The Musings of Oneil and Co.

The weekend strike by the TTC union left me in a bind. Being a loser frugal and environmentaly conscious city-dweller, no car and no public transportation hampers all my weekend errands: helping out at the soup kitchen, reading Kathy Elder stories to my Little Brothers, and tripping joggers in random parks around the city.
Zipcar [...]

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Xen, VMWare, Cygwin, or coLinux ?
Thoughts anyone?
I’m trying to reduce the number of computers I use.

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2:58pm
Crap, I’m late. Half an hour ago I booked my zipcar for 3pm thinking I could get my crap together and go. Ikea had a sale on bookshelves and I had books and magazines all over the place. Problem was, I was 15 minutes away from the Zipcar lot and I am incapable of ignoring [...]

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Back in December, I picked up a new hobby. I started smoking. I started partly out of curiosity, partly out of of scientific inquiry, and partly out of spite. It’s been about 4 months now, and it’s time for me to quit. I was mostly interested in knowing what was involved [...]

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There are many places to get a ‘real’ cheese steak in Philadelphia. Unfortunately I wasn’t in any of those places. My contingent wasn’t up for making the trek to some of Philly’s better known cheese steak establishments so I had to find a place close by. The closest place which would serve the most authentic [...]

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Happy Birthday Aneeta!
Have a super amazing awesome day!
And don’t let The Man ™ get you down!

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Read the Metro just like in Toronto.
Get coffee from ING Direct. (Coming Soon to Canada!)
Take the El in an area where it isn’t elevated.
Pump fist at the sky because the free city-wide WIFI network doesn’t work yet!
Take a picture of a restoration project.
Compare business district fashion (it’s the same)
Have dinner at Champions and [...]

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