| CORY! |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|12:41 pm] |
In case you haven't heard, Cory Doctorow is in town today. This evening we'll launch his new book, Makers, at the Merril Collection. The Merril is at 239 College, just east of Spadina, on the third floor of the Lillian Smith Library. Cory will get started at 7pm, but his events are usually SRO, so come a little earlier if you want a seat.
If you can't make the event but would like us to get a copy of Makers personalized for you, you have until 5pm today to let us know. But if you miss that deadline, don't despair: we'll make Cory sign lots of copies for the store. |
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| Word to the wise |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|10:32 am] |
Note to all those applying for research grants: Do NOT misspell the name of the library that contains the manuscripts you propose to use the grant to examine. |
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| The Great Onion Massacre of '09 |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|10:35 am] |
(Read that aught-nine...)
The onions have to be cured in a dry(ish) location for 2 weeks before they are put into storage. They started out on the deck to get their first couple of days, but we brought them into the house yesterday. I suggested that we needed to spread them out overnight each night, because there are too many of them to sit in the piles (if they are too close together they will mold.) When I came up from tucking the kids in last night, there were onions spread out ALL OVER the sun room. Having been randomly spread out, they looked for all the world like a battlefield tapestry.
The garlic was also planted, making it an all-allium day... actually, perhaps it was just a day of things that start with A, since the boys also bottled a batch of beer and a batch of wine, and put on another beer.
Now the wee one "needs" youtube. |
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| The morning coffee goes visual |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|06:24 am] |
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Originally Posted at Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog.
Let’s hope it’s not too abysmal. We have a dog with a mustache-making chew toy, the scubacraft submersible, oddly shaped Chinese knotweed, a giant pigeon statue in London, and — of course — a webcomic.
Click on any of them to be taken to where they came from.
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| V - Where Genre Actors Live Again! |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|05:02 pm] |
Still not quite sure if I like V or not, so I'll finish watching the first four (and then we find out if we're getting any more). But boy, it's a second (or third) home for genre actors.
We've got Inana and Wash from Firefly (both playing Visitors), Juliet from Lost (FBI mom), Supergirl from Smallville (blond teen hot Visitor), Tom from The 4400 (the priest), and last night Tori from Battlestar Galactica (another FBI agent). Am I missing anyone?
So we need some guest spots from Star Trek and Stargate actors, and now that Dollhouse has been cancelled we can throw in a few from there as well. |
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| Toronto Trash |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|02:40 pm] |
What Do I Do With... is a web app for determining how to properly dispose of your junk. The only problem I have is that it seems to fail for appartments - it'll tell me how to dispose of electronics at curbside for houses and residential voer commercial, but not for appartment buildings. Also, their list of waste depots only has addresses, no maps. I can look it up, but having them show me where they are would simplify things.
I think we're up to four or five dead computers in our place. Space is beginning to be an issue. |
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| 11/11 |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|08:12 am] |
Everyone Sang
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on - on - and out of sight.
Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror
Drifted away ... O, but Everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.
-- Siegfried Sassoon |
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[Nov. 11th, 2009|10:07 pm] |
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The newest article from ARMA--on the subject on why groundfighting is so rarely depicted (if at all) in medieval and Renaissance martial art manuals--is good. Really good. |
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| Remembrance |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|12:16 pm] |
"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons." (Herodotus)
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[Nov. 11th, 2009|05:15 pm] |
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I swear my waist circumference, every time I measured it, is 81 or 82 centimeters--pretty much 32 inches. But the trousers that will fit on my waist without slipping are fully two sizes smaller--30 inches around in the waist. So what's wrong here? Did I use an inaccurate method for measuring the circumference of my waist or something? Am I missing some tip whereby I'm supposed to subtract two inches by default to make up for the elastic properties of the fat around the waist area? Or what? |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|07:46 pm] |
Got back from my Shambala meditation retreat at Gampo Abbey last night. It was great, even if I'm a fairly lousy meditator.
One of my more "discursive" moments had me wondering what would happen if ninja were to burst through the windows of Shedra house (the place we were meditating in). I admit I had to stop myself from laughing out loud, picturing the saffron-robed monks around me leaping to their feet and protecting their monastery with true kung-fu style. |
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| ONE MINUTE |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|02:12 pm] |
Tomorrow is November 11th. As is usual on Remembrance Day, we won't open at 11am; instead, we'll open after 11:01am.
Because one minute of silence really isn't too much to ask. |
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| Lovely Story |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|10:54 pm] |
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This story is an absolutely beautiful retelling of the Iphigenia story. |
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