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Bread Machine Goodness
I'm posting this mostly to remind myself about it since it's pretty much stock-pot-stew and bread-making season again ( Read more... ) -
Breaking Silence
Haven't been as happy with the lj iPhone app and generally most of my updates have been short and on the go so to Facebook iPhone they go. Or BlackBerry social which handles my Facebook and Twitter.
But I miss this place, really.
I miss the way I felt like when I set up security features, they'd STAY that way. Or rather, I had gotten to where I ( Read more... ) -
Thank you Spammer
Because of a spammer, I visited THIS old page http://courtly.livejournal.com/290200.html
And I really enjoyed doing it... (6 years ago!!!)
Maybe I'll repeat the meme... it was a hoot. -
(Untitled)
Last week (first week of June), I started up the container-gardening project again.
I'm finding it much easier to work in checking the plants for water when my work desk has a direct line-of-sight to the balcony. Everything is on my mind solidly! -
June 5 - Planting, Cleaning, Renewing
Planted another couple of containers of seeds on the balcony today. Beans, turnips, and some of that Japanese squash we tried last year. We'll see how we do this year. I might bring up the drig-irrigator from downstairs (yay for battery power), but I'm a bit worried about the growth of algae in the tank if I leave it running for weeks at a time ( Read more... ) -
Bixi
Seen a great number of Bixi bikes around this weekend.
A fair number of those were places I was very surprised to see Bixi bikes: Ashbridges, Centre Island.
For those unaware, Bixi's model is point-to-point travel. You pay a fee for borrowing rights ($5 for 24 hours), and you can borrow from any rack and return to any rack. Rides less than 30 ( Read more... ) -
Rickshaws
I was thinking about pedestrian-powered rickshaws the other day, about how I tend to have ethically-based discomfort with the idea of paying someone to power me around with their own two feet.
Well when I saw an "ecotaxi" on the streets of Toronto last week, I realized I had no problems with them.
Why not? Is there a fundamental difference between ( Read more... ) -
Oh the things one can see...
Tonight, on our drive out, we flashed past three "girls gone wild": some adolescents out to enjoy themselves, playfully flashing their bare-white posteriors by the side of the highway then running off down the embankment ( Read more... ) -
UTS probably moving within a decade
This article: (from the Globe and Mail) came as a fair bit of a surprise to me actually. UTS might have to move from its current digs. I can still remember the layout of that place in the late 80s like the back of my hand. I'm sure the layout hasn't much changed in the intervening decades ( Read more... ) -
This makes me VERY happy
A total uplifting note for an otherwise really frustrating day:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8215805.stm