tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:20:04 +0000http://void.team-scout.com/noreply@blogger.com (Aaron)Blogger417125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-7286407363345899476Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:48:00 +00002009-01-24T10:51:11.520-05:00siteas a transition period. I'm pretty happy with the new design and setup now, so feel free to change any links/bookmarks to the new one, as this one will probably just sit like this for a while, unless I start having some problems with hosting the new one.http://void.team-scout.com/2009/01/not-so-much-sneak-peak.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-7999383936829988676Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +00002009-01-14T01:36:05.712-05:00sitehttp://void.serveblog.net.http://void.team-scout.com/2009/01/have-peak.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-8581031922805537725Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:29:00 +00002009-01-11T16:17:58.733-05:00gamesholidaysfooddrinkingTrue to most New Years around here, it was rung in with an oil fondue, some drinks, and some games. It was so laid back in fact that the 'new year' rang in in the middle of a round of Scattergories which none of us were really willing to interrupt for the sake of watching some balls drop. In fact, by the time midnight rolled around, the majority of us were still too overstuffed from dinner to http://void.team-scout.com/2009/01/double-oh-nine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-1665753814799567290Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:00:00 +00002008-12-30T18:21:17.311-05:00moneyholidaysOne of the more enjoyable parts of christmas for me is hunting some boxing day deals to get the most out of gift cards. This year though, I wasn't very impressed with any of the deals I saw; at least on stuff I was interested in getting. I blamed it on the economy; or just a better general memory for prices really not all that different to the 'huge sale prices'. Whether its the economy and http://void.team-scout.com/2008/12/boxing-day-sales.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-4613632804755671780Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:21:00 +00002008-12-21T15:49:57.467-05:00birthdaysholidaysdrinkingMore often than not, the weather around my birthday is shit, and this year was no exception. An e-card I got from Nick pretty much sums it up. I have to plan my birthday a month in advance if I want people to actually be able to make it out with all the family reunions and other engagements that tend to go with the x-mas season. This year I planned a sausage party, a quasi-potluck affair wherehttp://void.team-scout.com/2008/12/sausage-party.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-3272516520484212075Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:17:00 +00002008-12-12T11:47:59.368-05:00x-masholidaysI hate x-mas shopping at the best of times. When I have little money to play with it only intensifies my distaste and difficulties with picking the right gifts for people. That said, I'm down to just my mom and Carolyn left to shop for, and still have 2 weeks to go. I tend to start my shopping early every year now to take advantage of the best online store/eBay deals I can find, but after a http://void.team-scout.com/2008/12/nickel-and-diming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-4548730283228592441Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:37:00 +00002008-11-29T23:49:27.047-05:00gamesblogI've been playing around with Wordpress and a new blog. I've decided that I don't want to spend much time altering templates and such this time around. If there's something out there that looks clean and polished enough, why change it? That said, I'm working with the 'Minimalia' template published through BraveNewCode which was used for a time, yes you got it, on the Matt Good website. At http://void.team-scout.com/2008/11/trivia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-1490250470131312072Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:39:00 +00002008-11-14T19:16:08.889-05:00injuriesblogMy back was still off for most of this week, but I finally found a new desk chair for myself this week after suffering with an 'ergonomic' kneeling task chair for the past year or two. Whether the chair had much to do with it or not, the lingering dull ache in my back is gone. Next week should be a lot more productive. Carolyn got booked for a a shift tonight, so I've settled in with a two http://void.team-scout.com/2008/11/week-wasted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-615216753373612709Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:12:00 +00002008-11-09T12:45:41.884-05:00mememusicThis one comes via Christielli. I'll have to cheat and get some of this data from LastFM as I don't, for example, have a play count feature installed in my foobar. --- How many songs total: 6083 songs, 39.7 GB How many hours or days of music: 2 weeks 4 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes, 