I’m going to the Midwest Banjo Camp this summer! W00t!
(and yes, I’ve set up a Banjo Hangout account. It’s like myspace for banjo nerds.)
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neat, but quite last summer …
Toronto Public Library Finder; nice, but I was so on that game months before …
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can we have more CN strikes, please?
Hey, the GO train was (nearly) on time this morning, and there were plenty of seats!
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whee!
It was the Banjo Special last night. There was much frailing, picking, and whatever it is that Irish Tenor players do.
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I have teh spicy …
I spent too long in Taste! this afternoon, and consequently spent too much on good hot sauce.
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what (if anything) were they thinking?
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an eco-meme you can use
Don’t remember where I read it, but apparently the war in Iraq has cost more than Kyoto-compliance would have done for the whole USA. Waytah go, Geordie!
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first LED
Saw my first retail LED domestic bulb today – $14 at Rona. Looked more like a novelty than anything else, but it did have a stated 100,000 hour life…
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this is not graph paper
The PhotoSmart has an ability to print various ruled paper forms: lined, todo lists, and graph paper. But what they print for graph paper is merely squared paper:
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gtabloggers 2nite!
The GTA Bloggers will be meeting tonight on the second floor of Paupers Pub on Bloor, just east of Bathurst at 6:30 pm. Be there, or not.
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GO Transit, you suck!
I discovered last week that GO don’t have a central announcement system. That means that unstaffed stations like Kennedy and Exhibition always leave their passengers in the dark. Plus, the e-mail announcement system only alerts you if the train is more than 30 minutes late. I think by that time I would have gone home.
No sign of that train yet …
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self portrait as mobile phone
(found while clearing up old files.)
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scrummy scran from the HAL Burgers man
I really like HAL Burgers (244 Adelaide). Good burgers, clever decor and decent beer. Not the cheapest burger I’ve ever had, but one of the better ones.
Update, August 2007: oh no, it’s closed! Notice of Distress on doorway dating back to July, so again I’m the last to know.
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oh dear …
I have discovered:
Laywines Pens and Organizers
25 Bellair Street
Toronto, ON M5R 3L3(416) 921-7131
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everything’s feedbacking, can’t you hear it?
Best present for Groundhog Day ever – the Apples in stereo‘s New Magnetic Wonder.
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Groundhogs, it’s your day!
For Groundhog Day, here’s my gallery of Groundhogs. It’s a shame that Gallery 2 mangled the thumbnails, oh well.
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“It will feel strange …”
Leo Marks, on hearing of an old couple who died within days of one another, and were buried together:
It will feel strange
Not to nudge you
Or to talk to you
Or keep you warm
When you’re lying there
Only a few feet away
Or perhaps even less
But we shall get used to it in time
Of which we’ll have plentyWe always treasured silences
In which we said everything
We shall continue to treasure them
And to say everything
Throughout the longest silence of all.— from Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s Story 1941-1945.
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Woody’s gone
Forrest S. “Woody” Stoddard passed away last week. He was a pioneer of wind energy in the USA, first working on the UMass Wind Furnace, then dedicated his life to the industry.
Without people like Woody Stoddard, there wouldn’t be large scale wind energy today.
