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[jazzfish]

My email provider has been hungry lately. For patches of an hour or so over the last two or three days all mail to me goes curiously missing. A Missing Email Report has been filed but the police can do nothing. It's getting on time to take matters into my own hands. (Cue dramatic music.)

Here, have some links from the past month or so.

Grammar, from merseine0613.

John Kerry, funnyman: "Q: On what types of products do you never go cheap, for the sake of quality? A: Ketchup." (via adamcadre)

I LEGO N.Y., from Making Light.

ML also gives us Peanuts Watchmen.

Speaking of Watchmen, there's Saturday Morning Watchmen. It's been a very long time since I've seen that much sheer wrong packed into one minute thirty.

Terror: The Director's Cut: "Black is an identifiable thing. What I faded into wasn't identifiable, because identity of anything had gone away. It's impossible to describe what I 'faded' into, but I'm going to try my best." (via salzara_tirwen)

And I leave for OMG Vancouver in two days. My knowledge of Canadian telecom suggests that net access will be Spotty At Best. I /think/ the hotel we got has wireless. . .

Suggestions of things to do or not do are welcome.

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[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Peanuts Watchmen: Not enough Wrong in the world.

[ndkid.livejournal.com]

Don't drink the water?

[candle.livejournal.com]

If by e-mail provider you mean softhome, they ate a message I attempted to send there with a misconfigured greylisting setup. You might wish to specify that when you poke them.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

The Terror story was fascinating - thanks for sharing it!

[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

Tea shops and Coffee shops in Vancouver are nice places to grab breakfast.

Other places in town, there is an awesome gameshop in the "Gastown" section of town. Right off Water street. Near where the Steamclock is.

Granville Island public market is fun too.

Or if your feeling outdoorsish, Stanley Park is a nice trip and easy access from the mass transit there. The Lions Gate bridge is part of the park.

Speaking of Lions Gate, I didn't get a chance while we were there, but I hear studio tours are fun.

[jmax315.livejournal.com]

Do you have a better source for information on Canadian telecom than userfriendly.org (I don't; I'm just curious).

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Those are some impressive legos impersonations.

And someday, I should find, scan, and post somewhere the personified part of speech people I did years ago...

things to do

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

kidnap me and take me with you? :)

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