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[Aug. 3rd, 2008|02:09 am] |
My girlfriend has now settled in, and our new roommate too. I don't expect to be finished cleaning up and painting until...september maybe, depending on how much I focus on school stuff. I really feel like I'm starting a new stage of my life, and it has to do with all the stuff I've parted with. I had already come to the conclusion some years ago I had to stop accumulating stuff, and so I did. Mostly. But space being a constraint, and crowded spaces leading to a crowded mind (well, that's what it does to me anyway) and general lack of motivation to clean, I got rid of a lot of stuff.
Most of it I didn't mind at all, other stuff however was a bit more touchy. Like all the birthday, easter and christmas cards I got since I was born, the erasers and crayons I won in primary school, some collections, a lot of stuff that told the story of my childhood. But really, as I get older, the passing of time changes so much... I've already posted plenty of times each year on how I felt time was going by increasingly faster. Try looking in the tunnel when you take the metro and pay attention to whatever you see there. At first you can focus on the elements, then as it speeds up you can only catch one at a time, and at some point, it's not feasible anymore, even somewhat uncomfortable, so you just lay back in your seat, watch the inside of the wagon and wait for the next station. Tomorrow is the last day of my life (figuratively speaking), I'm just not there yet, but when I will be (like everyone else), all the time behind me will have contracted so much that it wont matter what piece I can still remember. More to the point, I have many new memories to make.
Why did I keep so much stuff? Perhaps as proof of past events. I just don't feel these proofs are so important anymore. Everything fits in a box now. Well, a box and a half anyway! |
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[Mar. 9th, 2008|06:11 pm] |
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La ruelle est remplie. Oui oui, c'est bien ça, on a rempli la ruelle de neige. Faut le faire. |
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| Just Homo will do |
[Aug. 9th, 2007|04:57 am] |
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STOCKHOLM (AFP) - A grandmother taking a leisurely swim in a Swedish river ended up in the hospital after a beaver attacked her with its tail, regional newspaper Nerikes Allehanda reported Wednesday.
Police sources said it was the second time a beaver had attacked humans at the beach on the banks of the Bottenaa River, around 150 kilometres (93 miles) west of Stockholm, the newspaper reported.
"The beaver attacked the grandmother. She was seriously hit by the animal's tail and received a number of bites and scratches," an officer told the newspaper.
The authorities have decided to kill the dozen or so beavers living near the beach to eliminate any further risk to local bathers.
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Typical, arrogant human behavior. Beaver families live there, and some people choose to have a leisure activity there also. Beaver's idea of accomodation? Go have your leisure elsewhere. Human's idea of accomodation? Kill the beavers. A fine display of creativity and care on behalf of Homo sapiens sapiens. Really, just Homo will do.
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[Jun. 12th, 2007|10:23 pm] |
So I spent the weekend au Parc National de la Mauricie. Of course, nobody told me it was black fly season. The horror. Did you know you can go into anaphylactic shock from too many bites?
The heat is making the wounds bubbly. If you're going to suck blood for a living, get a life and develop anesthetic saliva, y'know? |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2007|01:38 am] |
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I'm working on producing french documentation for Zotero right now for my university department. It's a Firefox extension for managing bibliographic references. It's great already and only in Beta, can't wait for their official release. Very useful for academic and personal research, give it a try : http://www.zotero.org/
The sister site of Silent PC Review, Eco PC Review went live yesterday. It's still rough around the edges, but there's already some interesting content. I've been waiting for a site like this for years. |
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| Looking forward |
[Jun. 1st, 2007|11:38 pm] |
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Well, it's been a long time...
I figured taking a break for a year (ok, I cheated two or three times) would do me some good. And it did!
Since last summer I :
- Got some perspective by spending said summer backpacking to BC.
- Realized university is more about social darwinism than learning.
- Became increasingly interested in anarchy and parecon.
- Managed to get decent contracts for this summer.
And much more.
Mon meilleur moment de la journée? Lorsque je vais m'occuper de mon jardin (communautaire). |
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[Jun. 27th, 2006|05:24 pm] |
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The road from Banff to Revelstoke is so incredible!!! |
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[Jun. 22nd, 2006|06:48 pm] |
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Just a little post to say that I'm in Regina right now, hopefuly catching a ride to Calgary if we get lucky. But frankly, I don't mind over here, it's nice. Northern Ontario though, ugh, the biggest mosquito swamp in Canada, a whole lot of nothing there. Doing good :) |
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