Oh, the joys of living in Nova Scotia!
Tonight - windchill = -25°C
Saturday - windchill = -30°C
Sunday = -10°C
Monday - + 3°C

An extraordinary article on "service animals" - of various kinds.
Not just your ordinary 'seeing-eye' dog.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/magazine/04Creatures-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

This past weekend W-Network had a 'Jane Austen' theme. I haven't read this particular book, but I happened to watch 'Emma' (1997, with Kate Beckinsale) and was rather amused to see/hear that in the ballroom scene they were dancing 'Hole in the Wall' - which is a strictly-SCA construct. I noticed the music first, checked out the dance pattern and ( Read more... )

For all of you book-lovers out there. :)

http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml

Happy Birthday, Toots!
"And many more..."
Much love and hugs, twin.

I'm going through withdrawal symptoms!

http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com/   hasn't updated in two days!

Damnit - I miss Charlie.

P.S. Happy Birthday, bruv.

Earth Hour!
Looks like we made a difference. :)

http://thegoodlife.wwf.ca/Home.cfm

I had signed up to do Tai Chi (again - I've done it before but can NEVER remember more than about the first quarter of it - if that!) and went up there for 1:00 p.m. which is when the brochure said that it started. There were only 4 of us there, waiting for the door to be unlocked into the dance studio where it was to be held, but no-one else ( Read more... )

Interesting article on how/whether we actually LOOK at things.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01angi.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin

The past few days have been sortuv interesting ( Read more... )