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Not a comforting warning from the ATM at an actual bank!

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I’ve never had such an elevated latte before… Taipei 101:

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Haggis, that is.  I’ve heard haggis described as “a sheep, turned inside out”.  Traditionally consisting of all the bits of a sheep you weren’t going to serve up in recognizable form (the “offal”) made into a sausage and cooked in the sheep’s stomach.  Well, you asked.    And before you get disgusted, set down that forkful [...]

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I have long struggled with finding the right way to keep track of calendars, lists, plans, etc, while on the go.  I was an “early adopter” of the whole “Personal Digital Assistant” (PDA) thing.  I had one of the early (though not earliest) Apple Newtons, and bought a final generation Newton MessagePad 2100 in 1998, [...]

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So glad someone of influence reads the blog, and got the memo… (though I still did not find any coconut milk)

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Amenities in an Amsterdam hotel: shampoo, conditioner and hand lotion in “mood therapy”. Moods are: “calm”, “happy” and “alive”. I must confess, I had not really considered the state of being not dead was especially a mood, before!

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Well, yesterday, it was that time again –  time for a different view on my way to work. (Luckstone Quarry lookout, W&OD bike trail) A momentary aberration in my daily commute — Bike to Work Day! (Or, as I like to think of it — “Guilt-free eating day” ;-) ).   Yesterday’s ride was 19mi [...]

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Routing courtesy Icelandic volcano ash cloud…

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… and don’t you ever forget it! We were driving by Castalia Marsh at high tide, the other day, and were astonished to see that it was completely flooded.  It’s winter, high tides tend to be at their highest, and we did just have a wicked storm system come through, that did significant damage in [...]

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Many buildings in Amsterdam are old.  And they have a “native population”, that survives transfer of ownership.  To help deal with this, it is not unusual for restaurants to employ “peace keepers” of the four-legged sort. I recently met Mavis: Mavis was not above supplementing her rodent-chasing diet with handouts from the restaurant’s kitchen: While [...]

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When looking at grey November vistas, stunning in their simple beauty… there’s only one question:  guess who’s coming… … to dinner? And a fine dinner they were, too. Didn’t stop me from playing with the “Ducka la Something or Other” recipe — browning the cabbage and onionbefore adding it to the duck in the slow [...]

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When is a (meeting) table not a table? When it is a Rube Goldberg implementation of a table: Yes, those are vise grips and hinges you see under there. And it all looked so innocent with the table clothes!

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I thought this article, about Schaefer Yarn’s “Sock the Vote” effort, was interesting for the peep into the yarn industry it gives. (“Sock the Vote” is a set of 4 colourways of sock yarn Schaefer did to represent the colours apparently favoured by Michelle Obama, Hilary Clinton, Sarah Palin and Cindy McCain). In particular, the [...]

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