January 2008

Isotopegate

January 30, 2008

If you’re in Canada, you’ve heard about it. The person who was in charge of ensuring Canada’s Nuclear power plants were safe shut down the nuclear power plant in Chalk River because it was in violation of the rules, making it unsafe. As an unfortunate side result, Canada started running out of medical isotopes. The […]

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Travel Tips for the ThreeSeven crowd

January 27, 2008

We’ve done a bit of travelling. And when I say a bit I mean a lot. Over the course of the last several years, we’ve discovered a few things about travel. Which I will now share with you. Because I’m benevolent like that. 1. If you travel a lot, buy a GPS. Every time we […]

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Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the snow

January 21, 2008

Tony’s Snowblowing License Permanently Revoked. “”Hopefully the decision of the licence committee today will send a message out to anyone who is licensed to removed snow that they cannot behave in such an egregious fashion,” McRae said. Hopefully indeed. Also articles in the Citizen and the Sun. This is an interesting tidbit: “When bylaw officers […]

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Vegas, Baby

January 20, 2008

I thought I’d hate it. I thought it was going to be everything I despised about America - overconsumption, gawdyness, the usurpation of anything unique or cherished in the world and the cheap, tawdry re-creation of it on the Vegas strip. A place built on the lost money and broken dreams of habitual gamblers, a […]

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Finally, some good news

January 19, 2008

McCain soars, Giuliani plummets. I wonder what happened to turn the tide against Rudy. Maybe people just saw through the America’s Mayor crap.

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Well, this is annoying.

January 18, 2008

A woman takes a photo of her boss sleeping on his desk. She sends it to a few colleagues, colleagues with whom she is preparing a complaint against the boss for being a useless tool, along with a snippy comment. She gets suspended. Boss gets promoted. I love our government.

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The world’s most depressing playlist

January 18, 2008

I’m one of those people who enjoys a good wallow into melancholy occasionally. Every now and again it feels good in a way to sink into sadness, like wrapping yourself in a heavy blanket. I’d even go so far as to say an infrequent one of these descents into sadness is somewhat.. therapeutic. And on […]

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I think I’m secretly hoping they try it….

January 15, 2008

I just want to send out this warning to Gizmodo and anyone else who might be thinking about blasting out TV screens at Macworld: Think twice, losers. Because we will not be banning you from our show. We’ll be fucking tasering you right there on the floor. Then, when you’re lying there on the floor […]

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Gizmodogate

January 13, 2008

This isn’t news to anyone who isn’t a geek. I’m a geek, though, so it’s news here at the ThreeSeven. At last week’s CES, the gadget blog Gizmodo pulled a little prank. Gizmodo is one of the blogs in the Gawker chain, the same folk who bring you entertaining and obnoxious blogs Lifehacker, Jezebel and […]

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Live Blogging from BlogHaus!

January 8, 2008

I just walked in to the warmest blogger welcome ever. BlogHaus, sponsored by Seagate, provides caffeine, bandwidth and comfy chairs for anyone who wants to plop their MacBook onto their laps and blog about the latest geek-o-vations found at CES. Which you’ll find ecochick doing as we speak - check it out! Also, for anyone […]