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The writing is on the wall
Okay Windows people, this seems obvious to those of us who use a Mac, but perhaps now is a good time to come over to the light side.
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Cool… cool… I want one.
When I travel I like to keep a journal, although I have to admit that I haven’t been very diligent the last couple of trips. Normally I use a simple bound sketchbook (I have dreams of being able to sketch. Much like my dreams of playing an instrument they die when I discover it takes…
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The Young Birder’s Guide
One of the challenges to introducing youth to watching birds is the lack of age appropriate reference materials, such as field guides. That has just changed with the release of The Young Birder’s Guide: to the birds of eastern North America, the latest in the Peterson Field Guide series. Written by Bill Thompson III, he…
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I’m four and my dad is forty.
It’s my dad’s birthday today. He’s 79. The title of this comes from the fact that his dad, my grandfather, was also born April 12th, and his aunt would never let him forget that when he was four he announced that he was four and his dad was forty. My dad remains the man I…
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Follow the leader
This morning, as I was sitting in the office, I heard a Raven (Corvus corax) calling from the client side deck. I got up and looked out the dining room to see three magnificent Ravens, crests erect and calling, walking along the deck rail, following each other. As each reached the end of the rail…
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Ghosts in the rain
There was a moment, last year in France, that I imagined my Grandpa standing near me, not as a young soldier, but as the man I knew, a man revisiting a place filled with ghosts from his youth. Forty years ago he returned to Vimy, fifty-one years after the battle that must have been a…
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Ennui
It’s been a struggle to want to write anything on the blog these days and I’m not sure why. Perhaps its the flu that has been lingering. Perhaps its the warm weather that leaves me gazing out of the window instead of the computer screen. Perhaps its a pile of other work that I’m also…
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What?
Okay, when Nunavut’s Premier, Paul Okalik, uttered the profane insult about the CEO of the Nunavut Association of Municipalities last June it was clearly wrong, and an unprofessional act by someone whose office clearly demands he act with more decorum. But… a $600,000 lawsuit because someone called you a name? Man, my money problems are…
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Nunavut Nonsense’s Tribute to the Night
The latest challenge is up at Jen’s Nunavut Nonsense blog. A photo contest, a tribute to the last little bit of this season’s night. There are several excellent photos to chose from, and vote for your favourite.
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The life of the giveaways
Once again, the generous and prodigous bloggers over at 10,000 Birds, Mike, Charlie and Corey are giving away copies of a book. The book is The Life of The Skies: Birding at the End of Nature by Jonathon Rosen, recently reviewed at 10,000 Birds by Mike. They're giving away five (count 'em) copies of the…
