Allegra Rivett Sloman's blog

Flying with vultures.  A retweet from Bill Gibson.  http://vimeo.com/25229363

http://www.allblackshop.com/media/catalog/product/cache/4/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/a/b/ab-face-tee.jpg   My coworker just got back from NZ.  He said he saw it hanging in the shop and the sweet and thoughtful expression made him think of me.   BWA HA HA!  

Loo Loo Loo Loo Loo – New technology for advertising in urinals.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15923438

There’s a congregational meeting AND I have to open, so it is going to be a long morning.

When candles are in short supply, or you don’t really want to have your age on your cake, here’s a neat dodge. http://www.mathsisfun.com/binary-decimal-hexadecimal-converter.html First, convert the birthday of the person to binary from decimal, using the handy converter above. Second, light ONLY the candles showing as one.  So, for my last birthday (53) you put [...]

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Dog ‘drives’ motor home.

It felt a couple of times like the house was going to come off its foundation.  I have the draftiest and noisiest room in the house, so it was pretty incredible.  Also, not much sleep.

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I earnestly hope everything comes out okay.    

Some things that happened that I didn’t mention. Lots of practicing, maybe a new song.  It will emerge from its cocoon eventually I s’pose. Straightening out some songwriting stuff. Working on the December 4 homily. Lots of hanging out with Katie, which was marvellous.  And is. She got VERY drunk for her birthday but managed [...]

God almighty.  I was two hours later and a bit than I expected getting onto the ferry.  The weather was foul and my tires are bald, and crossing the Alex Fraser the wet snow on the two tall bridge pylons was letting go in percussive little chunks.  The first pylon dropped what felt like many [...]

The creator of the Wire mocks authority.

mOm is going to start making them as soon as pOp’s up.  The trip up Island is cancelled.  We’re going to have a quiet, pleasant day. The weather is very very cold and windy.

This is from 11 years ago. How much, how little has changed. You’re half way through a meeting before you realize you’re in the wrong one. You know there is test equipment around, you just don’t know where it is or who’s using it. All the available power supplies are broken. (What do we make [...]