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I took a peek at Wolfram Alpha, the Computational Knowledge Engine, and while I can’t think of any use for it in my daily life, it’s still an interesting use of data gathering and manipulation. I entered my birth date and the city of my birth and came up with the following data:

  • I was born on a rainy Wednesday morning
  • It was approximately 17° C / 64°F when I was born
  • There were 12 hours, 17 minutes of daylight that day
  • The moon phase was waning crescent moon
  • It was the 262nd day of the year
  • The time difference between that date and the time I ran the data scan is 40 years, 7 months, and 27 days
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Taking a Back Seat

6 May 2009

I’m going on a break for a while. I need to sit back, put my feet up, and have a look around at the world from a new angle, instead of staring at it out of the corners of my eyes because I can’t bear to take my eyes off my laptop’s screen. I hope [...]

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Secretly Canadian

1 May 2009

I just found out that the first four seasons of Newsradio – one of my favourite television shows of all time – have been added to Hulu. One of the things I always wondered was why the show insisted on making Dave Foley’s character American instead of Canadian, when all Foley had to do was [...]

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Renewal

17 April 2009

Lately I’ve been thinking about spirituality, self-renewal, and the ways in which I push the reset button on my life. I’m not someone who takes well to silent meditation. If the room is too quiet, I’ll find some way to fill up that space with noise, music, television, idle conversation, or food. It’s as if [...]

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My Twelve (!) Things That Make Me Happy

5 March 2009

I got you, Tiffany and Melle. Tagging me twice. Y’all aint slick.

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Inventive Uses for Liveblogging: WSB-TV (Atlanta)

18 February 2009

Tornado season has started in my home town, and because I’m concerned about friends and family as well as interested in severe weather because I dig weather porn, I’ve had the WSB-TV Doppler Radar open in one browser tab for most of the afternoon. The image refreshes whenever there’s a change to the radar, which [...]

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My road-trip mix tape

22 January 2009

I suppose it would depend on the nature of the trip and the destination. Radar Love is for those long dark stretches when you're driving and your passenger is sound asleep, and the sound of the tires on pavement is making you drowsy. It's a quick pick-me -up. Somewhere Down That Crazy River is almost [...]

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Snowblind – the Great Vancouver Snowstorm of '08-'09

5 January 2009

Snow has been falling for the better part of three weeks. I’ve felt housebound for most of that time, thanks to unsteady knees and a fear of falling. I rarely move from this chair on any day that isn’t a work day, and even then it takes a battle of wills to make it into [...]

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Polling the Audience: Photos on this Blog

5 January 2009

After moving to a private server, Dreamhost has informed me that I’m using more resources than before (what?), and as such my hosting bills have increased. The biggest culprit seems to be WordPress’ built-in Gallery feature, along with the Lightbox-style image displays I’ve been using to share larger copies of my photos. I’ve been experimenting [...]

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Truckin'

30 December 2008

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Truckin’, originally uploaded by cecily. The things I’ll do for photography. I lay down on my belly right in front of the level 4 escalators to get this shot.

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Black people can't have nothing!

28 December 2008

You knew it was only a matter of time before this foolishness hit the intarwebz, right? Seriously though, as idiotic as this may seem, it’s just as idiotic as Blackbird.

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Portrait of a President-to-Be

17 December 2008

Is it just me, or does he have a “get the panties” look on his face?

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