Here’s an ad from the intranet at work: FOR SALE: CASELOT OF CHAPSTICK (200), 1987. SPECIAL EDITION “CYNDI LAUPER – GOONIES MOVIE THEME” ASKING $75 The punctuation suggests that the Chapstick is 24 years old. I wonder if it has a best-before date. It is an interesting combination – the Chapstick caselot plus Cyndi Lauper.…
So many things to do, so little time… Thanks to a Canadian blogger living in Uruguay for the link to Hyperbolic crochet. Hyperbolic crochet was “discovered in 1997 by Cornell University mathematician Dr. Daina Taimina… The basic process for making these forms is a simple pattern or algorithm, which on its own produces a mathematically pure shape,…
Being Canada Day, I have some bonus time to waste on the computer. Not really – this is NOT a waste. Last week, when the posties got back to work (Canadian traditionalists that they are), we received a milestone piece of mail – the university degree of our youngest child. There always remains a tiny…
My sister is supplying fodder for my blog. Here is today’s offering (from Huffington Post), about the future of books. I’m not sure how I feel about this topic. I do not romanticize books, turn them over in my hands to treasure, rever and keep forever. When our youngeset kid started kindergarten the teacher came to visit…
I haven’t been watching TV and am therefore way behind in these matters. However, Il Volo have been brought to my attention and they make me smile. And here is their original performance together. Browing through YouTube Italian TV performances is interesting – they are different from American or British! Should that be a surprise?
I don’t really have anything to blog about today, but wanted to put something up to get the last cheerful Stanley Cup post off the top of the screen. However, I have no wish to provide links to the Vancouver news today. For some reason I wasn’t keen to join 99,999 others downtown – whether our…
The good news about hockey is how much silly fun we are having with it in Vancouver. Some good writing is coming out of it too. Cam Cole of the Vancouver Sun wrote … “Lapierre wasn’t going to get the [penalty] call if Chara’s stick had gone in his front and come out his back. Because the evening’s…
Yes, I know – this book was published in 2007 and was reviewed all over the place then. But I only read it last week. True story of an American hairdresser who opened a beauty school in Kabul, to teach Afghan women a skill they could use to better their lives. The book was mildly…
Seeing Clarely 