Monthly Archives

July 2004

  • Calling the Kettle Black

    (Or; What Not To Do When Home With Three Small Children) Take electric stainless steel kettle (recently purchased for ludicrous amount of money). Place on gas element. Turn on the fire and leave the…

  • FYI, New Parents

    New babies understand the art of torture. Sleep deprivation has a subtle yet profound long-term effect that eventually affects the judgement of the subject, even making him/her the victim of his/her own errors. That’s…

  • The New Yorker magazine reports

    The New Yorker magazine reports this week that while the US Military is considering bolstering its numbers by a return to the draft, the benefits package alone is attracting enough new recruits for now.…

  • Labour and Delivery

    A video peek into the birth of baby Simon, June 15, 2004! High resolution. Lower resolution.…

  • One lightbulb. Bright idea.

    One lightbulb. Bright idea. Sometimes a solution to a problem is so simple, it seems it can’t possibly be true. The problem is air pollution. The public health department of the City of Toronto…

  • 150 years

    “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods,” by Henry David Thoreau, is 150 years old this week. And Thoreau himself would be 187 years old today (July 12). Find out more about the original Walden…

  • Last night on CBC

    Last night on CBC’s The National there was a story about off-shore oil resources in Nova Scotia. There’s an on-going fight between the federal and provincial governments over who will get the revenues from…