Archive for December 13th, 2006

13 Dec 2006 Ice Skating at Nathan Phillips Square
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ice skating at Nathan Phillips Square

I took some video of the ice skating yesterday on my way home, hoping — not in a schadenfreude kind of way — that there would be a bit more falling and maybe the occasional wipeout so I’d use music with a surfing sort of tempo and the videoclip would be more interesting. No such, er, luck… everyone around here knows seems to know how to skate!

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13 Dec 2006 The Five Ms, Christmas 2006
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the silly version

The silly version that I made with the Flickr Christmas flash hat. (There’s a beard version, too, but I wasn’t about to give the kids beards!) The “normal” version is here.

I got an envelope in the post filled with lovely drawings from the Ms, and a set of the older three Ms’ school photos. They’re getting so big!

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13 Dec 2006 Huh?
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Exhibit A:

mixed messages

I bought a latte yesterday at Starbucks in the Sick Kids Hospital (which has a pretty good selection of food vendors, FYI, out of the four big hospitals in that area), as I do from time to time. I looked at the sleeve and noticed some real irony here. Click on the pic to read Flickr comments.

Exhibit B:

marketing mixup?

Taken last Sunday on my walk around town. Silly, Trix is for kids, not Hooters.

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13 Dec 2006 Thanks, Boss!
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thanks, boss

I carried a giant cellophane-wrapped snowman home on the subway today and watched everyone wonder the same thing that crossed my mind: is it filled with CHOCOLATE?!?

*munch munch*

Why, yes it is!

It must be said: I work with great people. The managers are all competing to outdo each other in decorating their offices to raise money for charity (they have to do it all themselves; no recruiting of others), and I have to say the areas look more like the North Pole than government-issue spaces. Talk about transformation!

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13 Dec 2006 A Strange Sight At Rush Hour
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ignored by rush hour

Canon A80
December 12, 2006
Bay Street near Queen

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