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Suddenly I’m high-maintenance.
A few weeks ago at work, my monitor started to misbehave a bit — a loud click, and then a few hours of the screen flicking ever so slightly. It’s an old monitor, a big 21″ Dell CRT, so it’s starting to get a bit long in the tooth. I raised a helpdesk request because […]
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yaaay!
Also, BREAKING NEWS: Candice passed her provincial exams, so she’s now a real, honest-to-goodness massage therapist instead of a slacker student now. Go congratulate her!
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they’re invading our malls
Build-A-Bear Workshop is a chain of stores that let you build your own teddy bear — you pick how stuffed it is, what it wears, its name, that sort of thing. One just opened in the Bayshore Shopping Centre in the west end, so they had a little feature story on the local A Channel […]
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terrorist yard sale
So apparently there was a big domestic terrist bust in Toronto. CNN called them “Al Qaeda-inspired”, which I guess means they weren’t Al Qaeda but they were brown and we don’t know who they were doing it for. Anyhow, lots of fertilizer and plans for lots of boom and they caught them so that’s good. […]
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lizardbreath does not approve
I admit that I like For Better Or For Worse. It’s not a great day-to-day strip as comic strips go, but I’ve been reading it as long as I’ve been reading comics, and since the characters age in real-time and there’s 25 years of complete continuity there (and in part because I’m the around the […]
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I bought an accordion!
Fiore accordion Originally uploaded by mendel. A week or two ago, Candice and I swung by the Ottawa Folklore Centre, the local folk-oriented music store. In the window they had these little toy accordions, and today I went back and picked one up! These little things have a bit of a following online. I’ve never […]
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I have a new food blog!
Candice and I realized recently that we spend an awful lot of time and energy on things food-related: reading and talking about food and wine and restaurants, trying local restaurants, cooking, baking, looking for local merchants, shopping for wine, and so forth, and that there’s a dearth of people talking about food in Ottawa even […]
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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 […]