Merry Christmas
Santa doesn't like communism. Thats why he's only recently started visiting Russia. Before the west brought this welcome addition to Russian holiday traditions, they used to have someone called Father Frost, who is just like Father Christmas, except drunker. Read about him here.
[posted by gavin on Saturday, December 23, 2000 | Discuss | link this]

Spelling
So we finally got around to changing the Rocketpack.org link at the top of this page. It'd been sitting up there for a coupla months now, mocking us with its bad spelling. While we were looking for a easy way to replace it, we came across a banner making service at adobe. It wasn't any use for us, but if you need an easy title or whatever for your page, and don't want to get into the whole photoshop thing, it might be a way to go.
[posted by gavin on Wednesday, December 20, 2000 | Discuss | link this]

The pain, the pain
My left wrist is killing me. It's like I have some kind of repetitive stress injury or something. Luckily I'm right handed, so it's not like lefty has to do any heavy lifting or anything. But the crappy part is that I use my left hand for using the mouse (b/c of the way my desk is set up).But now, since I can't do much with it, it just spends the days laying limply at my side. Lazy bugger.
[posted by gavin on Saturday, December 16, 2000 | Discuss | link this]

Alice in Wonderland would be turning in her grave
Look at this screen capture from an e-book reading program. Scroll down to the bottom and read the 'permissions' section.
[posted by gavin on Thursday, December 14, 2000 | Discuss | link this]

Democracy doesn't work

[posted by gavin on Wednesday, December 13, 2000 | Discuss | link this]

Winnie the Pooh is mentally ill
Why must the Canadian Medical Association Journal ruin everything?
Pooh is obsessive-compulsive, they say. Eeyore is chronically depressed. Piglet needs medication. Cute little Roo is a juvenile delinquent-in-the-making. And Christopher Robin has some gender issues.

"Sadly, the forest is not, in fact, a place of enchantment, but rather one of disenchantment, where neurodevelopmental and psychosocial problems go unrecognized and untreated," a team of developmental pediatricians opines in the holiday issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Read more
[posted by gavin on Tuesday, December 12, 2000 | Discuss | link this]

Christmas is a-comin'
It's feeling more like christmas every day. Today I had to run to the university to drop something off, and it was like -28 degrees already. Nasty. I had to jump off the bus and into the school, and was only physically outside for a few seconds, yet I still lost feeling in all my extremities. I had a bit of spittle on my bottom lip, and it froze there.
Nothing makes me think of Christmas like the bitter, bitter cold.
[posted by gavin on Monday, December 11, 2000 | Discuss | link this]

Sex
Hey kids! Wanna be popular? Feel like exploring your creative side?
Well, too bad.
[posted by gavin on Monday, December 11, 2000 | Discuss | link this]

Damn it
Oh, I don't have anything to say.. I'm just sick of seeing that fried chicken head photo at the top of the page.
[posted by gavin on Sunday, December 03, 2000 | Discuss | link this]

Blehhh

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