Aside: Blood And Fire
Thursday, December 4th, 2008Also officially on The List: The Salvation Army. (Note to self–remember this for the next time someone starts off on “faith-based initiatives” and public funding.)
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Aside: Recursion.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Today’s recursion giggle: a concept map of concept maps.
Aside: Christmas Is Coming
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008While our family has several Christmas traditions, and these are very meaningful to me, there is also one Christmas tradition that is mine alone, and it brings me a great amount of pleasure. Every year, early in December, the people from Scrumptious Delights have a booth in Halifax as part of one of the Christmas [...]
Aside: Weather
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008I’m glad I wasn’t trying to drive home last week. Especially since my normal routing takes me through the Cobequid Pass at night. On the up side, I missed the normal post-snow power outage (which the girl apparently weathered with no trouble), which means I also skipped the several hours of impotent rage and ranting [...]
Aside: webcomic
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008I expect lots of things from webcomics, but I don’t usually expect to be stopped utterly in my tracks by a one-off strip. Damn.
Aside: Home Depot
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008Well, I guess I’m done shopping at Home Depot. How will I survive with only Piercy’s, Kent, Rona, and dozens of smaller stores?
Aside: CRTC and shaping
Friday, November 21st, 2008And, like clockwork, the CRTC comes out with another decision that favours corporations over the public. What do you expect when the regulatory body is made up of former corporate insiders?
Aside: The start of the avalanche
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008The details of the story might not be all I am hoping for, but seeing a headline that says “Cheney and Gonzales Indicted for Prisoner Abuse” is certainly a step in the right direction. Let’s hope it’s one of the first pebbles in an avalanche.
Aside: Top Songs
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008I’m normally not much for ordered lists, and especially not ordered lists of “favourites”. I tend to break things down into relatively low resolution buckets and am happy with that. For instance, with music I tend to assign a song to one of {Awesome, Good, OK, Tolerable, Terrible, OH MY GOD MAKE IT STOP} and [...]
Aside: Talking To God
Friday, November 14th, 2008So, if someone told me I would enjoy reading a short fiction piece entitled Talking To God, I would be skeptical. If they told me it was found on a site entitled “The Ragged Trousered Philosopher“, I might be more inclined to believe them. And I would have been right to do so. Good piece. [...]
Aside: Late
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008I’m glad I stayed up to hear Obama’s speech. I do have one unresolved question for California at this point: what the hell is up with Proposition H8? California? Hello? You’re letting me down over there.
Aside: They called it
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008I believe I just heard around 52% of Americans and THE ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD breath a huge sigh of relief.
Aside: Nemi II
Friday, October 31st, 2008You may also remember my pleasant surprise at how much I enjoyed Titan’s first collection of Nemi strips. I’ve been reading the strips online fairly religiously since. The second collection of strips also showed up today, and I’m quite looking forward to going through it to see which, if any, of the strips collected in [...]
Aside: Wrightson’s Frankenstein
Friday, October 31st, 2008You may recall me marvelling at some of the images from Berni Wrightson’s Frankenstein portfolio. Well, today I picked up Dark Horse’s new big, beautiful hardcover edition of Frankenstein that’s lavishly illustrated with Wrightson’s images. It is a thing of beauty, and a steal at a $30 retail. There’s a preview online that gives you [...]
Aside: I live in Keystone
Monday, October 27th, 2008You remember when I was making fun of the headline: “Another prisoner mistakenly released in N.S.“? Well, today’s top stories includes this choice headline “Halifax police mistakenly release man before court appearance”. Handsome devil, isn’t he?
Apparently I am living in Keystone.
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