30th
November
2011
Out of whole cloth
Busy with a new book. A good book. Who needs movies, when your imagination can fill in the blanks just fine.
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Out of whole cloth
29th
November
2011
Home heating with a data-processing angle
Just in case a place can have a birthday… Happy Birthday, PEI. You got your most recent name back in 1798, on this date. Befo e my time, sure. Still worth giving the world a head’s up.
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28th
November
2011
A musical interlude
We interrupt this (your) life for a musical interlude. Regular programming will resume all too soon.
This evening: Leslie Feist. From Nova Scotia, in surfeit. A rolling stone, who manages to scrunch up the moss along the way. Ignore the iPod song, temporarily, because there is so much more. Art, photography (yes, art too), music, dance. The whole apple pie (ignore the iPod influence). I like what she does, even if I can’t find direction. My bad.
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27th
November
2011
Should I stay or should I go?
Grey Cup Sunday, where the hope is that the half time show will be memorable. Call me “old school”, but I miss Guess Who. Today, I paid my money and all I got in change was a Nickelback. In these inflated times, that doesn’t buy me much. Seriously, trying to please the nation is difficult, but in future, could the organizers try a little harder. I’m not going to go to sleep satiated after that waste of airtime. In kindness, only every second song sounded the same.
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26th
November
2011
In memory of storms
This just in: a cure for insomnia. Fatigue.
I know, that’s imprecise. In my case, I woke up at 02h30 Friday morning and stayed awake until 01h00 Saturday. Completely outside my pattern, and the result is that I slept through for a full eight hours. For the first time in a really long time. Many cures are predicated by much less. Ditto for miracles.
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25th
November
2011
I forgot to Rush
I finally get it, I think. After forty years of wandering in the musical desert, the role of “Rush” in the scheme of things has been explained.
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24th
November
2011
LED cubes and micro-mice maze racers
The piano gets me, every time. Charlie Brown is on TV, and I’m so there.
It doesn’t matter if I’ve seen it before. The whole point is that his world makes perfect sense. Especially the blanket.
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23rd
November
2011
Approach a Celebration with care
Although there’s no photo, we did receive our first “real” snow today. I don’t think it will stay past tomorrow, so the photo can wait. Not so the decision.
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22nd
November
2011
Copying isn’t burning, necessarily
Here in Canada, you have a fundamental right to freedom of speech in the context of protest. The fundamental right to camp; not so much.
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21st
November
2011
A charming card
Today’s post brought a rather touching, if somewhat curious, card. A sort of “We miss you” message, as if from an old friend (or two). Except that the card was addressed, rather informally, to “F” and was written in my other language. Not exactly an old friend that knows me well.
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