I am traveling to Mt Tremblant on the 31st, but hopefully we will be at the Hotel in time to watch the start of LOST season 4 (ABC LOST page).

The past 3 seasons on available on dvd (and bittorrent) and are well worth renting.

If you need a refresher or reminder of all things LOST, check out the Lostpedia.

Is the name of the spikes found on the tail of some dinosaurs, from wikipedia:

The thagomizer, or tail spikes, is an arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tails of particular dinosaurs of the clade Stegosauria, of which Stegosaurus stenops is the most familiar. The tail arrangement is believed to have been a defensive weapon against predators.[1]

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Why can’t we have cool mechanical elephants stomping around Toronto?

From wikipedia:

The Sultan’s Elephant is a show created by the Royal de Luxe theatre company, involving a huge moving mechanical elephant and other associated public art installations. In French it is called La visite du sultan des Indes sur son éléphant à voyager dans le temps (literally, “Visit From The Sultan Of The Indies On His Time-Traveling Elephant”).

The elephant is made mostly of wood, and is operated by over ten puppeteers using a mixture of hydraulics and motors. It weighs 42 tons, as much as 7 African elephants. A replica of the elephant was built in Nantes (France) in 2007, as part of the Machines of the Isle of Nantes permanent exhibition.

Looking for a quick way to burn an ubuntu linux cdrom, I found this quick way of burning an iso image from the command line:


hdiutil burn cdrom-image.iso


Apparently this will also do OS X dmg image files too.

For those like myself who like the command line tools, this is a good one to know about.

The snow started on New Years eve and covered Toronto in a clean white blanket. I eventually shook off my hang over and went out for a walk.

Pictures.