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Mmmm.
This has been a weekend of good food. Last night for dinner we made pizza — a parmesan and romano flatbread with pesto, bosc pear slices, caramelized onions and Brie. Everything was just the right proportion, the pear softened up just enough in the oven, and the pesto was just oily enough to make it […]
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Fuzzy Freddy Fox
Fuzzy Freddy, originally uploaded by Rob Lee. An Ask Metafilter thread pointed out this neat Flickr set of photos of a people-friendly fox that’s been visiting someone for a while. So cute!
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Drrrrrp. Grawnk?
Nggghhaahhh!Grrr arrr Rum and Monkey.
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Digital music at home
I think it’s time for me to address my home music situation the right way. I bought a couple of new CDs last night (Panic at the Disco’s A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, which was disappointingly radio-pop-ish — I think I listened to the wrong tracks in the store — and the new Belle […]
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Who listens to what music?
I should know better. This month’s Red Hat Magazine had a feature on Fedora Core 5, the latest release of their leading-edge Linux distribution. I’ve been running Fedora Core 3 on my laptop (Dell D600) for a while now, and since FC3 is now only receiving maintenance updates from Fedora Legacy I figured it would […]
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bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon
mendel: Ugh, this spinach salad is not good mendel: spinach, chicken, tomatoes, mushrooms. should be good, right? BUT mendel: it is really a BACON SALAD with SPINACH Halfjack: WHY DO YOU HATE BACON mendel: not only does it have lots of bacon in it, the included dressing is SWEET AND SOUR BACON mendel: >_< mendel: […]
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New laptop bag (and cheap!)
I have a small confession to make: even though I go on about fashion at times, I’ve been carrying around my laptop in a default laptop case for the last little while. That just wouldn’t do, so I started shopping around for another. I needed something that had a handle on top, and I didn’t […]
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Counting is hard!
From an article in today’s Ottawa Sun, about the election of the Speaker of the House of Commons (the Liberals are the opposition party; the Conservatives have a minority government): The fact that the Speaker is a Liberal is significant because it could tip the balance of power in the minority Parliament. Since the Speaker […]