Category Archives: RANDOM

World’s Worst Novel: Chapter Three

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World’s Worst Novel: Chapters One and Two

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The World’s Worst Novel

So bad it doesn’t have a title.  Or an ending.  Or a middle. Chapter One – Revised  

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Polar vortex? Lots of polar, little vortex, on the Georgian Bay

I find these satellite photographs absolutely fascinating, and the better side of the space programmes that are basically driven by that good old military/industrial complex that just won’t die.  The detail is phenomenal, all though you cannot see me waving … Continue reading

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Muskrat Love … well … Otter love … or maybe we otter talk about some thing else

You know the song, it was ineluctable, even if you managed to eluct the decade, and I am going to have to play it, as a fitting sound track to the world’s worst otter porn, which I happened to photograph … Continue reading

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Lame claim to fame, but you take what you can get

One of the unusual benefits of living in a community mostly of professors, which I kind of did in the city, where they came and drank cocktails at our house, but really did at the cottage, which has an unusual association … Continue reading

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Home again, home again, jiggedy-jig …

So here we are back in O-town [that is an o not a zero, please] and the drive home was just like a drive home. I remember the Prince of Wales once being asked by a journalist upon his arrival … Continue reading

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Our view made the news! Not our point of view, sadly, but hey …

[Edited to add exciting pictures of the ice holes as seen from the cottage at the bottom.] Except that they had a better vantage point, being able to fly and all, this is exactly what we are looking at from … Continue reading

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Life without the Internet, Oscar Wilde and Kleptocracy

So there I am, with a wifi signal showing full strength, but no internet.  To reset the device one must navigate a creaky door, a chilly, slippery, walk, and at the end, another creaky door,  a sleeping, we hope, pair … Continue reading

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Canada Legalizes Marijuana, Putin Returns the Crimea, saying he was “just kidding around,”

and people the world over decided to practice their religions in their own homes, and to stop with all the hate. Oh well, April Fool’s makes one dream again. But this is kind of funny.  Hershey had a big chocolate … Continue reading

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