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You asked: a haiku on the metric system

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Arthur

An intriguing question from the apache logs: “a haiku on the metric system”. Why yes, we covered that many moons ago in this post as filed in the category of (you guessed it) ‘haiku’. (Wikipedia: what is an haiku, again?) … Continue reading →

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How to convert you to metric

Posted on January 13, 2007 by Arthur

This week’s most interesting story goes to this Slashdot discussion: “How can we convert the US to the Metric system”. Most likely the question popped up, because of NASA’s recent announcement to go completely metric for their future mission(s) to … Continue reading →

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In Russia

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Arthur

Earlier this month, a meteor exploded (I guess, literally) above the Russian town of Chelyabinsk causing plenty of injuries and damage. Thanks to car cams installed in (many) Russian cars, amazing footage was captured of the meteor’s entrance and explosion … Continue reading →

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Mount and Blade: with Fire and Sword

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Arthur

Earlier this year I decided to give Mount and Blade a try, only because Wikipedia describes the game as a “medieval, single-player nonlinear action role-playing video game”. For the first time, before buying the game, I decided to watch the … Continue reading →

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The 100 Lunar Pound Question

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Arthur

To my surprise, I found out that New Years Day started with a (white) bang in Nova Scotia: In New Brunswick we got away with a couple centimeters and mainly the cold wind. Justice was served, I believe and I’m … Continue reading →

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Go version-control yourself.

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Arthur

So, I was going to give a rant about the painful upgrade to WordPress 2.6, but I’ll leave it at that. Wait. Version control has been added to WordPress, which means that you can finally revert to your previous 42-word … Continue reading →

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Roll up the Rim 2008

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Arthur

If you read this blog, you’d know that I’ve been tracking the Hortons’ ‘Roll up the Rim’ contest for quite a while (“Since 2002”). Just like last year, 2008 also misses the ‘breakdown of winning cups per size’ which makes … Continue reading →

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Weatherwise (and other news)

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Arthur

We’re going through some sort of ‘heatspell’ (if you can call it that way) with temperatures ‘clocking around’ the 20 degrees. Which is generally good, but then, the temperature has been going down fast at night: a couple of nights … Continue reading →

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Rocks and Apples

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Arthur

Donuts 2 hands of milk, approximately the size of adult hands 1 gravel sized yeast. The size of your pink finger’s nail will do. 1 rock size amount of Flour. Find a good size (medium) rock in your yard. 1/2 … Continue reading →

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The House of Munch

Posted on May 13, 2006 by Arthur

Back when I was younger, I walked to school through 10 foot of snow, in -30 degrees Celsius, 10 miles each day (that is 100 kms in your puny metric system). And back. 390 days a year. When I was … Continue reading →

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Weight vs. Volume

Posted on December 18, 2005 by Arthur

How many cups of sugar are in hundred grams Ask Isaac Newton Update: Huh?. One day, everybody will go over to the metric system. One can only dream. – It’s a go: almond stuffing is ready. Now it’s up to … Continue reading →

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Wilma and other news

Posted on October 24, 2005 by Arthur

The third weather warning issued this year for Nova Scotia: Wilma (now a ‘extra-tropical’ storm) is slowly going northbound, disrupting existing cold fronts in the Northern part of the Atlantic. All media cautiously issued warnings: effects will start to become … Continue reading →

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Notes

Posted on January 28, 2005 by Arthur

The last couple of days (after our snowstorm), it has been rather cold. Temperatures beneath the -20 in the morning with an overall of -15 during the day. There were a couple of wind chill warnings in effect too, but … Continue reading →

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