2008-09-08
Squidette and I went to Rideau Carleton Raceway last week, and on the way out I threw a double sawbuck at a 25-cent slot machine and hit a 470 credit payout. That was nice as it offset my much-less-than-stellar attempts at horse race outcome prediction. I was going to write an article about just that, […]
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2008-08-01
This post on geocaching has generated some nice comments, so I thought I’d open up a related entry for further discussion. Up until quite recently, at least around Ottawa, there was a lot of “space”… NCC land, Crown land, city parks, etc. belonging to land owners who were sympathetic to geocaching. This allowed Ottawa geocachers […]
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2008-07-29
Once again, a case of a geocache being exploded by the bomb squad is in the news. It’s probably fair to say that most people who hide geocaches understand that there is a risk that any given geocache hide will meet its end that way, however, it seems clear that some hides are much more […]
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2007-09-25
A friend of mine once wondered why manhole covers are round, and made the mistake of entering a query into a search engine that contained the word “manhole”. Although it returned millions of hits, none of them answered the question (HINT: “manhole” is a search that is not work safe). So, having recently stumbled on […]
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