ThisBoyIsToast V4 >> August 2005 Archives

The disaster in the american south has led to much looting and finding. the most interesting thing is the response in the comments.

I added the first permalink in ages and it was due to this string of Toronto night images at Brett Lamb's Blog. Photoblogging, when not by a skilled photographer should be neighbourhoodly like this. But I am not so what do i know.

This is the type of forum post i am looking for, referring to the start mac stuph.

This seems like a nice place to start for Mac Help, more for me than her.

OK, sitting to the right of my desktop keyboard is a borrowed iBook G4. I have brought it home, borrowed from a coworker who fears it has Spyware. I believe she ran into popups.

So, it is not difficult to lead on with, "Does anyone know any sites for newbs?" And I don't mean me, I mean her. She is not just a new Mac User but a new User. She has never used a computer, not to check her hotmail, not to surf the Internet, not write a resume. So, she is slowly getting the hang of browsing ("What's a browser, David?") and I would like to send her to webpages that focus on new computer users and new users of Macs. Anyone?

Update: And these updates will soon get their own posts. First impressions, other than "Ooooo so perty!" were that it is really easy to connect, I just plugged in the ethernet cable and she was connected to my router/internet connection. This may be to the fact that I am also Sympatico as is her owner but it may be just a mac thing, Then I turned on the wireless internet on my router and went over to the Airport. Bing, there it was as well as three other people and now I am on the sofa surfing and researching. August 29 05

This morning I heard the top of the dumpster in our parkinglot slam open and the following sounds of glass crashing into it. The I heard the Super yelling, "What are you doing in our dumpster?? You don't live in this building !!" A yelling match between a tattooed youth with a blue scarf tied around his head (gangsta style) and the Super began, he swearing his head off and her telling him to use the dumpster in his own building. We have one dumpster collection a week and if things get too full then she may have to pay for a second collection.

I looked over the edge of the balcony as things were getting heated and he was getting nasty. I got dressed quickly, going down to back her up in case things got out of hand. J told me not to get involved and considering a handgun takedown happened the other night at Yonge & Eg, I could understand what she meant. But still, I didn't want anything to happen to our Super as she is a great lady and maybe my presence would assist. As I looked out over the balcony I saw him pull out a nasty big knife. That did it, I was going down. I grabbed my discard items (stuff place on a laundry room table to offer to the tenants for free) to make it look like I wasn't just coming down to stick my nose in. I was.

By the time I arrived, I heard him crashing his stuff against the dumpster and the Super now inside her apartment swearing a storm herself. I tapped on her door and asked if everything was OK. She said he would come back later and clean his mess up. He won't. But at least nothing progressed. I think she knew when to let it go. Maybe she saw the knife I saw or maybe she knows the trouble with badgering youth in our neighbourhood -- our laundry room has been broken into and vandalized at least four times since we moved in. But it was over now.

Toronto is in a "wave of violence" right now more often in neighbourhoods no where near mine. But this stuff creeps into other areas pretty quickly. i don't want to be the one who ignores things in my backyard (literally) but I also don't want to get shot or knifed. This is the point where friends and family still at home just tell me to move away from Dangerous Toronto. August 26 05

So how do you tell the people at Google Earth that they seemed to have moved the label for my home town (Sydney, NS) about 35 km east of where it is? And why is Glace Bay full of detailed info while Sydney is a blurry blob? (via jer)

While there was a time when i did actual work in XML, i braindumped it long ago so i think i should read A Really, Really, Really Good Introduction to XML.

Why do I think this lil clip for K9 and Company is for a show more like Three's Company and less like Dr. Who. Side note, BBC Cult !! (via the shatnerian)

Last night I joined Rannie & Evil Rannie and some photo interested people for Rannie's latest Portraits in the Park. Cloud Park is just off Richmond behind The Bay and is one of the best urban parkettes in my opinion. I like when the architect and the artist is combined to make a relaxation space inside the city. There should be more of these combining the construction elements of the city with green & water.

August 24 05

Speaking of currently running series, it seems that old standalone anime called Blood (about a highschoolish girl killing vampires) will be a forthcoming series.

So we interrupted our continued viewing of Samurai Champloo to watch Paranoia Agent. It is best referred to as the series by Satoshi Kon, the creator of Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfathers (in the top 5 of my favourite animes of all time) and Millenium Actress.

