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Kamikaze Cookery = Procrastination Crack
Remember the final week of school before winter break? Remember how every second spent doing something that was NOT writing your papers or studying for exams was pure ecstasy? How even the most mundane household task - scrubbing the toilet, sewing up holes in your kitchen towels, bleaching the porch steps - took on new thrilling dimensions of ( Read more... ) -
Getting Toronto on Google Transit
EDITED TO ADD! Joy! At Web 2.0 summit today (November 26, 2008 circa 1pm) in Toronto City Hall, Mayor David Miller committed to putting Toronto on Google Transit by mid-2009!
As of today (November 12, 2008), the Hamilton, ON Hamilton Street Railway has become the fifth Canadian city to feature route planning on Google Transit, joining Ottawa, ( Read more... ) -
Double "booked"... ha! Get it?
The many years of lazy weekends as a student are now just a fading memory as I plunge into the ever-more-hectic reality of adulthood. Yesterday I spent the morning with pipes_mum, cleaning the accumulated decade's worth of dirt off of the balcony and behind the appliances in the kitchen at my rental unit, a job which after almost 4 solid hours of work is ( Read more... ) -
Signs of Spring
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. It also makes awful travesties occur, such as my kitchen turning into a propagation patch for new vegetables. Eww ( Read more... ) -
The Great Tenant Move-Out of Zero-Eight
After nearly a decade of renting my apartment on Bloor, my corporate tenants decided to say "Sayonara" and have headed back to the Land of the Rising Sun ( Read more... ) -
All-Time Top Five Dream Jobs
It's typical in an interview situation for the interviewer to question why you want the job, and where you would eventually see yourself ending up in the business, as a natural gauge of your motivation and ambition. But in an interview I went to last week, my interviewer phrased that question as "what do you want to be when you grow up ( Read more... ) -
Oh my poor, dead, darling LiveJournal
I feel terrible ( Read more... ) -
Utah and Arizona Road Trip: August 12-17
So, now I'm on the bus heading back to London from Wales, and as breathtaking as the scenery is, there are only so many grassy green fields and cows and sheep one can look at before one needs to cut it out and stare at a computer screen instead ( Read more... ) -
Wales: A Country Named After the Fish with the Biggest Dick in the Ocean
This pretty much sums up my trip to Wales.
