I’m breaking up my morning routine in the office this week by switching from Orange Pekoe Tea to Earl Grey, Minty Green and Chai. A tasty change! The bergamont flavour in the Earl Grey really snapped me awake yesterday, and I’m finding the clove flavour of today’s Chai soothing.
Little breaks in my routine usually kick-start [...]

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I love a good puzzle! A friend’s aunt sent her a .pages file from a Mac and she needed a way to open it and print it on her PC.
It turns out that a .pages file is really a RAR archive (like a zip folder) and you can open it up using WinRAR (or a [...]

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…a sinking ship with a pointless gizmo? There was a bunch of buzz this week about Wired Magazine working with Adobe to create an “entirely different way” to browse their magazine on the iPad. I followed a couple of the tweets around until I discovered what all the hoopla was about – a million-dollar PDF [...]

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The doomsday scholars have it all wrong – the real event foretold in the the Mayan calendar is the end of me wearing braces – scheduled for March 23rd 2010. As you can clearly tell from the markings on the stone – the supernatural rapture caused by having my braces off will inspire a feeding [...]

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We rented a romantic movie for the Valentine’s Day long weekend, but before I left the rental place I snuck G.I.Joe into the pile. I’m not really huge on movies that glorify military action or violence, but I grew up with G.I.Joe action figures undertaking daring missions in my sandbox, so I thought it might [...]

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While watching the final scenes of “Pursuit of Happyness” the building fire alarm went off. In my experience, building alarms are generally false alarms, but I always evacuate nonetheless. Except this time I smelled smoke. So we scurried around to grab our coat, boots, and two big bins full of our important papers and took [...]

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I ran into a crazy internet article this evening featuring videos of people from other countries imitating what English sounds like to them. It’s kindof mindblowing. This trippy video especially, because their singing comes off as a weirdly familiar noise but I can’t wrap my head around what they’re saying. Woah, dude.

Players of the Sims [...]

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Greg coerced me to go out for a winter run last night despite all of my usual protests;  my running shoes always go in the closet the second the first snowflake hits the ground, and stay there till mid-spring. I’ve been on the treadmill downstairs a few times over the winter, but I was starting [...]

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Go big or go home! I had to go move the car after Natasha parked it outside, and discovered a palette of crisp even snow begging to be walked all over.

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