It's about a young character designer who is being pressured to create the next ultra popular super collectible character ala Hello Kitty. As the pressure mounts she is attacked by a kid of rollerblades with a bent metal bat. The investigation of her attack takes a turn for the weird as the attacks progress from one person to the next. Soon we don't know if it is a entirely madeup attack, consensual reality, spiritual entity or truly some nutty kid on blades.

It has possibly the best opening sequence and theme of any anime I have seen wrapping up all the main characters in a bizarre surreal segment.

So every night and day off for about a week we watched one to three episodes until done. I have begun to attain a pavlovian sleepiness attached to watching anime, as we often do it right after I have come home or right after she has come home. Either way I am tired and get even more tired. Now it's rare for me to watch a single episode at 7:30pm and not have my eyelids begin to close.

Next, we finish some of the series we started and start watching 2nd Gig if we buy it this weekend. Yes, it is a series I will buy and yes I have already downloaded a few teaser episodes until the series hits DVD. August 24 05

You might call it shooting flying insects but i call it 'spending a lot of time, requiring a lot of expertise, spending probably quite a bit of money, assembling a scifi camera array... all for the sake of bugs'. Neat! (via milo)

I like it when photobloggers have a showing (yes i know it's history) but i like it even better when they have tangible things.

Now that embarrassing package you ordered can come in a brown Amazon box. Tee hee.

I guess Thumbsucker is what the establishment hoped to accomplish when "indie films" first took off. It is a quirky, introspective comedy with odd set-dressing and style yet backed by a big media push. It has oft-indie actors and probably a great script and very likely a great soundtrack -- great indie films always have buy-able soundtracks with bands your coworkers have never heard of but you have an album or two of. Is there still a place for true indie films or was the mid-90s world just an illusion anyway?

I will see this movie cuz I do love broken. August 23 05

I have felt it for a while, that feeling of being an outsider looking into communities but never a part of them. There is also the connected feeling of being outside myself watching the smiling loud-voiced greeter at work who can chat about drapery but cannot hang his own drapes. The internet used to be my thing and I was at least periferaly aware of most goings-on with The Net. It felt like my place, where I belong. I imagine that is a common feeling for many somewhat antisocial people.

But at some point that all changed. Maybe it was when things became well known and popular or maybe at some point I became more immersed inside my head, less connected to the outside. So now even on the Internet I am an outsider looking inward. Irina invited me to her community called Utata and my first thoughts were, "What is this all about." Quickly it answered itself, "It's about community." That was the simple answer. I have not participated but have lurked. Still don't get it.

That said, I like this lil article called Articulating the Empty Chair and if you have been by my photoblog or flickr lately, you will notice my attraction to empty, usually discarded chairs. August 23 05

I don't know why but sleeping tres late is good for my soul. i can even endure the headache and grogginess it gives me to accept the ironed out stress demon. maybe he just ends up sleeping later than i do. or maybe it has something to do with the lucid dreams i always have in the hour before i wake. they are of the recurring type and for some reason i like to stalk around in old expensive that do not belong to me. this time i was a demonic entity (maybe mr. stress personified?) in a leather jacket and loud shirt and i was extracting a sacrficial list from a young pregnant woman. did i say it was lucid? i know i am dreaming but i often start the dream with an idea and let the dream go on it's own. i was an ammoral entity but because she was with child i was leniant enough to allow her to sacrifice her friends. i'm nice like that. August 23 05

Roger Ebert writes a review of a revolting horror movie called Chaos and the creators respond. He responds to them with nothing held back.

Heh heh heh, in theme with the CBC Lockout we have the She Be She Strike or what happens during a real CBC strike and the inuit janitor starts to run the station. I think I see a sitcom coming up...

I like that at cbcunplugged.com producers who still want the public to listen to them are producing content (though i haven't found it yet) for the podcasting craze, I still wonder if they might damage their relations with their bosses.

Liz captures the rain from the other day but did anyone catch the sky up here around Yonge & Eg? At 3:30pm it turned so dark the street lights came on; most people in the store walked out onto the sidewalk to look up at these deep green clouds swirling in 5 directions at once. Freaky.

Ahhh, this What newcomers need to know about GW thread is exactly what I wanted.

