Wonders Never Cease

« Panoramic view of the boat club near Rajasaari back in March when the water was still frozen enough to walk on. Judging by the 10C weather forecast for the next week or so, maybe winter is on its way back. The blue cast must be due to the film being mis-processed as slide film since I don't order prints and scan off the negatives. I suppose I'll just stick to using B&W film with the horizon camera. Click on the photo for a larger version. »

The office is quiet these days, so quiet in fact that the lunchroom is going to close for the month of July since the few of us who will be left here wouldn't be miserable enough without also having the only food available within a 15 minute or more walk go on holiday as well. I suppose we'll just have to take long lunches in search of food. The crappy rainy weather combined with just about all of Otava's puppy pals going on holiday with their owners has made for a petulant wound-up horny teenage puppy who has become quite annoying at times since there are few outlets for his abundance of energy. He has also figured out what girls are and which end is appropriate for his attentions which makes me think he must be brilliant since so few dogs seem to get the right gender or end.

Anyone thinking that Tiger's Dashboard has no purpose other than hoover all available memory might want to have a look at the Asteroids widget. It's brilliant and likely violating copyrights of all sorts so get it before the big foot letter spoils the fun. At 60k, I think it's the smallest program on my powerbook and perfect for killing time while watching much more enormous software packages install.

One of the cutest nerdy things I've seen in a long time is a Periodic Table done out of cupcakes. It might have looked better had they made the icing a bit more distinct in colour to make it easier to distinguish the various families of elements but it's pretty cool nonetheless. If I go on a cupcake jag, maybe I'll make a similar one for the periodic table of dessert. :)

It would seem highly improbable that a book titled Cookie Sutra: An Ancient Treatise: that Love Shall Never Grow Stale. Nor Crumble. would get published but wonders never cease. Yes, a book filled with fucking cookies, literally. It'd be more tempting if the book came with a few cookie cutters for the various positions, um shapes. And, a riveting tale told through pictures, Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth, which will soon be followed by Everything I Ate: The Other End. Yes, I fully expect people who buy books filled with pictures of what a guy ate everyday will buy a book filled with pictures of the resulting turds. Hey, that one has corn!