Monthly Archives: October 2009

what i’ve been up to lately.

October 25 09

hello.  here are some things i’ve been up to lately.
- reaching for zen. i question whether buddha really is the one for me.  but transcendence is a relative beast in the end, so that’s okay.
- wondering if i really do believe in contemporary popular culture. i realized this morning that i watch perhaps only one [...]

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roadrunners

October 25 09

i’m applying for work all over this great, loyal dominion of ours right now.  some of those positions are in places that can be far colder than it is where we live now.  normally, i’m okay with that – after so many decades dealing with ridiculous wind chills, i can kinda-deal with the way that [...]

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angry buddhas

October 12 09

i was angry a lot when i was younger.  i wasn’t violent or a danger to self or society, but i was definitely jaded and annoyed.  my wit had spoiled into an awful cynicism as i let myself believe that Things Hadn’t Worked Out, or at the very least, that Things Weren’t Going to Plan.
Although [...]

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scribere

October 12 09

earlier today i was listening to shelagh rogers interview george elliott clarke on the cbc (possibly the link is here: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/nextchapter_20091009_21352.mp3).  GEC was speaking generally about the racial and cultural history of Halifax and how it affected his childhood and informed his life.  He noted well that Halifax, founded in 1749, allowed its prominent (read: [...]

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uppity up

October 12 09

i’m helping a friend reinvent the wheel by shifting her online magainze to a new cms, and i’m having a bit of fun by it.  i’ve accumulated a lot of knowledge about cms’s like MT, WP, and Drupal over the past few years, and I’m still a little surprised when i find myself able to [...]

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