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Category Archives: Personal

Calculus Fun

This pretty much sums up my life right now:

On the midterm, we were expected to work this out by hand.

My Best Red Flag Deal

For a while now, I’ve been wanting to buy the Orange Box set to play the widely acclaimed Portal.  I kept putting it off until I found a great deal on RedFlagDeals: Future Shop had it for only $29.99.  I picked up the last copy in the store, and now I’ll be happily enjoying Portal!

Band Names from “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”

Some bands have no imagination.
Warning: Half of these will start playing music automatically.
Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she’s gone.
Lucy in [...]

Bald Televangelists

Last night Tony Campolo spoke at my church, and he had some wonderful insights. One of my favourite of his quotes was this one:
“I’ve always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. I mean, if I had that gift, that would be the first thing I’d fix.”
He challenged the MB church to [...]

Broil King Skills

In the past month I have acquired the following skills:

Lifting barbecues, and placing them in boxes
Lifting barbecue lids, and placing them in boxes, on top of the barbecues
Placing cardboard inserts on a barbecue in a box
Putting grill racks on top of cardboard which is on top of a barbecue in a box
Screwing together the base [...]