Tom we wanted to let you know that we still want to get together with you on Christmas. My mom is going to be staying in England as my Grandfather has not gotten any better. Sean, my sister and I were planning on renting or going to see a movie and also ordering a hell of a lot of chinese food (this fabulous restaurant I have been dinning at ( Read more... )

It is sometimes said that the Vikings were the greatest storytellers of all time. The idea is not that their stories were the greatest, but that they had the presentation positively nailed down. They called them sagas (I love palindromes), but it was really just a way of recounting history, or at least mythology, which most historians seem to ( Read more... )

I've been spending a lot of time recently thinking about the big things (i.e. what is the meaning of it all?), and I am at once more and less sure of my answers than I was before. I am more sure about the generalities: felicity, comradery, productivity, legacy &c, but I am less sure of specifics. What kind of life should I lead to achieve these ( Read more... )

I think heraclitus should try to redirect todays youth from a pseudo-communist, lets-have-a-protest-so-we-can-get-laid culture to an anti-government anarchistic kind of lets-blow-up-a-government-bulding-so-we-can-get-laid culture. He can be like Jesus (read: Nietzschie).

Everywhere that I look up gun powder recipes I seem to find that it is 75% saltpeter 15% sulfer and 10% carbon but I can't seem to figure if that is by weight or volume. Volume seems more sensible because it is easier to measure than weight, but I would like to be sure ( Read more... )

I just saw probably one of the niftiest anacorisms of my entire life. I was walking home from the grocery store west along Wellington St. and I had BCE place on my left (south) and commerce court south on my right (left). I was walking flush against commerce court because it was exceedingly warm out and that was the only shade on the street. ( Read more... )

I love the Coca Cola corporation. I called them a couple of days ago to find out where I could buy 237ml glass bottles of coca cola and they just got back to me now on the phone and told me the twelve nearest locations to my address which sell them ( Read more... )

Well, this is likely to be a rather boring log. I am just now making my first venture into this whole livejournal business, but I am, I must say, not quite sure about it yet. I would be interested to know why it is that others find it so useful. Perhaps its just a way to pass the time ( Read more... )