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reay, 11 months ago to random

Just watched an adorable video of a man greeting a bunch of baby bunnies edging out of a garden patch.

My twelve-year-old daughter was smitten, and said if we had those bunnies in our yard, “I’d just take them. I would. Like, if you’re going to be that cute AND FREE…?”

reay, 11 months ago to random

For the record, even if I win the $50 million lottery this week, I still won’t pay $50 for a bottle of wine.

reay, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

A friend who works at an animation production house recently asked if he could run a show idea by me he wants to pitch to the company.

I said sure.
Got it.
Read it the same day.
Gave him some notes.

Then I asked if I could run a few show ideas by him.

He said sure.

I sent it all two days ago.

So far, crickets.

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reay, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Having some good ol’ Canadian products today.

reay, 11 months ago to random

I hear Google may start preventing users with ad blockers from viewing YouTube content.

You’d think that a company that makes an $80 billion a year profit wouldn’t be bothered by some of the users on just one of their platforms not seeing ads, but here we are.

reay, 11 months ago to random

So our old car has been on the market for a month. Even way reduced from what we’ve been told it’s worth, and saying in the copy we’re willing to negotiate below that, no takers.

Which is a stark reminder that there’s what something is worth, and then there’s what someone is willing to pay for it.

reay, 11 months ago to random

I mentally noted an object in the rain as I walked by the car to load in groceries and doubled back to discover it was a 1-1/2” screw I would’ve driven over. Not the first time I’ve done that.

I could tell our small backyard shed door was just barely not pulled fully closed because the shadow falling from the door frame didn’t look right from the house.

What the hell IS that?
A weird attention to detail other miss?
Hypervigilance?
Being on the spectrum?

It’s borderline unsettling.

reay, 11 months ago to random

Hey, baby. They call me The Devil’s Sausage. Wanna find out why?

reay, 11 months ago to random

Yesterday we got the end-of-school-year message from the Minister of Education via the Toronto District School Board.

The minister, one Stephen Lecce, is a perennially dislikeable toady for the Ontario Conservative Party, of which he’s a part (given that position with ZERO background in education when Doug Ford slimed his way to becoming our premier).

The message was far more about how fantastic the provincial government is being about helping the education system than anything else.

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reay, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Weird situation at the liquor store yesterday. I walked in for my shift right after police showed up.

Turns out the intense young security guy we’d had from the security company for one previous day had caught a thief, but in doing so, a) tackled him, then b) had him cuffed back in the warehouse but the guy apparently tried to grab or attack the guard (with cuffs on?). So the guard threw him to the floor and was going for his baton when some of my coworkers stepped in and stopped him.

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reay, 11 months ago to queer

On this day of the Toronto #Pride Parade, I’m reminded that my wife and I met doing security at CityTV, a television station based in downtown Toronto.

She and I had both been assigned to do security for the camera operators getting footage of the parade, back when it was all on one day. At times that involved arms being horizontal to hold back a pressing crowd.

My wife ended up with several phone numbers scrawled on her arms.

I… um… didn’t.

Hey, I’ve always said I married up. 🙂

reay, 11 months ago to random

We left one major telco as a cell phone carrier because when we moved to this house about 17 years ago (a solid golf shot from Lake Ontario), we kept having our data signal ebb and flow but sometimes plummet and calls suddenly drop.

A boosting tower covering this area had recently gone down, I was told after numerous conversations with the company. And no, it wouldn’t be fixed or replaced unless enough people called to complain about it (capitalism is a bitch, he added editorially).

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reay, 11 months ago to random

Only half joking when I say I wonder if maps in the very near future will have Ukraine being bigger.

Like… way, WAY bigger.

reay, 11 months ago to random

PLEASE BOOST

Any suggestions for cheap places to register a URL? (And what do you consider cheap?)

And then how does one bring that third party-registered URL under the umbrella of an existing host? I've only ever registered URLs through hosts I'm using for websites, which I've since learned isn't a terribly cheap way to do it. 😬

reay, 11 months ago to firefox

Hey #firefox users: I’ve got a recurring issue on my laptop recently where I try to log into my banking website, use the 2FA with my phone, but when I verify access with my phone, it still doesn’t let me into the website.

If I hit I Didn’t Receive A Notification on the website to prompt a second attempt at getting in, it gives me a “technical error” notification and says to try again later.

I cleared cache & cookies and it still happens.

I contacted their help desk and the guy suggested

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reay, 11 months ago to cycling

Hey, cyclists:

Any suggestions for where to hide an Air Tag on a bike? I’ve seen a few videos, and there are some good ideas there, like specialty bells and reflectors and cap tops on the handlebar connections. But my thinking is, if videos are being made about those locations, then bike thieves will also be learning where to check for them.

Feel free to DM me if you have any sneaky suggestions.

#bikes
#cycling

reay, 11 months ago to random

Me trying to curb my twelve-year-old daughter from starting a silly argument so we can get going on biking to school:

Make like Elsa and let it go so we can make like trees and get out of here.

reay, 1 year ago to random

Finally starting to do some initial editing of some trial ad demos in Reaper. Way more to it than Audacity. Much steeper learning curve. But from everything I’ve seen of it, the time spent learning how to operate it will really pay off.

#voiceover

reay, 1 year ago to random

PLEASE BOOST.

Has anyone set up a business name for their #voiceover work? Like, named themselves a studio, or whatever, to work under?

I can see potential pros and cons but wanted to figure that out before I actually started promoting myself on websites.

Good/bad/ugly feedback?

reay, 1 year ago to random

Torn between wanting to thank the woman taking out the oversized garbage bins from this fast food place for doing hard and vastly under appreciated work, and risking coming across as mansplaining if I were to tell her that pushing out the bottom of the bins with her foot will tilt the top toward her so she can roll them away way more effectively than pushing at the middle of the bins will, as she’s doing.
Because physics.

… maybe I’ll settle for a smile and nod next time she passes by.

reay, 1 year ago to random

Had a lady -- seemingly real, not like the surprising number of apparent bots and/or scam initiations --- who sounds like she may be interested in buying the old car we're selling.

But she asked by email today if I can "guarantee [her] that [she] will not be disappointed by purchasing" the car.

And I politely replied that, um... no? Because I can't know what she may or may not find bothersome or troublesome later.

But I offered to meet her wherever she'd like to see it, and...

reay, 1 year ago to random

I think the whole Tom Cruise Has To Drive A Motorcycle In Every Movie has reached its peak with the standup movie theatre promo ad for the new Mission: Impossible movie where he’s free falling with the motorcycle way below him.

$5 says he lands on it and takes off again.

reay, 1 year ago to books

A friend suggested I should give the 40K Warhammer novels a shot.

And I did.

And there’s five pages of dramatis personae to start with and it drops you into interaction among a lot of those characters and I’m preeeeeety sure it’s more for someone with some — ANY — familiarity with the game and the universe. Because whoa, momma, my head was spinning.

I shelved that for now and instead started The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. So far it’s way more my speed.

#books

reay, 1 year ago to random

Buying the same albums on CDs that you already had on vinyl and possibly also on cassettes.

#EverybodyWasDoingThisInThe90s
#HashtagGames

reay, 1 year ago to random

My new favourite thing is the ridiculousness that is men's underwear commercials. I'm looking at ordering some new skivvies online, and man, the unintended hilarity is top notch.

• I'll wake up in the morning and grab a new pair of boxers from the stack of them atop my night stand (where everyone keeps their underwear).

• Once in only those, I'll barely perch, leaning awkwardly back, at the top corner of my bed, flipping through a magazine. As one does.

(con't)