Magic!
Vesselideation, via designers block.
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My knitting blog is now located at the Needle Exchange!
Sheep vs. Sheep
This blog always amazes me. It’s got all sorts of wonderful recipes for Finnish food, recipes that I’ve actually cooked rather than saved in a text file on my hard drive. I unsubscribe from it every once in a while because the posts aren’t coming anymore, and then somehow find it again in some really absurd google searches that make me want to resubscribe. This time it was because of this Leningrad Cowboy. I’ve decided that’s going to be my Halloween costume this year.
BTW if you’ve never heard of the Leningrad Cowboys or seen them Go America, I give you Leningrad Cowboys (and the Red Army Choir):
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John Baird is a massive douchebag
John Baird is a massive douchebag.
Amid strenuous efforts in recent days by the city and the province to get Ottawa on board, Mr. Baird continued to insist that the city’s pitch to replace 204 aging streetcars does not qualify for his government’s $4-billion federal Infrastructure Stimulus Fund.
“It’s a fantastic project,” he said of the streetcar initiative. “It’s just not eligible for this program. And [that's] not just a technicality.”
He said the federal stimulus funds are intended for projects that create local jobs over the next two years. By contrast, jobs for the streetcar project would be mostly in a Bombardier assembly plant in Thunder Bay, not in Toronto.
He also said, “They should fuck off.”
How is job creation within the province not economic stimulation? How is “Thunder Bay is not local enough” not a technicality? Why is John Baird such a massive douchebag? These are the questions I am pondering this morning.
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Youthful again!
For some reason, in the past week I have been asked twice whether I was in high school, and was carded by someone at the LCBO. I feel very youthful!
Additionally, when accompanying some male engineers over the border, I have also been asked whether I was carrying their bags. So with youth comes assumptions that I am not a scientist. Oh well, I’ll take youth, am I right, girls?
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Orlando Post Part 1
I’m a little worried about this whole blogging thing, in that I haven’t blogged in ages. I’ve been working so hard that the blogs have fallen by the wayside. I do, however, have a lot to blog about, because in a few days I will be leaving for the US. The Beau is going to Orlando, Florida, and I’m accompanying him to take advantage of the non-4°C, non-absurdly-cold-for-July Floridian weather.
I’ve spent the last few months scouring travel books for things to do there that don’t involve Disney, and I’ve found quite a few. For example, for $205 some Orlandinians are willing to both hypnotize and massage you.
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I am super-excited about this manatee thing. I’m even considering buying a fancier waterproof camera this time, to take full advantage of the MANATEE INSANITY. I may make this snorkeling SCUBA business a regular thing. I quite like it. It’s like a natural high that, instead of costing $10, costs $100.
I’ve got another few books to pick up tomorrow from the li-barry; ones that are more recent and involve establishments that were not destroyed by a hurricane. I’ve also recently collected recommendations to go to Waffle House and Kissimmee, the gaudiest place on earth. If you have any other recommendations, send them my way. I may or may not blog in Orlando, but I’ll certainly take note of the better and worse things and mention them when I get back.
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