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Green lawn alongside paved pathway through parkland is dappled with bright-green tree buds

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2006.05.25 17:18. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/25/verdant/

Do the obvious thing and park your Smart nose or arse to the curb and what you get is a ticket.

Grey Smart Fourtwo with a yellow parking ticket under its wiper sits with its nose touching the sidewalk curb

The ticket is for failing to park parallel to the curb. Impossible in a Hummer, admittedly. Perhaps the Smart was mistaken for a motorcycle.

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2006.05.24 17:29. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/24/smartpark/

Surely many of you must think I was being terribly, terribly unfair to the outdated mediocrities who organized the Mesh Conference. They’re great guys, and it’s really great that Toronto finally got its own great conference about Web 2.0, itself the greatest thing since push technology or Friendster. The conference sold out and everybody had a great time, so I obviously must be wrong.

Well, I’m not. [continue with: Requiem for Robert Manne →]

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2006.05.24 13:01. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/24/edelmanne/

Red, tractor-sized industrial lawnmower has blade pulled up to reveal a uniform coating of green grass on the underside

And now… in stereo:

Two red, tractor-sized industrial lawnmowers sit with blades pulled upright on a flatbed trailer

(Q.v.)

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2006.05.23 14:50. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/23/lawnmowers/

Actually, that’s unfair. This is merely one of the many unique yet unheralded vistas available here. Where else might you find a backhoe at the lakeshore edge?

At shore of beach, a backhoe digs into sand as a large pile of sand sits nearby. Man in orange vest and hard hat watches from nearby sandbar

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2006.05.22 17:14. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/22/backhoe-2/

This pickup truck has an added train wheel on each corner. Whilst taking pictures, the driver chatted me up. He has to pull out a safety pin, drop each wheel down, and then manually jack up each corner of the truck. It then becomes possible to drive down the tracks, sort of Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd–style.

White pickup truck has a wide metal wheel half the diameter of the truck’s wheel that sits behind it

By the way, one curious and dangerous feature of Toronto is the train tracks running right through the city, sometimes so close you can look out your window and see individual bolts on wheels. The trains usually just creep along, except of course for the train tracks through Leslieville, where the Via trains run at full tilt and are quite free with blowing the whistle. Trains in one’s backyard make for a a cozy feel and a distinctive cityscape, but they’re an invitation to disaster. It already happened in Mississauga in 1979.

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2006.05.18 14:26. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/18/railtruck/

As promised, the Weblog I maintained from 2000 to 2003, the NUblog, is back online. There will be small invalidities here and there, not to mention the use of rather unusual HTML 4.0 Transitional. Your attention is directed to the archives, which I rather recommend to my friends at Edelman (but more on them anon).

You may also read the NUblog history.

None of this would have been possible without Antonio Cavedoni’s translation of an orphan SQL database into real HTML.

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2006.05.14 22:06. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/14/renued/

In Boston en route back from Iceland, I had the superspecial pleasure of a quick luncheon with some of the fired captioners of WGBH.

I tendered the proviso that nothing we said would be published, but I would be taking pictures. I will mention something I was told beforehand: One of the captioneers remembered my many letters to the Caption Center over the years (over a period of at least 20 years, in fact) and was impressed by their professionalism and accuracy.

Smiling middle-aged woman with brown hair, brown sweater, cream scarf
Smiling early-40s woman with dark black hair and striped shirt with glasses looped behind the top button
Two people in profile: Black-haired woman with yellow earrings and red shirt and bracelet facing right, balding brown-haired man with goatee and blue striped shirt facing left

I will also mention what I’ve mentioned before, hence it isn’t a secret: My neighbourhood is the DeGrassi neighbourhood and my Shoppers Drug Mart is the Shoppers Drug Mart where Joey bought his condoms. They squealed with glee at this news! (WGBH, you see, captioned DeGrassi High and Junior High. So did the Canadians – appallingly so, making for an interesting comparison project.)

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2006.05.13 12:29. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/13/fired-captioners/

When you’re spending this much money, all you need is one.

Car windshield has a single large wiper arm hinged at the right and reflects green tree branches

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2006.05.11 14:05. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/11/lamborghini/

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