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I stumbled on a new service this morning. Pummelvision takes your Flickr, Tumblr or Facebook photos and creates a video of them. I thought it would be dumb, but it isn't. It is, as they assert, sort of like watching your life flash by. In a good way, really. I loved seeing how much...
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I'm on holiday with a friend this week, volunteering at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary and otherwise soaking in the stunning scenery of southwestern Utah (and a little bit of Las Vegas). Best Friends is a massive no-kill facility; we've met dogs rescued from hoarding situations, puppy mills and some surrendered by families who...
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I usually don't have my good camera with me when I visit my parents, so I took a few minutes this morning to photograph this mainstay of my childhood. I wrote a little more about it over on the Crochet Me blog.
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For someone who has an extraordinarily low tolerance for structure, I'm really missing my normal routine. It may not actually be the routine I'm missing, but the space? I miss my home. My jogs in the woods. Greg and Cleo. The quiet time I need to keep busy and sane. I haven't had much time...
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Last summer we opened up the wall between our living room and what's now kind of like a sub-living-room, or a den. Our 90-year-old Craftsmen bungalow feels much more airy and open now, and I've enjoyed the excuse to redecorate these two front rooms (and no, I don't mean to imply that we've actually...
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We headed into the mountains last weekend to catch a couple of events at Whistler.  The town of Whistler is designated a "resort municipality", which means it's a resort first and foremost. The centre of town is the Whistler Village, which is also where you catch the gondolas up the twin ski mountains of...
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Kids, my city is a giant party. We went Downtown yesterday afternoon to see what Vancouver's like during the Olympics. (We live in the city of Vancouver, but about a half-hour from Downtown by bus or about a fifteen-minute drive. I wrote more about my neighbourhood for the Raincoast Books blog series 5 Things Vancouver.) Most...
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Where Vanoc (the Vancouver Organizing Committee) has done an utterly terrible job of engaging the people of Vancouver leading up to the Olympics, there is one thing that's made people feel included and excited: the torch relay. Last night the torch went through the University of British Columbia (some hockey events will be held...
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Dude. Game knitting. You have to try this. Lee Meredith's ebook about it is worth the download. I printed the relevant pages and brought them with me on a wee trip we took last weekend, and I'm not sure I'll ever be without a game-knitting project whenever I travel from now on. The gist of game...
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...ago today, we got hitched in our living room. (Photo from Pam Bethel's photobooth at our friends' wedding last weekend.)
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