As promised, here's where I'll be posting now down here in Grenada... http://rrrao.com/ruminant/rummy.htmlRead more... )

From marriedtothesea.com, published last month:


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So, I haven’t used this online space for almost exactly a full year now ( Read more... )

"it is the purity and beauty of a failure... once he was certain of eventual failure, everything worked out for him en route as in a dream."

- 'Some reflections on Kafka', Illuminations, 145

I've got just over two days to carve this current unwieldy mass of five thousand words, roughly divided in three large chunks, into ( Read more... )

The new trend in school backpacks this year are these ones that look like carry-on luggage.  They are on little wheels, with the Little Mermaid or some other merchandised product or character printed on them.

While sitting on the porch reading about Parisian architecture yesterday afternoon, I saw a small gaggle of young girls (no more than eight ( Read more... )

Thus is theory grounded in the social world.

I've got a pretty good gig going with this bike parking thing.  We're providing it at all the home games of the minor league baseball team, the Vancouver Canadians, and so I've been spending a few of the last bunch of evenings hanging out playing cards, drinking a beer or two, and reading a little ( Read more... )

I decided to take the bus to school this morning (the 20 Victoria, which goes up Commercial and along Hastings through the heart of the downtown eastside), even though it was the first sunny day in a week or so and it's usually quicker to bike it ( Read more... )

"the history of the dream remains to be written, and opening up a perspective on this subject would mean decisively overcoming the superstitious belief in natural necessity by means of historical illumination*. dreaming has a share in history.

"the statistics on dreaming would stretch beyond the pleasures of the anecdotal landscape into the ( Read more... )

I got a summer job with BEST (Better Environmentally Sound Transportation), an alternative transportation advocacy non-profit organisation.  I'll be doing public outreach stuff, which looks like it'll mean hanging out at outdoor festivals around the city and talking to people, getting them to think about trying to get around by biking or otherwise ( Read more... )

Good day - called up 'the other Rob' in my program at 9:30am this morning and he was actually wanting to go to the bike auction.  A happy coincidence, as I was wanting to get my ten bucks back for registering for the damn thing, and off we went east along the Skytrain to a warehouse off a suburban freeway somewhere in Coquitlam.  Rob got a pretty ( Read more... )