tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81531682011-10-29T18:32:22.475-04:00Fatherhood, politics, education, random thoughts (heavy on the random thoughts) and stuff (always stuff).Cameron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13457101409245763699noreply@blogger.comBlogger3221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8153168.post-45937584402173995442008-10-12T03:30:00.002-04:002008-10-12T03:33:00.503-04:00

Hi there. After years (has it really been 4? WTF?) of blogging here on Blogger, I've finally registered a domain and moved everything over there. So you should go to: c2plusl.com/cameron/blog to read my thoughts on stuff and things and politics and education and design and New Zealand. Let's be realistic, there will probably be more stuff and things than any of that other stuff, but it will be

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So this morning, I'm all stunned with sleep and stressed about the day etc (as is my want), I got up, got Lucas downstairs and went to make breakfast.So I got the loaf of bread out, chucked it onto stove top, got the tea water going (there wasn't enough coffee for two cups) and then went away to the computer to check the news and the weather...A minute or so later I smell something, pretty much

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... happened to me the other day as I was leaving to go and pick Lucas up from the daycare.This late 20's guy came up to me at the door and said "Are you the owner of this house?"I was prepared for "yes I am, but seriously I don't want your cleaning service/painting service whatever". But he surprised me, he said "I'm here to applogize and to try and make amends. It was my birthday last night and

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Sometimes you see design so stupifyingly bad that you wonder if it was done on purpose... to that end I present you with this.I would suggest you wear goggles, but they will probably do nothing.

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So about two weeks ago Lucas started making rhythmic sounds with his mouth.I asked him what he was doing and he looked up at me, and said, with a great deal of incredulity "Daddy, those are my beats. I have lots of new beats."He's not going to be giving Biz Markie a run for his money any time soon, but it's fun none the less.

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But first, at breakfast today Lucas asks "Mama, what's the French word for snotz?".. sadly I was laughing to hard to hear the answer.

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In January Apple released the January Software Update for iPod Touch. Let's leave aside the fact that you have to pay $20 for it, and talk about the update stream.They're using iTunes to push it on you, so that you can then buy it through the store and update right away. This is smart, this is easy etc etc. I'm all for it.The problem is that, for a number of reasons, I just don't have the $20 to

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Hey you!Yes you!The one without the hat.You don't look cool. You look fucking stupid. It's -20c, you're not fooling anyone.

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When exactly did the world "conservative" get redefined to mean "social conservatives/raging nutbars"?All last night CNN and other media outlets were on and on about how McCain wasn't doing well with "conservatives". I kind of thought to myself "hmm.. he's winning states, as a Republican, in the Republican primary, doesn't that make him a conservative?"Then they started to unpack what they meant

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Today we installed a couple of light fixtures we got at IKEA the other day. One (in Lucas' room) went up super fast and easy, but the other became an annoying series of trips up and down the stairs to find longer machine screws to hold it up.Why doesn't IKEA sell their lights with these screws included? Why are these screws always so fricking short? Why doesn't anyone sell lights with the widest

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I love the Undergraduates, I really do. With out them in their multitudes I wouldn't have a job. This would suck in so many ways.But I went for a walk to the science building just now to go and get some money and then a Pepsi (every time I see that word in writing Suicidal Tendencies lyrics pop into my head unbidden) and opened a door at the same time as a student was coming through. We kind of

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Ok, I'm not an architect, though I have an amateurs love and understanding of some of what's involved (which is to say I obsess over my Frank Lloyd Wright books, Gerry books and Chris' Dwell magazines). I also figure that as the ultimate user of architecture (even if it's as a passing pedestrian) I'm entitled to an opinion on it.So here's the thing, any building that needs an area around it roped

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In our quest for signs and icons that don't need words we often stumble (the sign that is meant to signify "baby changing center" but winds up looking like "baby vending machine" springs to mind).In our quest to make the world safer we often over compensate and solve problems that don't exist.When we are at our very best, when we really strain ourselves, we manage to hit the nexus of both

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So we're getting some baby stuff ready to send to my sister in England (0 to 6 month clothing mostly) and we were talking about how to best send it and how much it would cost.Lucas listened to the whole conversation and then asked "why don't you just throw it into the computer and send it to her like that?"

