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Just because she's 87 doesn't make it right
I just posted a comment to the CBC website about this article:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/06/26/black-bear.html
Here’s what I said:
Your headline is misleading. It implies that the woman was being attacked by the bear, when in fact the bear was merely nosing around her property, probably just looking for food. I find ( Read more... ) -
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shaorn found out today that her friend from university just died. 43 years old and had a heart attack while riding his bike ( Read more... ) -
Do-It-Yourself. No, really.
As part of our obsessive apartment redecoration stint, we decided to build a headboard for our bed. All we needed was a piece of plywood, upholstery foam, and fabric.
We chose fabric on Thursday right after work at a store close to our offices. But being after 6 pm on the Thursday night before the long weekend, we were in a bit of a pinch to find a ( Read more... ) -
Stranger Than Fiction
Will Ferrell. Lanky, silly, boogers-kinda-manboy.
At least that's what I thought of him until I saw Stranger Than Fiction.
He plays Harold Crick, all-around lonely, repressed guy. Being an IRS agent, he obsessively counts things: the number of strokes he uses to brush his teeth, the exact number of minutes in his coffee break, the number of steps ( Read more... ) -
Food for the Mood
On Friday night we went to the ROM for an event called Food for the Mood. Three presenters spoke on the use of food as aphrodisiac: in ancient Egypt, in the Kama Sutra, and in ancient and modern North America. Although billed as "hands-on", I didn't see any artifacts that I could touch. However, the presentations were funny, well-delivered, and ( Read more... )