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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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and a yo ho ho
Wow, I haven’t posted in forever. Well, the easiest way to get around that is to post about something, so here you go. So apparently I like rum. I didn’t think I liked rum. I have exactly one childhood memory about rum (and boy, if “childhood memory about rum” doesn’t raise warning flags), except that […]
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Johari personality window
If you know me well or have known me for a while, go contribute to my Johari window, so I can see how my self-assessment compares with others’ assessments of my personality. The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing […]
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hold on, i can look that up
A list of things that I have wondered about while not at home, from the Wikipedia pages in the URL history of my Blackberry: Adult Swim Apple Baseball Citric acid Couscous Dacquoise Lever Little Feat Mortadella Ottawa Praline Tour de France I wonder why I was looking up Little Feat?
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Merry Christmas again!
Ok, so maybe I will post on Christmas Day. Today was great! Candice and I got up early to open presents and have a big breakfast. By coincidence Nyxie and I both got each other iPods — a Shuffle for me and a Nano for her. I have simple play-and-forget for those occasional times I […]
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Merry Christmas!
It’s still Christmas Eve here, of course, but I doubt I’ll be posting for the next few days, so you get it now. I hope you all have a happy Christmas, Chanukah, Festivus, Kwanzaa, or whatever you might do for the next day or two. I got my first Christmas present early — a permanent […]
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Never trust anyone under 30
So as of yesterday I’m in decade number 3. I thought that turning 30 would feel weird, like a loss of freedom or the extra weight of adult responsibility, but while I do sort of feel that I’ve lost an excuse, things feel alright. Much of that is my father’s doing — my parents separated […]
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Ok, this is creepy.
I was playing with Yahoo’s new SiteExplorer last night, browsing through its list of incoming links to my website. All sorts of interesting and less-interesting stuff, and one creepy thing: some guy in Kansas city is using a picture of me as if it were a photo of him on his Blogger profile and on […]