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So today was Lucas' first trip to the Dentist. We'd gotten him ready for the whole thing by telling him about it.Christine told him that the Dentist would tickle his teeth.I told him that there would be a big camera to take pictures of his teeth.That was kind of it.We left out some steps.Like the whole "don't chew on the films for the XRAY" thing or the "stay still means really still" thing... or

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I don't like to engage in the "my OS is better than your OS" holy wars, but why is it that every time I launch Parallels Windows needs to update something?

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So, as is traditional, Christine is off to her early January doctor visit to get (I assume) anti-biotics. Because, as is also traditional, she has a throat thing going on. That has morphed into an ear thing...I, in a fit of dumb, spent part of the evening playing Halo 3. I say dumb because I managed to get in such a contorted, twisted, uncomfortable position that I wound up with just about every

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It's days like this, when there is about 60cm of snow on the ground and when it's -23C (-32 with the wind chill) that I ask myself the following:Why in the name of all things good and sacred did any of my relatives move here? Seriously. Just what the hell were they thinking? How bad were they lied to in the pamphlet?

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This puts into words what I feel is going on in Quebec right now far better than I ever could.Contrary to what outside observers may think, it is not always about sovereignty.

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So it turns out that several beers and several glasses of good port and a bunch of good food and conversation with interesting people and cute kids doesn't actually make your cold go away, but only makes it feel like it has.

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Good red wine really is much better than bad red wine.That is all.As you were.is the bottle really done now?wimper

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So, the best way to spend Christmas is not huddled under a blanket shivering. Nope.Nor is the best way to spend it checking your temp every 15 minutes...That said, I went to bed at 11ish on the 25th and woke up at 11ish on the 26th. Then, for my next trick, I had a 2.5 hour nap in the afternoon. Last night was a more normal 8ish hour sleep. I don't feel great, I'm still achy and hopped up on

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I never knew my maternal grandmother, she died way before I was born. She was a Scottish immigrant to Canada and brought with her many traditions from the old country.One of them was shortbread at Christmas. Not the fancy English shortbread cookies, or fancy things that were jammed out of a cookie gun or some crap like that. No. Shortbread, thick slabs baked in a baking pan. The average piece

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I've got a bad memory for certain things.Numbers, postal codes, names, combinations for locks, bank accounts... all elude me.Stupid details stick in my head like glue.I read an article recently (god, how I wish I could remember where - oh the irony) about how we're all losing the ability to remember because so much of our memory is stored online and we don't have to remember.My first thought was

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I've been in a bad mood.And hiding.Also working like a mad man.And in a bad mood.And stressed.There is snow on the ground and a Christmas tree in the living room.I'm relatively healthy, my family is amazing. I have a home and friends and a good job.So I'm going to deal now and stop being a stupid ass (well about blogging at least).

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Last night the Spectrum closed.For most of my life the Spectrum was one of the poles of the Montreal music geography. For my generation of music fans it was the place your favorite local band played when it had out grown Foufounes, or where your favorite out of town band played when they were too small for Metropolis or Maurice Richard Arena.It wasn't much to look at, the sight lines were good

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What is it about Adobe Acrobat that it must take over my whole computer when it does anything? I'm converting some Word docs (Faculty CVs) into PDF format, so I'm using the little add on toolbar dealie in Word. The Acrobat progress bar pops up, the Word doc comes to front, whatever else I'm doing is pushed to back.It has the feel, overall, of a scary pop up from a not so very nice part of the web

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This is what I sent to Jack Layton yesterday:Mr. Jack Layton,On your biography page it says that you believe in practical solutions for problems. And yet you keep saying things like "The strategy being followed by NATO right now is producing the precise opposite effect to the one that the promoters of this mission are suggesting should be the goal," Layton said. "In other words, growth of support

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While I'm not a fan boy by any extent*, I love Apple products. I've never bought any other kind of computer, I prefer to work on them, I currently have six (in various states of repair) around our house. I like how the OS works, I like the hardware, I like the industrial design (hmm. MB I am a fan boy).All of this to say that I have used tons of Macs, both personally and professionally. I've

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This makes me profoundly happy.Like a bit misty happy.I don't know the man, I'm no longer even tangentially a journalist, but I have been following this story very, very closely.That it ended with no death is just icing on the cake (to be honest, a bit of dead, of any variety, for the people who captured him wouldn't have bothered me tons...).

