There’s not much to talk about these days, as night school and looking for work are pretty dull topics, and I haven’t seen the new Star Trek yet. So here’s a glimpse into what life’s like in my apartment, i.e., the constant cat on the lap.
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Hillsborough
I’m sure those of you in England and Europe are possibly sick of, or saddened by, all the coverage today on the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, but I only noticed the date from a rather emotional Metafilter thread I saw a few hours ago. Wow, 20 years. If you don’t know what I’m [...]
CBC
The Canadian corner of the blogosphere is abuzz about yesterday’s report that the CBC will be slashing 800 jobs and selling their body parts for money. So many people have been laid off across all the industries, but cuts to the CBC hurt all of us, not just those who were once on its payroll. [...]
Since my last blog post was so serious
Here’s a Youtube that’s been entertaining me to no end for the last week: Turtle Rapes Shoe I have received various weird looks from friends upon showing them this video, so I apologize if this goes against your delicate sensibilities, but the combination of cute and disturbing makes me oh so happy. I didn’t know [...]
Social Netwhoring
I may or may not be that prolific on these sites, but in case you want to add me to your network, here I am: Facebook (though I will only add you if I know you for reals) Ravelry (too bad my yarn-craft output is rather pathetic) Plurk (new to me as of yesterday) Twitter [...]
Now with paid hosting
As you may have noticed (or not; I know your life is more interesting than mine) my blog was down for most of the week. Sadly, at some point on Monday or Tuesday my webserver went BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEP BEEP KLUNK and refused to be a webserver anymore, and I was forced to either switch to [...]
Daylight Savings makes cats barf
That’s my theory, anyways. Several friends complained to me about their cat or cats barfing this morning, while I, too, was woken up by the familiar glug-glug-glug-glug-… splork!. Surely this is no coincidence, but the only thing distinguishing this day from others (or this Sunday from other non-puking Sundays) is that clocks got put forward [...]
