Little chickadee

August 5, 2003

I just took my dog for a walk on yet another perfect Island day. As I said a couple of days ago in “Timewarp buzz,” the weather here is so even and temperate that it seems almost to make life cartoonish: thrills and chills are suspended, then banished to another place — it’s all just […]

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Mitochondrial

August 4, 2003

It’s too bad I’m such a techno-peasant. My 9-year old daughter had to write out the HTML command that allows one to make links in blog entries (up to then I had been using the “shortcuts” that are built into this software, but it’s actually much faster to type the HTML command & copy & […]

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Control

August 4, 2003

Via Dawn’s site, a pointer to an article in The Nation by Naomi Klein, Canada: Hippie Nation? Klein writes about Canada’s new cutting-edge laws on gay marriage and legalized drugs, and that this is suddenly making Canada — long the boring white-bread north-of-the-border silent partner of the US — world-famous, particularly since our liberalism stands […]

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Kissable mug

August 3, 2003

I don’t know how Teresa Nielsen Hayden finds these nuggets, but Making Light has done it again with a prize pointer to what she calls “particles”: this one is entitled A Swedish practical joke, and it confirms my suspicion (in yesterday’s Timewarp buzz) that too much daylight will finally fry your brain — and put […]

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In Sooke

August 3, 2003

Frederique and Sinclair Philip of The Sooke Harbour House are hosting an art auction and tea today from 1-4 p.m. to benefit the Women in the Woods. What a great idea: a linkage of sustainable economic and agricultural activity, site-specific tourism (vs. 3rd world-manufactured “disney” style doo-dads flogged downtown to the tourists), local art, and […]

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Timewarp buzz

August 2, 2003

Living north of the 49th parallel means long, long summer days. Come to think of it, I don’t actually live very far north since Victoria must be slightly below the 49th. This is my first full year back here, however, and sometime in June I noticed that I was increasingly out of my mind: buzzy, […]

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According to the laws

August 1, 2003

Warren Kinsella‘s July 30 (make that Aug.1) entry is a biting commentary on fundamentalists’ interpretations of Leviticus and the supposedly unlawful nature of same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, the Vatican is in the news, urging Catholics to oppose same-sex unions. This has one Canadian bishop bugling in the cavalry and proclaiming that Jean Chretien (who is Catholic) […]

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She’s back

July 31, 2003

Boy, I’m slow. Halley facts = Halifax!

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Raed’s at the Guardian, but where is Halley?

July 30, 2003

What happened to Halley’s Comment? Blogspot says “not found”…?

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Snow in summer

July 30, 2003

As I type, I’m getting a sense of what it must be like to be strafed by military aircraft. For some unfathomable reason, there’s a display of the Snowbirds just over my roof and somewhat to the south — Jesus!, here they come again, it seems about 100 metres over my head! They are so […]

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