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Maybe there will be pineapples… 28 Jul 2013 | 07:05 am
I’ve been online nearly 20 years, and internet culture being what it is, I’ve seen a lot of cats. And yet, only one has stuck with me for years. Not pictures or video, but a blog with fairly creative ...
Thug Notes 22 Jul 2013 | 04:18 am
The world was not so gangsta when I was in high school, but man, I wish we’d had these around. Thug Notes: Classical Literature. Original Gangsta. I do recommend subscribing. Take a look – Lord of t...
Pictures of You 15 Jun 2013 | 07:36 am
My parents and I were both at funerals last weekend, though nearly 400km apart. In both cases we were there as friends of family of the deceased. As these things do, I was reminded of past funerals I ...
Unphotographable 14 Apr 2013 | 03:28 am
This is a picture I did not take of a little boy in Spider-man jammies, sitting in the kid seat of a grocery store cart, singing/chanting a fairly catchy made-up song to his toy car, which, in hand, h...
Goodreads quote of the day 8 Apr 2013 | 04:54 am
“The aim of literature … is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.” — Donald Barthelme I like this very much. And I suspect the “strange object covered with fur” wo...
Don’t talk to strangers 23 Mar 2013 | 03:48 am
In an odd coincidence, given my post about cell phone contents from yesterday, and my general boggling at the volume of content that “kids these days” produce, I got a first-hand look at how that happ...
“We are the media.” 22 Mar 2013 | 01:07 am
Hat tip to Amanda Palmer for the title (at least one of the most widely quoted versions). I was reading this post, and was stopped dead in my tracks. Not from the facts and realities of the case, with...
“Let them…” 4 Mar 2013 | 02:00 am
While I’ve never managed to be a fan of her music, I do enjoy the art and adventures she gets up to, and really enjoyed Amanda Palmer’s recent TED talk. Which, I think, applies to communities well bey...
Sockbeasts 25 Feb 2013 | 03:49 am
Recently I was trying to remember when I made my first sockmonkey. I was home at my parents’ for a few days around Christmas, and I still have the result. His name is Jean Chaussette. But he’s not tal...
A Calendar of Tales 21 Feb 2013 | 04:13 am
One of the initiatives for the BlackBerry 10 launch (I started working there in May, as you’ll recall) was bringing on board three celebrity ambassadors to do various things with their crafts, involvi...