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Lately I've been trying to write something. It's kind of important and I'm totally blocked. I've been finding it very difficult to take what I can express verbally and what is in my head and put it out in words. It's quite vexing. At the root of everything I do is communication, be it visual, verbal or written. To not be able to write properly feels like cutting of part of my arm.Christine

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Here' s some stuff I've seen lately.I dunno wtf this is about... but I do like random crap...US Postal Service mail box. On McGill's Campus. I dunno. Odd.This person will teach you how to communicate with your Guardian Angel... where to even start?This was just cool, it's a vending machine that sells you power for your portable device. You plug in your iPod or Palm or mobile and feed the machine

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When we had our door installed about a month ago we wound up in a kerfufle with the masons who were working on the bricks across the street. Our contractors had thrown rubble in their bin. This ended with the guy coming and trying to get into our locked backyard, yelling, people calling each other liars and one of my neighbors coming down the ally to back me up with a gardening tool in his hand.

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Right at this very instant one of our neighbors, the one that wears an exclusive wardrobe of Harley and sports related clothing and appears to have his Terminator™ glasses welded to his head is singing along to some Arab disco in a perfectly acceptable falsetto.

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When Lucas was about a year and a half he and I went for a walk... we went along Pine and to St. Laurent... near the corner there is a bank and a biggish tree. That's where some of the local squeegee punk homeless kids gather. They pan handle, they wash car windows, that summer they slept there as well. Normally my interaction with them is limited to giving them some food/changes or a polite no

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Here is how you know for sure that you are a stress case: When the man who's wife just went into contractions with their second child tells you that you have too much stress and that you need to calm down and take deep breaths.This happened to me this afternoon.I am not pleased with myself.AlsoGOOD LUCK JENNY AND MIKE! I'm sure everything is going to go great.

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(non-parents are excused from the following post)LUCAS JUST HAD HIS FIRST REAL POOP IN THE TOILET!Crap in water never looked so good.

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So like a good lefty I'm all for cheap housing for people who have less money. I think that mixed use neighborhoods/housing (in all the senses of that term: commercial, rentals, owned, subsidized even light industrial) make for better cities and societies.I say this all to establish my street cred, and to try and mitigate what I'm about to say.We live next to a boarding house. Firstly, boarding

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So I taught Lucas this:and now he thinks there's some big guy named Bad Karma running around stealing and breaking people's bikes.Trying to explain the concept of karma to a 3 year old is some seriously tough sledding.

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So we're up to a bunch of things around here lately.One of them has been this:It's a Kraft Peanut Butter jar that we're filling with sand. From Lucas' shoes. He collects it at the daycare and every night we dump a bit more in. We're trying to fill it by the end of the summer. This is about three weeks into the project.The other thing we're doing is this:This is our fence, with the first coat of

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Yes. She did die in 2005.Yes. You did read that and the header correctly.Yes. She was cremated.No. This is not how I would have handled this.No. I'm not at all happy about the event nor the logistics.Yes. I'm still a passive aggressive pussy so this will be the only near mention of it in public.No. Please don't. They just wilt and die. You can still make donations to the Montreal General Palative

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We needed to go to Home Depot and Fabricville, but the STM are out on strike today (as a union man I'm with them... a demand of 2% a year being rejected? You should get 2% for not setting fire to the bus and showing up every day - plus the crux seems to be pensions..).So we figured we'd walk. So we did. For about 5 hours. Here's where we went.

