So Nick & I are learning a new craft: Embroidery. I’m up for just about any new craft (especially one that doesn’t have a huge cash investment required) and Nick wants to learn to add nifty borders to his fighting tunics. As of yet, I kind of suck, but Nick’s attempts have been pretty decent. [...]
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Anti-Olympics? Don’t mind if I do!
February 11th, 2010
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So, the latest trend (and by “latest” I mean I’ve seen various similar complaints about it for the last 7 years — since we lost the stupid vote — but they’ve ramped up recently) is for pro-olympic people to try to tell anti-olympic people to shhh, just have a good time. My general response? No. [...]
But… but…
December 24th, 2009
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Yes, I’m getting a Kindle for Christmas, and yes, I’m very excited. So I’ve been getting the occasional email from Amazon, since it’s already registered to me, and I even bought a book so that when I open it on Christmas afternoon, I can start using it right away. So I wasn’t surprised when I [...]
Now THIS is how you do it.
December 1st, 2009
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Earlier today, Ken Hardie, the communications guy for Translink (as opposed to the guy behind the TransitPolice account, which is media relations for just the Transit Police) posted a link to the follow-up on Twitter about the Suduku-playing driver (a few months ago, a camera phone video of a particular driver in Surrey was uploaded [...]
Not quite the point
December 1st, 2009
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So the other day, I read this post from Darren. Essentially, he wrote a twitter update about a couple of guys on transit who were joking about spray painting all the CCTV cameras. Very obviously to anyone who reads it that it was tongue in cheek, because even people who support CCTV can’t LIKE the [...]
The secret ingredient is “love”
November 23rd, 2009
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If you’re the type of person who’d want to buy me something: If possible, buy me something handmade. I will appreciate it SO MUCH MORE than storebought stuff. The secret ingredient is love. The good kind of love. The kind of love that doesn’t leave a white stain on your blue dress. Yeah, that kind.
Invoking Godwin’s Law
November 1st, 2009
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“Oh my god, that baby has a hitler haircut.” “You should photoshop a little mustache on him.” “Oooh! No, wait… that’s totally not kosher.” “Did you just say ‘kosher’ about putting a hitler mustache on a baby?” “…I’m going to hell, aren’t I?”
What the F*@k was That?
October 28th, 2009
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So, on Monday, Nick asked if I was doing anything on Wednesday night. Well, it’s my usual study night, but other than that… no. So he asked me to set some time aside as he had plans for us. Alrighty then. So I picked him up from work and we wandered along Granville St as [...]
Don’t look now, I’m all verklempt.
October 23rd, 2009
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It’s been an interesting morning at work. I won’t go into it, but let’s just say that I don’t like it when that much negativity is aimed at me, although it’s pretty awesome when I have the employer-sanctioned go ahead to not give in to ridiculousness. So instead, I’m focusing on the awesome. Like Lori’s [...]
Overheard in the office.
September 30th, 2009
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“A cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father who can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake [...]