Two other projects and my day job have temporarily distracted me from keeping up with this blog.
As a penance, and a way of quickly knocking out a post, I present some video links that I’ve run across in the course of doing one of those other projects. Each of these can be offered as a [...]
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Well, that’s six years married, and I’m still pretty much completely over-the-moon happy about it.
Of course this is because my wife gets better looking, smarter, funnier, and more dangerous every year, but she still seems to love me, even as I get slower, lazier, balder, and more domesticated each year. I appear to be a [...]
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At least once a week, and often more frequently, a box of books shows up here at the ranch.
I am always as excited as a kid on Christmas, even when I know what’s in the box before I open it.
Sometimes, though, I have no idea what’s in the box, and then I open it and [...]
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your amusement, two quotations which I find myself thinking of entirely too often during the course of my daily employment.
The first is from Mr. Charles Babbage, whom I have ultimately to thank for both my lucrative employment, and also for much of the pain of my existence.
On two occasions [...]
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I have been meaning for a while to write about the fruits of my book-buying excursion while in Melbourne.
In some ways it was a much less fruitful day than I had been hoping, partly because I was feeling a bit delicate on the day I did the rounds of the bookstores–it was my birthday, [...]
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Today’s word-of-the-day comes to us from author Matt Ruff, in a story about his grandfather’s missionary work.
Urwahnfried is a word composed of old German word roots, and means in modern English, “Fulfillment.” Or, more explicitly: “The Place where my Fight for the Highest and Broadest Ideals of Life Came to an End in the Peace [...]
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I don’t think I’ve mentioned here yet the news about oft-mentioned-here Danny Michel and his radio host gig.
The short version is that Danny is going to co-host a radio show with indie rocker and occasional bandmate Emm Gryner on CBC. That’s the two of them in the picture above. The show will focus on cover [...]
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Look at that, citing executive parliamentary privilege as a way to cover up shady partisan shenanigans.
Get some details from shamelessly anti-Harper (and thus, completely Chris-approved) site HarperIndex.ca:
Allan Riddell case contradicts accountability promises, threatens damage
Stephen Harper’s invoking Parliamentary privilege, to avoid testifying in a defamation suit brought against him and the party by long-time Conservative Alan [...]
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I’ve lived in Halifax for a pretty long time now, but there are still lots of things that I just don’t know about the place. There are several things that I used to wonder about, but over time I’ve just stopped noticing them or being curious about them, unless something specifically draws my attention back [...]
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Ever since Amazon.ca opened, I’ve been in a kind of book-buyer’s bliss. The Canadian variant of Amazon has a broader selection than native Chapters, and typically has lower prices–all good stuff.
Even better, though, Amazon.ca put me in a position to leverage my special status as a Canadian lover of books: we can get both American [...]
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Some times the Internet is like an unending river of chaos that just keeps washing all kinds of wild flotsam up on your shores.
How is it possible that in the space of 20 minutes I get pointed to all three of these things?
Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-Catcher After 25 Years’ Experience – A book [...]
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Look, I know there’s no guarantee of them going anywhere–indeed almost the opposite while W has veto power–but seeing legislation in both the House and Senate to close Guantanamo still makes me happy.
It’s about time someone stood up and said of Gitmo that it is “plainly inconsistent with America’s proud legal traditions; it has become [...]
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I know where you think this is going, after reading that headline, and it’s not what you think.
See, Canada is depressed. And our stuff weighs less.
OK, enough with the cuteness: Canada is depressed because during the last ice age a sheet of ice called Laurentide, more than 3km thick, pressed down on the earth’s crust [...]
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Congratulations to my online friend Justine, who just won the second annual Norton Award1 for her Magic Trilogy.
This must be an especially satisfying win for her, since the shortlist for this year was so great. Check it out:
Devilish—Maureen Johnson (Penguin Razorbill)
Magic or Madness—Justine Larbalestier (Penguin Razorbill)
Life As We Knew It—Susan Beth Pfeffer (Harcourt)
Midnighters 2: Touching [...]
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Did I mention that I got a pretty big speeding ticket in the backwoods of Maine (on the “Airline”) while on my way to that session in Boston last month?
Some facts and observations:
This is my first speeding ticket in more than seven years. Hell, I haven’t even been pulled over in more than seven years, [...]
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