Lunar Bovine - Jason Cobill’s Weblog

There are only 99 days left according to my original orthodontic treatment schedule - only that many days before I can munch on handfuls of popcorn, squish sweedish berries, or nibble the good stuff off of apple cores! Three months until I can floss without having a team of engineers planning out threading trajectories.
The move [...]

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Some of you may have noticed that my archives are a little sparse - it turns out some of the material from before the big outage (all of the material?) may be saved - meaning all the torrid details of the past 10 years of my life will be once again returned to an indexed, [...]

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Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween last night! We ended up over at Greg and Madeleine’s to hang out with the little ones while they got ready for trick or treating. There were lots of little Jedis and Princesses at the door this year, a very impressive set of superheroes and a gaggle of witches, [...]

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So, how cool must “Chan’s Megastick” feel when it hobnobs with the other insects and discusses taxonomy?
“Hi, I’m Gary, a dung beetle. What are you?”
“Chaaaaaaaaaaaan’s MEGA-STIIIICK!”
And every time he says it, I bet the screen fills with a flashing scrolling anime background, and he transforms into a fierce robotic stickbug warrior.

MEGA-STIIIIIIIIICK!!!!

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I had a little discovery the other day I thought was awesome - when a shaft of sunlight comes in through our office curtains and hits one edge of our glass desk, the light reflects around internally for a bit and comes out the back of the desk making this really cool pattern on the [...]

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I had a super productive weekend involving a lot of handiwork, which always feels somehow more “real” and productive at the end of the day than paperwork and pushing buttons. Highlights from the weekend include:

Built 4 dining room chairs (two arrived broken - bummer! Waiting for replacements)
Built a dining room table
Mounted curtains in the office
Hung [...]

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We have a fantastic view out our living room window - I’ve wasted a bunch of evenings (and a major part of my retinas) watching the gorgeous sunsets over the Ottawa river. With a view like this, who needs a TV?

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Our stuff arrived this morning - we were up at 6am to go meet the movers and get things prepared for unloading, and then spent the rest of the day rediscovering (like Christmas!) all the fantastic stuff we own as we opened boxes and tried to find places for everything. There was a lot of [...]

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On the outside chance that the Large Hadron Collider tears our universe apart molecule by molecule today, I just wanted to state for the record that I’ve had a pretty good life. If the LHC produces no usable science results, the threat of imminent annihilation should at least give people the world over a reason [...]

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