Month: December 2012

I’m not a card-carrying anything, but I do agree with Andrea Horwath on this one. Dalton McGuinty has some nerve shutting down the whole parliament while his party picks through its leadership pile. The (yawn) petition.

Out walking, I sometimes catch fragments of phrases uttered by other pedestrians. A gentleman was taking a photo of 2 little kids and their Mom, who was kneeling down between them. As I passed, he was looking at the shot in his view finder and determined that one of the children looked “disconsolate”. He looked at the 3 year old and said, “Do you understand disconsolate?”
Over by Coxwell while waiting for a light to change, this:
“I really wanted to punch the guy out, he pissed me off so much. If he hadn’t been standing in front of a girl I wanted to date, I woulda given him a love tap.”

Peter Sever called this minute-and-a-half video to my attention, saying:

One of my father’s relatives-by-marriage is among the 699 saved children. She lives outside Hamilton. I discovered this in a phone call this week…

Here’s the backstory…

Is this pretty or what? My new Iomega Mac Companion External Desktop Hard Drive fits precisely onto the foot of my iMac. It’s even contoured to match the shape of the iMac stand. Match aluminum, too, as you see. Two terabytes of storage, Firewire 800 speed, and pleasantly quiet. It cost over $200 with tax, but that the same as I paid for my defunct Elephant Drive and the new one has 4 times the storage. Will it last better than the Elephant Drive? Iomega thinks so. They give the thing a 3-year warrantee.
Fingers crossed. I am creating a new Time Machine backup as I type this.

Before I toss out this bit of memorabilia, I thought I’d record it here… it was part of a piece of public-participation art during the summer’s Art of the Danforth event. People were invited to write something on provided shipping tags, add theirs to a cluster hanging from a park tree, and take one that they liked.
I liked this one, especially in the current political environment. I forget what I added on my tag… nothing memorable, obviously.

A local tree has grabbed hold of an iron fence that was imprisoning it. “Why?”, I wondered. “Has the tree lost patience and begun throttling its oppressor?”
But I turned the corner, and the plot thickened…

He’s gotta best the best photographer of Toronto. Worth visiting. Click through a few.