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Tired of the scheming, scamming and spamming
Inevitably, when you hang out your virtual shingle on the internet, you’ll subject yourself to people (or their bots) who think it’s great fun to fill your inbox with garbage.
In the last 24 hours, we’ve received about a dozen emails full of gibberish on our contact form. These make me chuckle at least, since I [...]
Test your Colour IQ
I had seen this a while back and meant to blog about it, and then noticed that Drawn! mentioned it today — this is a fun little test to see just how well you can discern varying hues. Good fun for all you visual-types :)
It doesn’t take that long to do, and in case you’re wondering [...]
Metal for Monsters update
Mark your calendars, because the Metal for Monsters line will be available for sale as of Wednesday, October 1. But, you’ll be happy to know that we’re now taking pre-orders that will ship starting October 1. There’s a bit more background on the story with the previous Metal for Monsters post.
We also finally added our [...]
The Omnivore’s 100
From Very Good Taste comes a list of 100 things that should be tried at least once. You too can take part, by following the instructions below:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional [...]
“Blues” sale
20% off anything blue!
That’s just a small sample of what’s on sale. The sale starts today and ends August 30.
Happy shopping!
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Sometimes, we’re late adopters around here.
While we have four computers for 2 users (mind you, two of the computers are very very slow), we’re not much in the way of gaming, despite that fact that I have a brother that has a resumé full of work for computer gaming companies.
So when people talk about different [...]
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I always thought the Feist song was pretty entertaining for kids, seeing as we used to play it a lot on our iPod (appropriate), and Jack would actually sing along, even filling in the line of “changing your heart”.
So seeing Feist on Sesame Street doing muppet dancing = awesome :)
And in a proud parental aside, [...]
Summer reading list
We love the Ottawa Public Library’s system where you can surf their catalogue online, reserve the books that interest you and then have them e-mail you when they’re ready to pick-up :)
Recent books that we’ve borrowed that have been good reads are:
1. Small Spaces by Rebecca Tanqueray with photography by Chris Everard.
A great little book [...]
When life hands you rotten bananas
We go through phases with bananas around here. They either get gobbled up within two days, or they sit until they become freckled and then brown. And no one wants to eat brown bananas. Well, maybe Jack, but he’ll just ask for them incessantly until he gets a taste of how overripe [...]
“Watch blue baby?”
If you’re not the parent of a toddler, then there’s a good chance that you haven’t seen Pocoyo (aka “Blue baby” to our son Jack). The show is good enough that I actually *like* watching it, which is saying a lot because I’ve watched the same 20 episodes at least 100 times by now. [...]
