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Twitter
After hearing a lot about Twitter and realizing that I've been using Facebook's status updates for microblogging anyway, I've decided to sign up for a Twitter account ( Read more... ) -
Ahh! Need pet-sitter
I'm pretty desperate for somebody to feed my cats from December 24 to January 5. I live at King and Jameson, which is a 15-minute streetcar ride west of downtown Toronto. Unfortunately, most people I know are going away for the holidays ( Read more... ) -
The ugliest chandelier in the world
Above the dining area of my apartment hangs a five-armed chandelier, which until today held five bare incandescent lightbulbs. When I moved in, I thought it was the most hideous lighting fixture I had ever seen. I couldn't imagine how a functional device could be uglier, more tasteless or, oddly enough, more laugh-out-loud hilarious ( Read more... ) -
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Awww. You're ALL my Valentines. -
Glue
Is there any glue that will bind silicone rubber to plastic? Even Google doesn't seem to know. -
Public service announcement
Did you know that if you break a fluorescent light bulb, you're not supposed to vacuum up the little bits of broken glass? That's because they're coated with mercury, and vacuuming up the pieces will turn your vacuum cleaner into a hazardous waste dispenser for the rest of its life ( Read more... ) -
I'm opening a hypnosis practice
Two years after receiving my NGH certification in hypnotherapy, I'm finally going to open a practice. Imagine this headline: "Renowned Self-Development Author Now Makes His Services Available to the Public." Well, renowned or not, there's a prevalent belief that publication gives a person authority (literally, author-ity), and I'm going to leverage ( Read more... ) -
A personal account of a ten-day vipassana meditation retreat
The Voodoo Bone Lady's predictionThe Voodoo Bone Lady of New Orleans had predicted that August 8 would be my lucky day this year. I burned the date into my brain and waited to see what luck would bring me ( Read more... ) -
What I did this summer: The cruise ship experience, New York, Montreal, and Vipassana
The cruise to St John and Halifax was the first time I've been east of Quebec City, but because I took the seafaring route from New York, I was totally dissociated from any feeling of being east of Quebec. It was like I was a space alien and my interstellar travel pod had crash landed in Sleepytown, Canada. Twice.
In St John, I went to a place ( Read more... )
