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How To Install a Washer and Dryer

*Local Fire Department response times may vary

Posted to on Saturday, July 5th, 2003 @ 6:17 PM
Apparently with all the weightlifting and poker games, firemen don't have time to produce or photocopy official forms.

I like that.

Why I Decided to Become a Teacher

Mistaken Identity + The Internet = Destiny

Posted to on Tuesday, July 8th, 2003 @ 7:45 AM
K, i am like 5'9" and weigh like 120 lbs, and she is like 5' 7" and weighs like 133 lbs or something, I don't know about u but I don't call that fat.

ASK and Ye Shall Receive

Assumptions for Social Kinship

Posted to on Sunday, February 16th, 2003 @ 10:00 PM
Seeing my neighbours is a reminder of how little we know about the people who live so close. How little we care, maybe. Apartments are amazing experiments in social behaviour: cram dozens of random strangers together, and watch how hard they work to ignore each other.

A Proof of Fate

Posted to on Wednesday, January 14th, 2004 @ 11:29 PM
Philosophical insights and scientific paradigms seem to occur instantaneously, but they are actually the accumulated steam from a mind long heated by thousands of other ideas, all whispering, "warmer... warmer... warmer...."

For My Mom, Marilyn Prowse, on Mother's Day

I Promise You'll Get a Real Gift Next Year

Posted to on Sunday, May 9th, 2004 @ 3:22 PM
Thank you for having dinners at the table instead of in front of the TV. Having the whole family together to talk after a day of work and school was a ritual I will always cherish. Remember the food fights?

In Memory of Jean Voskamp

Posted to on Tuesday, April 20th, 2004 @ 4:29 PM
Let's state the obvious: Jean Voskamp was the life of the party.

Driving from Ottawa to Calgary

Holy Crap Canada is Big

Posted to on Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 @ 2:11 AM
In my mind, it was a bit excessive, but fair enough, to pull me over, even to give me a ticket. But in all my life, I've never heard of a cop not taking a km or two off the radar reading. To then add insult to injury by not letting me know how fast to drive was downright unsportsmanlike.

How To Seduce An Old Girlfriend

Posted to on Tuesday, August 24th, 1999 @ 10:00 PM
Prepare dinner
with as little meat
and as much wine
as possible.

Why You Should Give Blood

It's Just a Little Prick!

Posted to on Saturday, May 31st, 2003 @ 2:45 PM
It seems silly to even have to make this argument. In any given week, you will stub your toe, or bonk your head, or do yourself some other, unproductive accidental harm that hurts much more than giving blood.

The Segway Human Transporter

Stupidity Just Got More Efficient

Posted to on Monday, March 3rd, 2003 @ 10:00 PM
I think that walking is a darn efficient use of energy. Not only do we replenish our energy stores on a daily basis through eating, but if you believe the stats, most of North America is carrying a few thousand miles of hiking stored as fat.

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