What the Canadian Football League should do.| blog.hayman.net
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What the Canadian Football League should do. I enjoyed the first episode of this podcast with Davis Sanchez, Milt Stegall and Luke Willson … www.youtube.com/watch - three smart, opinionated guys, at least two of whom know the CFL pretty well. I appreciated their perspectives. But …. ex pro football players are not the ones buying the majority of the tickets in a gate-driven league. Football experts are not the main ones you need to get to come to the games. There aren’t enough of them t...| #haymanSplaining
FIrst impressions after getting fitted for hearing aids. How …| blog.hayman.net
A 2012 Malaysian poster leads me on a quest to learn who …| blog.hayman.net
In 1986 UW Courier Alumni Magazine editor Chris Redmond, …| blog.hayman.net
Tongue Light (App Store link coming soon. this is a placeholder for the required tech support / privacy page.) Tongue Light is a simple iPhone app that uses the front-facing camera on the phone to detect if your tongue is sticking out; once your tongue is out more than halfway, it will turn on the torch light on the back of the phone and light up the screen - and, optionally, play a sound. Tap the screen for some settings. You can choose whether sticking out your tongue turns on/off the torch...| #haymanSplaining
Why exactly did I wind up writing an article for the UC …| blog.hayman.net
In which I learn signals used to control locomotive …| blog.hayman.net
This came across Twitter today - apparently, air horns are going to be restricted at Montreal Alouettes home games. Hallelujah, many CFL fans immediately thought. As someone who used to lead a group of horn-toting CFL fans at Argo games, I have thoughts too. AIR HORNS NO MORE There will be less noise at Alouettes games at Percival Molson Stadium, no matter how enthusiastic the spectators are. They will no longer be allowed to bring air horns inside. - @kevenbreton via @iciradiocanada#CFL#LCF#...| #haymanSplaining
You don’t need to read this, but I hope someone from …| blog.hayman.net
Re-evaluating our overly specialized nonstandard furnace| blog.hayman.net
One more Steve Jobs story, not as good as the previous one, …| blog.hayman.net
All about the Argos fight song. Sing along with the bouncing …| blog.hayman.net
in the Toronto Star today This Toronto Star article asks if it’s rude to recline your seat on the plane. I already know I’m not going to enjoy reading the article or the responses. There will be a contingent of people who feel it is their right to recline, that they own the seat AND the air space behind it, and your comfort is no concern of theirs. on NPR 19 years ago I said my piece on NPR years ago. Here’s the interview on NPR from nineteen years ago. You can read the transcript, or l...| #haymanSplaining
Previous post gets a hundred thousand views. What? Huh? And …| blog.hayman.net
The polls are still open in today’s Federal Election, but we can share some early results, based on data from elections.ca . Today, voters in 343 ridings can choose from 1,959 candidates, from Justin Abando (NDP, Niagara West) to Sameer Zuberi (Liberal, Pierrefonds–Dollard). I applaud them all for participating in our democratic process. It takes a lot to put yourself out there. Longest Riding Name: Côte-du-Sud-Rivière-du-Loup-Kataskomiq-Témiscouata Shortest Riding Name: (Tie) Ajax; Vi...| #haymanSplaining
#travelpoetry Three weeks in, and now we need a Bus to take us to Narita. Things being equal, I think I’da Rather flown out of Haneida. If you’re flying to Japan, Think about your travel plan. Cruising out of Yokohama? Avoid a travel melodrama. Want to see a baseball game? Check location of the same. Giants/Dragons at the dome, Not near Narita’s aerodrome. Fortunately they have trains, To your hotel, out by the planes, But NRT? or HND? You really should think carefully.. Air Canada flie...| #haymanSplaining
They say travel is broadening. So here’s a brief list of some of what I learned after three weeks in Japan and Korea. Will add more as I think of it. toilet seats are highly engineered and if you can’t read the Korean or Japanese instructions, just push some random buttons but be prepared for a jolt in a kind of personal area QR codes are everywhere for everything. Some blogger said that anything in Japan that might conceivably require a reservation, does. True! You needed a reservation (...| #haymanSplaining
Very interesting article in the Atlantic about the effects the tariffs are having, on one farmer in particular in New York, who was surprised to learn that HE was responsible for paying the tariff, not his Canadian supplier. I am sorry that people like this farmer are getting caught up in this insanity, but I hope everybody quickly realizes who pays tariffs. It’s not the foreign supplier. It’s the American purchaser. Excerpt - Last month , Nicholas Gilbert received a delivery of grain for...| #haymanSplaining
We went to the Jays game on the weekend. I was curious to see how the supposed hundreds of millions in upgrades to the Skydome are playing out. One thing I did notice is that the scoreboard has been embiggened significantly. Take a look at this visual onslaught, viewed from our seats in the 500 level. Suppose this is your first baseball game, or you’re only a casual fan. I have a question for you. What’s the score? It sure is buried on the screen. here it is - of course it’s 9-5 for Bal...| #haymanSplaining
OK, this commercial for the VW Buzz and this one for DoorDash are both in such heavy rotation on TV these days that I cannot get these stupid songs out of my head. I like the VW Buzz one and I cannot stand the DoorDash one. So, naturally, the thing to do is to research what songs they’re using. Are You Having Any Fun? VW is using Elaine Stritch’s cover of Are You Having Any Fun?, which - amazingly - was originally a Tommy Dorsey number. Here’s a sliiiightly different version. I like thi...| #haymanSplaining
scene: Hamilton’s Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair, check-in last night. Students are setting up their displays and then visiting us at the Safety Desk for a followup consult. The following is actual dialogue. Only the names have been changed but you can probably guess who one of them is. Student: “Hi, I’m ready for a safety check.” Safety Check In Desk Guy: “OK! You’ve come to the right place! What is your project number, please?” Student: B-17 brief pause Safety Check In ...| #haymanSplaining
Found a receipt. Noted for posterity. In 1993 I paid $1225 + tax for a one gigabyte hard drive. 1993 At the time I was launching my only mildly successful career with Steve Hayman And Associates (total number of associates: 0) visiting a financial client in downtown Toronto doing some consulting work for their system of NeXT computers, and it was convenient to carry a 1 gigabyte external SCSI hard drive back and forth. How else would you do it? Geez. I thought I was living in the future. Look...| #haymanSplaining
I signed up for a paid Wired subscription - because they’re doing some good reporting lately - and to my surprise, they sent me a sheet of laptop stickers. I cannot personally imagine any circumstance where I’d put one of these stickers on my laptop, but the thought was nice.| #haymanSplaining
The one email I ever got from Steve Jobs, and it said …| blog.hayman.net