April 2008
41 posts
“Each night, scores of London’s homeless men and women take advantage of...”
– Heathrow’s Down-and-Out Jet Set - TIME
March 2008
34 posts
Back from my deathbed
Day 4 of being sick today. And by sick I don’t mean a “there’s a frog in my throat, woe is me” kind of sick, but more like “you try to do anything more than breathe, your ass is mine, motherfucker” kind of sick.
I think I handled it pretty well, for the most part, where I only called my mom once and begged her to pray to the Lord Jesus Christ for my sins, as...
“At 8:36 p.m., Toronto reached its goal. The numbers hit their lowest – 2738...”
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TheStar.com | Earth Hour | City exceeds goal for power savings
Watchfrenchie frenchie on Vimeo
(via Vimeo)
TheStar.com | GTA | 'Pandemonium' after woman... →
Ridiculousness.
The following explanation of take-over bids may be...
Prof: Basically, one company sees the other company from across the room. They lock eyes. It goes over and tries to strike up a conversation. It really likes the other company but the other company isn't interested.
Me to Paul: And then it slips it a roofie?
Chantal Kreviazuk busking for Habitat for Humanity... →
Tomorrow morning (8am) at Eglinton station. Free subway tokens too!
Three Sixty Five
On this day last year, I started working at a new organization, not sure what I was getting myself into, not sure if it was entirely what I wanted to do, and not sure that I wanted to give up on something I was so very passionate about before. I took a gamble, and it’s looking back when you realize it was the right decision.
Concurrently, on this day last year I made a conscious decision...
“I’m getting to the point where I realize I’ve talked a big game about telling...”
– Ethereal singer Sarah Slean gets real — sort of - CBC Arts | Music
“So last night I downloaded that specific Enrique Iglesias song the second I was...”
– Dooce - Grand total of 78,215 words
“The rest of [Weird Fishes/Arpeggi] has a muffled, underwater quality, with the...”
– The Future According to Radiohead : Rolling Stone
Yea, that’s exactly what I thought.
Please, just be quiet and hold me.
*Macbook Air commercial comes on*
Me: *gasp*
Brett: You haven't...
Me: Shh. Don't speak.
Brett: It's pretty...
Me: Shh.
Brett: Okay.
Me: Wow.
Brett: I know, eh? Are you going to be okay? I'll totally understand if you need to she-bop a bit now.
Me: Matt is totally going to love that you said that.
A change in scenery
Some changes that have long been overdue, but changes that were small enough to keep pushing off more and more. I need to stop doing that.
RSS feeds are now running through Feedburner, as they should have been from the beginning. (Note: adjust your feeds, you feed demons!)
Twitters are over in the side - I’ve stopped importing them and going to delete the imports from here forward. Too...
OneLessDesk™ :: Heckler Design →
Taken from a page in the Apple Marketing Guide, both for the website and the desk itself.
“Dr. Gawande and his team have been in surgery since 7:30 this morning, and...”
– Weekend America: Listening In on the OR
The trouble with Steve - Mar. 4, 2008 →
“Jobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options, or even pancreatic cancer. The same traits that make him a great CEO drive him to put his company, and his investors, at risk.”
Job Number 000001
I’m doing the final bits of my taxes and see a lovely deduction labelled “Salary expenses for an assistant.”
Well, who knew. So who wants to apply?