scruss
scruss.bsky.social
scruss
@scruss.bsky.social
aka Stewart Russell: hairy old Scottish nerdy git living in Toronto
"Yeh, no-one will miss that red tile at all"
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Nice!
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Classic Sesame Street animation - O for Orange
YouTube video by sawing14s
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November 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“Of course my scanty life philosophy, as you suspected all along / Is actually based on lines from songs …” — Serafina Steer, "Disco Compilation"
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Especially with so many Canadian house hippos around
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I doubt they ever will. The last interaction I had with CBC's web team did not inspire confidence
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
And it was a good one, too. 600 dpi edge to edge. Could scan to SD card , which doubled as a Samba share.

The EcoTank's scanner is not bad. Way better than the one on Brother all-in-ones, which return terrible quality JPEGs no matter what scan setting you use.
November 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Good to know. I have one of these, which doesn't quite replace the WF-7520 I had before. The WorkForce was the size of a small bus and quite often had blocked printheads, but an A3 duplex scanner was not to be sneezed at
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
CBC news "My Local" web page today says ... it's Ottawa!
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
no sudden noises, or he'll ink the place!
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
metrolinx claim that 5 might open this year.
I claim that metrolinx might be full of shit.
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I love this so much that I made a reproduction of the pointing finger sign at 0:23 ...
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I think you'd have to pass it through an additional low-bandwidth filter to make it sound crappy enough for real MoH.

I will admit that I worked at a place where it was fairly common to call the conference call line if you wanted some focus time and needed people not to call you
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Linked to this years ago, and people were like "phht, whatever". I'm glad people like it
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
one of them asked, faux innocently, "Does Scotland even play football?" ... then ran away.
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I have tried to explain this to Argentinian friends. They remain (rightly) mystified
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
and has nothing on the Jamaican patty roll, which is basically like putting a Cornish pasty in a bread roll
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM