Says the Guardian: Edinburgh residents reject c-charge plan.
Och well, their loss. I still think the best thing to come out of Edinburgh is the train to Glasgow …
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Where were you when you heard that Hunter S. Thompson was dead?
8:22 this morning, on the bus to Toronto airport.
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cycling madly
post ten items to Freecycle Toronto — get 60+ responses in under five minutes. Meep!
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Strindberg and Helium
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stewart + moleskine = teh d33p d00d
I sort-of needed a notebook, and well, it might as well be a moleskine. No, I’m not falling for the hype that this will make me write like Chatwin or Hemingway. No, I haven’t numbered the pages, either. It’s just a notebook. It was about the same price as the others I was looking at, so if the hipster cred comes free, I’m all for it. And they have wind turbines in their catalogue, too.
I got it at Essence du Papier (caution! blank website) in the Toronto Dominion Centre. They have nifty fountain-pen stuff there too, like Herbin inks. I also saw a decent selection at B. Sleuth & Statesman, Inc. in the Exchange Tower. They too have things to transport the pen nerd to happiness.
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sleep-in friday
Aargh. Catherine woke me up with, “Did you mean to sleep in until 6:30?”
The answer to that one’s no. I mean, I now know I can get out the house in less than half the time I usually do, but that’s not to say I enjoyed it.
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So I’m a word nerd …
And consequently, I love this: Online Etymology Dictionary
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Happy Kyoto Day!
It’s a very small and inadequate thing, but that journey can’t be started without the first step.
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Well, that was painless …
I’ve updated to WordPress 1.5. Dig the slowness.
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Don’t try this at all: Microwave Storm In A Teacup
Made my usual coffee in the office today; mug of water in the microwave for 2:34, and a couple of tablespoons of Alternative Grounds sustainable, organic Costa Rican waiting in the Mug Mate. I didn’t think much of the fact that I had about 2/3 of my usual liquid level in the mug, and threw the filter in anyway.
A couple of seconds of extreme frothing over later, I realised this was not so smart. I’d superheated the water, and the grounds and mesh of the filter were providing excellent bubble nucleation sites. Apart from having to mop up very weak coffee from a very wide area, no harm was done. I certainly didn’t come anywhere near burning myself.
Snopes’s article on the microwave boilover urban legend is pretty good, despite the noxious popups.
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new lemon jelly!!!!!!!!!1111111111!!
The new Lemon Jelly CD, ‘64–‘95, is fantastic. It even has CanCon; William Shatner on the last track.
LJ haven’t lost their sense of humour. According to their fan site, they’re playing St Kilda. I’m sure the puffins will love ’em.
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CIC Canada | Citizenship Applications
Looks like I might need these soon: CIC Canada | Citizenship Applications
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Heeee’s the maaaaan with the goooolden guuuuun…
Goldfinger, as you’ve never heard it before; on banjo: Gold Finger — Peter Stampfel (live, MP3).
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MP3: Robyn Hitchcock: Demos and Rough Sketches – October 1990
Fantastic tracks, many of which I’d never heard of before: Robyn Hitchcock: Demos and Rough Sketches – October 1990.
This will only be up for a week or so, as there’s only so much disk space a man can have.
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When astroturfing a blog, don’t do it from the office …
Ah, the Grocery Gateway/Longo’s buyout debacle. I thought it was but a distant memory until I received this comment to the blog. Here it is, in its raw, uncommented, unedited form:
Author : Bob C (IP: 206.186.239.130 , mail.longos.com)
E-mail : mephistopholes_826@hotmail.com
URL :
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=206.186.239.130
Comment:
I have been ordering from Grocery Gateway throughout the entire mess, and they have really improved. Finally I can get all that I need, on time, and in reasonably good condition. What they need is to carry all the products on Longos stores (Longos is excellent) and debit.Look at the posting address: 206.186.239.130, aka mail.longos.com. Yeah, that’d be a Longo’s employee trying to be teh smrt d00d and pretending to be a loyal, and above all not-in-any-way-related-to-Longo’s, customer.
Jings, what do corporate lackeys have for brains these days?
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Catherine’s Favourite Pedestrian Crossing
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RIP Talk Energy
I haven’t heard a peep out of Talk Energy since 25 January, so I’m afraid to say it must have disappeared. The site no longer resolves for me. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. I wish Darrin well with his next (current?) project.Oops, spoke too soon. Talk Energy has started resolving again. It’s just that their RSS feed was broken.
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personal BND today
Catherine and I are trying to have a Buy Nothing Day today.