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Ok, so at the insistence of my sister and some friends I got a Facebook account. I had been resisting because of my feelings about MySpace.For your consideration here are those feelings:It's ghetto as fuckEveryone is 18Or nakedOr bothUser customizable CSS templates does not = goodUsability? What? Huh? OMG THE GOGGLES! THEY DO NOTHING!AUTOPLAY MUSIC IS FROM SATAN! Compare that with Facebook:100%

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I've got like 5 posts in my head, some of them just house updates/a way to spam photos and some are political and some are Lucas related. All are good.

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Apparently I haven't posted since March, the day after the provincial election.I am completely unable to explain why.Well I am, but it's really not nearly exciting enough. I've been busy. And pissy. And grumpy. Also broke. And busy.Meh.

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A quick run through the blogs this morning seems to come up with the general consensus "YAY THE SOVEREIGNISTS LOST! HAHAHAH!"Thoughts on this:Did they? The PQ lost 9 seats. The Liberals 48. I'm told that this is a PQ rout. Clearly they dipped very very low in the popular vote. In no way was this a good election for the PQ, but if the take away from this election that you're getting as a

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So Radio-Canada just called it for the PLQ, with an ADQ official oppostition. Charest is still looking like he's going to lose his seat. I've read that when you are the recipiant of some kind of head trauma you very often get very sleepy.It's holding true for me.

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Ok, to follow up on my thought about the SQ and the ADQ stealing, my riding is a perfect example. Since there was a PQ our riding has gone PQ. It probably will again. But if you look at the numbers you see that the PQ is losing numbers off the bottom. The PQ has 1746, the PLQ 10o5 but the numbers for QS (at 545) and part of the ADQ(446) basically represent the gap that has historically existed

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The horror here is mounting ... the popular vote is holding like the polls sais ADQ 31, LPQ 31 and PQ 39. When this is all said and done we're going to see two specific things for sure: Quebec Solidaire will have hurt the PQ quite badly and that the ADQ is the perfect third party, stealing from both the LPQ and the PQ. At this moment the ADQ is still leading in the elected or leading count. But

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Christine on Quebec Solidaire: Their whole party is stupid. This whole "two leaders" thing? Grow up and pick one. Christine on the current results for the PQ: Does Boisclair quit right away if they come third? Her other thought "if the PQ get's wiped out the whole province is going to go so right..."Currently Radio-Can has the ADQ with 45, the PLQ with 42, PQ with 35 and QS with 1 (go go Amir).

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Now it's 36 PLQ, 17 PQ, 16 ADQ and 1 green... wtf?

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Go to http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/electionsQc2007/resultats/ if you want to see what Flash is good at and what having lots of resources gets you. Funky geekines and Bernard Derome as well? woot!

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Wooo hooo! First MPP elected.. it's Iles-de-la-Madeleine, but htere you go... by the way i voted. It was grand. Lovely. I hate this election just a bit less... but I still hat it.As it stands right now it's 22 plq, 12 Pq, 7 adq and 1 green.

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In about 12 hours the first vote results will start showing, most of these will be from inconsequential little polling stations and people who voted early. About a half hour to an hour later we'll start getting the serious results from the bigger, more important regions. Unlike most provincial elections in the last 10 years, I think that the full results won't be completely known until very very

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Lucas is very very imaginative. And, like all 3 year olds, random.So periodically he'll see something on TV or in a video or on the street and then a few weeks later he'll ask about it. A couple of weeks ago he saw a Magic School Bus episode where they visited a recycling plant. So he asked Christine to make him one to go with his recycling truck he got for Christmas.Then today he asked for a

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Since all of the injury business happened, we've been back to Ste-Justine and had Lucas' wounds looked at by a plastic surgeon. She was very happy with how they are healing and wants to see us again in a year just to keep track of it.Of course, a few days later we went out the front door, he saw a street cleaner and managed to go ass over tea kettle, even though he was holding my hand. So he now

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This morning when Chris went out the front walk was really slippery so, being the proactive manly man I am, I went and got the only salt that I thought was remotely usable. Some lovely fine grain kosher sea salt. So I chucked some on the front walk.Lucas thought this was the funniest thing he’d ever seen in his whole life. He laughed and laughed. He also asked what other foods we could throw on

