Tag: 2009
member name: Ian B (in Toronto)
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December 15, 2009 10:22 PM EST --
The tradition from Britain, that I grew up with: you decorate the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve, and leave it up for the 12 days of Christmas (until Epiphany) on January 6 th . The American tradition: . . .
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February 16, 2009 02:35 PM EST --
I don't much like TV marathons; I guess I just don't like many shows that much. There aren't many shows that I can stand enough to put out a whole day to watch them. Particularly one of my . . .
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December 13, 2009 12:10 PM EST --
No, this is not about my accident.
This is not specifically about December, either, but in fact is a story that is a couple of months old. Yet I am reminded about it every day, walking home. Being a . . .
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December 12, 2009 11:10 PM EST --
Some of you may remember a few months ago I published a piece that I was intending to submit to the Ontario Public Service (OPS) Price Network (otherwise known as the OPN), applying to be on their Speakers' . . .
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November 01, 2009 02:55 PM EST --
Daylight Saving Time (DST) ended last night (Nov. 1 2009) in Canada and the U.S. It ended last week (Oct. 25, 2009) in most of Europe (where it is also known as Summer Time).
DST used to be the . . .
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August 16, 2009 12:08 PM EDT --
I recently published a post about Satan ; it was a post about an experience that I took as quite profound, specifically because sometimes I forget that evil is all around us, hiding out of sight. Genesis . . .
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February 17, 2009 05:47 PM EST --
It was several months ago now that my laptop had a fairly major issue: it gave up the ghost one afternoon and crashed irreparably. It was one of those awful experiences where I did not have a specifi . . .
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June 23, 2009 09:33 PM EDT --
I have been intending on putting out a question like this for a bit. This is for those of you familiar with the differences between Canada and the States. What are some of the anomalies you notice? Things . . .
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August 05, 2009 09:20 PM EDT --
August 4 th , 2009: I figured out the easiest way to do the jigsaw is not so much piece by piece randomly around the globe, as you would do in a regular jigsaw, but starting from the South Pole . . .
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February 02, 2009 09:16 PM EST --
Have you ever read Fahrenheit 451? It's by Ray Bradbury (born 1920) who is one of the masters of science and speculative fiction in the world: he has been writing for over fifty years. Indeed, this . . .
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March 23, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
Some would say that President Obama is only saying the right things, and that actions speak louder. In general I agree that this is the case. I was therefore pleased to see that the Obamas will be planting . . .
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April 04, 2009 09:50 PM EDT --
This post is not about abortion. At least it was not intended to be.
I was writing a story this morning, and a fictional one at that. (Yes, I'm trying to develop my fiction as well . . .
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April 11, 2009 12:01 PM EDT --
I had a good day today. I know many of you don't care about computer programming, but that's what I do in the real word (when I'm not gathering). And I'm lucky I enjoy it.
As I mentioned . . .
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April 11, 2009 11:14 PM EDT --
It had been a rough day for Kathi. She had slept in and missed her bus, then been rebuked at work for wearing the wrong kind of shirt and told to leave early. Exams were coming up and she knew that she . . .
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April 23, 2009 07:25 AM EDT --
Most people who have known me a long time could not believe it when I got involved in gay rodeo. They had generally assumed that I was more the type to protest rodeos than to join in an enjoy them... . . .
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August 01, 2009 10:23 PM EDT --
We saw Gran Torino this evening; and I must admit that it was far better than I had thought. Tim had wanted to see it while it was still in the theatres: and when I read that it was about a Gran Torino . . .
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September 09, 2009 10:18 PM EDT --
The Ontario Public Service "Pride Network" is trying to establish a “Speaker's Bureau”: people who would go out and speak about their experience being gay in the province. I expressed some . . .
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December 02, 2009 04:13 AM EST --
December 1st is World AIDS Day. It's been a “day” since 1987, when it was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to bring light to the difficulties associated with living with . . .
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December 03, 2009 06:32 AM EST --
Apparently this is going to be one of the last times that the Dead Sea Scrolls are sent to other parts of the world to be viewed and experienced; I was thus very glad to have the opportunity to see . . .
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January 01, 2009 09:34 PM EST --
I started this post a couple of days ago, but it seemed to be coming slowly. Only when someone else mentioned the subject of God's sense of humour did I decide to finish it. I've described . . .
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