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arr num num num
(Wedding/Paris updates coming soon, I promise! I’ve been busy at the Ottawa Linux Symposium this week.) While I was gone, work replaced our old employee ID cards (magstripe for access control, visual ID at the front desk) with proximity cards and front-door turnstiles, since another company is going to be sharing some building space with […]
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hurp hurp HURP hurp hurp hurp HURP HURP hurp
Voce actress and radio talk show host April Winchell has, on her website, a multimedia section that has to be heard to be believed. I found it while looking for Mary Schneider yodeling the classics, but I stayed for Cooking with Vincent Price, Phyllis Diller singing Satisfaction, Shooby Taylor’s scat karaoke and Uri Geller’s singing […]
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You can get both kinds
You can get both kinds Originally uploaded by mendel. I’ve been meaning to take a picture of this tailor’s storefront in Hintonburg for ages. I think you have to pay more for the fine-quality ones.
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they’re invading our malls
Build-A-Bear Workshop is a chain of stores that let you build your own teddy bear — you pick how stuffed it is, what it wears, its name, that sort of thing. One just opened in the Bayshore Shopping Centre in the west end, so they had a little feature story on the local A Channel […]
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terrorist yard sale
So apparently there was a big domestic terrist bust in Toronto. CNN called them “Al Qaeda-inspired”, which I guess means they weren’t Al Qaeda but they were brown and we don’t know who they were doing it for. Anyhow, lots of fertilizer and plans for lots of boom and they caught them so that’s good. […]
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lizardbreath does not approve
I admit that I like For Better Or For Worse. It’s not a great day-to-day strip as comic strips go, but I’ve been reading it as long as I’ve been reading comics, and since the characters age in real-time and there’s 25 years of complete continuity there (and in part because I’m the around the […]
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Drrrrrp. Grawnk?
Nggghhaahhh!Grrr arrr Rum and Monkey.
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bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon
mendel: Ugh, this spinach salad is not good mendel: spinach, chicken, tomatoes, mushrooms. should be good, right? BUT mendel: it is really a BACON SALAD with SPINACH Halfjack: WHY DO YOU HATE BACON mendel: not only does it have lots of bacon in it, the included dressing is SWEET AND SOUR BACON mendel: >_< mendel: […]