Ten quick facts about Evan's triumphant trip to Victoria and back:

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I'm off to Victoria today! I won't be taking my laptop with me, so as of this afternoon, there will be five days of radio silence here at the Phronetic Man.

A bientot.

Good download: MSN Messenger. Yes, after years of missing the instant-messaging boat, I'm finally getting on. Username is kingdomofevan_at_hotmail_dot_com. Tell your friends.

Bad download: Microsoft's Desktop Search toolbar. Ooh, it sounded useful at the time - do keyword searches of all your files and e-mails - but now it won't stop prompting me ( Read more... )

Jesus Christ. I walk past this Tim Hortons all the time. It's just down the street from the library branch where I read the papers on Mondays. And now it's a smouldering ruin.

In September, when I moved into my apartment, my new cupboards were bare except for two items: Boxes of Jell-O of unknown age and provenance. I hesitated for a long time before eating the mystery Jell-O, fearing the boxes were improvised explosive devices left by the previous regime ( Read more... )

Sometimes I am wont to pass through U of T, to check out their student newspapers and pick up a free Toronto Star if I beat the morning rush. Yesterday, a headline on one of those papers practically flung itself at me, in colossal red type:

WE REPRINT
THE MUHAMMED
CARTOONS
PAGE 14

*flip flip flip*

Just kidding! The Innis Herald supports ( Read more... )

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Livejournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

1. View to a Kill, Duran Duran
2. Chronicles ( Read more... )

I finally have a legit Internet connection in my apartment. Dude delivered me a cable modem and everything. Now I don't have to get up early and beat the rush for the Toronto Reference Library Internet terminals - the prospect of walking there every morning in the winter wasn't looking sweet.

List 6 of your favorite songs of the moment in your own lj and then tag 6 others to do the same ( Read more... )

My whirlwind comeback tour of Ottawa is almost over. I have my degree. I have pictures of myself in a stiflingly hot black robe. I have a Senate medal, which I wasn't expecting to get but got anyway. And I have a shiny gold Carleton alumni pin, which I'm now sporting on the lapel of my best black jacket, as close to my heart as I could make it ( Read more... )