Posts Tagged ‘nova scotia’

A Monday Night Gallimaufry

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Let’s see if we can close some of the myriad tabs I’ve opened in the process of trying to catch up with everything that happened in the non-work world while I was off spending time at the Melbourne office:

I’m quite impressed at the 16-year old (from the city where I did my university days) who [...]

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A Punishing Beverage

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

You know those people who only read one book at a time? I’m not one of them. At the moment I have two novels (one noir detective, one hard SF) on the go in my reading room, a collection of short stories (“M. R. James by way of Lovecraft”) in the bedroom, two books of [...]

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A robot moose walks into a bar…

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

That’s Bullwinkle, the robot moose.
No, seriously. A robot moose.
Apparently the Natural Resources Department here in Nova Scotia uses him to catch people who are illegally trying to bag an endangered species.
I ran into a story today–admittedly a story from a couple of years back–about this, and it just makes me laugh. It’s a short [...]

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Important Local News

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

One of the gadgets on my custom Google homepage is the “Top Nova Scotia News” feed. It displays the three “top” stories for Nova Scotia at any given time.
Usually my eyes scan over the headlines without paying much attention, but lately there have been a rash of headlines that serve to highlight just exactly where [...]

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Climbing The Walls

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

I am completely climbing the walls tonight.
I’ll explain why, but it will take a second, so either throw a pizza in the oven (hi Neil!) and settle down, or else skip along to the next entry.

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