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I finally got my new laptop!! Despite Future Shop’s best efforts to keep me from getting it (first by insisting that the holder of the credit card (who is in Toronto) that paid for laptop show up at the pick up location (which is in Vancouver), then (after agreeing she could pay there and I […]
Justify buying toaster waffles in order to use up the last of the syrup you have in your fridge. Use up the last of the syrup. Justify buying syrup on the grounds that you need it to eat up the last of those toaster waffles you bought. Repeat.
So, The Queen is up for the Best Picture Oscar. I so don’t get this. That was probably the most boring movie I saw all year. And I only went to see it because I won free tickets. It was a “character study,” they tell you. “You learned so much about the queen’s perspective,” they […]
Darren of darrenbarefoot.com fame has a survey going on about “Why Do You Blog.” If you fill it out, you can win stuff. Go here to check it out. And while we are on the topic, those of you who blog, why do you blog?
If only that were true. Now that Vancouver is settling nicely into its normal winter weather (7 degrees and raining), it would be prudent to know where one’s umbrella is. I, of course, lost my umbrella. I guess if I want to get really technical about it, it’s not exactly “lost,” since I know exactly […]
A bunch of us were over at a friend’s place for dinner last night and one of the girl’s there invited us all to a launch party for a new website: lendlist.org. The idea behind the website, according to their “About” page is: LendList.org is a rebellion against materialism and consumerism Basically, it’s a place […]
Having recently read two fellow Vancouver bloggers postings about things “overheard in Vancouver” (Barefoot, 2007; Doppelganger, 2007)*, I was inspired to record this comment that I overhead on a bus in Vancouver today**: “A gun license is good for 5 years, but my medicinal marijuana license is only good for one. You do the math.” […]
So, I finally got off my butt and scanned the grad photos that I finally got. I had originally hoped to send my grad photos out with my Christmas cards, thus saving a bunch of $$ on mailing, but when I got the proofs in mid-December, the photographer informed me that it would take 5 […]
OK, I’m going to shut up about my birthday pretty soon, seeing as it was a week ago. Those of you who know me know that I do like to be the centre of attention, so is it really surprisingly that I celebrate my birthday for a whole week? I mean, really, would you expect […]
Does anyone else see the humour in the fact that this Career Fair poster features a photo of an unemployed graduate of one of the sponsoring Faculties?? In related news, I saw a job posting for a Professor of Potato Storage Physiology. Would you really want to have that as your job title??