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Archive for October, 2009

This photograph is entitled “Still Life with Meccano and Human Hair”

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Experiments with ambient noise

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

This is v. cool.

A coyote in a tree

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Amazing. Jeff says one of the regular customers showed up where he works with a moose (dead, dressed and cut in half)  in his truck.  The customer had had one more day on his license to bag one and he found one ten minutes after he parked his truck, which sort of sounds like the [...]

Sir Christopher Lee

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Bonny Halloween news.

I got publicity for the Morrison Creek Lamprey!

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Me happy.

The face of Loki

Friday, October 30th, 2009

No, not my pOp.  This is the dude what be playing it in the Thor movie.

It is with the utmost distaste that I state

Friday, October 30th, 2009

I have paid my Toronto parking ticket. Grr.

Last night I went to a meeting about growth for our church

Friday, October 30th, 2009

But the really fun part was using it as an excuse to take minced moose and biscotti to the minister.

Derailing for Dummies

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Or, how to teach privileged people to win arguments against marginalized people.

This link is for Jeff

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Kitty!

A meditation on cockroaches (also mice)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Prompted by this, which was forwarded by ScaryClown. At the age of 21 I moved to Toronto to marry hubby #1, and since I was moving into a forties-vintage three-story walkup, I also moved in with cockroaches for the first time.

Point form updates

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Katie got the job, she starts today at 9:30 am.  It is ONE 20 minute bus ride from her house.  Unless the traffic is bad, then it’s about half an hour.  Commuting in the GVRD is hellish, so Katie well knows what a good deal this is, especially since her last interview was in North [...]

Noteflight

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I have been looking for on line composition software that didn’t bite a mop, and I think I found it.  Here’s a link to the people who made the software. I’ll report back on how good it is after I try it. Later: Meh.

I bailed on Microsoft when Vista came out

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Nothing that’s happened since has made me change my mind.

Wow. Sometimes the comments are better than the article

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Natalie Portman, rape and vegetarianism. My head’s still spinning.

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