26 seconds Most recently played: Nine Inch Nails - Just Like You Imagined Most played: Tie between Eulogy by Tool http://void.team-scout.com/2008/11/on-7th-day-he-memed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-8566449359783322337Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:17:00 +00002008-11-05T15:00:30.092-05:00artpicturesI mentioned a few posts ago that my friend had sold some of her artwork with Carolyn in it a little while back. Now Carolyn has been featured again in a diptych © A. Ramsay Again some great stuff, and awesome to see in full scale. Edit: Blogger is pissing me off lately. In the preview the images are side by side, but as soon as I publish they end up stacked on top of one another, no matter http://void.team-scout.com/2008/11/give-people-what-they-want.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-8196115822601594149Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:34:00 +00002008-11-04T23:29:57.174-05:00USelectionspoliticsI took advantage of Halloween being on a Friday, and had a party here this past weekend. Everyone had great costumes, and presumably a good time, myself included. You know the horny fundamentalist priest went over well with an 8 year old boy around. Then I woke up Saturday unable to bend over far enough to tie my shoes, and have had the same lower back pain ever since. After some http://void.team-scout.com/2008/11/lower-spine-of-90-year-old.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-7936179107122121724Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:47:00 +00002008-10-30T21:26:56.799-04:00USelectionspoliticsI listened to a segment of the Howard Stern show the other day in which they walked around Harlem interviewing black people about who they would be voting for in next week's election. Obviously the clips played were selective, and the whole process non-scientific, but it was still surprising to hear how many people were voting for Obama when McCain's platform, policy, and even running mate were http://void.team-scout.com/2008/10/yea-i-wouldnt-do-that-stem-cell-stuff.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-6106561880507454608Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:23:00 +00002008-10-25T18:28:15.660-04:00humourmusicCarolyn found this and made my weekend: Who says prison, or the Phillipines, can't be fun? (Apparently I'm over a year behind on this viral...too bad)http://void.team-scout.com/2008/10/thrilled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-2158599840405623780Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:23:00 +00002008-10-17T20:41:59.163-04:00artpictures © A. Ramsay A friend of mine takes photos and enlarges them into relief artwork in wood. A few months ago we found out she'd sold a piece with Carolyn carved into it, and now it seems it was my turn to be put into art. I have no idea whether this piece is for sale yet or will be, but if for some reason you happen to be interested in a large portrait of me (obviously for the art, not the http://void.team-scout.com/2008/10/immortalized.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-4122295230370450428Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:47:00 +00002008-10-15T09:05:55.209-04:00CanadaapathyelectionspoliticsAccording to Reuters, voter turnout was an all time low at 58%. Frequency of elections combined with the table I've created below pretty much explain all that away in my mind. As of 08:52 15-Oct-2008. Clearly its difficult to choose what 'Other' candidates would gain seats being as so many fringe parties are included in these numbers, perhaps the highest nationwide percentages could also be http://void.team-scout.com/2008/10/results-are-in-people-are-tired.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-2703869288849789066Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:30:00 +00002008-10-15T09:25:34.127-04:00CanadapoliticsI may or may not update this as the election results come in. Popular vote in the Atlantic region has the Liberals and Conservatives down, and NDP, Green and Independents up...go figure. I have a feeling this will be a popular theme, and yet, I don't think the seats will change accordingly. I suspect after this election there will be even more calls for a change to the voting system to reflecthttp://void.team-scout.com/2008/10/election-watching.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-6354212605271863098Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:08:00 +00002008-10-06T14:32:23.321-04:00moneymusicUntil I went browsing around to hear some of the tracks besides the first single from the newest Metallica album, I had never heard of the loudness war. I ended up finding a couple articles, including this one on the Wired blog, describing how the quality of sound was being sacrificed for the sake of a 'louder' sound. Boosting the levels of the tracks would make sense to me if people all over http://void.team-scout.com/2008/10/loudness-dne-fullness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-9074452704334847142Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:10:00 +00002008-09-30T15:26:50.534-04:00cottagepictureshealthI disappeared for the weekend with Carolyn to her cottage. Before leaving, I picked up a nasty cold/flu that's been making its rounds. I managed to load enough orange juice and vitamin C pills into my body to hold the worst of it off until Monday morning around 2 am, at which point I woke up and couldn't sleep again for two hours. Lack of sleep combined with elevation changes driving back homehttp://void.team-scout.com/2008/09/sniffle-hack-wheeze.