October 2008
Tessa: I'm totally gonna find that Simpsons clip and blog it later.
Uh, did I just say that out loud?
John: Yeah, that's like blogging in real time.
WatchFirst snow!
Gmail - Inbox - tessagoldsmith
Yesterday I managed to empty my main gmail inbox so that I have ZERO unread messages!
For almost a year, I’ve had two lingering unread emails that had gotten buried beyond the point of realistically searching for them. Even when I read every new message, my inbox would still read: Inbox (2)
There wasn’t any obvious way to find these emails. But here is how I finally did it with help...
Why I Blog →
WatchMushrooms are sentient. They invented the internet. And they will save the world.
Thanks for sharing, Conor!
Dubai: 1990 and 2007
Neale just posted about the ridiculous speed at which Dubai has risen out of the desert with mega-projects compounding upon mega-projects to form a kind of sea-monkey Disney City catering to the pleasure-seeking exploitative dreams of rich business people— well ok, those are my thoughts.
I like the photo story he links to, Dubai is Nuts (which I took these photos from) for its depiction of the...
A third of Montreal's workforce comes from the... →
I have a few difficulties with Richard Florida’s editorial in the Montreal Gazette, but I think Alanah Heffez does a good job of discussing it critically in this post for Spacing Montreal.
“If you can’t beat your opponent’s ideas, you distort those ideas and maybe make...”
– Barack Obama (via squashed)
Kodak Introduces New Super 8 Film →
returnofthejack:
Yay!
Calling to the blog: *safesolvent, laluza, jcs, amber….shit, everybody get in on this!
Forty-three years after launching the Super 8 home movie format, Kodak has quietly released Vision3 500T color negative film in Super 8 cartridges. […] Unlike the old Kodachrome and Ektachrome home movie films, Vision3 500T is a state of the art tungsten light...
Disengaged by Grouper
Thanks for recommending the...
Oh Sweet Honey
This is a post to tell you, Maud, that what I am doing tonight is reading your blog and being very pleased by your writing. And to tell you, others, that you might want to read Maud’s blog.
Regardless of the outcome of the American election, we’ve got a room available in our apartment starting Dec 1st, just fyi. Though if Obama loses, we might start converting the place into a bunker...
“There is no such thing as a ‘traditional’ marriage, just a long...”
– lisa on Sociological Images (a daily read of mine) responding to the conservative appeal to “traditional” values in the American gay marriage debate.
Has anyone else's Gmail/Google/Google Reader...
It happened earlier this week and I haven’t gotten around to resetting my location, assuming that’s the problem. Anyone else?
Spotlights Collide - Brenden Orange (UPDATE: I...
Herpes Simplex by Rosa Yemen
Rosa Yemen were a...
“Hi, I’m just calling because I baked you a pie and I want to drop it off...”
– The best phone message I received this week, from my friend Gill.
Long day
You know when you’re so tired that your head aches and it feels like your heel bones are scraping the ground and your voice sounds like a weak foreign warble and your arms weigh too much to not be dragged? That’s how tired I am right now.
Conor posted some new songs on the Fixture blog, previews of an album coming out next week. I’m listening to these and drinking Licorice Spice...
Advanced Style, a street style blog for seniors. Thanks Brody!
Thanksgiving
was really nice this year. I went to two dinners, Sunday and Monday. Yesterday, me and Marilis had a yardsale. I made about $40 and got rid of a lot of clothes.
Today, I’m warming up thanksgiving mashed potatoes for breakfast and getting the right papers together to vote after work. Info on where and how to vote in Canada is here.
“i put ‘em on my fingers and then i eat ‘em, one by one… then i...”
– Girl on a music message board describing the joys of Ringolos. “then i reload the fingers” is hilarious.
WatchI’m having a lazy day at home. Doing some schoolwork and cleaning up.
Last night I decreed a moratorium on strange...
Today is that day.
Over, say, the last 6 months I’ve developed a collection of accents for talking to certain people that I’m really close with.
My most common accents are:
-fake Australian (but actually more South African)
-Emma Thompson British
-working class older British woman
They’re kind of out of control. And I’ve been using them more than my actual voice. So...
Without a doubt, the best thing I've done all day
is make squash soup.
I’m not one for recipes, so here’s a list of ingredients. Do what you will.
butternut squash, very much in season and cheap right now
grated carrots
grated apples, from my applepicking trip
grated ginger, tons of it
yellow curry spices: coriander, cumin, tumeric, cayenne, nutmeg
almond butter (also try peanut butter or coconut milk)
lemon juice, salt, and...
Trying to read this great-seeming... →
Watch100 people aged 1 to 100 bang a drum, via Five Whys.