Wired Cola

About three seconds later, we raced at each other and tried to bite each other's face.

This 1955 promotional film has a lot to answer for:

They look so happy! See also part two.

Today, with cyclocross season over, my club had our Toy Ride, so Jak and I rode out to the ride in Kits, starting at dawn.

Inspired by a co-worker who used to work in a call centre, and swears they really would use some of these when they got really bored.

A as in Aye
B as in Bee
C as in Cue
D as in Django
E as in Eye
F as in Fnese
G as in Gnat
H as in Hour
I as in Ita
J as in Jefe
K as in Knee
L as in Lee
M as in Mnemonic
N as in Nee
O as in Oll
P as in Phonetic
Q as in Qat
R as in Rhotic
S as in See
T as in Tse-tse
U as in Use
V as in Vie
W as in Why
X as in Xerxes
Y as in Yew
Z as in Zeus

Further Reading.

I can't remember where I found these two links. But this article says that lucky people are optimists, but also that their attitude has real effects on their outcomes. In other words, lucky people make their own luck, and you can make your own luck too.

And here's Louis CK pointing out that there's a lot of luck to go around:

At my place of work, we buy a fair number of Toshiba laptops. As mainstream Windows laptops go, they're fine. They don't catch fire very often, they have all the mod cons, they don't offend. We bought a fairly nice one for a user who had specific needs, a Toshiba Satellite X200. It's fairly big and has a nice WSXGA display.

Okay, some context: the white dog with the gruff voice is the father of the family. it's an ad for a mobile phone plan. It all makes more sense that way, doesn't it?

No seriously, I'm testing a new comment-spam filtering module on my site, and want a few raw comments to test both the quality of the filtering and the user experience.

Let me know if it does anything annoying that I should fix.

I've been making a few jokes here and there about how my new job title is "interim regional assistant manager." This is meant to be comical, of course. In fact I'm now an acting supervisor, not an interim manager.

But I'm excited. And I'm not just saying that in case my manager is reading this. It's an important project, one I care about in a fairly visceral way.

The Dog Spends most of its Day on the Couch from Ryan Cousineau on Vimeo.

One day I decided to film my dog while TLO and I went to work. As you can see, the result was the usual charming sleepy-dog video, but there was an amusing twist (which surely surprised the dog as much as us) in the middle. Watch the video before you read the rest of this post

People voted. Results were tallied.

Things that were an actual surprise:

• Low turnout: 58% or so, the lowest in Canadian history if that holds
• Greens, BQ tread water
• NDP, Conservatives slightly up
• Liberals lose a lot of seats

Less surprising things: