Keeping in touch across the miles
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cataloguing books
A service has emerged called LibraryThing. For free, you can list up to 200 titles from your own private library. For a fee, you can join the site and list as many books as you like – from your library, your wishlist, ones you want to read but not own etc. Apart from the fact…
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this is a book everyone must read
I first read about Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, by George Monbiot, on several of the book blogs I keep up with. I heard about the marketing associated with the book: how Random House shipped free copies of it along with fluorescent lightbulbs to reviewers. I heard about how everyone should read…
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oooh, those brussel sprouts…
All I can say is… so true!
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It is almost time for me to leave this beautiful country and I am very sad and full of regrets at not having done a lot of things; such as help with Soi Dog Rescue www.soidogrescue.org It is an organisation that works to help the soi or street dogs. They are abandoned dogs that of…
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giller light review
Last night I attended the Giller Light Bash, courtesy of my workplace. It was held at the Steam Whistle Brewery and was a semi-swank affair attended by the public, book industry types, minor celebrities like some runners up in Canadian Idol, Chantal Kreviazuk and Ben Mulroney (I stood behind Kreviazuk as Mulroney interviewed her live…
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leveling the playing field, a little bit
Kudos to Reversa for turning around the “hot women as an incentive to buy products” in advertising. This is a really good one. Check it.
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poolside stories
I used to be a lifeguard. While I’ve read many times and in many places that lifeguarding is the perfect job for lazy people, the job itself was a constant source of stress for me. Every day I went to work, terrified that some random accident would occur, I would completely forget all my training,…
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mcmichael gallery’s 16th annual autumn art sale
Tomorrow – Friday, October 20th starting at 6 PM – is the opening night of the Autumn Art Sale put on annually by volunteers at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinberg. The sale lasts all weekend, but come out tomorrow evening to meet the artists and mingle with volunteers. I’m going to support a…
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dove’s commercial on faked beauty
This issue of over-photoshopped images has been on my mind since I saw the insanely faked image of Pamela Anderson in a Mac makeup ad. I didn’t recognise her and only later knew it was her when I saw a photo of her, the way she looks in reality at about 40 years old, standing…
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don barber sound website launch
I recently launched a redesign of the Don Barber Sound website. Focusing on Don’s three main services in the sound production industry, the site also offers archived articles and educational pieces he has written throughout his experiences. Be sure to look him up for all your church and public school sound setup needs.
Got any book recommendations?