Posts Tagged With "walking"
city & culture, critters »
For the twelve months that Sparkle has been living with us she’s been sheltered from the deeper cultures of the city. We haven’t avoided them ourselves those large people-things, events of congregation in the streets and parks, thousands of citizens gathering …
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travel & holidays »
IMPORTED FROM OUR TRAVEL BLOG: Brad, Karin (and Ryan) Do Europe ‘06
Hi all…
So, it’s our full free day in Budapest, Hungary. And it’s hot. Last night we bussed into our hotel, had an hour or so to change and …
travel & holidays »
IMPORTED FROM OUR TRAVEL BLOG: Brad, Karin (and Ryan) Do Europe ‘06
We spent yesterday evening in the Old City, walking around, Czeching out the shops and churches (from the outside), and sampling some very tasty ice cream. It was mostly too …
books & reading, scatter, writing »
It not everyday when you get to go to a relative’s book release party. But that’s where we spent an hour last night, sitting in the basement of Audrey’s on Jasper listneing to a short reading and sampling some sugary beverages. …
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abstract & thinking, weather »
There’s something about the future of things. The clouds are blowing across the Western sky tonight. A cool breeze is pushing their chill into the city and there is a scent of rain.
I’ve been adrift on the future, as of …
opinions & venting »
So… on the radio this morning they were interviewing a pharmacist who was helping to lead the charge to give all pharmacists the right to prescribe certain drugs to people walking in off the street, sans need to actually visit a doctor. …
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friends, gamer, pop-culture »
Last evening, Chris introduced Matt and I to the übergeeky world of dice-based minatures war gaming whilst the wives fauned over the new baby and did girly things. After spending a solid two and a half hours working our way through …
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critters, pop-culture »
I’m spoiling the dog. No, really. I stopped and picked up one of those retractable leashes. You know. The kind that has a fancy little handle with a spring-loaded coil of cable rolled up inside. It allows …
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adventure, gamer, home & garden, opinions & venting, photography, work & business, writing »
Someone wrote this in a comment thread on Slashdot (/.) this morning. I thought it was both funny and poignant:
Love the word fungible. It means something like “exchangeable for similar things”. Web surfing is NON-FUNGIBLE. That means if we were not …