Why I’m lazy on principle

July 29, 2003

Recently, Halley’s Comment served up Rocky Road, and for what it’s worth, I thought it was the perfect Sunday dish. It started somewhere around here, and then some people apparently gave her a hard time about it, but she did it anyway, and had some interesting reflections about it. Opting out — and getting flak […]

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Why I’m not a teetotaler

July 29, 2003

William Gibson has the best by-line for the Pentagon’s scheme to revive democratic participation in current events by creating a futures market in terrorism. He calls it Ender’s Futures Market Terminated. Yes indeed, Ender: I guess science fiction writers always did have the inside track on the gifted, but who would have thought that badly […]

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Balls & Lanterns

July 29, 2003

Davin points to a very funny weird ping-pong game …uh, performance. He calls it Matrixpong. It’s festival-all-sorts in Victoria right now, and last Saturday night was Luminara, followed on Sunday by an antique cars festival. (Victoria is where all good antique cars go when they die: they come here reborn in A-plus shape, unfettered by […]

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Swissematter

July 29, 2003

According to a book review of Elizabeth MacLeod’s Albert Einstein: A Life of Genius in YES Mag; Canada’s Science Magazine for Kids, Einstein “approved the patent for the mold used to make the Toblerone chocolate bar.” (The review is by Reuben Wasser, age 9.) I ask you: did you know that? But, but…: Just two […]

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Ceci n’est pas une affiche des pare-chocs

July 28, 2003

You’ve seen the bumper stickers, I’m sure: “I only listen to what the voices in my head tell me to do”? The bloggy e-version is “I only listen to what the emails tell me to do”: It’s a weird world. Best not ask. B- happy! day

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Saint Uncle

July 25, 2003

I’m still without a computer of my own, instead stealing moments on a borrowed desktop machine. It’s interesting to me to see how dependent I’ve become on my very own direct connection to the internet, on the laptop’s ability to “sleep,” meaning that I can wake it up whenever, by popping open its lid and […]

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Moss Street Paint-in

July 23, 2003

Last Saturday was the annual Moss Street Paint-In here in Victoria. Moss Street is around the corner from my house, so even I didn’t have an excuse not to go. It was a lot of fun: tremendous crowds, the art was a mixed bag (Miles Lowry stood out), and there were a couple of life-moments […]

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Dueling Banjos

July 23, 2003

Teresa Nielsen Hayden points to a very funny “dueling” animation on her site Making Light. Very useful cheering tonic — better than an Apple a day.

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Bad Apple

July 22, 2003

The Mac expert at the computer place finally got back from vacation. It turns out that the motherboard on my iBook is fried. I have no idea what this means, except that it’s going to cost much much more to repair than fixing a VCR, which costs less to repair, but still costs more than […]

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Grrls

July 20, 2003

My last blog entry was almost completely beside the point, and I apologize to anyone who was led even further down the garden path by it. Instead of doing some homework, I assumed that Halley somehow originated the term “girlism,” and if Joel hadn’t mentioned the word grrl, I would never have realized that Halley’s […]

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