In May we visited Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for the annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association. As part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the CCA moves from province to province each year, meaning that if you attend long enough, you eventually get to see a lot of Canada. That has a lot …
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On the lighter side…
I’m on vacation until school starts. My parents were here for 5 days, which was nice although it was a bit treacherous going out with them. I think they may come in warmer weather in future years. They left on Christmas, and since then it’s been a bit of socializing and self-care, which means finishing …
2 hours 30 minutes on the phone with Bell customer service in the last 48
I feel like Kevin Dillon’s character on Entourage even writing this stuff down (he’s the one who flies into a rage when they screw up his order at Starbucks), but really, between the insipid hold music, the endless proliferation of account numbers and dollar totals and the inability to get a straight answer other than …
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The Visual Culture of Frontenac at Rachel
There was much left unsaid in the blog in the past year, but I also left out some good pictures. So, in the spirit of the real estate series that told you what happened after it happened, there will be some pics coming your way in the next few days. If I have sometime intelligent …
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Real Estate Afterword: Things We Learned
1. Stuff is really expensive here, but cheap for a city of this size and quality. We just have to deal with it. 1A. Apparently, economists are right about markets. People (i.e., Carrie and I) can be convinced that anything is worth anything. It just takes awhile and slowly one starts to think in terms …
Why I Hate WebCT, Part II
My initial post on the subject has actually made the rounds at McGill and some people are talking about ways to fix things. I appreciate that. In followup correspondence, I listed some other things I hate about WebCT, and since the first post was a hit at least three people, I thought I’d post these …
Road Runner Moment; or, “Same Spot, Different Car”
That giant snow drift with the person walking by? There’s a car under there, and that’s where we were parked for the last snowstorm. I don’t know if it comes out well in the picture but from our window, you can see the antenna — but that’s all. We wised up and put our car …
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