Archive for May, 2010

Wordplay

May 30, 2010

I have Roger Ebert to thank for sharing this brilliant, dark, spoken word piece called Death By Scrabble: The title alone made me click but the words made me continue watching. It’s almost ten minutes long, but worth the time. Almost daily, I play one of the Scrabble-like games on Facebook, Lexulous (which you can [...]

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Reading someone else’s mail

May 27, 2010
Reading someone else’s mail

I have a crick in my neck tonight because I was actually too focused at work today.  For the past week I’ve been gradually transcribing a handwritten document from 1884 that outlines the numbers and occupations of Chinese in British Columbia at that time. It’s 14 pages long and the ink has long ago faded [...]

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Island Standard Time

May 25, 2010

Island Standard Time is the title of a CD released by Two Old Goats in 2007. I received a demo copy that I promised to review and, well, haven’t until now. I’ve played tracks here and there but hadn’t really listened to the album as a whole until this weekend. Truth be told, folk music [...]

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More Miscellany

May 24, 2010

After spending time this weekend sorting through mountains of stuff in our house, I realized I have four bins of Creative Miscellany stock. I decided I had to make a concerted effort to list more stuff on Etsy and Zibbet — I’ve done some of that tonight. I tried at the last minute to get [...]

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When is a troll not a troll?

May 22, 2010

In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response [Wikipedia] I picked up a troll on the original Flotsam and Jetsam after posting some random thoughts about Rankin-Bass Christmas [...]

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