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owlfish at 08:18pm on 02/03/2005
owlfish at 08:18pm on 02/03/2005- I'm now the proud owner of a wireless card for my laptop.
may have arrived two days ago at her destination, but her journey lives on. She sent me postcards! The ones from days 1 and 2 of her trip arrived today. - There must be many distraught students on the University of Toronto campus tonight. Thanks to a broken water main, Grad House will have no running water for 12-24 hours.
- Speaking of campus, I happened to intercept large numbers of tractors protesting inadequate government agricultural subsidies at Queen's Park today. The bright colors of the tractors were lovely against the foot and a half of snow smoothing the park landscape, inamongst the bare trees. I didn't have a camera with me, but you can see pictures of it thanks to
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piratehead and larkvi.doctor_mama went on holiday and took lovely seaside photographs.- A collection of links - ordered by year - of images of windmills. Some of the links are dead.
- I'm a big fan of rice pudding, and today, the world of online journalism has several articles to offer on the subject - and on rice in general. You can read up on all the lovely varieties of rice pudding, or read up on various other rice-related news stories over at Cronaca (
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cronaca). - I'd heard about Chowhound for a long time but never really took a look around the site until a day or two ago. I deeply admire making sites accessible to text browsers... but... how on earth does anyone sanely use that site on a daily basis? Even with the HotPosts feature, I found it annoying to use. Still, it's a treasure trove of information on food.
- There must be many distraught students on the University of Toronto campus tonight. Thanks to a broken water main, Grad House will have no running water for 12-24 hours.
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I am addicted to Chowhound. I don't bother with HotPosts because I only read "Home Cooking" and my local board. Once you've been doing it for a while you'll find it's pretty quick to scan the subject lines to see if there's anything you're interested in. I post there as Buttercup.