[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] Name: Avery Pennarun
Member since: 2000-03-10 03:27:07
Last Login: 2009-03-25 21:10:42
Homepage: http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/
Notes:
Most favourite food: pumpkin pie.
Most amazing discovery: when the sky _isn't_ blue, it sidesteps the question entirely!
Most hated word: Blog.
On Montreal Highway Construction
Last week I tried to pick someone up at the Montreal airport and got stuck in the most ridiculous traffic jam I've ever been part of, taking 2 hours to travel 4 kilometers.
pmccurdy sent me a story from the Montreal Gazette explaining the situation. Tip to Montreal highway industry: signs that tell people before getting to the insane traffic jam that you have pre-scheduled an insane traffic jam for the next 30 days, so they can maybe take an alternate route, would be more than welcome.
My favourite comment on the article was a response to someone who compared Montreal's construction industry to that of a third-world country. The response was:
You know, if someone had passed me on a donkey, I think it would have cheered me up.
Syndicated 2009-07-02 16:00:34 from apenwarr - Business is Programming
Domicile
Neither I nor any member of my party occupying any resort accommodation have/has any intention of making, and will never make, this resort accommodation a legal domicile or principal dwelling. My/our legal domicile is and shall forever be outside the Walt Disney World Resort.
Syndicated 2009-06-08 20:27:28 from apenwarr - Business is Programming
Learning fiscal responsibility through your health benefits plan
Here's a fun idea someone explained to me recently. It might help people who have trouble learning to regularly put money into a savings account:
A lot of employee health plans nowadays include free massages (often up to a pre-defined annual limit). So schedule a massage on a regular basis (say every two or three weeks) and keep the receipt, but don't send it in. Basically, the pile of receipts is a savings account you've taken out with your health insurance company. When you reach your savings goal, send in all the receipts and make your "withdrawal." (Be careful not to keep them for longer than your insurance plan's time limit, though.)
It's just like ING Direct, except you get rewarded with a free massage every time you make a deposit.
Now if only I liked massages.
Syndicated 2009-06-04 17:39:34 from apenwarr - Business is Programming
git-subtree v0.2 is released
The new version has:
You can get it from git-subtree on github. Click the "download" button or clone the repository.
Syndicated 2009-05-30 20:34:01 from apenwarr - Business is Programming
Larry Smith on contract work
-- Larry Smith
Syndicated 2009-05-28 18:27:04 from apenwarr - Business is Programming
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