October, 2009

Bath Day, 2009

Posted Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 in Tickle Trunk.

Few thrills surpass the washing of an 85-pound dog. Smidgen was unusually cooperative this past Saturday, leaving our tub area reasonably unscathed:

Post traumatic bath debris

Post traumatic bath debris

It took us just as long to clean up afterwards as all the brushing, combing, lathering, rinsing, toweling, conditioning, combing, blow-drying, and combing yet again, put together.

Evidence of prior bath trauma, now skillfully concealed.

Evidence of prior bath trauma, now skillfully concealed.

And now she should be good until next spring’s melt.

Youda thunk Y2K and basic search had been solved by now.

Posted Sunday, October 11th, 2009 in Propeller Beanie.

Computer programmers, rejoice! With 2010 nearly upon us, we can celebrate that all of the fundamental problems in computer science have been put to rest.

What’s that, you say? Try a search for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” on the Roger Ebert page of the Chicago Sun Times site? Well, okay…

Only 22 more years until Casablanca premières.

Only 22 more years until Casablanca premières.

So, searching for a very specific film title matches the intended review on the penultimate line of the third and last page of results, while adding a surplus century to the date. Oh, and articles that aren’t reviews are displayed as though they were very bad reviews.

Attaboy!

Update, October 16th

Looks like the Sun Times wunderkinder fixed it, apparently by rolling back to the old search code.

Google Street View now available in Canada (but not Whitehorse)

Posted Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 in Tickle Trunk.

I’ve been “driving” around Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver today on Google’s Street View. Just visit an address in a city down south in Google Maps and then drag the little orange man icon over to the street of your choice.

Apparently Street View in Canada just went live earlier today. I had heard that the Street View car had toured Whitehorse back in the spring July, but it doesn’t seem to work up here yet, dagnabbit.

My high school looks pretty much the same as it did in the early 80s, and the financial heart of our country seems calm (they must’ve taken the picture before the start of the Great Recession).