Steve Hayman 🇨🇦

Whether to pay to download a movie that you're sure you already bought on DVD but cannot find?

Be it Hereby Resolved that All Those who Like or Share This Message Shall be Deemed to have Exchanged a Warm and Thoughtful Holiday Card with All Others who have Also Liked or Shared This Message.

So say we all.

Remind me why some coaches have asterisks.

I made the mistake of being modestly excited when Keith Pelley came back, but that excitement was misplaced. What is going on? Just a constant series of blows to the declining numbers of Argos faithful.

And I'm surprised that it's still called "Hamilton Stadium". (Or maybe that was the anniversary plan.)

Enjoying Als/REDBLACKS like a true #CFL fan whose own team has already been eliminated and who really has no rooting interest in this one.

also enjoying leftover turkey.

today i am thankful.

i see that slogan and I want to ask - wait, what about the sidelines? the goal line? the dead line?

Today's CFL rule changes make me sad.

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@lincmad.bsky.social Hi Linc. Longtime fan of your awesome area code resources. Tried to contact you via email to ask permission to use one or two of your maps - but the email bounced with some server issue. Can I ask you via bluesky or can you suggest another route? Thanks, Steve

As we start our visit to the beautiful province of Newfoundland and Labrador, we ask ourselves the question every Canadian asks: How come they get TWO dogs and nobody else* gets any?

* yes we are aware of the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. OK then, "hardly anybody else."

The phoniness of movie theatre advertised start times If it says the show starts at 7:30, why doesn’t it …

My collected irritation on the long-standing con game of fraudulent movie theatre start times has boiled over into a blog post.

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Congratulations to Canada's Summer McIntosh for winning gold in the 400-metre individual medley, a challenging event where you have to sing four different songs during the race.

Always had a soft spot for the Jurassic Park movies. The first was released the day my son was born. We took him to see it at age 10 days (at the drive-in!). Went last night to see the latest one, "Jurassic: Whatever" on the Island of Misfit Dinosaurs; there's a vaguely bad guy, some chases… meh.

Preliminary thoughts on hearing aids vs AirPods Pro.

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I'm an expert, of course, I've worn these hearing aids since, um ... yesterday afternoon. It would not surprise you to know that I already have some early uninformed opinions.

Not THAT Steve Hayman, THIS one | #haymanSplaining A 2012 Malaysian poster leads me on a quest to learn who …

On the 13th anniversary of this poster advertising an iPhone programming talk in Malaysia given by me but with a poster photo of a different Steve Hayman, I'm imagining a supergroup.

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You can also go to a small theater in New Hampshire and see John Davidson perform. I'm really tempted. Except for the whole part where it's in the United States.

44 years ago today I appeared on The John Davidson Show. No, really.

if you haven't heard me tell this story a dozen times ...

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Our pool had a new Salt Cell installed today so of course I have been humming "Tainted Love" and I don't expect more than about 25% of the people reading this to think that's amusing

AREA CODE TRIVIA INCOMING

An "Area Code" is technically an "NPA" - Numbering Plan Area.

An NPA whose 2nd and 3rd digits are the same - 800, 888, 855, etc - is an "Easily Recognizable Code" (ERC).

There are 50 possible ERCs, with 14 reserved.

Including 4 just for Canada! 644, 655, 677 and 688.

Happy Annual Day of Feigning Interest in Auto Racing to those who celebrate.

I'm debating writing a blog post about things I've learned recently regarding regular expressions and the Shortcuts app, and that would probably be a good way to get dozens of people to add my blog to their "do not read" list

Furnace Filter Frustration and Further Fun Facts and Findings | #haymanSplaining Re-evaluating our overly specialized nonstandard furnace

Today's furnace adventures, including discovering I had the slightly wrong sized filter, and the sudden need for a new, fancy incompatible thermostat, have caused me enough frustration with Big Furnace that I felt I had no choice but to blog something.

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Said to my wife, "Hey, so I did an experiment - did you ever notice that when you take your phone into the shower it..." and somehow I didn't manage to get past that to explain the purpose or conclusion of the experiment.

Thank you, Marc. So far so good! I have successfully remained retired for almost an entire week.

Thank you. Smaller, more approachable and understandable but definitely less secure, I guess.

OK, at long last, the story of how I once got an email from Steve Jobs saying ‘Great idea, thank you.’

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For years the running joke around here has been "You can say anything you want on your last day at Apple."

My turn.

Goodbye, Apple family. I loved you all. We sure had some fun over the past 32 years, didn't we?

No doubt Interbrew showed up with a big bag of money but the CFL could at least have asked them to choose one of their historic Canadian brands for this.

(I hope Moosehead and other actual Canadian breweries were given a shot.)

Bud Light Canada becomes official beer of the CFL - CFL.ca Bud Light Canada has signed on as the Official Beer of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

This is the best the CFL can do? aaargh. I'm sure you'll tell me it's technically a Belgian owned beer that happens to be brewed in Canada by Canadians, but if there was ever a beer whose positioning seemed to be the opposite of a proud Canadian brand, it'd be Bud Light.

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Further pointless election results:

With 99.93% of polls reporting (75,425 out of 75,479) we can confirm that Ysack Dupont, independent in Carleton, was the only one of 1,964 candidates nationwide to get zero votes.

Fellow Carleton candidate Josph Maw was the only candidate with exactly one vote.