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So we're at home. Lucas is tired, but in a great mood (we'd just bought him some new shoes) and he was celebrating by running with them.He tripped.And smashed his face off the coffee table.There was blood everywhere. His shirt. His face. The floor. His pants. My pants. His hands. My hands. Chris' hands.We got the bleeding stopped and called InfoSante. While we talked to them I got online and read

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A few weeks ago a nice man called me from one of the big polling firms here in Quebec. He wanted to talk to me about the Quebec election and about the three main leaders. During this interview I felt something close to horrible despair. I hate Charest, thing Dumont is a flip flopping, pseudo- libertarian who can't decide if he's a federalist or not but is sure he hates cities. Boisclair remained

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Before I get going, I want to make something clear. I think the Prime Minister of Canada should be able to fly on Canadian Forces flights whenever he or she bloody well wants with the bill footed by us, the Canadian tax payer, with in limits (joy rides, political fund raising trips etc). The era of rail travel or actually riding the campaign bus is over and, honestly, in Canada with our size, it

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Ok, first the promise. I know there is a provincial election. I'm totally aware of this. I will post about it soon. Just as soon as I'm done weeping from the horror of the decisions all Quebecois are faced with. Now RANDOM THOUGHT TIME!!I had a blood test this morning, nothing serious, just a checkup dealy. So you go in, you get the nice lady who sets up up, pokes you with the needle etc. Ok,

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The other day I was doing something around the house. And things weren't working out the way I wanted them to. I was getting frustrated and grumpy and snippy.And then I started to laugh at myself.Because what I was so pissed about was that running the power supply for my 3.5 year old son's computer was not working out the way I wanted it to.NB: It's an old B and W G3 with a piddling amount of RAM

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After 3.5 years as a Dad I've worked out some things:Diapers are honestly no big deal. There will be some you'll talk about years from now, but they are nothing. Parenting is hard work. Your love for your kid knows pretty much no boundsA wide variety of children's shows would qualify as the worst possible crap on TV. Let's look at #4 shall we?I've worked out a rule of threes for this. Basically

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The walls! THEY ARE CLOSING IN ON ME!!!10 HP desktop computers about to be readied for roll out. Gargh!

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If you are a constant reader of this blog (hi Mike, hi Marjorie, hello random other friends who periodically drop by), you'll remember we got a kitten about two months ago. She is adorable, she is cute, she does funny things. She is crazy making. She thinks attacking Elvira (our older cat) for hours on end is funny. She climbs walls (literally), she tries to get up on the ledge of hanging mirrors

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At Lucas' last birthday he got a huge ass train set, then at Christmas he got more and more pieces and a bunch more trains. There are many things I am good at in this world, but for some reason building complex things like a railway seems to not be one of them. The goal has always been to use as much rail as possible and to try for a closed loop.Today this goal was attained. GO CHRISTINE!!

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Lucas has a pair of overalls that he hasn't worn for a while, the other day he asked about them.The proper French word for overalls is "salopette".So Lucas asks for "salade de pets", which would translate to "fart salad".

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So, this is the deal. I blog when I can, when I feel the whim, when I, well, when I feel like it. Lately I haven't. Plus work has been busy as hell. There will be many posts in the next few days. So the three of you who ever read this will have a lot of verbose crap to trudge through. YAY FOR YOU!!

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So I work at a University. In Montreal. Right now our campus has cops and journalists and photographers and a news chopper. Because some one thought they saw someone with a gun. We've been told to lock ourselves in our offices. Knowing the bit that I do about guns I am here to tell you that our doors and walls are manifestly not bullet proof.There doesn't seem to be an evacuation. And now you

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So Harper shuffled the cabinet today, as expected.And, as expected, Rona Ambrose got shuffled.She told reporters that she was excited to get a new job.If I sucked as bad as she did at my job as she did as hers I'd be pretty happy about getting a new job as well.UPDATE:Garth Turner, who I haven't really made up my mind about, has an interesting comment about all of this on his blog

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I bank with the Toronto Dominion, their close, they have branches all over the place and they do the things I need them to do. Most of my interaction with them is through the web or through their bank machines. I quite like the web banking experience, the UI and the speed are good. The design is a nice balance of functional and esthetically pleasing.Now, over the years the TD "Green Machine" (as

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So we got a new little housemate, which Lucas named Metro.She arrived today and when everyone else was napping (and I was on new kitten duty) she fell asleep in my arms.