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-8262492920650391730Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:33:00 +00002008-09-16T17:56:54.252-04:00moneytimeschool4 degrees at night and a yellowish tinge to many of the leaves on the trees; fastest summer ever. One of the rainiest too. Every year around this time, one of my friends from highschool throws herself a birthday house party, which becomes my annual highschool reunion to catch up with people I don't see in the intervening time. Back in highschool it was the typical gossip, backstabbing and http://void.team-scout.com/2008/09/objects-in-motion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-691760639331802120Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:03:00 +00002008-09-08T00:37:58.769-04:00sportstvbaseballJaysThe Toronto Blue Jays have won 8 games in a row, the first time they've done so since the 1999 season. Three of those wins came against one of the two teams ahead of them in the wildcard race in the Minnesota Twins. Three more of them came against the division leading Tampa Bay Rays. And the remaining two wins came against the New York Yankees, who the Jays have now surpassed in the overall http://void.team-scout.com/2008/09/lets-play-balljust-not-on-tv.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-3437007475875154434Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:27:00 +00002008-09-04T17:30:52.750-04:00congratulationsmarriageOn a distinctly more positive note than the last post; I forgot to mention in the post after returning home from the cottage that one of my best buddies since elementary school, and his girlfriend (and my own girlfriend's cousin) are now engaged, with a wedding in the works for next summer. You know it will be the hottest day of the summer when I'm standing there, with my full tux on, roasting.http://void.team-scout.com/2008/09/betrothed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-363141784114752580Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:50:00 +00002008-09-04T17:27:06.883-04:00CanadaUSpoliticsI have caught a few minutes here and there of speeches and the like coming out of the Republican National Convention in the past few days. I tend to only be able to maintain my attention for those few minutes at a time before I become dumbfounded at how people so adamantly support such hypocrisy. I thought surely last time around there was no way they could possibly re-elect Bush, but then theyhttp://void.team-scout.com/2008/09/military-breeding-machine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-5914722336483868973Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:41:00 +00002008-08-28T11:57:50.588-04:00cottagepicturesThe extended weekend up at Carolyn's cottage on the peninsula was awesome. Mostly quiet. Mostly nice weather. Mostly good food. 3 hours of rain in 4 and a half days is nothing to complain about, even when you burn your knuckles on the barbecue trying to keep the food from getting soaked with rain spilling off the roof. In an effort to save money, I tried to keep the road tripping to a http://void.team-scout.com/2008/08/back-from-bruce.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-5828785735069232311Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:22:00 +00002008-08-16T13:38:34.895-04:00sexsocietyContext: If someone wants to look at internet pornography at a public library, they should have that right, says the executive director of the Ontario Public Library Association. "Is that appropriate? No," said Shelagh Paterson. "But people should be able to access whatever they are looking for in the library." The association does not set rules for public libraries in the province, but http://void.team-scout.com/2008/08/library-porn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782435.post-6577797083445197048Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:36:00 +00002008-08-10T15:44:20.864-04:00sportsfootballspreadsheetsThe season is coming up and after not being able to find a convenient schedule already in a spreadsheet online (without succumbing to joining the Micro$oft community), I decided to spend some time and set up a sheet complete with pivot tables very similar to a schedule I was able to find a few years back. I figure I might as well make it accessible to anyone that needs it for setting up pools, http://void.team-scout.com/2008/08/nfl-20082009-regular-season-schedule.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aaron)