Category: Grab Bag

It was a long, slow painful demise. First he went blind (lost his button eyes), then he suffered through a double amputation (both his stick arms fell off), but a remarkable surgical procedure managed to re-attach one of his arms. Then, he suffered a stroke (fell over), but made a good recovery for a few Read More …

My #1 Cheer LeaderOriginally uploaded by Big Dadoo Had a great ride at Icebike 12 today at The Forks. I did the usual Abominable class race which this year was 3 laps for ~15km. Turnout was lighter that usual. Not sure if it was the snowy conditionsor the Super Bowl or what. Lots of years Read More …

This cute little person showed up on our door step one weekend while we were away, and he even shoveled the driveway! Thanks!

Hoarfrost (glossary definition) Hoarfrost A deposit of interlocking ice crystals (hoar crystals) formed by direct sublimation on objects, usually those of small diameter freely exposed to the air, such as tree branches, plant stems and leaf edges, wires, poles, etc., which surface is sufficiently cooled, mostly by nocturnal radiation, to cause the direct sublimation of Read More …

My cycling club, FOG, is offering a very nice looking merino wool trainer (Australian merino wool), think wool warm-up jacket. The email notification included a picture and it has the words “FOG Manitoba” across the front and then, is smaller script underneath “Vanno Velocissime”. I was curious, so a little Googling was in order. It Read More …

I like the way the new roll up garage door didn’t have to try and push the snow out of the way to open up like the old door did. Shoveling was a good workout. More snow please!

This took a full re-image of my hard drive to get rid of. Lots of fun locating all the software you acquire and configure. Since I’ve had to do this a couple of time now I’m developing a cheat-sheet document to help the process along. That and Norton Ghost doing very regular backups.

Other hilarious images over here.