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The future is so bright
Happy 10th Anniversary Nunavut!
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Gallow’s Pole
I meant to post this earlier, a congratulations to New Mexico for becoming the fifteenth State to abolish the death penalty. It didn’t come from a realization that the Death Penalty is fundamentally wrong, but from the, almost as important, realization that justice systems, despite their best efforts otherwise, are unable to guarantee that no…
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Upperclass Twit of the Year
Those of you who are familiar with the Monty Python sketch, will recall that during the competition of Upperclass Twit of the Year, one of the tasks was run over a dummy but one of the twits manages to run over himself. And although it seems an impossible task, except in the fertile minds of…
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Inuksuit
Inuksuit, in my opinion, are vastly overexposed as a cultural symbol. From a huge one in Hay River (not the tundra) to the Olympics, to every cheesy souvenir that has Nunavut written somewhere on it, they are impossible to avoid. Which is too bad really, because they should be iconic, they are a perfect symbol.…
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Obligatory Sunday Raven photo
From the drive today, shot from a moving truck. The iceberg in the background was planned was pure luck.
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B’rer Hare and B’rer Fox
Although the House Hare has been about since the tail end of the dark season I've not seen it. Only its tracks. However today Travis came running from the Great Room saying it was there, and then ran to the back door, just in time to see it go by. I grabbed my camera and…
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See what I mean.
I'm serious. Somebody stop me. This is but a fraction of them.
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Font Mad
The other day I was over at Amy's blog …on the present moment, and commented on her new theme. Its nice and clean and a couple of the fonts caught my eye. So I asked her what the fonts were and she told me, and pointed me to Dafont.com… That was a mistake. Thousands of…
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Perhaps its time to move to the private sector.
This just saddens me.
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Coffee, clones, and cartography
I heard of a writer, whose name I don't recall, responding to a question about writer's block something along the line of "You know, my father was a trucker but he never had 'trucker's block'". And I suppose its true to a point, but just like there are days when his father probably rued climbing…
