She’s back
Thursday, July 31st, 2003Boy, I’m slow. Halley facts = Halifax!
Archive for July, 2003
Raed’s at the Guardian, but where is Halley?
Wednesday, July 30th, 2003What happened to Halley’s Comment? Blogspot says “not found”…?
Snow in summer
Wednesday, July 30th, 2003As I type, I’m getting a sense of what it must be like to be strafed by military aircraft. For some unfathomable reason, there’s a display of the Snowbirds just over my roof and somewhat to the south — Jesus!, here they come again, it seems about 100 metres over my head! They are so […]
Why I’m lazy on principle
Tuesday, July 29th, 2003Recently, Halley’s Comment served up Rocky Road, and for what it’s worth, I thought it was the perfect Sunday dish. It started somewhere around here, and then some people apparently gave her a hard time about it, but she did it anyway, and had some interesting reflections about it. Opting out — and getting flak […]
Why I’m not a teetotaler
Tuesday, July 29th, 2003William Gibson has the best by-line for the Pentagon’s scheme to revive democratic participation in current events by creating a futures market in terrorism. He calls it Ender’s Futures Market Terminated. Yes indeed, Ender: I guess science fiction writers always did have the inside track on the gifted, but who would have thought that badly […]
Balls & Lanterns
Tuesday, July 29th, 2003Davin points to a very funny weird ping-pong game …uh, performance. He calls it Matrixpong. It’s festival-all-sorts in Victoria right now, and last Saturday night was Luminara, followed on Sunday by an antique cars festival. (Victoria is where all good antique cars go when they die: they come here reborn in A-plus shape, unfettered by […]
Swissematter
Tuesday, July 29th, 2003According to a book review of Elizabeth MacLeod’s Albert Einstein: A Life of Genius in YES Mag; Canada’s Science Magazine for Kids, Einstein “approved the patent for the mold used to make the Toblerone chocolate bar.” (The review is by Reuben Wasser, age 9.) I ask you: did you know that? But, but…: Just two […]
Ceci n’est pas une affiche des pare-chocs
Monday, July 28th, 2003You’ve seen the bumper stickers, I’m sure: “I only listen to what the voices in my head tell me to do”? The bloggy e-version is “I only listen to what the emails tell me to do”: It’s a weird world. Best not ask. B- happy! day
Saint Uncle
Friday, July 25th, 2003I’m still without a computer of my own, instead stealing moments on a borrowed desktop machine. It’s interesting to me to see how dependent I’ve become on my very own direct connection to the internet, on the laptop’s ability to “sleep,” meaning that I can wake it up whenever, by popping open its lid and […]
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