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I should be connected to Jan on there. We've met in real life.

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Not at all. Bruddah Iz was a genius.

Also, G D, I play guitar, piano, violin, and flute. But I don't actually have either my violin or my flute here with me in Newfoundland, and we don't have a piano either.

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Jayelle gave me a ukulele for an early birthday present, and although I play other instruments, there's just something about this one that makes me want to make silly videos of myself. So. I'm going to post videos of myself playing the ukulele, and I will take requests of what to play next. Hopefull...

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The more I think about it, the more the death of the only black guy angers me. The inspiration for X-Men is the Civil-Rights movement. Mutants are symbolic stand-ins for black people. But the movie, which makes this connection really unsubtle by being set in the 60s, perpetuates exactly the racial p...

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Confession: I LIKE getting up with my baby and walking around the apartment with her at 4am, singing her to sleep. It makes me feel like a good father.

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EL, my supervisors have always been very accommodating and understanding. I try to give lots of notice when I know something is coming (like Jan's due date for example), but I've never had any trouble. Your mileage my vary, however.

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Pocket diapers are not at all hard to work with, EL.

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Looooooooobbbbbbbbsteeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr.

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Parenting while studying is a breeze. Kids are totally able and willing to work around your schedule. /lies

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Don't sweat it. You'll do fine.

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I will definitely need a much bigger stack than that to prepare for my comps, but at least my books will be interesting.

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Hey guys, did you know that there is a Canadian election going on right now? And the vote is on Tuesday!?
The vote is on Monday.

Whaa!?

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Hey guys, did you know that there is a Canadian election going on right now? And the vote is on Tuesday!? And it looks like the NDP (a, by American standards, very left wing party) will be the official opposition and might even win!!? For a lot of its history Canada has had a de-facto two party syst...

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My ring finger is MUCH longer than my index finger.

*is attractive*

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I'm not a physicist, but Uranium 235 is naturally radioactive, which means it decays at a slow rate by shedding neutrons. If you have enough Uranium 235 gathered together to create critical mass, then the natural decay splits one atom which sheds neutrons at a faster rate, splitting more atoms as it...

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This makes Canada's fourth federal election in seven years.

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I'm sorry you're unhappy, Josh. Do you want to talk about it?

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JUST SEND ME THE ADDRESS SO I CAN GOOGLEMAP IT!!

...there is an xkcd about this but I can't find it.

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You, sir, are a complete and utter madman.

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Okay, I am a fairly ruthless minimalist by inclination and I'm trying to be generous here. I don't think you need window unit air conditioners. Drink iced drinks and wear less clothes. Do you do a lot of printing? If not, you don't really need a printer. You can do printing at a stationary store whe...

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Homemade, almond-cream-filled croissants. (He really loves almonds). I am so very afraid of laminated doughs. I've managed to avoid them entirely in my baking excursions thus far, but this weekend I will spend two days turning dough. Oh dear. Words of encouragement, please! My experience with crois...

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I've been paying pretty close attention to the situation, especially in Egypt. Not to be flippant, but my opinion right now is pretty much: "Whoa! Crazy!" I think government should come from the consent of the governed, and sometimes that point needs to be made dramatically--but I'd rather...

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Jayelle and I just bought our very first new (used) car. It's a silver 99 Honda Civic with absolutely no frills. And it needs a name.

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Yes, but do you volunteer ... FOREVER?

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locke, you are entitled to your opinion of Narnia, but I think you're putting your finger exactly on a major problem of Hollywood as it currently exists. If you don't want to be faithful to the source material, why not just make something original? There's an enormous amount of (what I think is misp...

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Have scientists cured HIV?!?!

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With respect, StS, since as you say you haven't and aren't going to read the leaks yourself, how would you know whether they're important or not?

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The Wikileaks cables have less to do with individual decisions than with the broader approach the United States has accelerated since 9/11 towards aggressively invading the privacy of its citizens and foreign nationals, all the while shielding even its most mundane government functions from scrutin...

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Thanks everyone!

Jayelle is doing great, still in the hospital until tomorrow, but feeling really good. Maggie is also doing well, and getting cuter by the day. Here's another pic for you:

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Have you guys seen this new book? It's called "How I Killed Pluto, and Why it Had it Coming", and it's by Mike Brown, the man who discovered Eris, and so essentially killed Pluto.

Snappy title, you've got to give him that.

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On the whole, I'm with Jota and Janus on this. I'm of the opinion that government secrets are generally a bad thing. One thing I wonder about wikileaks is, the mainstream media has been pretty hard on wikileaks. But isn't this THEIR job? To expose secrets, to publish leaks, to blow things open? Isn'...

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Check this out, then tell me it's awesome.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11917279

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You don't have to feel like an ass, but yeah, the idea is to complain about a genuinely annoying problem, then provide some perspective as a counterpoint.

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I spent a bunch of time downloading a podcast, but THEN it turned out I didn't have the ipod connector cord! So I had to walk to the bank to deposit my paycheque and listen to music on my ipod instead of listening to a new podcast! MAN! On the other hand, a billion people in the world don't have dri...

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