June 30, 2006

I took my bike to the bike shop for it's tri-annual overhaul. The chain-ring I always use needed replacing, as did the free-wheel and the little guidewheels thingmes for the derailer, and of course you always replace the chain when you are replacing the components of your drive train.

So yeah, it was kind of expensive.

When I went to pick up the bike, the guy at the cash asked me how long I'd had it, and I said; "Well I got it like 6 years ago, but it was second-hand then."

The bike in question is an old Joe Breeze so it's kind of a history piece and political statement (Joe breeze was one of urban/ transportation biking's early advocates) all rolled into one. But you know what, it's probably close to twenty years old and still runs like charm.

Anyways dude at the cash is like; "You pay so much for repairs why not just ride the bike into the ground and get a new one..?"

And then I almost replied, "That's a great idea..You know what, let's just do that with everything we're tired of looking after or taking care of okay? Oh no wait, we do do that with everything."

My ridonculous repair bills don't even keep places like a Westmount bike repair shop in business anyways. It's all those golden handshake retired investment advisors with their fucking Race shorts and shaved legs.

Anyways. This post was supposed to be about how I picked my laptop up off the desk where it's been sitting for three days and found a peice of chewed gum underneath it, stuck to the chassis. So now I have a dodgy scratched up Dell Laptop with a gum-blob on it's ass. I am going to look so Profesh at Blogher.

If I had one tenth the sympathy for this computer that I have for my bike...

It wouldn't be a Dell. Hyuk.

By webdesign, it's true.

Last night I thought of a great re-design for flink, while walking the pooch at 1:00am. Fell asleep while ironing out the kinks in my head.

Once asleep I had a dream about presenting a final version to a client, except I had decided to think outside the box and made the entire website out of foolscap using a yellow high-liter for the important parts. It was an anxiety dream obviously, about a project that is way due, way soon. Oh wait, that's all of them.

Then I woke up and my first thought upon waking was not sex, nor breakfast, not even taking a piss. I woke up, quite literally in the middle of a thought about how to take one of the older sites I have made this year and re-work the navigation to make it more user and action oriented.

There is *nothing else going on upstairs*. Just the internet 24/7.

I don't just need a hobby. I need my humanity back.

Speaking of humanity; This guy was in the park today walking his ferret, on a leash. It's really weird watching a pet-owner watching his pet climb a tree while on a leash. From afar it looked like he was taking this giant oak-tree for a walk.

What I really need is a new mac laptop. Does anyone have any special insider information that the intel macs are gawbage or anything? If I get a mac now, I get a free nano. Why I want a free nano when I already have an ipod is unclear, maybe to give to someone else or what'evs. it just seems like a good opportunity.

June 28, 2006

Via The Dyke Squad

Jon Stewart Grills Bill Bennet on Gay Marriage

June 27, 2006

Flink: "Oh I shouldn't have said that, that was mean.."

Friend: "You're not being mean."

Flink: "I do, I think that was kind of mean.."

Friend: "You always say shit like that. You were just being no different than you always are - that's why I love you."

Flink: " That's not a very good point of analysis"

Friend: "Wait. So now you're criticizing me for loving you because you're an asshole??!!"