Hurt locker: CSI goes to Iraq and sweats a lot
This must have been a really bad year for movies. Or maybe the Academy wanted to reward a director for making a low-budget film where normally one would have expected them to blow more than the GNP of a populous, earthquake-ravaged Caribbean island to make 90 minutes of eye candy. Or maybe they thought ‘this is the year that we finally give best picture to a woman’.
In the mind of a four year old
Mallory and I were scrambling to get out the door this morning – well, I was scrambling, Mallory was evidently elsewhere mentally speaking – and we have the following conversation:
The ballad of Push Push
We have the outrageous fortune to live near the Rideau Canal, the world’s longest skateway. And as patriotic Canadians we’ve always believed we needed to skate and to pass on this skill to our progeny. Because skating is at the essence of our cultural identity. Sorry I’ll stop now. Actually, for me, it’s just that I don’t want my child to feel like a goof later in life because her parents never taught her to skate. It’s not a life and death thing like swimming, but it’s just… well, you have to do it. We were out skating with Mallory a few times last year, and she even got going unassisted for brief stints, but mostly it was a stroll on the ice in skates or stroller on ice.
Pinworms. Or, How Wikipedia spared my child nights of agony
So Mallory has pinworms. That explains a lot. What does it explain you may ask.
Surging cost of Stephen Harper likely to play role in your future ill health
A more appropriate headline for this Tory trial balloon trussed up as a Globe and Mail piece.
How to lose popularity and still keep power
So there’s this EKOS poll out today that has the Tories and the Liberals statistically equal in terms of voter intention.
December 6 depoliticized
I will own the cliché nature of this post: yes, for many people my age, Dec. 6 is our Kennedy assassination moment. Most people I know remember where they were and what they were doing when first they heard that a man had separated the men from the women in a Montréal University engineering class, screamed “you’re all feminists” then opened fire, killing 14.
Nortel execs give themselves raises
Are they effing kidding? Their only function right now seems to be to parcel up chunks of the former corporate behemoth and sell it off garage sale like.
Algonquin Park trip report: how I spent my weekend away
It’s been two years since I’ve been in a canoe for any longer than an afternoon. But this September I spent four excellent days with my friend Martin paddling through the north-central part of Algonquin Park, starting at Brent. Read Cedar-Hogan-Catfish.
Lansdowne Live should be put in a medically induced coma
I just sent this letter to Ottawa city council, Larry O’Brien et al at Let’s get it right. You should send one too.
Penny beaver: museum workers still looking for a deal
Kicked out of the nap
This is the wierdest thing. I’m sitting here in the living room, typing this while upstairs Mallory’s napping. The fact that Mallory’s napping isn’t the wierd bit. What’s wierd is that when I left her, she was wide awake.
I’m changing jobs. What can I tell you?
After ten years working for the Canadian Union of Public Employees national office as their web wierdo (Senior Officer, New Media) I am moving on. October 23 will be my last day. Then, on November 2nd, I’ll be starting at the Public Service Alliance of Canada national office as their web wierdo (Communications officer, New Media).
To Victor Rabinovitch: a raise for museum workers, already
When I was off work looking after Mallory, one of my – and her – favourite things to do was go to the Museum of Science and Technology. Some of the reasons for that have nothing to do with the strike by 420 PSAC members who work at the War Museum and Museum of Civilization. But one thing that struck me about this strike – the revolving door staff issues they have – have everything to do about why the Children’s museum isn’t that great for children.
Alterna has updated their online banking
Fair is fair. I trash them when they’re bugging me, I should praise them when they do good. A while back I posted about how Alterna’s online banking made me waste a lot of time at tax time, when it could be really helpful.
