Gary Roberts

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Name: Gary Roberts
Date registered: July 29, 2010

Latest posts

  1. I get email — January 31, 2012
  2. Strait-Jacket — January 28, 2012
  3. Finally! Apoptosis explained, using nifty animation. — January 16, 2012
  4. Coffee and people — January 14, 2012
  5. Wile E. Coyotes! — January 13, 2012

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  2. No more Easter Bunny for me — 7 comments
  3. Milo the Cat — 5 comments
  4. Bus stop bible claptrap — 5 comments
  5. Hey, I'm a star! Well, more of a comet really… — 5 comments

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Jan 31 2012

I get email

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Humour

by Gary Roberts

Screenshot of an email message

Sometimes I get messages from people who think I’m Gary Roberts the hockey player. Today I got one from a coach for the Pittsburgh Penguins! See screenshot:

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Jan 28 2012

Strait-Jacket

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Places

by Gary Roberts

Strait-Jacket exhibition logo

There’s a small art exhibition currently showing at 778 King Street West, called STRAIT-JACKET. From the outside, you’d hardly know it existed; it’s housed in a very nondescript building and the only clue to its existence is the stainless steel plaque on the wall bearing the “Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation” name, along with another, tiny plaque at …

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Jan 16 2012

Finally! Apoptosis explained, using nifty animation.

Categories:

Science & Nature

by Gary Roberts

I’m sure you’ve spent many a night lying awake in bed wondering about your immune system; how it works and what would happen when one of the ‘soldiers’ in your immune system’s army encounters a diseased cell, right? Like, how exactly do your innards cope with these rogue, infected cells? Well, Drew Berry has created some nifty …

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Jan 14 2012

Coffee and people

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Places

by Gary Roberts

I love my local coffee shop, where I sit and read as two guys on my right argue passionately in Russian, a little old lady sips her tea on her own and glances sharply over the top of her newspaper at the two guys arguing, and an ochre-robed Buddhist monk serenley sips an espresso as …

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Jan 13 2012

Wile E. Coyotes!

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Pets & Animals

by Gary Roberts

You Are in Bear Country!

I used to love watching the Looney Tunes cartoon show Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner when I was a kid. In each episode, the two protagonists were placed in an predator/prey scenario in which the coyote would use all kinds of absurdly complex contraptions and elaborate plans to pursue his quarry, instead of relying on natural animal senses …

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