Off to the Ex we went, on a fine cloudy and cool weekday. M, having been last year with my dad and me, was in pursuit of two things: 1.
Author: Robyn
‘Struth.
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Books that changed things
Mighty Girl’s blog post Eight Books That Changed Things For Me got me thinking. Thinking, really, less about what books have changed things for me than whether it was far
Lore Sjöberg on World of Warcraft
I don’t play WoW (Civilization’s always been my timesucking computer game). But Lore does: World of Warcraft‘s developers have mastered the unholy art of in-game bribery. They have discovered that
Book: The Ghost Map
I just listened to the unabridged audiobook of Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map: The story of London’s most terrifying epidemic, and how it changed cities, science and the modern world.
Yessssss!
It’s a jetpack! The Martin jet pack can, in theory, fly an average-sized pilot about 30 miles in 30 minutes on a full 5-gallon (19-litre) tank of petrol. (BBC) A
On being Canadian
Some random quotes on Canadianness… Quotation of the Day for June 22, 2008 “Canadians and Americans are indistinguishable. The only way to tell them apart is to make this statement
Ripple (in memory of Jerry Garcia)
The summer Jerry Garcia died, I was working at a daycamp in a conservation area outside Stouffville. Once each session some of the kids slept over at camp. I was
When you consider something like death
Quotation of the Day for April 7, 2008 “When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like
If you haven’t already–
Go give iTunes and Joss your $5.97:
Dusk, defined
Dusk, defined Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. I was amused by these signs (there was more than one of them) in a North Vancouver park’s parking lot. Since they’ve told us
A snorkel, a bucket, a kid, an afternoon
A snorkel, a bucket, a kid Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. It’s just a bucket. There’s nothing in there to keep one’s attention for hours and hours on several successive days.
Progress!
Day 2: West wall Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. We apparently made the appropriate obeisances to the kitchen gods, because some otherwise massively overbooked installers — they are all massively overbooked,
Of record collections and cabinetry
Quotation of the Day for June 30, 2008 “It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t
Larval kitchen
Kitchens, at least, ours, have a larval form, in which they appear in vast numbers (159, to be exact) of bags and boxes:
Can’t get much shorter than that without LOLspeak
LIT 101 CLASS IN THREE LINES OR LESS. 1984 WINSTON: Don’t tell the Party, but sex is way better than totalitarianism. EVERYONE: Surprise! We’re the Party. WINSTON: Oh, rats. They’re
What can evolution tell us about one-night stands?
According to the BBC and a bunch of other coverage of a study published in Human Nature, it tells us that women aren’t as likely as are men to enjoy
Peter Pan
Peter Pan Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. M’s first dance recital. We were a little nervous, since she hadn’t done such a thing before and only recently ceased bursting into tears
This is not a drill
Cool wand!
(via the lovely Melle) A GenX call to arms against Millenials. One need look no further than the local newsstand to see the favoritism the Millennials have received. Whereas Generation