I recentlty visited an art installation called “Archigram” at a studio
called “Plug-in” in Winnipeg, about a block from where I work. I was pretty
excited about it, too, because I’d done some reading and knew it was coming
to town. It’s basically an art show of all the bizarro stuff that architects
design after descending into sheer and [...]

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It just occured to me, going through my music for stuff to listen to, that
99% of the music I commonly listen to was written in the past 70 years. One
could argue that the majority of it came from within the past 30 or 40, but
I’m not sure exactly how it breaks down. Part of this, [...]

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Gimme down to there, HAIR, shoulder lenth or longer, here baby, there oh-oh,
ev-ery-where daddy daddy, HAAAAAIR!

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WARNING! You would have to be a complete and utter freak to even attempt
to do what is obviously a special effect to everyone else!

I saw this commercial again today, a Mountain Dew commercial, warning me that
I shouldn’t drive my car at someone at high speed, careen off a pile of
crates and baskets, and barrel roll [...]

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A totally weird thing happened today during my picnic with Heather. This
Korean guy and his family walked up to us, gestured at his camera, at us, and
at his family, and said “Take picture?”

Heather said she’d be glad to take their picture, but he kept the camera
pointed at us as we got up. Their little girl [...]

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According to Salon.com, Harvard university
is “stunningly rich. It’s the wealthiest nonprofit in the world after the
Catholic Church. It lives off the interest of its $18 billion endowment,
which has doubled in the last six years.”

WOW! That’s a -lot- of money. They further claim that the school could
continue on indefinitely into the future with no tuitions.

The Canadian [...]

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So fighter jets have been buzzing my house all this morning and yesterday,
the Winnipeg Air Show is on and my building is probably a pretty good
landmark for planes to set up their flyover passes. Very cool stuff. This
bomber jet (B12?) flew low overhead and was -loud-.

I can imagine what it feels like to be in [...]

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