Consolation Champs

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James Invites You! (image by Kristin)

I can’t believe how fast SXSW has crept up on me. In less than two weeks, I’ll be in sunny Austin for the sixth year in a row. I remember how excited I was back in the fall of 2000 when I had already decided to attend my first time. […]

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I love the Wikipedia. I’ve spent a lot of time recently copyediting and making minor edits to articles in many different areas. But I have to wonder about the sanity of certain people when the Talk page for an extreme right-wing Belgian political party stretches to many times the length of the article itself. I […]

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Oh, thank you thank you, Dan! I’ve been tagged and will finally get to fill this space with something:
Four jobs I’ve had:

Door-to-door magazine subscription salesman (1980)
Substitute teacher (1 day in 1993)
Welfare caseworker (1994-1998)
Macintosh computer salesman (1998-2000 and 2001-2003)

Four movies I can watch over and over:

The Big Lebowski
Withnail and I
Tokyo Olympiad
Cinema Paradiso

Four places I’ve lived:

Dublin, Ireland […]

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It started with a work excursion to see the Toronto Marlies on Friday night, which I really enjoyed (somewhat surprising when you consider how much I generally ignore hockey). Then on Saturday afternoon, Brooke and I went to Cinematheque Ontario to see The 400 Blows, which unbelievably, I hadn’t seen yet. An absolutely wonderful film. […]

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