Neko Case, Lucy Wainwright Roche at the Bronson Centre
Awesome enough to brave the Bronson Centre’s punitive seating, I tell you. Being an old fart I don’t get out to a lot of rock ‘n’ roll shows, especially since…
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And on December 6th
The Tories take the dismantling of the long gun registry one step closer to reality. One MP with a stunningly insensitive display of glee.
Mallory’s first piano recital coming up
She’s got two songs: Batter up and Mary Had a Little Lamb. Today’s lesson was devoted to preparing for Friday’s recital. Including the proper way to approach the bench, leave…
Ran the kid ragged today
Playdate in the morning. Choir practice at noon. Tree climbing and general horsing around after. Two hours at Brewer Pool, swimming lengths. Straight off to the Muppet Movie (Miss Piggy…
Might this be the end of co-sleeping?
Since Mallory just up and decided to sleep by herself in her own room (November 19) we’ve had one hybrid night, where she came into my room at about 2am,…
Giant squirrel ravages government office
So here it is. I’ve seen it more than a few times and it still makes me chuckle. I also like it because it’s not your typical union campaign video.…
Attawapiskat: laying out the numbers
This excellent explanation of what happened to the so-called millions sent to Attawapiskat all over my little corner of the internet, but I want to share it anyway. Another inbound…
I think I may have to have a scotch
It’s been exceptionally busy at work of late. Today was just plain over the top and I think I should probably get back to some of it before I go…
Attawapiskat: don’t much care who’s to blame, I would like to see it fixed
An odd choice of headline on Heather Scoffield’s item today about the housing crisis in Attawapiskat. And it’s particularly odd because Scoffield doesn’t actually get to the issue that the…
United Way Ottawa de-funding progressive groups
An important post at rabble.ca about the rightward direction of the United Way Ottawa under its current CEO Michael Allen. Don’t know the man and know nothing of him but…
Skating and choir today
Mallory and I spent a couple of hours going around and around Brewer Arena, today. On skates, that is. Irene and Mallory went skating yesterday and they had so much…
Me and my SSD drive: the afternoon geek-out post
Since I saw this video on Dave Shea’s website some time ago I thought, yeah, that’s the ticket. I’ll use an SSD as my boot drive. That’ll solve the six…
The weekend is here and wages are falling
Phew. Made it through another week. Work is really busy these days. I hope y’all will see why soon enough. And then immediately afterwards we will have the workers paradise…
Bribing your audience: how much do contests matter to email open rates?
I sent out an email to ten or fifteen thousand of my closest union friends today, asking them to do an online survey about what the union’s priorities should be.
Occupy movement: was there an exit strategy?
This will also be unpopular with many of my friends and readers. But it’s been bugging me since the first few weeks after the occupy movement took hold across North…
Facebook cuts off blog feeds: making me feel sad
I must say for the near constant dribble of bad news about privacy, its galloping commercialism and all that I’ve always liked Facebook. It’s allowed me to reassemble and in…
Mallory is sleeping on her own tonight
Second night in a row. I don’t want to jinx it, but it looks as though this whole sleeping on her own thing might take. Because I have said it…
I took 536 photos this weekend
Archiving Mallory’s artwork from the last little while.
Mallory plays ‘Sailing’
Not the Christopher Cross version. Note to self: iPhone videos work better in horizontal mode. Note also to self: say something about those bloody cops in UC Davis. Will they…
Yeah, see? OC Transpo driver had a story too
So this OC Transpo driver is recorded yelling at a passenger to shut up. The video goes on YouTube and a short time later he’s fired. There’s much outrage focussed…