I look over 43 Folders once again and it seems to be somewhat / currently dedicated to the Cult of Getting Things Done. The first thing I wonder is how much time people spend of setting up the GTD mindset (and tools) vs actually getting things done. I also wonder if people become so addicted to the paradigm and tools that they start creating things to get done. It reminds me of how I sometimes focus a whole lot on making CD Covers, finding the right image, creating the cover, printing the cover and assembling it together. Then I put the CD on the shelf and never listen to the music. Maybe if my GTD ideas were about an actual work place, I might not be so cynical because I am constantly plagued by "do i really have to do anything" ??? August 19 05

Well, I suppose if they are going to be a legit weblog the radiohead weblog should look like crap and have next to no postings :)

X-Play describes it as the MMORPG for people who still want a life. It's called Guild Wars and we now own it. But it cannot take away a life that isn't there to begin with. Look for Heironymous Walker, the Ranger.

Why do I think the only one going to make money from ProBlogger is the guy selling ads on the site?

I don't watch reality TV (enough reality in reality for me) but it would be neat to see Cam and his brother compete on The Amazing Race.

Based on this photo I found out what a Zorb is. It looks tres fun.

I have the original episodes of Aeon Flux on video and I think I will have to watch them again.

People mail him artsy postcards with their secrets on it. It is PostSecret and I think it's secret is that they don't get that many secrets so the owners make them up.

Over at BlogTO they are talking the toronto "guy uniform" which is essentially a long sleeved button down shirt over the casual pants of some sort, usually jeans. Why? Simply put, because that is what all the manequins are wearing. It's not Toronto it's just that more men in Toronto can afford to wear what the mid to upper range mall retailers are doling out. It also lends itself to the kinda casual-business look that most work places require.

It's funny, cuz when I was non-retail I wore short sleeved button downs and Docs. I rarely wore jeans and usually something casual other than them. Now that I am usually in dress pants and long sleeved button downs, I find myself wanting to be more often in jeans, a tee and sneakers -- too bad my belly doesn't lend me looking more trendy in that look. August 17 05

Today (yesterday) at work I wore a tie with my shirt. While complimented, I could not help but feel like a preacher. I refuse to take out my seven ear rings. August 17 05

We have watched the first episode of Paranoia Agent, which is anime done by the creator of Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers.

Both J and my mom send us regular shipments of tea towels. but imagine the hilarity if i sent her tea towels from third drawer down.

Most of your know I do CD Covers (more accurately, lately, did CD Covers) but another thing I always wanted to do was produce my own postcards. Like Karen Ingram does.

So with the CBC ~~on strike~~ suffering a "labour disruption" does that mean even the website will run "best of" news? Nope. If you can change the locks on a door, how do you keep the web people out? p.s. weird that i had to strike out the word strike with a strike tag. August 16 05

This is such a wow in it's simplicity. It's a jimbus.org photo called Departure.

Having completed our run on BeeBop, we are now going back to the completed series we did not finish watching. This time it was a few episodes of Samurai Champloo, an atypical samurai drama done with a hiphop styling. I don't know hiphop very well so I just see anachronism out it's yingyang. And yet, it likes to set itself in historical and reality based settings. I learned a bit about Japanese fireworks, interactions with Dutch traders and some things about mid 18th century Japanese art. That was while two kickass rogue samurai are slicing up the yakuza and dealing with an annoying 15 year old girl. Oh, and the artwork associated with the series is incredible.

For those who read Japanese, here's the series' blog. August 15 05

I am really fond of the dark tones of the photoblog at Sannah.

"He starts with her back cause that's what he sees when she's breaking his heart she still fucks like a tease." One More Night - Stars - Set Yourself On Fire

Have you ever sat at a blog and wondered whether you should post a rebuttal comment, being annoyed about their whining "everyone is doing everything to offend me" post? When it's a personal blog I usually just take the better judgement and leave them to their moaning. But on a public blog like Metroblogging you should expect recrimination right? They complain about all the normalities of the TTC along with a few beyond considerate behaviour. Most people take the TTC because it is their mode of transporation. Expect a little behaviour that may not be YOUR choice of behaviour or just walk. Meanwhile, people please remember that there are others around you. Yes, listen to your music, have something to eat before you get to work, connect with friends while above ground but remember that backpack filled with textbooks is going to knock someone down or at least knock their glasses off, the seat next to you is not your cafeteria table and i don't need to hear you swearing at your wife because she didn't pack your lunch so you could eat it on the train. But then again, all I ask is a little considerate behaviour but I don't often get that, anytime or anywhere. August 11 05

You know what I like about Jon's site, other than shots like this Bug ? It's the little detail that the photo ends up in the masthead of the comment box.

