Archive for July, 2005

Cooling off

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Just a quick update on the two most recent posts here:
Blinds are up: keeping the place closed up during the day and opening the windows at night is keeping everything quite comfortable inside. The blinds have made a huge difference and while I’m not hoping for much more 30+ degree heat, it won’t be near [...]

Rude awakening

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Okay. I’d had enough a few days ago, but today I finally found the energy to call someone and complain about it. You see, every (weekday) morning, a team of workers are starting to take apart the wooden frames used to pour concrete basement walls with… at 6:00am. Doing this is requires them to hammer [...]

Keepin’ the heat on the street

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Finally.

When I was picking upgrades for the house, I surprised some by not even thinking about central air conditioning. But really, when you consider the last several summers, we’ve managed through a few hot days here and there, yet nothing that serious. Enter the year 2005. Yikes. What a record breaking summer of heat we’ve [...]

Links: July 07, 2005

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

A few quick links in lieu of a proper posting tonight:

Scariest Storm Chaser Photos
Wow… almost makes you want to move to a trailer park somewhere in the States, eh? [link]
Context Free Design Grammar
A cool, organic, “kinda, but not really fractal-like” programming language -slash- toy; check out the Gallery in the forum if nothing else [link]
TagCloud.com
Wonder [...]

Happy Canada Day!

Friday, July 1st, 2005

Hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Canada Day!