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Look, he's 3. That means that a certain amount of tomfoolery is expected. But Lucas seems to be charting a new course of tomfoolery. One that makes me think that we've a lifetime of staying on our toes to look forward to. The other morning I go off downstairs to make the coffee, Chris takes her shower, and Lucas is asleep. So I take the monitor with me, plug it in and go on about my business.

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Oh Steven. Steven, Steven, Steven... Not content to blow off the GST promise, not content to politicize just about every damn thing in the world, no no, you have to go and dust off the whole constitution mess. I know, it was just sitting there all musty and such, and Gilles was about to go and play with it anyway, but ...Actually, no I can't be bothered to be funny, so I'll try and be serious

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Ok, look Rona Ambrose gives a domestic political speech, at an international conference, where she attacks the environmental record of the previous government (this could also be an attack on Dion's LPC leadership hopes, but mb I'm thinking too Machiavelli).The next day the French Environment Minister responds. Basically saying, look the old guys may not have been perfect (god knows they weren't)

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Look, when you are on the international stage, dealing with criticism of your policies, you don't blame the last people, you don't go into a political domestic speach to an international body, you don't whine like a little baby.Unless you're Rona Ambrose, then, apparently, you do.This is clearly some of that conservative "the buck stops here - we take responsibility" stuff that I've heard so much

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So Lucas and I are back.We stood in the rain in the company of heroes.And then Lucas (and, if I were being honest, I) couldn't take it any more. The umbrella that had been loaned to us by a nice woman was no longer umbrellaing. The prayers, the silence, last post etc.. all were done. And Lucas was crying to go.

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Not because I love or glorify war.Not because I revel in the death of others.Nor because I think putting boots on the ground is always the best way to go.But because of Uncle Dick and Uncle Tommy and Uncle Doug and my Grandfather Wilson and my Great Uncle Ed.Because of the people they represent and the people that followed them. The ones that came home and the ones that didn't.Because honouring

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...but I've been dancing naked in the streets, what with Donnie gone and the US House and Senate in the hands of adults.

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Ok, so the CPC government got in, to the extent that they did, in part based on the standard conservative promise that they would be fiscally responsible, prudent etc etc etc. That they would be grown ups etc etc. That they would keep their promises. Esentially that they would be the opposite of the LPC.They also go in, again in part, because of their support out west. So it is with some

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So this is the first Halloween that Lucas has dressed up for. There was debate, there were discussions, but he decided that he would be a dragon. Why?? Mostly because that was what pattern we thought looked doable (by which I mean, Chris thought that. I just nodded mostly.)First off, it was not easy. Between now and next year I have to learn how to sew with a machine, because just being able to

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Ok, so if you're here for my infrequent ramblings about politics you should probably go somewhere else now. Because this is a post about toilet training. And while poop into a toilet and politics have a great deal in common, this may not be the post for you. So we've been struggling with Lucas' toilet training, it's been pretty much fits and starts. He will be interested in the process and want

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Jason had a thought, one that had escaped me quite nicely. If the goal of Peter calling Belinda a dog (god, this sounds so High School when you type it out) was to destract everyone from the fact that the Plan That Isn't sucks, then it's working quite nicely.My guess? We've got another couple of days of this, maybe till the weekend. My morning La Presse tells me that the CPC are defending Peter

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I had dinner guests over on Saturday, relatives that I love to bits, and we got talking about the Environmental Plan That Wasn't, and at some point my Uncle made the point that on a per capita basis the US was doing better than Canada.This is a point I've heard before, and I responded better to him (because being polite and reasonable to a relative is a lot easier than to some tighty whitey

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I am, if you read the post below, clearly a person in need of some mirth. Work was fine, but it was sort of mirth free. It's Christine's birthday today, and giving gifts makes me feel amazing, so that was good for a tone of mirth. But then the Conservative Party of Canada delivered a oil tanker of mirth. They released their environmental plan. Or rather their Plan to Get Around to Having An

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So Mitts went to the vet today to be put to sleep. She hadn't eatten in days, would barely budge from the bed, had a big drink the night before last and then promptly went downstairs and puked it all up. I'm numb from all of this. And weary. So very weary.