Whew. I thought I considered heady ideas related to RPGing but nothing like the minds thinking about Theory 101 Pt. 1 & Pt. 2.

You know those pins/badges/buttons I usually have all over my shoulder bag? Someone has combined the popularity of these with collectible strategy games and created Button Men.

Pulled from my archives it's a 20' By 20' Room and it's about RPGing.

Oh yeah, I can use these Pictures from Old Books as source material for D&D. (thanx yougeek)

What do you think they should name the new planet ? I originally liked their choice of Xena, as in Warrior Princess, but I think Bob has a ring to it.

Tee hee hee, yes we who had watched the MST3K version of Parts: The Clonus Project (on Biography !!) noticed the Michael Bay's The Island looked a little familiar. Now it seems that the original's creators have noticed as well. (thank grover kent for noticing)

To be honest, I kinda enjoyed the movie but more in that generic near-future scifi way I usually enjoy these movies. I very much enjoyed the opening part but found the whole chase to boring and unimpressive. OK, those rocket bikes were cool. The stereotypical fight on the bridge was annoying and stupid? Why does the villain always have to duke it out with the hero; he was a scientist for gawd's sake not a mercenary. There were the typical car commercial panoramics that Bay always uses and some elements also lifted from THX:1138, which I have to watch again. Maybe George will sue them as well.

Yes, my review (observations?) is somewhat empty but really, that was the movie not me. And yes, Scarlett was delicious. One last interesting observation. Lincoln Six Echo didn't seem to mind all the collateral damage he caused and the people he killed attempting to save his own life; he didn't even seem to notice. All he cared about was saving his own life. Which was kind of like his original. August 10 05

Gayla harvested her garden produce and man does it look yummy !! She also has a book on creating such a gorgeous selection.

It's called Starbucks Gossip but most of the posts seem to be advertising it and the comments are full of full-blown *$ devotees yelling loudly.

OK, it's been ages since the Flash vs HTML disappeared into the background but I still do not much like flash based sites that make me wait before I can click a link. But amplifier fuckin' rawks.

These images of toys on the out & about are something like some images Zannah took.

Not long after Rannie & friends had a run-in with locals at a park about "having permission to take their photo" (they were in the background of photos) Ed points to the one place in North America where this is not immediately legal.

To be honest I don't take photos of people very often but mainly because with my little gunmetal grey thing it would look like bizarre tourism, not photography. I don't mind weird looks when they see me taking a photo of a dumpster but it gets to me when people look harsh about capturing them. Me? I have never minded people snapping me but then again I have always known the photographer. August 09 05

I just added Invisible Threads POTD to my photoblog links. It's a hint to go to mine as much as his.

Hmmm, if my schedule allows I may be a fangeek and attend the Toronto TechTV Meetup.

To be honest I never heard of The Aristocrats until today and thought the movie poster referred to something entirely different.

So today I finally had my appointment with a retinal specialist and was diagnosed with a Macular Hole and detached retina. I now have a name for that collapsing black hole of vision in my left eye.

For those of you who don't know, about 6 years ago I had eye surgery to correct a blister on the inside of my retina. I was warned that complications may occur in later years but it wasn't until this year that anything appeared. As is typical of me I avoided doing anything about it until it became annoying and impossible to ignore. Then I visited the optometrist that j sees and she made the appt at Toronto Western.

The experience was... interesting. I wasted a whole day sitting in waiting rooms experiencing the vacation period and/or cutbacks for doctors. In a section dedicated to retinal specialists with literally dozens of examining rooms, I waited with about 3 dozen other people to see one active doctor.

First there was the 1.5 hour wait to get a blue card. I pulled number 23 right after they called number 5 and it was 15 minutes before they called 6. It was at this time that a very large, very red faced man stood up and shouted, "This is fucking disgraceful !! At this point, most people in this room will miss their appointments !!" I am not fond of the Loud People but he did get things moving as almost immediately people in the back room hung up their phones and moved to the desks to process us.

