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I guess 18 years was just enough. She made it all the way through her birthday month, but unfortunately we had to say goodbye to our dear sweet Dexy tonight. She’s been my best friend and constant companion for more than 17 years. From the moment she appeared at my grocery store as a runaway…
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Some pics of our weekend at rockfest… More here
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Uncle Dave and Aunt Danielle went to Mardi Gras!
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Harrison Ford “Han Solo” DL-44 Blaster
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Extracting tar sands oil is no easy feat. One method involves injecting super-heated steam under high pressure deep into the ground to liquefy the hardened tar so it can be extracted. Only sometimes this results in a blowout and the toxic bitumen starts oozing out in unexpected places – like beaver ponds and lakes and…
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Ethan Hawke did Ask Me Anything on Reddit and had this to say about Nic Cage: I’m kind of obsessed with Nic Cage. I just found out about /r/onetruegod too. He’s the only actor since Marlon Brando that’s actually done anything new with the art of acting; he’s successfully taken us away from an obsession with naturalism…
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From the Selvedge Yard, a collection of Hunter S. Thomson related photos: “IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME” | GONZO — HUNTER S. THOMPSON | The Selvedge Yard.
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University of Alberta scientist David Schindler holding a deformed whitefish collected from the Athabasca watershed, downstream from the oilsands industrial development. Believing in clean oilsands is like believing in ‘magic fairies,’ top scientist says. He said this reflects the current federal ideology — not anti-science, but “anti-some kinds of science. Anything with ‘environmental’ in…
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So much of what is written about Apple these days is just horseshit meant to draw flies.
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I’ve been on a bit of a diet recently – trying to drop about 20lbs or so before my 40th birthday in May. So far I’ve been keeping it simple – mostly portion-control and smart food/drink choices. I’ve been laying off the booze (although that’s partly a function of being busy in other aspects of…