October 30, 2002
Posted by beltzner
The mysterious noise in the ceiling has dissapeared. Most people know how to use the self-serve checkouts at Loblaws, meaning that if I’m shopping for two or three things, I can be in and out of the store in under ten minutes. I was able to get all of my deliverables finished on time, meaning [...]
October 29, 2002
Posted by beltzner
On Friday I crypically linked to www.gottahavamadahava.com, a website that Goldman and I put together for our friend Madhava Enros in order to properly celebrate his continued existence. I had always lobbied for Madhava to put an extra ‘a’ in his name, thus allowing for the catchy slogan which became the website. The idea begat [...]
October 28, 2002
Posted by beltzner
Sunday morning Dawn and I got up at 6am (really 7am, thanks to DST) and drove downtown to climb the CN Tower for a fairly good reason. The climb was nowhere near as rough as I’d feared. We’d decided to pace ourselves for a leisurely stroll instead of a full-out time-trial, but still managed to [...]
Sometimes you just gottahavamadahava. I mean … you just do.
(Happy 26th birthday, Madhava, now that we’ve finally gotten around to celebrating it!)
October 24, 2002
Posted by beltzner
The Paradise Institute is playing in Toronto for the next week, and I encourage people who are able to take the time to go check it out. Steve, Chris and I stumbled upon its installation at the National Gallery in Ottawa over Canada Day, and really enjoyed it. We also all agreed that if films [...]
October 23, 2002
Posted by beltzner
One day Madhava was on a customer site visiting people who use the tools he helps to develop here. It just happened to be an “employee appreciation’ day at the location he was visiting. He described a bleak scene: a few balloons, a relaxed dress code, some punch, and signs that read “We appreciate you!” [...]
October 21, 2002
Posted by beltzner
Wayne, Madhava and I are half-listening and mostly-mocking a “business update” from our Senior Vice President and Group Executive:
Wayne: Oops, I wasn’t listening – what did I miss?
Mike: The fourth quarter will be “sticky” for businesses.
Mike: We are to “go to market”, and “win”.
Wayne: What? Wow. Good thing one of us was listening. I was [...]
October 20, 2002
Posted by beltzner
In case you were wondering what a cursed video that kills you seven days after you watch it looks like, you can satisfy your morbid curiousity in one of a variety of streaming media formats.
Personally, I seem to be cursed with a name that produces poor anagrams. The best I can get out of my [...]
October 19, 2002
Posted by beltzner
Steve and I went out to see The Ring tonight, and I was pleasantly surprised. The film’s gotten very mixed reviews, and deservedly so. It’s a movie that seems to suffer from its own expectations – you can almost hear the script second guessing itself and the director debating whether or not that last shot [...]
October 18, 2002
Posted by beltzner
God damn is it ever a pain in the ass to get this speaker wire beneath the carpet. And why did I start doing this at, like, 4:00pm when I know that Abby has a vet appointment at 6:00pm? And how, exactly, did I delude myself into thinking that it would be a relatively simple [...]
