Yesterday’s send-off lunch for Ricky at M&B was a success, I think. There must have been around 20 people or so in our group at the restaurant, which was already quite busy with regular customers besides us, so the buzz and the ambiance was great. Our party was seated at two long tables, right next …
Monthly Archive: October 2008
Oct 17 2008
Ricky's last day
It’s my friend’s last day at the college today. Ricky is moving on to another job at a local university and I think she’ll be missed here in our offices. She and I have this double act kind of relationship where we bicker at each other all the time, but it’s all just in jest; …
Oct 13 2008
PZ Myers Presents: Science Education
I’ve already bought my ticket for this lecture by PZ Myers in Toronto on Halloween; Science Education: caught in the middle of the war between science and religion. PZ Myers is a biology professor from Morris, Minnesota, who writes the most popular science blog on the internet, Pharyngula. Myers is a controversial figure who regularly …
Oct 13 2008
Mushroom Studio
I’ve been meaning to post this photo for some time, but my regular camera broke a few weeks ago so all I’m left with right now is the camera on my phone, and the quality isn’t too good. Anyway, it’s a photo taken in the Toronto Sculpture Garden, which I pass every day on my …
Oct 07 2008
Wackaloon logic
*Sigh* There are some amazingly stupid woo-woos out there. This one is a Church of England rector who wrote that homosexuals should be tattooed with health warnings on their backsides and chins, because homosexuality is: clearly unnatural, a perversion and corruption of natural instincts and affections, and because it is a cause of fatal disease …
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I was born in England, spent part of my childhood in Zambia and eventually immigrated to Canada. This is a blog about the news and events in my life, my interests in politics, religion, human rights, science, reason, and the odd post here and there about my cats.
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