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Really, this is one of those link-dump posts but all the links are food-related in some way… so enjoy! Always good for information I didn’t need, @mental_floss delivered via Twitter the History of the Potato Chip. Mmm, salty. This morning, my Twitter feed also gave me The mathematics of boneless pork rectums. You know I [...]
This week is American Library Association’s Banned Book Week, south of the border (the Canadian Library Association promotes Freedom to Read Week in February each year). I thought I would check in on the most frequently banned and challenged books and see how many I’ve read. Here’s the top 10 1. The Great Gatsby by [...]
Managed to make it to Eat Here Now! a local food festival put on in support of a permanent Public Market for the City of Victoria. The weather looked a bit hesitant and it was raining when we arrived but within the first few minutes, the skies cleared and the rain held off for the [...]
Popping into YouTube today and this video was recommended: I totally remember it, too. Game graphics were used in lots of ads but especially anything marketed to kids. The summer of 1982 marked my transition from elementary school to junior high. It was also the year Tron came out — holy hell that movie amazed [...]
Sometimes my job consists of sitting amongst a bunch of equipment scanning page after page after page. I’m not going to lie, this gets pretty mind-numbing. In order to save my sanity, I listen to podcasts and I thought I would share with you what’s going through my head as I try to keep 150 [...]
Many times in my life, I have found myself in circles with few other women — just one of the guys. The most notable of these situations was the pre-apprenticeship plumbing training I took in the mid-90s where I was the only woman in a class of 19. Once they figured out I wasn’t afraid [...]
One of my tasks at work is handling the damaged books (we get a lot), directing them to the librarians whose task it is to decide whether we replace, repair or discard a given item. This week, I found a gem: Miss Kilmansegg and her precious leg: a golden legend. Published circa 1870 the story [...]
As you know, I’m all over “social networking” — Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Delicious, etc. — but there’s a new(ish) breed of sites trying to put themselves in the same category that can barely hide their primary goal: aggregating data. Gowalla was the first of these I’d heard about, thanks to Packrat, the stupidly addictive [...]
Just as “no one should go to Victoria without seeing Butchart Gardens,” no trip to the Island is really complete until you’ve seen at least part of the Pacific Rim National Park which includes the West Coast Trail (not for the faint of heart), the Broken Islands Group (an archipelago off the southern tip of Ucluelet) and [...]
