me look foolish scores another point. You win this time New York Times but I'll be back! I'll beeee baaaaaccck!!!

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-54179801659162587762008-02-19T01:59:00.001-05:002008-02-19T02:00:46.626-05:00

A 2000-year-old mechanical computer salvaged from a Roman shipwreck has astounded scientists who have finally unravelled the secrets of how the sophisticated device works.Read about it here. Fascinating.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-68226681775722732422008-02-18T22:54:00.000-05:002008-02-18T22:55:19.789-05:00

Ok, this is cool.

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-56824044654890475672008-02-18T20:19:00.005-05:002008-02-19T02:15:13.681-05:00

So now I'm home after a hard day of focusing lights in the Centaur 1 space (that's the small one) and I think I bruised a rib, ouch! Good news though I think my cold is gone, no more sore throat. Just a painful rib. Bitch bitch whine whine. Was a good productive day of ladder climbing and catwalk crawling. Also I found out that there is going to be a lunar eclipse on Wednesday, how cool is

Stevenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-19150336348943639552008-02-18T04:28:00.005-05:002008-02-19T02:17:09.719-05:00

Ok, so it's 4:30 in the morning right now and I am awake (obviously). It would be quite something though if I could do this in my sleep! But I can't so here I am, awake. I'll be climbing ladders and crawling around on catwalks in less than 5 hours, so not good. I really must sleep. I've been laying off the booze this past week, (thank you poverty) when I say laying off I mean not getting

Stevenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5603699509644204088.post-60021640271567298532008-02-17T19:24:00.001-05:002008-02-19T02:17:56.171-05:00

Hey everyone. So I left Facebook™ almost a week ago and some people complained that they were going to miss my posts of fun links and videos and stuff. So here is my Useless blog. I'll try to post stuff regularly. I don't feel like it right now though, I'm going to watch Top Gear.

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