September 2008
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It's an Egyptian kind of day...
Today’s links of the day:
A friend of mine went to a lecture this weekend on ancient Egyptian boat building. It’s actually quite interesting once you get past the mistaken notion that you don’t need boats in the desert. Of course, when I mistakenly conjured said notion, I wasn’t thinking about, like, the Nile River or the Red Sea. Sometimes, my brain goes...
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“What if the ‘Hokey Pokey’ really is what it’s all about?”
– This has been your “Deep Thought” of the day.
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Uh... I actually thought Mr. Adams wrapped things... →
So, I have just this minute (literally!) found out that Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl, has been hired by Penguin to “finish” the “ridiculously inappropriately named” Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. I, for one, was pretty sure it was already complete.
For those of you playing along at home (Spoilers Ahoy!) we last left Arthur Dent … well, he was...
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Now with comments!
I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for the ability to give me a bit of my own medicine. Now you can, thanks to Disqus, a brilliant comment engine that replaces the comment engine in your blog (or in Tumblr’s case, allows for comments in the first place). The idea is to allow for cross-blog commenting, a very Web 2.0 idea that would allow me, for example, to subscribe to...
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WatchThe Bloor Cinema is, often, an awesome place to watch a movie. Not the biggest screen or the best sound. But, usually, a place to see unusual fare that gets missed or hasn’t been played on a big screen in years.
The latter was the case last night as the cinema had a Coen brothers double bill: Miller’s Crossing and The Big Lebowski. Both are personal favourites of mine (especially...
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“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
– Anthony Burgess
…Yeah, that sounds about right.
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Obama vs. McCain ... the issues as they see them. →
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My abandoned Vox blog... a testament to failed... →
I started this blog when I had decided to move from Toronto to Vancouver. I posted twice, got distracted, then decided not to move. Still, it was a good idea at the time.
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The commute is getting me down
I like to complain and complaining about the TTC is among my favourite complaint-related pasttimes. See, the way I see it, living in Toronto should mean that I can get anywhere I need to go in a reasonable amount of time (ah, there’s the rub!) without having to use a car. As anyone who has tried to do so in this city can attest, that is just not feasible.
Take, for example, my daily...
