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Last Monday evening I lead a ride for the bike club. Started at the waterfront, went up the Don River trail to Sunnybrook, then east down thru Mount Pleasant cemetery (with the obligatory check that Mackenzie King hasn't come back as a zombie yet) and south down to St. George to close off the loop. It was a great calm evening for a bike ride. Only ( Read more... )

A busy but fun week. Got together with handful_ofdust for dinner (which I have to do more often) and got caught up. Got a free lunch from the Doubletree and discussed how the con went (they had no problems to discuss with me, which is always good to hear). Had a Friends of the Merril board meeting to review all our activities over the past few months (we have a ( Read more... )

Well, I haven't posted here in a long while, haven't I ( Read more... )

Peter Watts found guilty of assault.

This is total bullshit. He's being sentenced April 26, and faces a max of two years in jail.

Damn it damn it damn it.

It was so nice on the weekend I got my bike out. On Saturday I was at the ROM for most of the day at a Greek Archaeology Seminar (eight speakers on a wide range of topics, and I caught up with my friend Mici as well) but got home in time to oil by bike, check the tires, and take a spin about the block. Sunday I had plans to go down to a bike show ( Read more... )

According to this news item Prof. Stephen hawking is leaving England in protest over UK science funding cuts, and is looking at spending at least the next little while at the Perimeter Institute of Physics in Waterloo, with an eye towards making it permanent.

Now let's see how long it takes the Canadian government to piss him off. 15 minutes

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Happy Darwin Day everyone!

Fun couple of days. Saw Son of the Horse Lord, a one-man show at the Winchester Street Theatre with Regina. The one-man is a friend of Regina's and the show was a series of stories about his days growing up on a small farm in Ontario, told in a very deadpan style. I've seen bits of this over the years at play readings and the like of the theatre ( Read more... )