Then the waiting room in the retinal clinic mentioned above. I sat 2 hours to be moved to a smaller waiting room. Then I waited a half hour to have drops put in. As I slowly lost all focus they told me to go have lunch and come back in an hour. Half way through lunch I realized I couldn't read a clock and had to get a candy striper (young man in horrible purple vest) to read me the time. Once I was back in the waiting room I waited an additional hour on top of the hour I had been gone. People were beginning to show their anxiety, as most were car people and had Designated Drivers who expected this to be done quickly. After the hour I was moved to the hallway and waited an additional half hour to get a 2 minute consultation with a specialist who was more interested in making sure the student with him wrote the correct things down. He didn't seem to care that I had had surgery before. He ordered two more tests to be done and dismissed me.

The tests thing kinda irked me. One was covered and one was not. I guess it's the typical Canadian in me but I don't like having to pay out of my pocket for medical expenses. Anywayz, from 2 minute examination to accounts to pay for second test and then another hour and a half to wait for the two final tests. Of course, the one I had to pay for had to be performed three times because I could not see the focus of the test. I think I failed.

Now to wait until September to see if I go under the knife again. August 08 05

Now that I finished Stand Alone Complex, I may just be a little naughty.

It's all about being In praise of grumpiness but really it's about being annoyed by those extra-chipper, always positive happy people that you want to smash in the head with a blunt force trauma. Oh my, was I a bit harsh there? Shall I mention that I am required to be this person at work? Is it any wonder I can barely make it through a conversation outside of work without wanting to strangle the person next to me? (via jen, are you grumpy too?) August 06 05

Did Sook-Yin Lee just say "kind of dungeons and dragons" when describing concept albums over at DNTO?? August 06 05

Over at waiterrant.net he stands firm to a customer who is obviously being unreasonable. Oh I wish I could do that. The thing about working retail, in a company where they claim always do the right thing is that this really means give them what they want even if they are obviously wrong. It doesn't matter how much money is going to be lost, as long as a positive outcome is claimed by the customer then the company considers it a success. It doesn't matter if the employees look like an ass afterwards or the store suffers because revenue is lowered due to an incident (a refund of $6000 affects the hours of a lot of part timers) they have done what is right even if it was wrong. August 06 05

Sometime in the eighth grade I convince someone I was about five hundred years old and hadn't age since some unremembered cataclysmic event in my life back then. I told him that I would go back to school every so often, since the invention of modern education, to learn what an eighth grader was supposed to know and not know. Every so often I would tell someone purely for the fun of it.

I was never completely sure I convinced him but I saw the twinkle of "it could be true" in his eyes. It was easy to answer any question an eighth grader had with an ambiguous response on historical or geographical situations ("There were only indians here moron, I was in England!") and double-speak on exact details.

I tried it again in college with only minimal success.

"So how did you come over to the new world, smart guy?"

"Easily -- smuggled on board and quickly made a cabin boy by a kindly old ship captain. Horrendous voyage -- bad food, guys dying of scurvy and other things and man, do I love modern toilet bowls !!"

Buy little did I know I could have been a time traveller !! It seems John Titor was one of the wool-pullers who claimed he was on a short jaunt back in time and stopped to blab about it online. Who would believe him, he giggled as he typed. Play with the early 21th century minds. He answered questions and posted pics and diagrams of a time machine. He made predictions, as was expected. And much to my disapointment many of those have not happened, as his predictions were often very precise and not Nostradamusian and ambiguous as all hell. My favourite quote is:

"It is a mistake to give anyone your unwavering belief...but you will find that out yourself in 2005." August 06 05

We will ignore the fact that I have a milk crate full of jewel cases because when someone wants a copy of a cd i make them a paper cd case. thanks for the reminder freckle.

It came out today, the last box / DVD of Stand Alone Complex episodes. This is the only anime DVD that I have deemed worthy enough to buy it full price every month it comes out. I am a huge fan of it's parent movies (Ghost In The Shell 1 & 2) and cannot wait to get access to the second series.

I always say that this series is for the serious geek/nerd in people. It has deep complex issues coupled with a detailed understanding of technology and politics. The underlying theme of sentient technology and the presence of souls just adds to a good action romp.

Why do extra special limited edition Teeshirts always come in Big Boy size? And why not put the above logo on the front and the series logo on the back? You don't have to advertize to me as I already spent the money.

