Category: rampant consumerism
Did you ever have a friend ask you to make her toes famous on your fancy interwebs blogging site and you said you would and then you totally didn’t post the pictures? I know, it’s a tale as old as time, right? Anyway, the story went like this: I was at my friend Kim’s place […]
One of the fancy pants things that my new car came with was a “Tire Pressure Monitoring System” – that is, an indicator light on the dashboard when the pressure in one of your tires is low ((someone, I believe it may have been Kalev, said that if my car was so “smart,” why doesn’t […]
My office is in a different building than the Director to whom I report. A little while ago he was in my office building for a meeting and dropped into say hello. Jokingly, he said that he was going to put on my performance report that I need more artwork on my walls – my […]
Yesterday was “phase 3” of Vancouver 2010 Olympic ticket sales ((Phase 3 was supposed to happen the previous Saturday, but there computer system was b0rked, so they made it yesterday instead.)). I hadn’t tried to buy tickets in phases 1 or 2 ((although my friend Rachel got a bunch of tickets in phase 2, so […]
Today’s blog posting will have to be short one as I’m trying to get some marking done. And I may have spent all of last night playing with iPhone apps. So my quick blog posting will be, not surprisingly, about my iPhone ((did I mention that I love my iPhone? I think from now on […]
So. iPhone. I gots me one. And I named her Bellatrix: Telus started selling iPhones yesterday, but their system crashed so they couldn’t *actually* sell the damn things. Also, I had to throw a fit and threaten to jump ship to Rogers or Bell because Telus didn’t want to give me the promo price on […]
As you may or may not know, I have a hate on for Telus. I’ve been counting down the days until my indentured servitude three year contact with Telus ends so that I could jump ship to Rogers and get a beautiful, beautiful iPhone. But lo – starting tomorrow, Telus will carry the iPhone! Since […]
In transferring all my files from my old computer to setting up my new MacBook Pro ((which, did I mention, I totally love?)) and playing with iPhoto ((which I love so much that I would marry it, were such a thing legal)) I discovered some pictures that I clearly scanned from pages that I clearly […]
This is part of the “operating instructions” that came with the headphones I bought recently: Seriously, it’s just a basic pair of headphones that I use to listen to my iPod. And really, the only “instructions” are “Wear the headphone marked R on your right ear and the one marked L on your left ear.” […]
Today I hit the 10,000 km mark on Zaphod, my beloved Smart Car! Because I’m a super nerd, I’ve been tracking my gas mileage ((really, any excuse to make a spreadsheet and I’m happy)). And so far, this is where I’m at: days owned 161 km driven 10,021 L of gas used 594 $ spent […]