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Generally I do not follow that whole “Step on a crack and break your mother’s back” doctrine; however, I did notice today that my strides are a perfect match for the side walk tiles on the McKenzie King Bridge beside the NAC and over the Canal. One step per tile, no more no less. posted [...]
E for Effort.
So Adbusters run a few different campaigns and I’ve been thinking about them quite a bit in a quest to inspect the “other side” of the coin. The first is their annual Buy Nothing Day in November. The second is an annual TV Turnoff Week that began on Monday. My TV’s been off (and on) [...]
Another click on the odometer of life…
…well it’s about that time again, another few days and I’ll be a different age… No one sits down with me to do a year-end review, and that’s almost too bad since 2005-06 was full of excitement & changes. I’m surprised that so much was accomplished in 365 days! Gold star. Tonight was my first [...]
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Made the most of the nice weather after a great day at work. Left my winter coat in the office and I started walking… an hour-and-a-half later I was more than half way home. Cool. Oh, and I saw actual fish in the Rideau Canal. They weren’t carp either! A good number of Bass and [...]
The Rebel Sell
Page 101 of The Rebel Sell: How is it that we can produce so much more wealth and yet fail to secure any measurable improvement in satisfaction? We constantly hear about how, as a society, we can no longer “afford” health care or public education. But if we can’t afford them now, how could we [...]
California Dreaming…
So I’ve been noticing an exponential growth in the amount of youth walking around Ottawa with longboards and wondering what they do with them since the city’s spent a fair amount of money on building skateboard parks for shortboards. Now I know: posted on http://jgarlough.blogspot.com/
Volga Boatman
I enjoyed a visit to Toronto last weekend, and I’m about to shut my eyes to end yet another great weekend before the busy week ahead. Met up with some good friends Saturday night to visit while we watched some amazing acoustic guitar while Natalia Connor danced some Flamenco. After the performance, the bar TVs [...]