Month: July 2004
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papa (or, i officially love linguistics)
The last entry? Yeah, I take it all back. Apparently, the word ‘papa’ has been found to be present in approximately 700 of the 1000 currently used languages, and is therefore thought to be an artifact of the mother (or father, I suppose) of all languages. Perhaps this would be an interesting name for it?…
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josh
Certain days, I load up my cool ass browser to take a look at the web is offering me and, you know what? It’s really not that interesting. Maybe I’ve just forgotten where to look.
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citizen change
P Diddy has launched the ‘non-partisan, non-profit’ organization Citizen Change, with which he hopes to reach disenfranchized non voting population. I would normally not support spamming your friends with the tools presented on his site, but if you are an American I’m afraid I have no choice but to kick your ass if you do…
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oops
Today was my birthday. For me this meant basically a lot of slacking off; on my off days I like to perform cool, somewhat productive but very low intensity activities, like making music or reading. Maybe watching a movie. Anyway, re: gay income from the previous post, I figured I’d update with more info. Admittedly…
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ugh
All I read about on blogs is American issues. Canada is too busy chilling and smoking pot to really stress out about very much (although my Greenpeace newsletters tell me there’s a lot to worry about), so I can’t really focus on it. Instead I turn myself to the suffering of other peoples, so very…
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a strange brand of patriotism
As more and more of my reading on the blogosphere starts to come from Americans – and really, what can you do when around 75% + of bloggers (a guess) are from the US – I am starting to find that I am almost considering myself an American. At times I start thinking, “Oh, I’m…
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tattoos
So, I am off in a few hours to the second edition of the Art Tattoo Montreal convention to get my feet tattooed by the Belgian artist Dan DiMattia. My feet should swell significantly after 4+ hours of tattooing, and I have to work tomorrow at 9 AM. So it goes. This also means no…