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I went to a lecture put on by UVic's biomedical department on monday. It was at a pub and had free food so that was a great start. The room it was in was set up with tables and chairs that were all full of people who have given up on working (the older), so I jammed in with a student I had come in...
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So after seven weeks, I've finaly finished the halloween candy.


Quote of the moment, is from James May's book May on Motors: "Some old boy may be taking an inordinately long time to negotiate a mini roundabout, but for all we know he may once have had the steady hand and razor-sharp reactions necessary to plant a bouncing bomb on the face of the Eider...
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I got the feeling that kristen the waitress is thinking of asking me out today. I know it is likely just my mind putting a glance at and away from me and over hearing a 'good luck' from one of her co-workers, in the best possible light, but you never know. She was friendly and talkative today, I was wondering if I would end up...
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Quote of the moment:
"The happiest day of my life was when my mother broke her wooden spoon over my granite hard buttock"
- john tucker, 100 girls


If you do things right people won't be sure you've done anything at all. I wish I could do some more things right, the shop foreman seems to be mad at me. Fortunatly he is taking it...
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This blog brought to you by the letter R

R is for random

Quote of the moment: After throwing a bit of wood that was in the way in the back of the cube van in the front passengar seat
Me: Your co driver might be a bit board today dave.
Dave: (nothing)
Me: Don't be surprised if he turns out a bit knoty.
Dave:...
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As none of you are wondering why I'm posting so 'late' on a week day, I'll tell you.

Car trouble. I hate when something new breaks, something that has been fixed. I like being able to say to myself, ok this bit is going to be fine for years to come. So a one dollar bolt has failed me again and I get to sit...
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A lot of history is about it's context in the modern world, pyramids, roads, the systen chaple ceiling, david... I remember going threw a year and a half or more of my two year highschool history class
of people and places long dead or dust, then we covered the first world war. A war that ended before two of my grandparents were born. As part...
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But Margaret Clitherow's death may have had a yet greater effect on Bristish history. Her terrible end certainly caused a sensation at the time. Whilst Catholics Feted her, many in the city could not believe how willingly she had gone to her death. Her father, Henry May, Lord Mayor of York, actually accused her of effectively commiting suicide and abandoning her family. But there was...
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Quote of the moment.
"the risk that the market will collapses in a smoldering ruin and take your savings with it."- summer 2008


During the peninsula war the french would send partly coded messages worded so the plain language parts would have a different message than the coded bits.

This sprang into mind when I was reading the summer 2008 'money sense'.

"...and other ......
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I applied at blockbuster for a friday job today. An interesting thing I found was that they have an application that they make you fill out if you want to drop a resume off. So I filled in all the blanks with infomation that was all on my resume and wondered what are other people dropping off? a business card with 'job pleaze' written on...
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