August 04 05

OK, this confoodles me. It's a post from the BlogHer conference and it seems to be bemoaning the male dominance in A-List bloggers. First off, is there really a sustainable A-List of blogging these days? How is it determined? And I don't mean based on page rankings on someone's software. When I started blogging, you could quickly define the blogger A-List because just about everyone was reading them, using the links they posted and continuing their conversations in your own blog.

"Heather Champ talked about this this that that today and I thought..."

The other thing is, do people really care about the A-List bloggers anymore? Is it really desirable to be on a list of blogs often read? This contemporary world of blogging has diversified and divided blogging into a thousand audiences, no longer just Bloggers. People read for weird links, techie stuff, personal annecdotes, child raising, comedy, pop culture, toys, shopping, etc. If you write for one of those audiences and you write interesting stuff then you are likely to be on their A-List. I may be naive but I don't think male or female matters. If Cory Doctorow came out tomorrow and admitted that for the past year, Boing Boing was actually written by a female partner while he was busy writing and promoting his books, I don't think it would change things. Would it?

Hmmm, and for the first time since I re-launched this site I will give linky love. "So Martine said that that that and I said this this this." August 03 05

I mentioned not too long that I once saw myself as an untapped writer. It is not so much an ego stroking idea but a feeling that there is a strange, non-typical, possibly post-modern novel lurking behind my eyelids. Something like I imagine Underworld to be.

These feelings come out in me during times like this when some sort of internal displeasure has captured me. Today I am bloated and in pain, gas trapped inside me like a Hindenberg about to ignite. It hurts but it distracts me from the usual demonic badgerings of my not quite schizophrenic voices. Today I am not being bothered to wash dishes, sweep floors, greet customers, expand my mind, learn things, find a fulfilling job, etc. My mind is giving me time to feel better even if the Stress Tanar'ri is lurking in the background.

I still find it strange that the novel I can imagine myself writing is from a space so far outside my everyday mindspace. It would not be all that fantastical and it would be far more political than I will ever be. It would have ramifications and meaning for life and existance. There would be no elves or dragons or cyberpunk samurai but lots of cigarette smoking dilettantes, country-music listening philophy professors, gas station attendants, librarians, hitchhikers, pet store browsers, knitters, chicken farmers, etc. August 03 05

It is a book about an ape brighter than most who teaches us about our own world. He is called Ishmael.

I haven't been by Easternblog in a crocodile's age. Nice masthead !! Oh, it's a theme. Still, nice choice...

THE 1 SECOND FILM is more about the producers, executive producers and associate producers than it is about the one second film.

Here is the teeshirt folding video that I use, now that I can categorize.

I do so love Collages and the mistaken impression of, "I could do that" that it gives me.

I have been with Dreamhost since I got my island domain name. They are pleasantly informal in their dealings. The same can be said for their Blog.

If I ever tire of trying to get my printer to print accurately I can always print from home.

This is definately longer and uses some pondering. Perhaps, rather than calling them Full Posts they should be Ponderings. Not a Bad Idea.

So of course it is politically correct to bash bottled water as it is tres expensive considering what you are getting. There are times when I just buy a Coke instead of a water because the Coke is cheaper. But when do I usually buy water? I want something refreshing and icey cold and I am no where near my fridge. Skip the whole "tap water" idea as my tap water is luke warm at best. But I do keep the empty water bottles, fill them at the tap and place them in the fridge for later use. We also have a Brita pitcher for kittie use as poor lil Balthy gets urinary buildup if he drinks tap. But other than that, I will never be the one with a box of bottled water in the storage room and a fridge full of them. August 02 05

I have been noticing something. The original intent of the Full Post vs the Link Fodder was that I would have obvious deliniation between those times when I am tossing off a link with little commentary versus the times I had more (and usually more personal connection) to say about the link or no-link. But I have noticed that I can run-on in my "little to say" or I can not say much on a full post. For example, based on my own criteria I should change the previous post to Link Fodder as it is not really that long nor is it meant to be comment worthy.

Hrrrmmmmm. August 02 05

I had thought that the fun mover that Joey was dealing with might be Boris the Mover. It seems someone else has blogged about the real Boris the Mover. And she posts a followup -- alot of us are being annoyed by Boris.