Author: Bill

Vic Toews is a slow learner but a stubborn menace to Canadian civil liberties and values. Help oppose his continuing connivances to promote and expand his warrantless surveillance Bill C-30. Let’s kill this off for good and get Harper to shuffle Toews out of cabinet.
Here’s a link you can use.

It has served its purpose. Four blue eggs hatched and flew a while ago. Mother robin still eats in our front yard, but she’s done with nesting for a while.
When I took the nest down from its perch atop a porch pillar, I noticed that the outside, structural windings were made of long, long strands of coarse grass. Short fine blades were used as lining. Creature comforts, no doubt.

Maybe it ate too much chocolate. (see entry below)

News of our household chocolate embargo hasn’t reached the UK. This huge bar reached me today, along with tins of cookies, shortbreads and a Thank You lollipop. Some video editing I did for the Magill wedding prompted the extravaganza. So thank you, Magills and thank you Kathleen for getting it here unbroken.
I tend to eat every scrap of chocolate that comes my way, instantly. In emergency situations like this, I ask Danica to put it out of sight and issue pieces at a civilized rate.

Centre panel: Lloyd Cooke in his tent with Cheryl and Danica
Riverdale Art Walk has GROWN since we last visited! The annual show created a city of tents in Jimmy Simpson park, absolutely stuffed with paintings, photographs and sculptures. Something for every taste, although I overheard an artist saying he hoped for more sales at some other venue. “Toronto sucks”, he opined. Evidently we buy more street eats than artworks.

Photo credit: Danica Andersen
We had heard of a delicious Turkish food called pide [pronounced pea-deh] and Danica remembered that one of the best sources was nearby. Pizza Pide is at the corner of Gerrard East and Pape Avenue, near Gerrard Square. It was lunchtime and the restaurant was doing a brisk business, churning out more than 20 different kinds of a sort of Turkish pizza. Wonderful!

I upgraded hours ago, as soon as I found out about DuckDuckGo. All the fast results of Google without the privacy invasion and filtering.

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Google keeps you in a search results “bubble”, too. You are shown first page results that Google decides you want to see, based on your previous searches. Other results are buried on deeper pages. Is that service or a way of keeping you in a rut. Pop the bubble.

…until we get CBC TV back from the NHL.

Surely success lies ahead for this nifty invention, followed by a ton of inferior knock-offs. I found them on Kickstarter, which is a pretty nifty site in it’s own right.

Merrill sent me a few of these… I picked a favourite.