Posts Tagged With "cbc"

Indoctrinating Canadiana: Log Driver’s Waltz

city & culture | fatherhood | pop-culture | skepdad 

[1 May 02012 | 751 views | 7 minutes of your time ]

I offer a few meager glimpses into the efforts of this Canadian father to impart fragments of a culture less imported and more reflective of the stewardship my daughter, Claire, will one day inherit.

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Middle Ground

photography 

[2 Sep 02011 | 301 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

Day Two of my new Photo-Per-Day Project, and yeah… two photos in the hopper. Lots to go…
I’ve already figured out what’s going to be one of the major obstacles of this project: either I’m going to have a day like today, …

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Heard: A Smattering

life happens | scatter | watching & listening 

[9 Jun 02011 | 285 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

For the entire month of June I’m planning on writing a series of blog-a-day posts based on a set series of open-ended questions to myself. This is one of those posts.
June 9th // Something You Have Heard
I’m sitting here at the …

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podcast-aholic

pop-culture | watching & listening 

[12 Apr 02007 | 239 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

The medium is maturing, to be certain. Forget satellite radio; customize your listening with a blossoming selection of custom audio-files updated to your pod on a daily basis. Skip the commercials, and go right to the juicy stuff.

I’ve been hooked …

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bookpod update

books & reading | city & culture | watching & listening 

[14 Feb 02007 | 147 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

Not having a vast abundance of free time to read these days (what with all the little projects that keep me busy from dawn ’til dusk) I’m finding it thoroughly enjoyable to use the twenty minutes each way to and from work …

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minority governments

money & spending | opinions & venting | work & business 

[26 Jan 02006 | 150 views | less than a minute of your time ]

Awaiting me at work yesterday, an email from my boss: “Educated as a political scientist and, until now, proud of that fact, I\’m currently reflecting on some of my major life choices and contemplating retirement as a pundit, to avoid further embarrassment. …

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Farewell, Tetsuro…

pop-culture | watching & listening 

[4 Nov 02005 | 158 views | less than a minute of your time ]

…sad to see you go.
I found out the other day that CBC cancelled The RoundUp. I made sure I had my radio by my side for the last episode this afternoon. Chalk up another one for the culture homogenizers: gone, another …

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green ink

opinions & venting | pop-culture 

[1 Sep 02005 | 158 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

My pen, the green one, ran dry this afternoon so I’m a little bit frustrated. Not that you would think something so trivial should be frustrating. But there is somehting about not being able to use a pen that has …

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I saw it first, really.

books & reading | life happens | weird & whimsical 

[20 Jul 02005 | 165 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

I think it was 1999. That year seems to ring harmonic in my mind because I can picture sitting and reading in that dank, little basement bedroom of the house we rented and shared for that last hurrah, iron chef, and the …

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