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Most things in politcs can be looked at in three ways:Is it smart politics - as in does it make you look good and potentially make the opposition look bad?Is it good for the country/state of democracy?Will it achieve what it's stated goal is?This is an example of something that scores amazingly well on #1 and, in my opinion, falls horribly short on #2 and #3.Think about it, if you're against this

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So last week we were on vacation. Time to relax, to kick back, to take care of some chores...or, in the case of our house, deal with everyone having a cold, a computer with a dead power supply unit and to take a cat to the vet to find out whta was going on with her.The cold/sore throat is fading.The computer is with these fine people (because I had a spare $200 $300 ish to just throw around).But

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So the return of cooler weather has seen the return has seen the return of the Ugg boot. This and this kind of explain how I feel about them.I want them to go away.

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So Lucas just had his 3 year check up. As we knew, but now have official confirmation of, the boy is umm.. FREAKING HUGE! 97 percentile in both height and weight (which is good, balance in those two catagories is nice).He now weighs 19kg (41.99 lbs) and is 102 cm (40.14 inches).Which is, by any measure, big. Both of us are, frankly, a bit freaked out sometimes by how big he is. We spend a lot of

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A friend of this blog and blogger, Kelly Nestruck, has done something quite brave and quit his steady job at The National Post, moved out of his place in Toronto, packed all his stuff and is moving to England. So, for what it's worth (given that in an hour most blogs get more hits than I do in, say, a week), I'd like to wish Kelly well. Just don't develop one of those annoying fake accents. Or

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Wagons pulled by tractors were ridden.Apples were picked (and eaten).Puppet shows were watched.Food was consumed.School busses (Mercedes ones at that) were ridden.Everyone came back in one piece.I'm so tired I could die.

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One last Birthday related post.My sister lives near London. Lucas is obsessed with mass transit. London has the tube.This is a match made in heaven.So Marjorie got Lucas a book about the tube.This was his reaction:Thank you Tata Marjorie!

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So, on the Sunday Lucas had his second B-day party. My Dad and my cousin (or 5th or some shit) Susan came by, we Bar BQ'd and had cake and tons of fun. It was a lot less wound up than the night before, less people, one less kid...Lucas finally got his train set, which he loved, and Susan got him this cool puzzle that comes with little cars. On one side is a sort of off road, rough road sort of

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The next half of the birthday update is coming. I swear to god. I just haven't been all that bloggy since the events of last Wednesday. I've been thinking a lot about what happened. About the pain of losing a child, how you can't let it paralize you and about gun control. Some of these thoughts are starting to come together. So there will be a post about that soon. But not before I finish the

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Wow.So we're going to have to make a serious attempt at culling Lucas' old toys, becuase I think the number he has just went up by a third.A large meassure of it falls into the category of Trucks, Buses and other things with wheels. He also got some more Playmobile stuff, and some books/cartridges for his Leappad thing. We ate too much. We drank quite a lot. Lucas and Anthony (his cousin)

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Three years ago today Lucas was born. As I write this he's piling his Routemaster (London bus) on top of his yellow school bus. And talking about "autobus tripledecker!!!" When I met Christine and I fell for her I never figured that I'd be this in love, in awe, challanged by, smitten with, amused, entertained, fascinated with anyone else ever again. Then Lucas came along.Turns out there was more

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The coffee isn't working any more.Fuck.

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So here goes, my sister came up with a great idea:Name your worst going back to school outfit ever, situate it in time and give a little comment.Here's mine:Worst outfit... hell I can isolate it to one piece of clothing:Plaid, colarless, new wave, neuru shirt from Le Chateau.I wore it with jeans and Chucks, camoflauge ones. One of the first things that I consider "fashion" that I bought under my

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