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Sometimes, the bear eats you

Posted by Sandy Kemsley on September 23, 2008 in friends |

Sometimes I think that my friends have much more interesting jobs that I do: This is taken by a friend who works for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, on a trip with an icebreaker in the Arctic. In my job, I only see this metaphorically.

Book Review: The Last Patriot

Posted by Sandy Kemsley on September 22, 2008 in books |

I should know that any book that compares fundamentalist Islam to Nazism twice in the first half of the book is going to be a bit of a knee-jerk, flag-waving, post-9/11, pro-American piece of thriller fluff. That being said, The Last Patriot wasn’t the worst piece of knee-jerk, flag-waving, post-9/11, pro-American piece of thriller fluff [...]

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Rogers Wireless’ website blows

Posted by Sandy Kemsley on September 21, 2008 in canada, rant, technology |

The one good thing about Rogers Wireless’ really shitty customer service is that waiting on hold gives me time to take snapshots of their non-functioning website — the reason that I’m waiting on hold in the first place — and blog about it: I’ve been trying to change my price plan online for 3 days [...]

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New Theme

Posted by Sandy Kemsley on September 19, 2008 in blogging |

You may have noticed (if you don’t read this via RSS) that I’m playing around with a new theme on this blog — I decided that it needed something a bit more colourful and whimsical. This is a free WordPress theme called Notepad Chaos from Smashing Magazine. No widget support, and I had to dick [...]

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Renegade Nuit Blanche

Posted by Sandy Kemsley on September 19, 2008 in culture, toronto |

Are you an artist creating something for Nuit Blanche, but not on the official program? Rannie saw this posting calling for information about unofficial Nuit Blanche participants, with the aim to create a “program for the renegade installations”: The contact email, difficult to read on the photo, appears to be stephanievonawesome (at) gmail.com

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